St. Robert Catholic High School

Infobox Education in Canada
name= St. Robert Catholic Elementary School
motto= Knowledge is the Beginning
streetaddress= 8101 Leslie St.
city= Thornhill
province= Ontario
postalcode= L3T 7P4
areacode= 905
phone= 889-4982
fax= 889-8083
email=
url= http://www.strobertchs.com/
schoolnumber=
schoolboard= York Catholic District School Board
superintendent=
trustee=
affiliation= Roman Catholic
principal= Daniel Zaroski
viceprincipals= Rita Lettieri, Eleonora Morcos, Joann Quigg, Bernie Smith
schooltype= High school
grades= 9-12
language= English and French
mascot= Ram
colours= Forest green, White
founded= 1975
enrollment= 1,458
lastupdate= March 2008

History

St. Robert Catholic High School is a high school in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. St. Robert CHS was opened by the York Catholic District School Board in 1975, celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2005. It was originally intended as an elementary school, but later saw the transition to high school. St. Robert CHS is named after St. Robert Bellarmine. St. Robert offers special programs such as the world renowned International Baccalaureate program, ESL, and Aviation Technology. The enrollment averages between 1400 and 1500 students per school year.

St. Robert Catholic High School also holds the reputation for being the oldest Catholic High School in York Region, and in recent years has lost a large percentage of its student population to newer high schools with newer technology opening in the area. Thus, special programs are offered, including the aforementioned, International Baccalaureate program.

Although the current school colours consist of forest green, white, and black, the initial school colours were orange, brown, and white.

Uniform

The uniform consists of a white golf shirt, black dress pants, and solid black footwear for both men and women.

During the winter months, students are also required have a green knit sweater or vest in their lockers. All uniform tops depict the school's crest over the student's heart. Students may also choose to wear a special black or green crew neck "spirit" sweatshirt. The spirit sweatshirt includes the name of the sport/club they participate in, their number or instrument and the first initial of their first name followed by their full surname.

All articles of clothing can be purchased at R.J. McCarthy's, supplier of uniforms for Catholic schools in Canada. This excludes the spirit sweatshirt, which is only available through the school's physical education department.

Students who were enrolled into the school before the 2007-2008 school year are eligible to wear the now defunct pieces of the school uniform until June 2010. These include the boy's white oxford dress shirt worn with a green patterned tie, the girl's white blouse and green patterned kilt, and the black polar fleece sweatshirt worn in the winter. The dress shirt and tie combination and blouse were excluded from the school uniform due to the fact that these were commonly worn untucked and unbuttoned, thus showing an inappropriate amount of skin in the upper body area. The kilt was excluded as a result of a large amount of students wearing the kilt inapropriately short. The black sweatshirt became defunct due to the school's wish to return the green school color, as students who wore the black sweatshirt in the winter appeared to be completely dressed in black.

Time Table

The school hours are 8:30am to 2:32pm, Monday to Friday.

The school also runs on a "Day 1", "Day 2" schedule. On Day 1, Students have their classes in the proper order (Period 1, Period 2, Period 3 with lunch, and Period 4). On Day 2, the last 2 periods are flipped with lunch now being in what is normally Period 4 (Period 1, Period 2, Period 4 with lunch, and Period 3).

The school year is split into two semesters in which there are four periods each. Exams run from mid-January to late-January and mid-June to late June.

External links

* [http://www.strobertchs.com/ Official Website]