École secondaire Mont-Bleu

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name= Ecole Secondaire Mont-Bleu


streetaddress= 389 Boulevard de la Cite des Jeunes
city= Gatineau
province= Quebec
postalcode= J8Z 1W6
areacode= 819
phone= 771-7131
fax= 771-2551
url= http://www.mont-bleu.cspo.qc.ca/
schoolnumber=
schoolboard= Commission Scolaire des Portages-de-l'Outaouais
principal= Simon Leclair
viceprincipal= Jacynthe Bouchard, Charles Goulet & Rosanne Fouasse
custodian=
schooltype= High school
grades= Secondary 1-5
language= French
founded= 1976
enrollment=
lastupdate= December 12, 2006

École Secondaire Mont-Bleu is a french public secondary school located in Gatineau, Quebec. It located on Boulevard Cité des Jeunes in the Hull sector just on the eastern flank of the Gatineau Park, one of the National Capital Region's touristic destination. This school is among several other educational institutions located on Cite des Jeunes along with the CEGEP de l'Outaouais, Heritage College and Asticou Centre. Its facilities opened in 1976 and is run by the Commission Scolaire des Portages-de-l'Outaouais (formerly Commission Scolaire Outaouais-Hull) school board.

ports facilities and football team

Several significant sporting facilities are located within the school. In addition to its facilities inside the building, there is also an athletic field race track, a soccer field, a large stadium in which several sports can be practiced including football, baseball and soccer as well as Gatineau Park and the Relais Plein Air where there can be several outdoor activities, notably in the winter. There are also sports facilities located in the nearby colleges Heritage and the CEGEP de l'Outaouais.

The high school also has a football team called Les Panthères and there are other sporting teams with the same name at the school.

YouTube incident

In November 2006, the school caught worldwide attention when students filmed with a cellphone, their English teacher disciplining his group after several misconducts from it. The video was later posted in three clips on YouTube using a defamatory title, for a few days before being removed. The school later decided to ban cellphone and camera use inside the facility and the students responsible of the video clip were suspended indefinitely. [ cite news | author = Mercier, Justine | title = Un prof de Mont-Bleu se retrouve malgré lui sur YouTube (Mont-Bleu teacher being filmed and found on You Tube | publisher = Le Droit | date = 2006-11-21 | page = 14 ]

Other facts

* Students are mostly coming from the Hull sector of the city with some coming from Chelsea and the Aylmer sector.

* There are particular programs called "Voies" in which students can follow a particular formation in preparation for superior courses in college or university. Such programs exist in visual arts, computer sciences or scientific (similar to physical sciences or natural sciences)

* Transportation is mostly provided by the Société de transport de l'Outaouais which has special schools routes that follows most of the track of the regular routes (such as the 31, 33, 37, 39 and 49).]

Cinema

This high school is first in the region to offert a cinema course. You will learn to create a publicity and a movie, receive some drama lessons, know more about careers like stunt man or make up artist for special effects on tv and movies, assist to a tv show, etc. In March 2008, 45 students who took this class went to Hollywood (California) for a field trip. At the end of the year, all the students have the chance to see their productions on big screen at the Famous Player Theater and celebrate their skills with the traditional Oscars ceremony.

External links

* [http://www.mont-bleu.cspo.qc.ca/index.htm Web site of the Mont-Bleu High School]
* [http://mont-bleu.homelinux.net/%7Epantheres/index.html Site of the Mont-Bleu Panthers football team]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/11/13/ot-school-threat-071113.html?ref=rss Quarrel in the School yard]

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