Governor Simcoe Secondary School

at 15 Glenview Rd., Saint Catharines , L2N 2Z6 Canada

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Governor Simcoe Secondary School named after John Graves Simcoe, is a public high school in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It is a three-floored school with a theatre attachment. It has an enrollment of about 859 students.Its campus contains a football/soccer/field hockey field and a three-story building. The building includes two full gymnasiums with multiple changing rooms with showers, a weight room, an elevator, and a 500 seat auditorium. The school also is fully wheelchair accessible.HistoryGovernor Simcoe opened its doors in 1971; it was the first open concept high school in the Niagara Peninsula. The first principal was Bob Hayes. Since then, the open concept has been replaced with individual classrooms.In 1995, the Grantham Theatre was added to the east end of the school, while originally designed to seat 1000 people, due to budget, it was only built to seat 500.AcademicsDuring the 2007/08 school year, Governor Simcoe changed to a Multi-Subject Instructional Period (MSIP) Schedule. This schedule consists of five classes instead of the regular four. The Five-Period Day consists of four instructional periods of 60 minutes and a multi grade supervised MSIP period of 60 minutes. The MSIP class is created by reducing each of the instructional periods from 75 minutes to 60 minutes. The MSIP class is essentially made up of ‘bits’ of instructional time (4 x 15 = 60 minutes), thus its name Multi-Subject Instructional Period.AthleticsThe "Athletic" Program provides students with the opportunity to compete at the highest level possible. The underlying goal of such competition is developed within each student life skills such as dedication, teamwork, group dynamics, a sense of belonging, and the importance of hard work. Notably dominant sports at GSSS have been the performance of the senior girl's and boy's basketball teams who have won many SOSSA and OFSAA titles, as well as the Lightweight Men's rowing crews, which are always some of the top in the country.

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Governor Simcoe Secondary School is Saint Catharines based place and this enity listed in High School category. Located at 15 Glenview Rd. ON L2N 2Z6. Contact phone number of Governor Simcoe Secondary School: 905-934-4006