Fleetwood Park Secondary School

Fleetwood Park Secondary

Building Successful Futures
Address
7940 156 St[1]
Surrey, British Columbia, V3S 3R3
Canada
Coordinates 49°08′52″N 122°47′22″W / 49.1478°N 122.7894°W / 49.1478; -122.7894Coordinates: 49°08′52″N 122°47′22″W / 49.1478°N 122.7894°W / 49.1478; -122.7894
Information
School type Public, high school
Principal Mrs. Corey McLaughlin[2]
Staff 76
Grades 8-12
Enrollment 1403[1] (September 30, 2008)
Area Fleetwood
Colour(s) Teal     
Mascot Dragon
Team name Dragons
Website www.sd36.bc.ca/fltsec

Fleetwood Park Secondary is a public high school in Surrey, British Columbia part of School District 36 Surrey. The school ranked 48 of 293 according to the Fraser Institute Studies in Education Policy in 2012–2013 with a 97.2% graduation rate. The school has three floors and two language classes; Spanish and French.[3]

Academics

Fleetwood Park operates on an 8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. schedule which includes four periods and at 11:15 am, a break for lunch during which all students may leave school grounds to eat lunch.[4] The four periods are broken in blocks with the letters A, B, C, D during which different classes take places and giving students five minutes to walk to their next class and go to the washroom.[4] The blocks are rotated on a fixed schedule between Monday and Thursday, but the schedules change weekly on Friday.[4] Every third Monday of the month has an early dismissal with school ending at 1:05 p.m. and is called a Flex Day.[4] There also exist days on which parent-teacher conferences are held. Days like this end at 1:50 p.m.

Fleetwood Park students are obligated to undertake a curriculum that includes four years of English, three years of history, four years of science, four years of mathematics, two years of fine arts or applied skills, three years of Physical education and a year of enterprise studies.[5] Besides classes that students are obligated to take, students are allowed choose the courses they wish to fill into their schedule. Classes at a grade ten level or above give four credits for each successfully completed class with the required curriculum earning 48 credits.[5] A total of 80 credits is needed to graduate.[5]

Fleetwood Park offers a wide selection of elective courses such as carpentry, drafting cooking, computers, dance, sewing, auto motive, engineering, drama and music. Students are able to choose from three Advanced Placement; chemistry, physics, or calculus allowing them to earn post-secondary education credits if they choose to take a test provided by the province or institute. A joinery program is also available for carpentry and cooking.[6] Fleetwood Park offers only two foreign language courses, French and Spanish.

The math academics of Fleetwood park are diverged into three categories for different levels. During the first year, students are able to enter a Math Honours eight class, which holds a reputation that is not that hard other than homework check. In math ten and above, the courses diverge into three levels for students labeled as Precalculus, Foundations, and Workplace & Apprenticeship respectively with decreasing difficulty. After Pre-Calculus 12, students have the option of taking Advanced Placement Calculus, which prepares them for either the AB or BC AP exam for university credits

School facilities

The school's education mainly takes place in the building which is three stories high. Recently, school portable buildings were added to the lot behind the school to add classrooms to the growing number of students. The school has 3 gymnasiums, a dance studio, two band rooms, and a plaza on the first floor which acts as a multipurpose space. Notably, the cafeteria kitchen includes a spice/wok kitchen and offers exotic foods, due to the popular demands of students

Notable Clubs and publications

Student Council is one of the main clubs which puts on school events such as Fleetwood Thurdays, Spirit Weeks and school dances. ReachOut is a club that focuses on promoting diversity and raising awareness about global and community issues. In the year of 2008-2009, ReachOut fundraised $8500 to build a school in Sierra Leone.[7]

Sports

Fleetwood Park is well known for their athletic program. The school has won three provincial championships with their most recent being the boys AAA Basketball banner. In 2014, the Senior Girls Soccer team won the AAA Soccer Provincials.

References

  1. 1 2 "Secondary: Fleetwood Park". School District 36 Surrey. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Fleetwood Park Staff List PDF" (PDF). Fleetwood Park Secondary School. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Report Card on Secondary Schools in British Columbia and Yukon: 2012-13 Edition" (PDF). Fraser Institute. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Daily Bell Schedule" (PDF). Fleetwood Park Secondary School. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Course Selection Book "Course Selection 2009 - 2010" Check |url= value (help) (PDF). 2009. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Carpentry Joinery program at Fleetwood Park Secondary" (PDF). School District 36 Surrey. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
  7. ↑ Template:Cite web Other notable clubs include the Hope for Homeless Club and Earth Club.

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