Point Grey Secondary School
| Point Grey Secondary School | |
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"Honor Ante Honores" Honour is Greater Than Fame | |
| Address | |
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5350 East Blvd Vancouver, British Columbia, V6M 3V2 Canada | |
| Information | |
| School type | Secondary school |
| Founded | 1929 as Junior High |
| School board | School District 39 Vancouver |
| Superintendent | G. Little |
| Area trustee | Allen Blakey |
| School number | 03939012 |
| Principal | Kris Wu |
| Grades | 8-12 |
| Enrollment | 1202[1] |
| Language | English |
| Area | Kerrisdale |
| Colour(s) | Blue and Grey |
| Mascot | Grey Hounds |
| Team name | Point Grey Hounds |
| Public transit access | 16, 41, 43, 480 |
| Website |
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Point Grey Secondary School is a public secondary school located in the Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy neighbourhoods of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
History
The main building was built in 1929 in a Collegiate Gothic style. Construction of the school was commissioned by the Municipality of Point Grey prior to amalgamation with the City of Vancouver. The first students began classes in September 1929 and the building served as a junior high school until 1965 when it became a full secondary school. Point Grey Secondary was built originally as a junior high school. Also in 1965, a new wing was added with a gym, laboratories and a library. Recently in 2006, Point Grey, in conjunction with the Parks Board, completed a new artificial turf field, and have upgraded the track surrounding it to a rubber surface. Point Grey also offers Advanced Placement courses in Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Computer Science, English, Physics, and Psychology.[2]
In 1962 Point Grey was designated a comprehensive secondary school from grade 8 to 12, as it is today. Although the school offered a full range of courses, its focus was essentially academic. Today eighty-five per cent of Point Grey's grade 12's continue on with post-secondary education.
Feeder schools
For the most part, Point Grey Secondary School receives students from three elementary schools. These include Kerrisdale Elementary School, Quilchena Elementary School, and Southlands Elementary School. However, students also enroll from Talmud Torah, Emily Carr Elementary School, St. Augustine's Elementary School, Shaughnessy Elementary School, General Wolfe L'École Bilingue, Jules Quesnel Elementary School and also from many other private and public schools in the region and all over the Vancouver area and out of boundary.
Point Grey Mini School
Founded in 1979, the mini school is a district-wide program that offers students enriched learning and social experiences in addition to the regular curriculum. Unlike the main school, all students who wish to enter the mini school program must write an entrance exam (regardless of whether or not they are in the catchment zone), and out of the many who apply, only thirty individuals (15 girls and 15 boys) are chosen. Students are still considered part of the main school and take elective courses there. The head teacher position is currently shared by Mr. Paul Skarsgard and Mr. Mori Hamilton. The students go on a variety of trips listed below:
- Grade Eight: Orientation, Manning Park Ski Trip, and Bamfield Marine Station.
- Grade Nine and Ten: Orientation, Manning Park Ski Trip, Ashland Shakespeare Festival or Strathcona Park Lodge
- Grade Eleven and Twelve: Orientation, Manning Park Ski Trip (optional)
Austria/Europe exchange program
In 2003 Point Grey established an educational/cultural exchange program with Akademisches Gymnasium, a school in Innsbruck, Austria. This program is open to students going into Grades 10, 11, and 12.
School sports
There is a wide variety of extracurricular sports are offered throughout the year such as senior soccer team and junior soccer team.
Fall season
Cross country running, girls' field hockey, boys' rugby, boys' premier soccer, Junior soccer, swimming, girls' volleyball.
Winter season
Wrestling, snowboard, skis, ice hockey and basketball for boys and girls.
Spring season
Girls' soccer, boys volleyball, senior boys' volleyball, track and field, girls' rugby, ultimate, softball, golf for boys and girls, tennis and badminton.
In popular culture
- The film Superbad was based on the experiences of the film's writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg when they attended Point Grey. The duo's production company, Point Grey Pictures is named after it.
Fox 's "Lucifer" filmed there , the school doubled as a Korean community centre for the series. Other productions include the third adaptation of "Mostly Ghostly" TV movies: One Night In Doom House starring Corey Fogelmanis.
Notable alumni
- Seth Rogen, actor, comedian, scriptwriter (did not graduate)
- Gil Bellows, actor
- Bruce Allen, music manager and radio commentator
- Geoff Berner, musician
- Joely Collins, actress
- Simon Collins, musician
- Jessi Cruickshank, actress, MTV Canada host
- Robert Davidson, artist
- Carol Baird Ellan, Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia (2000–2005)
- Nathan Fielder, comedian
- Evan Goldberg, comedian, scriptwriter
- Mark Hildreth, actor, musician
- Bryce Hodgson, actor
- Tegan Moss, actress
- Jesse Moss, actor
- Stephen Owen, Liberal MP, VP of External and Legal Affairs for UBC
- Stuart Parker, politician, environmentalist
- Doreen Patterson Reitsma, sailor
- Jane McGregor, actress
- Arn Saba (later Katherine Collins), cartoonist and writer
- Scott Sampson, vertebrate paleontologist; host of the PBS kids show "Dinosaur Train"
- Jaime Stein, broadcaster
- Cynthia Stevenson, actress
- Michael Turner, author of Hard Core Logo, Company Town, American Whiskey Bar. Founding Member of the Hard Rock Miners.
- Erin Wall, opera singer
- Kris Wu (吴亦凡), actor and singer in China and former member of Korean boyband EXO
- Adrian Dix, BC MLA for Vancouver-Kingsway
- Barton Lui, Olympic speed skater and Hong Kong flag bearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics
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Coordinates: 49°14′13″N 123°09′11″W / 49.2370°N 123.1530°W