D. Roy Kennedy Public School

D. Roy Kennedy Public School
Address
919 Woodroffe Avenue Ottawa, Ontario, K2A 3G9 Canada
Coordinates	45°21′55″N 75°46′11″W / 45.3652°N 75.7697°W / 45.3652; -75.7697Coordinates: 45°21′55″N 75°46′11″W / 45.3652°N 75.7697°W / 45.3652; -75.7697
Information
Founded	March 1966 (built 1954)
School board	Ottawa Carleton District School Board
Superintendent	Peter Gamwell Source
Area trustee	Douglas Michael Lloyd Source
Administrator	Celeste Tratch
Principal	Catherine Donnelly
Grades	JK-8
Language	English & French
Website	www.droykennedyps.ocdsb.ca

D. Roy Kennedy is a public elementary and middle school in the Bay Ward of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, offering classes from kindergarten to grade 8. It is located at the corner of Woodroffe Avenue and Lenester Avenue in Ottawa's Glabar Park neighbourhood. Students come from varied ethnic backgrounds and many speak a third language.

History

The school was built in 1954. The school is named after D. Roy Kennedy, who would in later years become a prominent Kiwanian and Ottawa educator.

The CBC reported in January 2010, that two students at Ottawa's D. Roy Kennedy Public School had started a petition to be allowed to play with balls on the playground in winter time. Balls had been banned from D. Roy Kennedy in the winter months due to safety concerns. January 25, 2010^[1]

On Thursday morning, September 26, 2013 D. Roy Kennedy Public School was evacuated after a man with a replica firearm entered the school and pulled the fire alarm . The Children were sent home without any injuries ^[2]

Programs

This school offers students a choice of English (with Core French) and French immersion programs as well as specialized instrumental music, visual arts and sports. The school offers Special Education and English Language Support. It has a notable emphasis as well on academics, having produced the "best speller in Canada", the youngest life master in Bridge, and many other academic programmes. In April 2014, Grade 8 student Emma Brownlie was the winner of the Canwest CanSpell National Spelling Bee. She made it to the fourth round on to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.^[3]

Graduating grade 8 students attend a number of high schools including Woodroffe High School, Nepean High School, Glebe Collegiate Institute, Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School and Canterbury High School.

Architecture

The building itself is small, but the yard is large. In the portion of yard for students grades JK-3, it has a small soccer field and and playstructure. In the portion of yard for grades 4-6, there are courts for small games painted onto the pavement, a basketball court, and one part of a large soccer field stretching the length of the building. In the portion of yard for grades 7 and 8, there is a volleyball sand pit, a basketball court, and the second part of the large field. The fields are for multiple purposes, such as Frisbee, soccer, track and field and football. The building is basic with a two story design and two main corridors. There are two gymnasiums, the smaller of which is named the Michael Spence Gymnasium. The two gymnasiums are small, but the largest can still hold about 350 people.

Prominent Teachers

Paul Dewar, a Canadian Member of Parliament with the New Democratic Party, teacher and former elected representative of the Ottawa Carleton Elementary School Teachers' Federation, taught at D. Roy Kennedy prior to entering politics.^[4]

References

Cummings, H.R. and W.T. MacSkimming. The City of Ottawa Public Schools: A Brief History. Ottawa: Ottawa Board of Education, 1971.

External links

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board schools

Secondary schools	A.Y.Jackson Secondary School Adult High School Bell High School Brookfield High School Cairine Wilson Secondary School Canterbury High School Colonel By Secondary School Earl of March Secondary School Glebe Collegiate Institute Gloucester High School Hillcrest High School John McCrae Secondary School Lisgar Collegiate Institute Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School Merivale High School Nepean High School Osgoode Township High School Ottawa Technical Learning Centre Rideau High School Ridgemont High School Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School Sir Robert Borden High School Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School South Carleton High School West Carleton Secondary School Woodroffe High School

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