Pine Grove Public School

Pine Grove Public School is an elementary school for grades 1 to 6 located at 529 Fourth Line, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Currently as principal is Mr. Chris Alexiou and as vice-principal Ms. Karen Bonanno. It's motto is "Learning, Growing, Caring... Tous ensemble".

French immersion

Pine Grove is a French immersion only school, meaning that half of a student's classes are in French and the other half are in English. Classes taken in French are science, social studies, geography, and occasionally art and gym. There are 350 girls there and there are 500 boys there. It is a pleasant school! They currently extended there schools years to grade 7 and 8 as well

Awards

Pine Grove has won numerous awards and penants in cross-country, volleyball, track and basketball. It has a big competition from Sunnydale Public School in North-East Oakville, Ontario.Pine Grove has an excellent cross country team.

Juggling

One particular activity that is special to Pine Grove is juggling. All grades spend much of their time learning to juggle in physical education class as it "provides hand-eye coordination and teaches perservance". In 2006 Pine Grove organized a mass juggling attempt to beat the current world record of "Most Objects Aloft at One Time". The attempt was held on Tuesday May 11th at Oakville Place mall and was attended by over 1000 jugglers from Pine Grove Public School, Eastview Public School and Blakelock High School. Jugglers even came from as far away as Georgia and South Carolina to participate in the event. Unfortunately, not enough jugglers attended to beat the record.

Reputation

Pine Grove students have a reputation for being hard-working and intelligent. They often continue in the French-immersion program until receiving their bilingual certificate upon graduation of the 10th grade. Pine Grove students who continue in the French-immersion program continue on to Eastview Public School for grades 7 to 8 and then Thomas A. Blakelock High School for grades 9 to 12. Pine Grove students who decide not to continue in the French-immersion program may continue on in an all-English program at Brookdale Public School, Eastview Public School, St. Mildreds Private School for Girls, St. Dominic's Catholic School, Morden Public School, Abbey Park High School, Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Appleby College Private School, Loyola Catholic Secondary School or St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School.