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Spruce Grove Composite High School (10-12) 

Spruce Grove Composite High School 


Grades 10-12 
Ward 5
Principal: Mrs. Darlene Marcinkevics (acting) 
Student Population: 1,050 

1000 Calahoo Road
Spruce Grove, AB T7X 2T7

Phone: 780-962-0800 
Fax: 780-962-9555 
Email: sgchs@psd70.ab.ca 

Spruce Grove Composite High School’s (SGCHS) vision is Building Excellence and Success Together. Our students are set up to succeed while they are in school and are prepared for life after graduation.

Program choices rival those of the larger urban high schools and challenge students at their level. We offer advanced placement courses in Mathematics and English, as well as a full range of complementary career and technology courses, including graphic design, robotics, cosmetology, automotives, and construction.

Our Modern Languages / Fine Arts offerings include drama, musical theatre, art, French Immersion, FSL, German and Japanese. With so many choices, how do students get into the classes they want? They register for the courses they want and the school builds its timetable around those choices.

Unique Features of Our School

  • Participation as a selected school in the High School Flexibility Enhancement Pilot Project.
  • Spruce Grove Composite High School is a leading edge, progressive high school.
  • SGCHS has a very caring, dedicated, conscientious staff that embodies the philosophy of the Professional Learning Community.
  • The school culture promotes success.
  • We believe in the importance of establishing meaningful relationships with all of our students. At SGCHS we have “Student Teacher Advocacy Teams” that focus on the genuine care for students’ well being and educational success.
  • Our broad range of curricular and extracurricular programming allows for maximum student choice and participation. Program highlights include: full range of sports programs, French Immersion, FSL (French as a Second Language), Japanese, German, K and E (Knowledge and Employability), RAP (Registered Apprenticeship Program), Art, Drama, Student Leadership Program, Outreach, AP (Advanced Placement) and a whole host of CTS (Career and Technology Studies.
  • In support of our academic programming, SGCHS offers a wide variety of travel opportunities: London, New York, France, Norway, Spain, Germany, Japan and a host of Travel Club destinations such as Australia and Egypt.
  • The school program and timetable reflect a student-oriented approach where students work with parents and staff to develop a high school completion and success plan.

How We Define Success for Our Students

  • We measure our success by the number of students who are academically successful and ultimately graduate. Other indicators include the number of Rutherford Scholarships, post secondary acceptance, scholarships, awards, course completion rates, and student involvement in our variety of programs.
  • We take pride in celebrating these various success indicators, especially citizenship values of excellence, dedication, integrity, courtesy, enthusiasm, commitment, cooperation, respect, leadership and loyalty. When our students live the motto “Do Well What You Do”, we know we have success and are the “B.E.S.T.”
  • Our students demonstrate “Respect and Integrity”. They demonstrate trustworthiness while valuing the well-being of self, others and property.
  • “Empathy and Compassion”. Our students seek to understand the point of view of others without necessarily agreeing. We encourage students to seek to understand ideas and opinions of others while developing and modeling cultural understanding and global awareness.
  • “Cooperation and Leadership”. Students participate in activities outside of the classroom and in the community.

Helping All Students Succeed

We are all unique. The flexibility enhancement project recognizes that each student approaches learning in different ways. Over the next four years, students at Spruce Grove Composite High School will be able to adapt learning to meet their individual needs.

The Pilot project focuses on:

  • Self directed learners
  • Critical thinkers as opposed to passive students
  • Curriculum facilitators instead of teacher-centered educators
  • Multimedia developers versus paper and test writers
  • Engaged student contributors as opposed to disengaged observers

Students, Parents, and Educators - The Key to Success

Success involves a close partnership with all those who can strongly influence and support the outcome.

  • While students take accountability for their own learning, they also have the full support of the different educators and their parents/guardians in achieving goals.
  • The focus is on leaning that meets the diverse needs and different strengths of each student.

Long Term Vision

By 2013, we will achieve the following:

  • All grade 10 students will pass courses
  • Grade 11 and 12 marks will improve by 5%
  • The high school completion rate will increase by 15%
  • Students will graduate and be critical thinkers
  • Students are engaged in self-directed learning through access to most current technology
  • More distributed leadership opportunities are available for staff
  • A school culture that promotes success. Failure is not an option
  • A wide variety of programs and full range of sports programs
  • Award winning band
  • French immersion, Japanese and German
  • International trips
  • Registered Apprenticeship Program
  • Career and technology studies and top-notch academic courses
  • Work Experience Placements
  • Inreach Program
  • Outreach Program
  • Student-oriented approach to programs and timetables, where students works with parents and staff to develop their school completion and success plan

What Makes us Proud

  • We are first and foremost extremely proud of its students and staff. In addition, we are very proud to deliver an exceptionally high level of flexible academic learning opportunities for each student. We develop essential skills and attitudes in preparation for post secondary and the world of work.
  • We are proud to be a very safe, caring and flexible school that fosters a positive attitude towards learning and visionary relationships. We strive to be proactive and innovative in our practices.

    Mastery Learnings:
  • Embedded critical thinking lessons in every subject.
  • Students are able to demonstrate their mastery of learning through a variety of assessments that match their learning styles such as portfolios, projects and presentations.
  • Students are provided multiple opportunities to redo or improve their grades.
  • Students are able to have their best work graded.
  • Students are given the opportunity to improve on the outcomes that they had difficulty in without repeating the entire course.
  • Students are able to access assistance in all subject areas each day during seminar time, moving from one learning area to another at their own pace.

    Rigorous and Relevant Curriculum:
  • High expectations for all students.
  • Support for low performing students through intervention programs such as study hall.
  • Professional collaboration within departments.
  • Integrating technology into curriculum.
  • Through the school’s priority focus on “Critical Thinking Challenges”, students are engaged in rigorous and relevant curriculum.
  • A clear focus on inquiry and reflection lead to improved understanding and thoughtful changes to instructional practice to make the curriculum relevant.
  • A great emphasis is placed on paired and group work learning opportunities, challenging students to probe deeper into “understanding both sides of an issue”.

What Makes Our School Great and How We Know It

Simply put, our students, parents, and staff have changed SGCHS from being BETTER to B.E.S.T. How do we know? Student, parent, and staff surveys reveal positive results. Diploma exam results continue to improve. Student participation in leadership, clubs, sports, groups and activities are at an all time high. The collection and analysis of data towards positive change provides stakeholders with
solid evidence on the direction we need to take. Our attendance and course completion rates are excellent.

A caring, dedicated and fun attitude make people want to work at and attend SGCHS. Students and staff enjoy contributing to a positive work and learning environment.

Personalization:

  • Differentiated instruction and support for students with varying cognitive/learning styles.
  • Encourage exploration of readily available technology.
  • Through regular seminar opportunities, students are able to access the learning areas required for individual needs.
  • Flexibility in the timetable will allow students to access learning through multiple entry points throughout the course of the school year.
  • Students will be given the opportunity to fast-track, maintain traditional hours of instruction or to extend learning into the next semester should they need to.
  • Students will have multiple opportunities to demonstrate mastery of outcomes.
  • Staff will focus on a system of communication that connects students, advisors, community
    members and teachers through STAT and focus groups of parents, students, teachers and all three.

    Flexible Learning Environments:
  • Flexible days to address remediation and enrichment opportunities.
  • Opportunities for students to redo assignments and tests.
  • Students will be able to access resources and teacher assistance through networks that include face-to-face and digital interactions.
  • Students will have access to seminars, tutorials, lectures, resource room for one-on-one assistance, examination rooms that are department-based rather than one teacher/one class.

Plans and Reports

Combined 2011-2014 Education Plan and 2010-2011 Annual Education Results Report

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