Thornton High School (Colorado)

Infobox School
name = Thornton High School


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motto = Take Responsibility. Honor Each Other. Strive for Success.
established = 1975
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type = public high school
district = Adams 12 Five Star Schools
grades = 9-12
principal = Janette K. Walters
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athletics = 5A
conference = Front Range League
colors = royal blue and white color box|bluecolor box|white
mascot = Trojans
campus type = open
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location = 9351 North Washington Street
Thornton, CO 80221
country = USA
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website = http://thorntonh.adams12.org/

Thornton High School, in Thornton, Colorado, serves nearly 2000 students with approximately 130 staff members.

History

Merritt Hutton Junior-Senior High School served the communities of Northglenn and Thornton until the early 1970s, when it was scaled back to a junior high program and high school students began being served by two new high schools. Thornton High School opened in 1975.

Campus

The district's Five Star Stadium is adjacent to the school.It has an upper and lower commons. It also has a library and a reading room that is no longer available to students.

Curriculum

International Baccalaureate

Middle Years Programme

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) is an educational programme intended for students aged approximately 11 to 16 (grades 6-10 in International Schools, the United States, Canada and Australia). Thus, in the United States the programme is often taught throughout the middle school years and the first two years of high school. Typically, middle schools and high schools work in coordination with each other when the programme can not be entirely hosted within one combined school. However, Willams Middle School, in Tampa, Florida and later, Herbert Ammons Middle School, Miami, Florida, have been granted the authority to host the a full MYP curriculum in only grades 6, 7, and 8. The full programme lasts 5 years although more limited programmes can be adopted with permission from the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). Official MYP documentation is available from the IBO in English, French, Spanish and Chinese.

The IBO contends that the MYP programme naturally prepares students for the IB Diploma Programme (DP) and there are significant parallels in structure and philosophy.

Diploma Programme

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) is an educational programme examined in one of three languages (English, French or Spanish) and is a university entrance course. It is taught in 2,075 schools, often in international schools, in 125 countries (as of 2007). More than half of the schools offering the Diploma Programme are state funded schools. The programme, administered by the International Baccalaureate Organization, is the most widely recognized pre-university educational programme. However, it remains less popular than nationally affiliated preparatory programs in most countries, such as that of the Advanced Placement examination system in the United States, the A-level in the United Kingdom, the HSC (higher school certificate) in Australia or Advanced Highers system in Scotland.

Athletics

State championship titles: [ [http://www.chsaa.org/about/pdf/champions.pdf State Team Champions] . Colorado High School Activities Association.]
*Girls' basketball: 1980 (AAA), 1988 (4A)

Fall

*Boys Golf
*Boys Soccer
*Boys Tennis
*Cross Country
*Football
*Gymnastics
*Softball
*Volleyball

Winter

*Boys Basketball
*Girls Basketball
*Girls Swimming
*Wrestling

pring

*Baseball
*Boys Swimming
*Girls Golf
*Girls Soccer
*Girls Tennis
*Track and Field

Publications

Goulash

Goulash is the school's literary magazine.

The Trojan Voice

The Trojan Voice is the school's newspaper.

Notable Extracurricular Activities

Marching Band

Marching Trojans are the brave souls who join Marching Band. The band has been on the uprise the last few years in competitions. In 2006 they took 1st in the Greeley Marching Invitational and 18th over in state. This year the band is going to the Zia Marching Festival in New Mexico to compete. The Marching Trojans are under the direction of Jared Crump-Bertram with help from excellent staff and the amazing THSBOP (THS Band and Orchestra Parents). See www.thsbop.org for more information.

A band performance at the 2007 University of Colorado Band Day may be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlDaKtyGIfg

Drama

THS has a great drama program. This fall they are putting on performances of Born Yesterday and You Can't Take it With You. The musical has not been announced yet, and it is unknown if they will shoot another movie this year thus so far.

For the 2007-2008 school year, they put on performances of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Private Lives. They shot a movie called "Friends Forever", written by a former student. Their musical for the 2007-2008 year was originally going to be Godspell, but because of religious issues, was changed to Once Upon A Mattress in mid-march. The set for this performance took third place in a set-building contest and was built entirely without professional help. Their One-Act/Ten-Minute Plays were Friday, April 4, 2008 and their melodrama "D.K. Molar The Devious Dentist" was shown later in May.

Their musicals the past two years have been The Pajama Game and Little Shop of Horrors

Other Clubs

*Anime
*Band
*Big Brother/Big Sister
*Black Student Union
*Bowling Club
*Chess Club
*Choir
*Climbing Club
*Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA)
*Diversity Leadership
*Family Career and Community Leaders of America(FCCLA)
*Fashion Design Club
*Fellowship of Christian Athletes(FCA)
*Future Business Leaders Of America(FBLA)
*Goulash
*IB Student Union
*Key Club
*Knowledge Bowl
*Latino Leaders
*MESA
*National Honor Society
*Newspaper
*Orchestra
*Outdoor Education Leaders
*Penscapes Writing Club
*Ski & Snowboard Club
*Speech and Debate
*Sprit Squad
*Student Congress
*World Affairs Challenge
*Yearbook
*Yugioh

Alumni

*John Balistreri (1980), sculptor
*Melissa Holliday, January 1995 "Playboy" Playmate of the Month [cite news |first=Dick |last=Kreck |title=Parking fee makes bad impression |work=Denver Post |page=F-8 |date=1994-12-05 |accessdate=2007-08-31 |quote=Melissa Holliday, Playboy magazine's Miss January and a graduate of Thornton High School, autographs copies of the magazine at Aurora Newsland. . . ]
*Gale Norton (Merritt Hutton HS 1972), Colorado Attorney General (1991-1999), US Secretary of the Interior (2001-2006) [cite news |first=Bill |last=Briggs |title=Rising Star |work=Denver Post |page=12 (magazine) |date=1994-02-13 |accessdate=2007-08-31 ]

ee also

*Adams County School District 12
*List of high schools in Colorado
*Thornton, Colorado

References

External links

* [http://www.thorntonh.adams12.org/ Thornton High School official website]
* [http://www.iorg.com/mhhs/ Merritt Hutton alumni site]