Alexander Galt Regional High School

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Alexander Galt Regional High School (AGRHS), located in Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada, is an English language secondary school which opened in 1969. It provides English education to 1150 Secondary 1 - 5 students in the southeastern region of the Eastern Townships.

Facilities

The school is located on a convert|0.45|acre|m2|sing=on campus on the outskirts of Lennoxville in viewing distance of Bishops University. The school is housed in a 3-floor, cross-shaped building which contains the classrooms, administrative offices, sports center, library, cafeteria and auditorium. Part of the building (One wing) is used by the Eastern Townships Technical Institute - a vocational education center.

The school offers and is not limited to :
* Music facilities with private practice booths
* Fully equipped home economics facilities
* Art room
* Fully equipped woodworking and print shop for exploratory courses

Outdoor sports and recreation

The school boasts a large outdoor greenspace which consists of five soccer fields, two baseball fields, a football field and two running tracks. The running tracks consist of one paved, 5-lane track that encircles the football field, and one that hugs the outside perimeter of the school property. The latter is basically a packed down trail used for endurance running.

During the winter season, the school clears some of the soccer fields for sports such as broomball.

Indoor sports and recreation centre

The school building contains in one of its wings the school multi-functional gymnasium. Consisting of one large gymnasium and a smaller gym adjacent to it. The larger gym can be divided using curtains that can be automatically raised or lowered from the ceiling. By using the curtains the space can be divided to allow for two full-sized basketball courts or four half-sized courts. By using the curtains, multiple classes or groups can use the space independently. The smaller gymnasium contains a rock climbing wall, a half sized basketball court and a fully equipped weight training room.

Auditorium

The auditorium of the building is located between the central hub and gymnasium. It has a seating capacity of 600 people with wheelchair access. The auditorium is equipped for professional theatre with state-of-the-art sound and light system. The school invites everyone in the community to attend the school's yearly theatre production. The auditorium has also been used in the past as a movie theatre.

Cafeteria

The cafeteria has a seating capacity of 1000 people and serves hot lunches every day to students for a nominal fee. It is located in the centre hub on the second floor.

Library

The library of the school is located in the central hub of the building, on the third floor. The library offers its students access to its 28,000 books and 14 computers.

Computer access

The school has many portable computers and desktop computers all with internet access. (See Enhanced Learning Strategy)

Programs

The courses and programs at AGRHS include Computer Science, Drama, English language arts, English-History, Ethics and Religion, Family Studies, French language, French Geography, History, History-Literature, Humanities, Home Economics, Mathematics, Moral Religious Education, Music, Physical Education, Printing, School Community Service, Sciences, Social Studies, and Spanish.

ports and activities

AGRHS has many sports and extra-curricular activities such as Basketball, Dance, Canadian football, Hockey, Rugby, Intramural Activities, Soccer, Swimming, Training and coaching.

Additionally, activities are offered to students who sign up for the related courses in Band Concerts and Drama Play.

Enhanced Learning Strategy

The Eastern Townships School Board recognizes that one to one computing, using laptops, supported in a wireless environment and properly implemented, can improve the performance of students. The intent of this project is twofold. It focuses on Learning and Teaching. The first primary objective is to enhance our students’ achievements such that improvements in literacy; numeracy; reduction in the repeating of grades; reduction in the dropout rates of Eastern Townships School Board students are attained by June 30, 2007. The second primary objective is to empower our teaching personnel by providing a technological tool for integration into the curriculum and teaching practices.

Professional development, in terms of curriculum and technology, is the basic principle of this initiative. The coordination and implementation of these professional development activities is fundamental in assisting our students and personnel to attain higher levels of achievement in the areas listed above

External links

* [http://www.etsb.qc.ca/alexandergalt/default.htm AGRHS website]
* [http://www.etsb.qc.ca/ Eastern Townships School Board]
* [http://www.etsb.qc.ca/en/EnhancedLearningStrategy/default.shtm Enhanced Learning Strategy]