Silverthorn Collegiate Institute

Infobox Education in Canada
name= Silverthorn Collegiate Institute


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motto= "Nil Veriteur Veritas"
motto_translation= The Truth Fears Nothing
streetaddress= 291 Mill Road
city= Toronto
province= Ontario
postalcode= M9C 1Y5
areacode= 416
phone= 394-7010
fax= 394-7924
email= [e-mail]
url= http://www.schools.tdsb.on.ca/silverthornci
schoolboard= Toronto District School Board
affiliation= None
superintendent= Johanne Messner
trustee= John Campbell
principal= Ron Ellis
viceprincipal= Vivian Mavrou and Alison Irvine
viceprincipal_label= Vice Principals
administrator=
schooltype= High School
grades= 9 - 12
language= English
area= Burnhamthorpe Road and Mill Road
mascot= Spartacus the Spartan
teamname= Silverthorn Spartans
colours= Garnet, Green and Silver
founded= May 27, 1966
enrollment= 1,024
enrollment_as_of= March 30, 2005

Silverthorn Collegiate Institute (SCI) is a high school located in the west end of Toronto. It is under the sanction of the Toronto District School Board. The name comes from the "The Silverthorn Woods" or "Silverthorn's Bush" that border it on the south and the west . This was the northern limit of an old property known locally as "The Silverthorn Mill Farm".

The first Silverthorn to come to North America seems to have arrived in this country at least 100 years ago and settled in the United States. This family used the family coat of arms and crest that the Silverthorn family in England had used for years.

When Markland Woods was developed in the early 1960s, the Board of Education for the Township of Etobicoke decided to build a secondary school for the area. The school was to be named Silverthorn Collegiate Institute after the family who had first settled the area. The cornerstone was laid in 1963 and the school opened in September 1964 with a teaching staff of 24 and a support staff of 7. Murray Young was the first principal. The school had only grades 9, 10, and 11 in 1964. In the next two years it added grades 12 and 13. In 1968-69 the school was doubled in size, with the addition of an auditorium, the library, science labs and technical and business areas. A second gym was added later on.

SCI is a semestered school. Days run from 8:55 am to 3:10 pm. There is a two day cycle, with Day 1 falling on any date of odd number, and Day 2 falling on any date of even number.

Silverthorn's colours are garnet, green, and silver and its mascot is a Spartan. The school's motto is "Nil Veretur Veritas" which is Latin for "The Truth Fears Nothing".

Silverthorn has not been only been ringing in good academic results fromt their students; Silverthorn has many good Student-Athletes from the past and present.

External links

* [http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/silverthornci/ School Website]
** [http://www.tdsb.on.ca/libraries/links.asp?schoolNo=2811 Library Website]