Ashbury College
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Ashbury College is an independent day
and boarding
school
located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa
, Canada
. It was founded in 1891 and moved to its current venue in 1910. Previously, it occupied what now houses Canadian Senate
offices. It is an International Baccalaureate World School, a member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools
, and a member of Round Square
. The school currently enrolls approximately 500 senior (grades 9-12) and 150 junior (grades 4-8) students. The current headmaster is Tam Matthews, with Brian Storosko directing the Junior School. The Senior School has three Assistant Headmasters: Daily Life, Peter Ostrom; Academics, Malcolm Mousseau; Planning and Technology, Tim Putt.
Ashbury College is an independent private school
which offers a joint Ontario High School Diploma and Ashbury College Diploma, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma and International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma. Originally a single-gender boys school, Ashbury began accepting girls in 1982. Currently, the male/female student proportion of the Senior School is 55%/45%, but is becoming increasingly equal. The campus is 12 acres (48,562.277 m2) in Rockcliffe Park. Tuition fees for the 2009-2010 school year are $18,250 for day students and $42,250 for boarding students. There are about 80 boarders yearly from approximately 30 countries throughout the world.
Notable alumni include The Rt. Honourable John Turner
, Canada's seventeenth Prime Minister; and The Honorable Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., the first leader of the now defunct Canadian Alliance
, who later served as the Federal Minister of International Trade and President of the Treasury Board in the Stephen Harper government. Other alumni include Ben Barry
'01, founder of the modeling agency Ben Barry Agency Inc.; Canadian war artist and heraldry expert Alan Beddoe
, actor Matthew Perry
; and Adrian Harewood, current host of television show "CBC News: Late Night" in Ottawa, who graduated as the School Captain
in 1989.
The three-room school for boys was originally located on Wellington Street in Ottawa, but soon moved to bigger quarters also on Wellington Street and then on Argyle Street near the present Museum of Nature in 1900. In 1910, the school - called Ashbury College after Woollcombe's English home - moved to its current location on 12 acres in the village of Rockcliffe Park.
Arthur Le B. Weeks (architect) designed the Ashbury College (1909) on Mariposa Avenue. With the support of Ottawa benefactors, a new building was constructed for the 115 students, 48 of whom were boarders.
Ashbury was originally an all-boys institution but began admitting women for grades 9-12 in 1982 and then admitted girls for the first time into fourth grade (the youngest grade offered) in 2010. The institution is divided between the Senior School and the Junior School, who have separate faculties and students, but share resources such as the cafeteria (MacLaren Hall), gymnasiums, art departments, music facilities, theatre, and the chapel.
Ashbury College offers the traditional Ontario Secondary School Diploma but also the International Baccalaureate Diploma, otherwise known as the IB. Students will traditionally take six academic subjects each year and the Senior School program is grades nine through twelve. Ashbury follows a traditional approach to education in the liberal arts and requires participation in athletics and volunteering/community service in order to graduate. Approximately 20% of the students are considered international students. Each graduating class is approximately 120 students.
Each house is led by prefects, graduating students chosen for their leadership, role-model ability, involvement in school life and strong academic standing. Prefects are typically identified by their burgundy blazers.
, the USA, and around the globe. For a number of years, the students of the graduating class have received 100% university placement. Recent graduates have matriculated to University of Toronto
, McGill University
, Queen's University
, Harvard University
, Princeton University
, Yale University
, University of Pennsylvania
, University of Cambridge
, King's College London
, University of Oxford
, Johns Hopkins University
, University of St. Andrew's, Duke University
, Wake Forest University
, Dartmouth College
, Brown University
, Cornell University
, Georgetown University
, New York University
, University of Western Ontario
, Bishop's University
, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Vermont
, University of Virginia
and the University of Chicago
.
The average SAT score from Ashbury College is 1338/1600, (1998/2400) or in the 90th percentile of all test takers. Further, the average IB Diploma score is 33, 4 points of the global average of 29. Eighty-two percent of students were admitted to their first choice university For the Class of 2010, the most popular university choice was McGill University
(26 students), followed by Queen's University
(19 students), and then the University of Toronto
(13 students).
.
while the senior boys varsity hockey team also won the Ontario provincial championships over St. Charles College
. Senior girls basketball won provincial titles in 2003 and 2007, while Women's Rugby has won the provincial championships three times (2002, 2003, 2007).
Ashbury maintains teams for the following sports:
At the end of the 2006/2007 school year, Ashbury College was ranked 48th in Ontario for high school sports by the Ottawa Citizen
.
's "The Hobbit
" and "The Lord of the Rings
":
Houses compete extensively throughout the academic year in athletic (e.g. Track and Field Day), artistic (e.g. House Music Competition, Shakespeare Reading Contest), and academic (e.g. Scholar Roll) activities and house points are accumulated throughout the year. Students are identified by house in many situations, primarily athletic, where everyone sports a house shirt with varying colours for physical education activities. Students are also assigned a "home form", where there are presently one for each of grades four, five, and six, and three for both grades seven and eight.
Since 2003, the Junior School also features a leadership program called L.E.E.D. The program's goal is to develop leadership qualities in students. Students in grade 4 and 5 are introduced to the program at a young age. In grades 7 and 8, house captains, who are elected by the student body, serve as leaders and role models for the house. They are responsible for organizing activities and initiatives. For example, responsibilities include organizing inter-house sport activities and fund-raising for charities, with the ultimate goal of driving their house to win the annual competition. The arts programme is another area of focus of the Junior School. In the Junior school, classes of art, music and dramatic arts are offered to students. One of these courses is optional for students in grade 8. The arts program is very diverse and includes school play productions, inter-house music competitions, and the creation of personal artwork. Junior School students have participated in Theatre Ashbury production, and former Junior School students have often played major roles. Recently, the Junior School has presented musicals, beginning in 2002 with "Rana's Pond", and continuing with two original productions, "News" in 2004, directed by Ingrid Boyd, with words by Ingrid Boyd and David Polk, music by John Merritt and set by Elisabeth Arbuckle and another original production ("Artifacts!") produced in 2006 by Alex Menzies with words by David Polk and music based on established scores, and set design once again by Elisabeth Arbuckle. This production has been re-produced in Spring 2007.
The Great Hall is one part of the new addition to the College that was completed in 2004 as a part of the "Building Futures" fundraising campaign. Other additions included a new double gymnasium, four new classrooms (equipped with SmartBoards), a student common area, a staff room, and several offices. The increase in square footage has added more than 20% of usable space to the school.
The Great Hall was re-named in 2006 as the Maclaren Hall in honour of alumnus Don Maclaren.
One of the perpetrators pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was sentenced to four years probation. He apologized to the victim and his family saying he was pulling a common prank. The victim and their family submitted victim impact statements detailing the effect the events had on their family.
The allegations against the school have not been proven in a court of law and Ashbury has yet to respond to the charges, thus the lawsuit remains pending.
Ashbury College is an independent day
and boarding
school
located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa
, Canada
. It was founded in 1891 and moved to its current venue in 1910. Previously, it occupied what now houses Canadian Senate
offices. It is an International Baccalaureate World School, a member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools
, and a member of Round Square
. The school currently enrolls approximately 500 senior (grades 9-12) and 150 junior (grades 4-8) students. The current headmaster is Tam Matthews, with Brian Storosko directing the Junior School. The Senior School has three Assistant Headmasters: Daily Life, Peter Ostrom; Academics, Malcolm Mousseau; Planning and Technology, Tim Putt.
Ashbury College is an independent private school
which offers a joint Ontario High School Diploma and Ashbury College Diploma, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma and International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma. Originally a single-gender boys school, Ashbury began accepting girls in 1982. Currently, the male/female student proportion of the Senior School is 55%/45%, but is becoming increasingly equal. The campus is 12 acres (48,562.277 m2) in Rockcliffe Park. Tuition fees for the 2009-2010 school year are $18,250 for day students and $42,250 for boarding students. There are about 80 boarders yearly from approximately 30 countries throughout the world.
Notable alumni include The Rt. Honourable John Turner
, Canada's seventeenth Prime Minister; and The Honorable Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., the first leader of the now defunct Canadian Alliance
, who later served as the Federal Minister of International Trade and President of the Treasury Board in the Stephen Harper government. Other alumni include Ben Barry
'01, founder of the modeling agency Ben Barry Agency Inc.; Canadian war artist and heraldry expert Alan Beddoe
, actor Matthew Perry
; and Adrian Harewood, current host of television show "CBC News: Late Night" in Ottawa, who graduated as the School Captain
in 1989.
The three-room school for boys was originally located on Wellington Street in Ottawa, but soon moved to bigger quarters also on Wellington Street and then on Argyle Street near the present Museum of Nature in 1900. In 1910, the school - called Ashbury College after Woollcombe's English home - moved to its current location on 12 acres in the village of Rockcliffe Park.
Arthur Le B. Weeks (architect) designed the Ashbury College (1909) on Mariposa Avenue. With the support of Ottawa benefactors, a new building was constructed for the 115 students, 48 of whom were boarders.
Ashbury was originally an all-boys institution but began admitting women for grades 9-12 in 1982 and then admitted girls for the first time into fourth grade (the youngest grade offered) in 2010. The institution is divided between the Senior School and the Junior School, who have separate faculties and students, but share resources such as the cafeteria (MacLaren Hall), gymnasiums, art departments, music facilities, theatre, and the chapel.
Ashbury College offers the traditional Ontario Secondary School Diploma but also the International Baccalaureate Diploma, otherwise known as the IB. Students will traditionally take six academic subjects each year and the Senior School program is grades nine through twelve. Ashbury follows a traditional approach to education in the liberal arts and requires participation in athletics and volunteering/community service in order to graduate. Approximately 20% of the students are considered international students. Each graduating class is approximately 120 students.
Each house is led by prefects, graduating students chosen for their leadership, role-model ability, involvement in school life and strong academic standing. Prefects are typically identified by their burgundy blazers.
, the USA, and around the globe. For a number of years, the students of the graduating class have received 100% university placement. Recent graduates have matriculated to University of Toronto
, McGill University
, Queen's University
, Harvard University
, Princeton University
, Yale University
, University of Pennsylvania
, University of Cambridge
, King's College London
, University of Oxford
, Johns Hopkins University
, University of St. Andrew's, Duke University
, Wake Forest University
, Dartmouth College
, Brown University
, Cornell University
, Georgetown University
, New York University
, University of Western Ontario
, Bishop's University
, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Vermont
, University of Virginia
and the University of Chicago
.
The average SAT score from Ashbury College is 1338/1600, (1998/2400) or in the 90th percentile of all test takers. Further, the average IB Diploma score is 33, 4 points of the global average of 29. Eighty-two percent of students were admitted to their first choice university For the Class of 2010, the most popular university choice was McGill University
(26 students), followed by Queen's University
(19 students), and then the University of Toronto
(13 students).
.
while the senior boys varsity hockey team also won the Ontario provincial championships over St. Charles College
. Senior girls basketball won provincial titles in 2003 and 2007, while Women's Rugby has won the provincial championships three times (2002, 2003, 2007).
Ashbury maintains teams for the following sports:
At the end of the 2006/2007 school year, Ashbury College was ranked 48th in Ontario for high school sports by the Ottawa Citizen
.
's "The Hobbit
" and "The Lord of the Rings
":
Houses compete extensively throughout the academic year in athletic (e.g. Track and Field Day), artistic (e.g. House Music Competition, Shakespeare Reading Contest), and academic (e.g. Scholar Roll) activities and house points are accumulated throughout the year. Students are identified by house in many situations, primarily athletic, where everyone sports a house shirt with varying colours for physical education activities. Students are also assigned a "home form", where there are presently one for each of grades four, five, and six, and three for both grades seven and eight.
Since 2003, the Junior School also features a leadership program called L.E.E.D. The program's goal is to develop leadership qualities in students. Students in grade 4 and 5 are introduced to the program at a young age. In grades 7 and 8, house captains, who are elected by the student body, serve as leaders and role models for the house. They are responsible for organizing activities and initiatives. For example, responsibilities include organizing inter-house sport activities and fund-raising for charities, with the ultimate goal of driving their house to win the annual competition. The arts programme is another area of focus of the Junior School. In the Junior school, classes of art, music and dramatic arts are offered to students. One of these courses is optional for students in grade 8. The arts program is very diverse and includes school play productions, inter-house music competitions, and the creation of personal artwork. Junior School students have participated in Theatre Ashbury production, and former Junior School students have often played major roles. Recently, the Junior School has presented musicals, beginning in 2002 with "Rana's Pond", and continuing with two original productions, "News" in 2004, directed by Ingrid Boyd, with words by Ingrid Boyd and David Polk, music by John Merritt and set by Elisabeth Arbuckle and another original production ("Artifacts!") produced in 2006 by Alex Menzies with words by David Polk and music based on established scores, and set design once again by Elisabeth Arbuckle. This production has been re-produced in Spring 2007.
The Great Hall is one part of the new addition to the College that was completed in 2004 as a part of the "Building Futures" fundraising campaign. Other additions included a new double gymnasium, four new classrooms (equipped with SmartBoards), a student common area, a staff room, and several offices. The increase in square footage has added more than 20% of usable space to the school.
The Great Hall was re-named in 2006 as the Maclaren Hall in honour of alumnus Don Maclaren.
One of the perpetrators pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was sentenced to four years probation. He apologized to the victim and his family saying he was pulling a common prank. The victim and their family submitted victim impact statements detailing the effect the events had on their family.
The allegations against the school have not been proven in a court of law and Ashbury has yet to respond to the charges, thus the lawsuit remains pending.
Ashbury College is an independent day
and boarding
school
located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa
, Canada
. It was founded in 1891 and moved to its current venue in 1910. Previously, it occupied what now houses Canadian Senate
offices. It is an International Baccalaureate World School, a member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools
, and a member of Round Square
. The school currently enrolls approximately 500 senior (grades 9-12) and 150 junior (grades 4-8) students. The current headmaster is Tam Matthews, with Brian Storosko directing the Junior School. The Senior School has three Assistant Headmasters: Daily Life, Peter Ostrom; Academics, Malcolm Mousseau; Planning and Technology, Tim Putt.
Ashbury College is an independent private school
which offers a joint Ontario High School Diploma and Ashbury College Diploma, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma and International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma. Originally a single-gender boys school, Ashbury began accepting girls in 1982. Currently, the male/female student proportion of the Senior School is 55%/45%, but is becoming increasingly equal. The campus is 12 acres (48,562.277 m2) in Rockcliffe Park. Tuition fees for the 2009-2010 school year are $18,250 for day students and $42,250 for boarding students. There are about 80 boarders yearly from approximately 30 countries throughout the world.
Notable alumni include The Rt. Honourable John Turner
, Canada's seventeenth Prime Minister; and The Honorable Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., the first leader of the now defunct Canadian Alliance
, who later served as the Federal Minister of International Trade and President of the Treasury Board in the Stephen Harper government. Other alumni include Ben Barry
'01, founder of the modeling agency Ben Barry Agency Inc.; Canadian war artist and heraldry expert Alan Beddoe
, actor Matthew Perry
; and Adrian Harewood, current host of television show "CBC News: Late Night" in Ottawa, who graduated as the School Captain
in 1989.
The three-room school for boys was originally located on Wellington Street in Ottawa, but soon moved to bigger quarters also on Wellington Street and then on Argyle Street near the present Museum of Nature in 1900. In 1910, the school - called Ashbury College after Woollcombe's English home - moved to its current location on 12 acres in the village of Rockcliffe Park.
Arthur Le B. Weeks (architect) designed the Ashbury College (1909) on Mariposa Avenue. With the support of Ottawa benefactors, a new building was constructed for the 115 students, 48 of whom were boarders.
Ashbury was originally an all-boys institution but began admitting women for grades 9-12 in 1982 and then admitted girls for the first time into fourth grade (the youngest grade offered) in 2010. The institution is divided between the Senior School and the Junior School, who have separate faculties and students, but share resources such as the cafeteria (MacLaren Hall), gymnasiums, art departments, music facilities, theatre, and the chapel.
Ashbury College offers the traditional Ontario Secondary School Diploma but also the International Baccalaureate Diploma, otherwise known as the IB. Students will traditionally take six academic subjects each year and the Senior School program is grades nine through twelve. Ashbury follows a traditional approach to education in the liberal arts and requires participation in athletics and volunteering/community service in order to graduate. Approximately 20% of the students are considered international students. Each graduating class is approximately 120 students.
Each house is led by prefects, graduating students chosen for their leadership, role-model ability, involvement in school life and strong academic standing. Prefects are typically identified by their burgundy blazers.
, the USA, and around the globe. For a number of years, the students of the graduating class have received 100% university placement. Recent graduates have matriculated to University of Toronto
, McGill University
, Queen's University
, Harvard University
, Princeton University
, Yale University
, University of Pennsylvania
, University of Cambridge
, King's College London
, University of Oxford
, Johns Hopkins University
, University of St. Andrew's, Duke University
, Wake Forest University
, Dartmouth College
, Brown University
, Cornell University
, Georgetown University
, New York University
, University of Western Ontario
, Bishop's University
, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Vermont
, University of Virginia
and the University of Chicago
.
The average SAT score from Ashbury College is 1338/1600, (1998/2400) or in the 90th percentile of all test takers. Further, the average IB Diploma score is 33, 4 points of the global average of 29. Eighty-two percent of students were admitted to their first choice university For the Class of 2010, the most popular university choice was McGill University
(26 students), followed by Queen's University
(19 students), and then the University of Toronto
(13 students).
.
while the senior boys varsity hockey team also won the Ontario provincial championships over St. Charles College
. Senior girls basketball won provincial titles in 2003 and 2007, while Women's Rugby has won the provincial championships three times (2002, 2003, 2007).
Ashbury maintains teams for the following sports:
At the end of the 2006/2007 school year, Ashbury College was ranked 48th in Ontario for high school sports by the Ottawa Citizen
.
's "The Hobbit
" and "The Lord of the Rings
":
Houses compete extensively throughout the academic year in athletic (e.g. Track and Field Day), artistic (e.g. House Music Competition, Shakespeare Reading Contest), and academic (e.g. Scholar Roll) activities and house points are accumulated throughout the year. Students are identified by house in many situations, primarily athletic, where everyone sports a house shirt with varying colours for physical education activities. Students are also assigned a "home form", where there are presently one for each of grades four, five, and six, and three for both grades seven and eight.
Since 2003, the Junior School also features a leadership program called L.E.E.D. The program's goal is to develop leadership qualities in students. Students in grade 4 and 5 are introduced to the program at a young age. In grades 7 and 8, house captains, who are elected by the student body, serve as leaders and role models for the house. They are responsible for organizing activities and initiatives. For example, responsibilities include organizing inter-house sport activities and fund-raising for charities, with the ultimate goal of driving their house to win the annual competition. The arts programme is another area of focus of the Junior School. In the Junior school, classes of art, music and dramatic arts are offered to students. One of these courses is optional for students in grade 8. The arts program is very diverse and includes school play productions, inter-house music competitions, and the creation of personal artwork. Junior School students have participated in Theatre Ashbury production, and former Junior School students have often played major roles. Recently, the Junior School has presented musicals, beginning in 2002 with "Rana's Pond", and continuing with two original productions, "News" in 2004, directed by Ingrid Boyd, with words by Ingrid Boyd and David Polk, music by John Merritt and set by Elisabeth Arbuckle and another original production ("Artifacts!") produced in 2006 by Alex Menzies with words by David Polk and music based on established scores, and set design once again by Elisabeth Arbuckle. This production has been re-produced in Spring 2007.
The Great Hall is one part of the new addition to the College that was completed in 2004 as a part of the "Building Futures" fundraising campaign. Other additions included a new double gymnasium, four new classrooms (equipped with SmartBoards), a student common area, a staff room, and several offices. The increase in square footage has added more than 20% of usable space to the school.
The Great Hall was re-named in 2006 as the Maclaren Hall in honour of alumnus Don Maclaren.
One of the perpetrators pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was sentenced to four years probation. He apologized to the victim and his family saying he was pulling a common prank. The victim and their family submitted victim impact statements detailing the effect the events had on their family.
The allegations against the school have not been proven in a court of law and Ashbury has yet to respond to the charges, thus the lawsuit remains pending.
Day school
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and boarding
Boarding school
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school
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located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa
Ottawa
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, Canada
Canada
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. It was founded in 1891 and moved to its current venue in 1910. Previously, it occupied what now houses Canadian Senate
Canadian Senate
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offices. It is an International Baccalaureate World School, a member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools
Canadian Association of Independent Schools
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, and a member of Round Square
Round Square
The Round Square Conference of Schools is a worldwide association of more than 80 schools that allows students to travel between schools,tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service and discover cultures along the way.-History:...
. The school currently enrolls approximately 500 senior (grades 9-12) and 150 junior (grades 4-8) students. The current headmaster is Tam Matthews, with Brian Storosko directing the Junior School. The Senior School has three Assistant Headmasters: Daily Life, Peter Ostrom; Academics, Malcolm Mousseau; Planning and Technology, Tim Putt.
Ashbury College is an independent private school
Private school
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which offers a joint Ontario High School Diploma and Ashbury College Diploma, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma and International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma. Originally a single-gender boys school, Ashbury began accepting girls in 1982. Currently, the male/female student proportion of the Senior School is 55%/45%, but is becoming increasingly equal. The campus is 12 acres (48,562.277 m2) in Rockcliffe Park. Tuition fees for the 2009-2010 school year are $18,250 for day students and $42,250 for boarding students. There are about 80 boarders yearly from approximately 30 countries throughout the world.
Notable alumni include The Rt. Honourable John Turner
John Turner
John Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984....
, Canada's seventeenth Prime Minister; and The Honorable Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., the first leader of the now defunct Canadian Alliance
Canadian Alliance
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, who later served as the Federal Minister of International Trade and President of the Treasury Board in the Stephen Harper government. Other alumni include Ben Barry
Ben Barry
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'01, founder of the modeling agency Ben Barry Agency Inc.; Canadian war artist and heraldry expert Alan Beddoe
Alan Beddoe
Lieutenant-Commander Alan Brookman Beddoe, OC, OBE, HFHS, FHSC was a Canadian artist, war artist, consultant in heraldry and founder and first president of the Heraldry Society of Canada in 1965....
, actor Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry (actor)
Matthew Langford Perry is a Canadian-American actor and comedian, best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Chandler Bing on the popular, long-running NBC television sitcom Friends...
; and Adrian Harewood, current host of television show "CBC News: Late Night" in Ottawa, who graduated as the School Captain
School Captain
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in 1989.
History
Ashbury College was founded in 1891 by Canon George Penrose Woollcombe, an Oxford University graduate and a new Canadian, who served as Ashbury's Headmaster for 42 years.The three-room school for boys was originally located on Wellington Street in Ottawa, but soon moved to bigger quarters also on Wellington Street and then on Argyle Street near the present Museum of Nature in 1900. In 1910, the school - called Ashbury College after Woollcombe's English home - moved to its current location on 12 acres in the village of Rockcliffe Park.
Arthur Le B. Weeks (architect) designed the Ashbury College (1909) on Mariposa Avenue. With the support of Ottawa benefactors, a new building was constructed for the 115 students, 48 of whom were boarders.
Ashbury was originally an all-boys institution but began admitting women for grades 9-12 in 1982 and then admitted girls for the first time into fourth grade (the youngest grade offered) in 2010. The institution is divided between the Senior School and the Junior School, who have separate faculties and students, but share resources such as the cafeteria (MacLaren Hall), gymnasiums, art departments, music facilities, theatre, and the chapel.
Senior School
Admission
Most students are accepted into fourth grade, seventh grade, and ninth grade, deemed "admission points". Ashbury's selective admissions process has approximately 25 spots per year for boarding students and 110 spaces a year for day students. Spaces are filled for each class in through two rounds: Round I (usually more competitive) and Round II. Round I begins in early October with offers extended in mid-December while Round II begins in the last week of January and offers are extended in the first week of March. 90% of students are selected in Round I and only Round I candidates are considered for scholarships. Students are selected through a rigorous admissions process which includes an entrance exam and an interview.House System & Prefects
The House system has been in place since 1937 and Ashbury students are divided into four houses upon entering in ninth grade. Each house has roughly 30 students per grade and 120 in each house during any academic year with the exception of Wollocombe House that has roughly 80. Students with older siblings or alumni parents are put in their "family" house and others are randomly assigned. Houses are permanent from 9th grade until graduation and identification is often through the house-specific neck-tie or commonly worn house t-shirts during physical education, house events or after 4 pm when No. 3 (casual) uniform can be worn. The houses compete for the "Wilson Shield" which is awarded at the end of the academic year. The houses are:- Woollcombe House (Blue)
- New House (Green)
- Connaught House (Red)
- Alexander House (Yellow)
Each house is led by prefects, graduating students chosen for their leadership, role-model ability, involvement in school life and strong academic standing. Prefects are typically identified by their burgundy blazers.
University Placement
Ashbury College offers the International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma program and has a university placement rate of 100% for the past ten years. Graduates often matriculate to colleges and universities in CanadaCanada
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, the USA, and around the globe. For a number of years, the students of the graduating class have received 100% university placement. Recent graduates have matriculated to University of Toronto
University of Toronto
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, McGill University
McGill University
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, Queen's University
Queen's University
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, Harvard University
Harvard University
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, Princeton University
Princeton University
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, Yale University
Yale University
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, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
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, University of Cambridge
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, King's College London
King's College London
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, University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, Johns Hopkins University
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The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, University of St. Andrew's, Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, Wake Forest University
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, Dartmouth College
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, Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, Cornell University
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, Georgetown University
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, New York University
New York University
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, University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
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, Bishop's University
Bishop's University
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, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Vermont
University of Vermont
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, University of Virginia
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and the University of Chicago
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.
The average SAT score from Ashbury College is 1338/1600, (1998/2400) or in the 90th percentile of all test takers. Further, the average IB Diploma score is 33, 4 points of the global average of 29. Eighty-two percent of students were admitted to their first choice university For the Class of 2010, the most popular university choice was McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
(26 students), followed by Queen's University
Queen's University
Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
(19 students), and then the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
(13 students).
Student Life
Students in grade 9 and 10 are required to participate in co-curricular activities in all three terms. Grade 11 students must participate in co-curricular activities in two terms and grade 12’s in one term. As a requirement for the Ontario Diploma, all students complete a minimum of 40 Community Service Hours, although many complete more and are rewarded with Bronze (60 hours), Silver (120 hours), Gold (200 hours), and Platinum (400 hours) awards respectively. Ashbury also offers co-curricular programs in bilingual debating, drama & theatre, Model United Nations, the Yearbook Committee, and the 'Blazer' (student magazine), among many others. Additionally, Ashbury students can complete requirements for the The Duke of Edinburgh's AwardThe Duke of Edinburgh's Award
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award , is a programme of activities that can be undertaken by anyone aged 14 to 24, regardless of personal ability....
.
Athletics
Ashbury College is a member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools (CAIS), the Ottawa Independent Schools Athletic Association (OISAA), the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic Intermediate Athletic Association (OCCIAA), the National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association (NCSSAA) and the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA). Ashbury is recognized for its strong athletics program. In 2010, the senior boys varsity basketball team won the Ontario provincial championship (OFSAA) for the first time by defeating Ridley CollegeRidley College
Ridley College is a co-educational boarding and day university-preparatory school located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 20 miles from Niagara Falls...
while the senior boys varsity hockey team also won the Ontario provincial championships over St. Charles College
St. Charles College
St. Charles College may refer to:* St. Charles College, a Catholic seminary school in Ellicott City, Maryland,* St. Charles College , a now defunct Methodist college in St. Charles, Missouri...
. Senior girls basketball won provincial titles in 2003 and 2007, while Women's Rugby has won the provincial championships three times (2002, 2003, 2007).
Ashbury maintains teams for the following sports:
- BadmintonBadmintonBadminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- Field HockeyField hockeyField Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
- GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- RowingRowing (sport)Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
- Cross country runningCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- Ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
- RowingSport rowingRowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
- Rugby unionRugby unionRugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
- Downhill SkiingDownhillDownhill is an alpine skiing discipline. The rules for the Downhill were originally developed by Sir Arnold Lunn for the 1921 British National Ski Championships....
- FootballCanadian footballCanadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
- SoccerFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
- Track and FieldTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
- TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
At the end of the 2006/2007 school year, Ashbury College was ranked 48th in Ontario for high school sports by the Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Citizen
The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Canada. According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the paper had a 2008 weekly circulation of 900,197.- History :...
.
Junior School
The Junior School is a division of Ashbury College for students from grade four to grade eight. Unlike the Senior School's blue colors, Junior School uses green as its dominant color which is prevalent in many locations as a symbol, including the website and uniforms. Junior School students typically wear uniform ties with maroon, grey, and green stripes, while Senior School students wear a specific Senior school tie on Mondays and wear an appropriate tie of choice on other days of the week, including but not limited to house ties. Like the Senior School, Junior School students are placed into one of four houses upon their arrival, inspired by J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
's "The Hobbit
The Hobbit
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald...
" and "The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...
":
- Dragons
- Hobbits
- Wizards
- Goblins
Houses compete extensively throughout the academic year in athletic (e.g. Track and Field Day), artistic (e.g. House Music Competition, Shakespeare Reading Contest), and academic (e.g. Scholar Roll) activities and house points are accumulated throughout the year. Students are identified by house in many situations, primarily athletic, where everyone sports a house shirt with varying colours for physical education activities. Students are also assigned a "home form", where there are presently one for each of grades four, five, and six, and three for both grades seven and eight.
Since 2003, the Junior School also features a leadership program called L.E.E.D. The program's goal is to develop leadership qualities in students. Students in grade 4 and 5 are introduced to the program at a young age. In grades 7 and 8, house captains, who are elected by the student body, serve as leaders and role models for the house. They are responsible for organizing activities and initiatives. For example, responsibilities include organizing inter-house sport activities and fund-raising for charities, with the ultimate goal of driving their house to win the annual competition. The arts programme is another area of focus of the Junior School. In the Junior school, classes of art, music and dramatic arts are offered to students. One of these courses is optional for students in grade 8. The arts program is very diverse and includes school play productions, inter-house music competitions, and the creation of personal artwork. Junior School students have participated in Theatre Ashbury production, and former Junior School students have often played major roles. Recently, the Junior School has presented musicals, beginning in 2002 with "Rana's Pond", and continuing with two original productions, "News" in 2004, directed by Ingrid Boyd, with words by Ingrid Boyd and David Polk, music by John Merritt and set by Elisabeth Arbuckle and another original production ("Artifacts!") produced in 2006 by Alex Menzies with words by David Polk and music based on established scores, and set design once again by Elisabeth Arbuckle. This production has been re-produced in Spring 2007.
Maclaren Hall (formerly, Great Hall)
The Maclaren Hall is Ashbury's cafeteria. Opened in 2004, the MacLaren Hall serves breakfast, lunch and dinner for boarders and lunch for day students (Junior and Senior school alike). Open from 7 am to 7 pm, MacLaren Hall offers selections for vegetarians as well as those with other needs. In addition to cash being tendered, students are able to use their student cards to access meal plans and "flex dollars", which is a refillable debit card system.The Great Hall is one part of the new addition to the College that was completed in 2004 as a part of the "Building Futures" fundraising campaign. Other additions included a new double gymnasium, four new classrooms (equipped with SmartBoards), a student common area, a staff room, and several offices. The increase in square footage has added more than 20% of usable space to the school.
The Great Hall was re-named in 2006 as the Maclaren Hall in honour of alumnus Don Maclaren.
Notable Ashbury College alumni
- John TurnerJohn TurnerJohn Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984....
, Canadian Prime Minister - Stockwell DayStockwell DayStockwell Burt Day, Jr., PC, MP is a former Canadian politician, and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a former cabinet minister in Alberta, and a former leader of the Canadian Alliance. Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of...
, Member of House of Commons - Ben BarryBen BarryBen Barry is a Canadian entrepreneur, author, and women's health advocate. He is the founder and CEO of the Ben Barry Agency, a modelling agency and consultancy known for its use of diverse models, and the author of the Canadian bestseller Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship...
Entrepreneur - John Emilius FauquierJohn Emilius FauquierJohn Emilius “Johnny” Fauquier DSO & Two Bars, DFC was a Canadian aviator and Second World War Bomber Command leader. He commanded No. 405 Squadron RCAF and later No. 617 Squadron RAF over the course of the war. A bush pilot, prior to the war, he joined the RCAF as a flight instructor in 1939. He...
Royal Canadian Air Force Commodore - Matthew PerryMatthew PerryMatthew Perry is Canadian-American television and film actor.Matthew Perry or Matt Perry may also refer to:*Matthew C. Perry , American naval officer who forcibly opened Japan to trade with the West...
, actor best known for his role as Chandler on the hit TV show 'Friends' - Ryan SempleRyan Semple (skier)Ryan Semple is a Canadian alpine skier.Semple's best finish on the Alpine skiing World Cup circuit is 11th place in a combined at Kitzbühel in 2010...
, 2006, 2010 Olympian, Skiing. - Trevor MatthewsTrevor MatthewsTrevor Matthews is a Canadian film producer and actor. He is the youngest son of telecommunications billionaire Sir Terence Matthews and Ann Matthews.-Early life:...
, Founder and CEO of Brookstreet Pictures - Donald StevenDonald StevenDonald Steven is a Canadian-American composer, music educator, and academic administrator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award in 1970, the Canadian Federation of University Women's Golden Jubilee Creative...
, composer - Stewart Johnston, President - TSNThe Sports NetworkThe Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...
- Adrian HarewoodAdrian HarewoodAdrian Harewood is a Canadian television and radio journalist, and the anchor of CBOT's CBC News: Ottawa at 5/5:30/6 and CBC News: Late Night in Ottawa....
, CBC news journalist - Chris Murray (property)Chris Murray (property)Chris Murray, born in 1970, is the co-founder and Managing Director of Ridgeford Properties.-Early Life:Chris Murray grew up in Ottawa, Canada, where he attended Ashbury College, an independent day and boarding school located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Canada.The Murray family has a history in...
, co-founder and Managing Director or Ridgeford Properties - Lt. Gen. Guy SimondsGuy SimondsLieutenant General Guy Granville Simonds, CC, CB, CBE, DSO, CD was a Canadian Army officer who commanded the II Canadian Corps during World War II. He served as acting commander of the First Canadian Army, leading the Allied forces to victory in the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944...
, Canadian army officer, commander of the II Canadian Corps during World War II, later named Chief of the General Staff (most senior rank in the Canadian Army)
Controversy
During a 2007 field trip to Boston, four students allegedly committed sexual assault on another student, sparking controversy and a lawsuit against the school. As a result, several students were expelled, and more stringent punishments were handed down to the perpetrators. Criminal charges were laid against the former Ashbury students. The young men pleaded guilty in a Boston courtroom to the charges, and were punished according to youth criminal justice laws (namely, probation and juvenile detentions).One of the perpetrators pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was sentenced to four years probation. He apologized to the victim and his family saying he was pulling a common prank. The victim and their family submitted victim impact statements detailing the effect the events had on their family.
The allegations against the school have not been proven in a court of law and Ashbury has yet to respond to the charges, thus the lawsuit remains pending.
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Ashbury College is an independent day
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...
and boarding
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...
located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It was founded in 1891 and moved to its current venue in 1910. Previously, it occupied what now houses Canadian Senate
Canadian Senate
The Senate of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the House of Commons, and the monarch . The Senate consists of 105 members appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister...
offices. It is an International Baccalaureate World School, a member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools
Canadian Association of Independent Schools
Canadian Association of Independent Schools is an association for independent schools that operate within Canada or offer a curriculum leading to a Canadian diploma in a location outside of the country. Member schools are non-profit institutions with volunteer Boards of Governors who are...
, and a member of Round Square
Round Square
The Round Square Conference of Schools is a worldwide association of more than 80 schools that allows students to travel between schools,tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service and discover cultures along the way.-History:...
. The school currently enrolls approximately 500 senior (grades 9-12) and 150 junior (grades 4-8) students. The current headmaster is Tam Matthews, with Brian Storosko directing the Junior School. The Senior School has three Assistant Headmasters: Daily Life, Peter Ostrom; Academics, Malcolm Mousseau; Planning and Technology, Tim Putt.
Ashbury College is an independent private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
which offers a joint Ontario High School Diploma and Ashbury College Diploma, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma and International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma. Originally a single-gender boys school, Ashbury began accepting girls in 1982. Currently, the male/female student proportion of the Senior School is 55%/45%, but is becoming increasingly equal. The campus is 12 acres (48,562.277 m2) in Rockcliffe Park. Tuition fees for the 2009-2010 school year are $18,250 for day students and $42,250 for boarding students. There are about 80 boarders yearly from approximately 30 countries throughout the world.
Notable alumni include The Rt. Honourable John Turner
John Turner
John Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984....
, Canada's seventeenth Prime Minister; and The Honorable Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., the first leader of the now defunct Canadian Alliance
Canadian Alliance
The Canadian Alliance , formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance , was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held...
, who later served as the Federal Minister of International Trade and President of the Treasury Board in the Stephen Harper government. Other alumni include Ben Barry
Ben Barry
Ben Barry is a Canadian entrepreneur, author, and women's health advocate. He is the founder and CEO of the Ben Barry Agency, a modelling agency and consultancy known for its use of diverse models, and the author of the Canadian bestseller Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship...
'01, founder of the modeling agency Ben Barry Agency Inc.; Canadian war artist and heraldry expert Alan Beddoe
Alan Beddoe
Lieutenant-Commander Alan Brookman Beddoe, OC, OBE, HFHS, FHSC was a Canadian artist, war artist, consultant in heraldry and founder and first president of the Heraldry Society of Canada in 1965....
, actor Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry (actor)
Matthew Langford Perry is a Canadian-American actor and comedian, best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Chandler Bing on the popular, long-running NBC television sitcom Friends...
; and Adrian Harewood, current host of television show "CBC News: Late Night" in Ottawa, who graduated as the School Captain
School Captain
School Captain is a student appointed or elected to represent the school.This student, usually in the senior year, in their final year of attending that school...
in 1989.
History
Ashbury College was founded in 1891 by Canon George Penrose Woollcombe, an Oxford University graduate and a new Canadian, who served as Ashbury's Headmaster for 42 years.The three-room school for boys was originally located on Wellington Street in Ottawa, but soon moved to bigger quarters also on Wellington Street and then on Argyle Street near the present Museum of Nature in 1900. In 1910, the school - called Ashbury College after Woollcombe's English home - moved to its current location on 12 acres in the village of Rockcliffe Park.
Arthur Le B. Weeks (architect) designed the Ashbury College (1909) on Mariposa Avenue. With the support of Ottawa benefactors, a new building was constructed for the 115 students, 48 of whom were boarders.
Ashbury was originally an all-boys institution but began admitting women for grades 9-12 in 1982 and then admitted girls for the first time into fourth grade (the youngest grade offered) in 2010. The institution is divided between the Senior School and the Junior School, who have separate faculties and students, but share resources such as the cafeteria (MacLaren Hall), gymnasiums, art departments, music facilities, theatre, and the chapel.
Senior School
Admission
Most students are accepted into fourth grade, seventh grade, and ninth grade, deemed "admission points". Ashbury's selective admissions process has approximately 25 spots per year for boarding students and 110 spaces a year for day students. Spaces are filled for each class in through two rounds: Round I (usually more competitive) and Round II. Round I begins in early October with offers extended in mid-December while Round II begins in the last week of January and offers are extended in the first week of March. 90% of students are selected in Round I and only Round I candidates are considered for scholarships. Students are selected through a rigorous admissions process which includes an entrance exam and an interview.House System & Prefects
The House system has been in place since 1937 and Ashbury students are divided into four houses upon entering in ninth grade. Each house has roughly 30 students per grade and 120 in each house during any academic year with the exception of Wollocombe House that has roughly 80. Students with older siblings or alumni parents are put in their "family" house and others are randomly assigned. Houses are permanent from 9th grade until graduation and identification is often through the house-specific neck-tie or commonly worn house t-shirts during physical education, house events or after 4 pm when No. 3 (casual) uniform can be worn. The houses compete for the "Wilson Shield" which is awarded at the end of the academic year. The houses are:- Woollcombe House (Blue)
- New House (Green)
- Connaught House (Red)
- Alexander House (Yellow)
Each house is led by prefects, graduating students chosen for their leadership, role-model ability, involvement in school life and strong academic standing. Prefects are typically identified by their burgundy blazers.
University Placement
Ashbury College offers the International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma program and has a university placement rate of 100% for the past ten years. Graduates often matriculate to colleges and universities in CanadaCanada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, the USA, and around the globe. For a number of years, the students of the graduating class have received 100% university placement. Recent graduates have matriculated to University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
, McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
, Queen's University
Queen's University
Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
, University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, University of St. Andrew's, Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is...
, Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
, Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
, New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
, Bishop's University
Bishop's University
Bishop's University is a predominantly undergraduate university in Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Bishop's is one of three universities in the province of Quebec that teach primarily in the English language...
, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Vermont
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...
, University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
and the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
.
The average SAT score from Ashbury College is 1338/1600, (1998/2400) or in the 90th percentile of all test takers. Further, the average IB Diploma score is 33, 4 points of the global average of 29. Eighty-two percent of students were admitted to their first choice university For the Class of 2010, the most popular university choice was McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
(26 students), followed by Queen's University
Queen's University
Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
(19 students), and then the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
(13 students).
Student Life
Students in grade 9 and 10 are required to participate in co-curricular activities in all three terms. Grade 11 students must participate in co-curricular activities in two terms and grade 12’s in one term. As a requirement for the Ontario Diploma, all students complete a minimum of 40 Community Service Hours, although many complete more and are rewarded with Bronze (60 hours), Silver (120 hours), Gold (200 hours), and Platinum (400 hours) awards respectively. Ashbury also offers co-curricular programs in bilingual debating, drama & theatre, Model United Nations, the Yearbook Committee, and the 'Blazer' (student magazine), among many others. Additionally, Ashbury students can complete requirements for the The Duke of Edinburgh's AwardThe Duke of Edinburgh's Award
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award , is a programme of activities that can be undertaken by anyone aged 14 to 24, regardless of personal ability....
.
Athletics
Ashbury College is a member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools (CAIS), the Ottawa Independent Schools Athletic Association (OISAA), the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic Intermediate Athletic Association (OCCIAA), the National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association (NCSSAA) and the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA). Ashbury is recognized for its strong athletics program. In 2010, the senior boys varsity basketball team won the Ontario provincial championship (OFSAA) for the first time by defeating Ridley CollegeRidley College
Ridley College is a co-educational boarding and day university-preparatory school located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 20 miles from Niagara Falls...
while the senior boys varsity hockey team also won the Ontario provincial championships over St. Charles College
St. Charles College
St. Charles College may refer to:* St. Charles College, a Catholic seminary school in Ellicott City, Maryland,* St. Charles College , a now defunct Methodist college in St. Charles, Missouri...
. Senior girls basketball won provincial titles in 2003 and 2007, while Women's Rugby has won the provincial championships three times (2002, 2003, 2007).
Ashbury maintains teams for the following sports:
- BadmintonBadmintonBadminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- Field HockeyField hockeyField Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
- GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- RowingRowing (sport)Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
- Cross country runningCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- Ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
- RowingSport rowingRowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
- Rugby unionRugby unionRugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
- Downhill SkiingDownhillDownhill is an alpine skiing discipline. The rules for the Downhill were originally developed by Sir Arnold Lunn for the 1921 British National Ski Championships....
- FootballCanadian footballCanadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
- SoccerFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
- Track and FieldTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
- TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
At the end of the 2006/2007 school year, Ashbury College was ranked 48th in Ontario for high school sports by the Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Citizen
The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Canada. According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the paper had a 2008 weekly circulation of 900,197.- History :...
.
Junior School
The Junior School is a division of Ashbury College for students from grade four to grade eight. Unlike the Senior School's blue colors, Junior School uses green as its dominant color which is prevalent in many locations as a symbol, including the website and uniforms. Junior School students typically wear uniform ties with maroon, grey, and green stripes, while Senior School students wear a specific Senior school tie on Mondays and wear an appropriate tie of choice on other days of the week, including but not limited to house ties. Like the Senior School, Junior School students are placed into one of four houses upon their arrival, inspired by J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
's "The Hobbit
The Hobbit
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald...
" and "The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...
":
- Dragons
- Hobbits
- Wizards
- Goblins
Houses compete extensively throughout the academic year in athletic (e.g. Track and Field Day), artistic (e.g. House Music Competition, Shakespeare Reading Contest), and academic (e.g. Scholar Roll) activities and house points are accumulated throughout the year. Students are identified by house in many situations, primarily athletic, where everyone sports a house shirt with varying colours for physical education activities. Students are also assigned a "home form", where there are presently one for each of grades four, five, and six, and three for both grades seven and eight.
Since 2003, the Junior School also features a leadership program called L.E.E.D. The program's goal is to develop leadership qualities in students. Students in grade 4 and 5 are introduced to the program at a young age. In grades 7 and 8, house captains, who are elected by the student body, serve as leaders and role models for the house. They are responsible for organizing activities and initiatives. For example, responsibilities include organizing inter-house sport activities and fund-raising for charities, with the ultimate goal of driving their house to win the annual competition. The arts programme is another area of focus of the Junior School. In the Junior school, classes of art, music and dramatic arts are offered to students. One of these courses is optional for students in grade 8. The arts program is very diverse and includes school play productions, inter-house music competitions, and the creation of personal artwork. Junior School students have participated in Theatre Ashbury production, and former Junior School students have often played major roles. Recently, the Junior School has presented musicals, beginning in 2002 with "Rana's Pond", and continuing with two original productions, "News" in 2004, directed by Ingrid Boyd, with words by Ingrid Boyd and David Polk, music by John Merritt and set by Elisabeth Arbuckle and another original production ("Artifacts!") produced in 2006 by Alex Menzies with words by David Polk and music based on established scores, and set design once again by Elisabeth Arbuckle. This production has been re-produced in Spring 2007.
Maclaren Hall (formerly, Great Hall)
The Maclaren Hall is Ashbury's cafeteria. Opened in 2004, the MacLaren Hall serves breakfast, lunch and dinner for boarders and lunch for day students (Junior and Senior school alike). Open from 7 am to 7 pm, MacLaren Hall offers selections for vegetarians as well as those with other needs. In addition to cash being tendered, students are able to use their student cards to access meal plans and "flex dollars", which is a refillable debit card system.The Great Hall is one part of the new addition to the College that was completed in 2004 as a part of the "Building Futures" fundraising campaign. Other additions included a new double gymnasium, four new classrooms (equipped with SmartBoards), a student common area, a staff room, and several offices. The increase in square footage has added more than 20% of usable space to the school.
The Great Hall was re-named in 2006 as the Maclaren Hall in honour of alumnus Don Maclaren.
Notable Ashbury College alumni
- John TurnerJohn TurnerJohn Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984....
, Canadian Prime Minister - Stockwell DayStockwell DayStockwell Burt Day, Jr., PC, MP is a former Canadian politician, and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a former cabinet minister in Alberta, and a former leader of the Canadian Alliance. Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of...
, Member of House of Commons - Ben BarryBen BarryBen Barry is a Canadian entrepreneur, author, and women's health advocate. He is the founder and CEO of the Ben Barry Agency, a modelling agency and consultancy known for its use of diverse models, and the author of the Canadian bestseller Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship...
Entrepreneur - John Emilius FauquierJohn Emilius FauquierJohn Emilius “Johnny” Fauquier DSO & Two Bars, DFC was a Canadian aviator and Second World War Bomber Command leader. He commanded No. 405 Squadron RCAF and later No. 617 Squadron RAF over the course of the war. A bush pilot, prior to the war, he joined the RCAF as a flight instructor in 1939. He...
Royal Canadian Air Force Commodore - Matthew PerryMatthew PerryMatthew Perry is Canadian-American television and film actor.Matthew Perry or Matt Perry may also refer to:*Matthew C. Perry , American naval officer who forcibly opened Japan to trade with the West...
, actor best known for his role as Chandler on the hit TV show 'Friends' - Ryan SempleRyan Semple (skier)Ryan Semple is a Canadian alpine skier.Semple's best finish on the Alpine skiing World Cup circuit is 11th place in a combined at Kitzbühel in 2010...
, 2006, 2010 Olympian, Skiing. - Trevor MatthewsTrevor MatthewsTrevor Matthews is a Canadian film producer and actor. He is the youngest son of telecommunications billionaire Sir Terence Matthews and Ann Matthews.-Early life:...
, Founder and CEO of Brookstreet Pictures - Donald StevenDonald StevenDonald Steven is a Canadian-American composer, music educator, and academic administrator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award in 1970, the Canadian Federation of University Women's Golden Jubilee Creative...
, composer - Stewart Johnston, President - TSNThe Sports NetworkThe Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...
- Adrian HarewoodAdrian HarewoodAdrian Harewood is a Canadian television and radio journalist, and the anchor of CBOT's CBC News: Ottawa at 5/5:30/6 and CBC News: Late Night in Ottawa....
, CBC news journalist - Chris Murray (property)Chris Murray (property)Chris Murray, born in 1970, is the co-founder and Managing Director of Ridgeford Properties.-Early Life:Chris Murray grew up in Ottawa, Canada, where he attended Ashbury College, an independent day and boarding school located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Canada.The Murray family has a history in...
, co-founder and Managing Director or Ridgeford Properties - Lt. Gen. Guy SimondsGuy SimondsLieutenant General Guy Granville Simonds, CC, CB, CBE, DSO, CD was a Canadian Army officer who commanded the II Canadian Corps during World War II. He served as acting commander of the First Canadian Army, leading the Allied forces to victory in the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944...
, Canadian army officer, commander of the II Canadian Corps during World War II, later named Chief of the General Staff (most senior rank in the Canadian Army)
Controversy
During a 2007 field trip to Boston, four students allegedly committed sexual assault on another student, sparking controversy and a lawsuit against the school. As a result, several students were expelled, and more stringent punishments were handed down to the perpetrators. Criminal charges were laid against the former Ashbury students. The young men pleaded guilty in a Boston courtroom to the charges, and were punished according to youth criminal justice laws (namely, probation and juvenile detentions).One of the perpetrators pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was sentenced to four years probation. He apologized to the victim and his family saying he was pulling a common prank. The victim and their family submitted victim impact statements detailing the effect the events had on their family.
The allegations against the school have not been proven in a court of law and Ashbury has yet to respond to the charges, thus the lawsuit remains pending.
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Ashbury College is an independent day
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...
and boarding
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...
located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It was founded in 1891 and moved to its current venue in 1910. Previously, it occupied what now houses Canadian Senate
Canadian Senate
The Senate of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the House of Commons, and the monarch . The Senate consists of 105 members appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister...
offices. It is an International Baccalaureate World School, a member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools
Canadian Association of Independent Schools
Canadian Association of Independent Schools is an association for independent schools that operate within Canada or offer a curriculum leading to a Canadian diploma in a location outside of the country. Member schools are non-profit institutions with volunteer Boards of Governors who are...
, and a member of Round Square
Round Square
The Round Square Conference of Schools is a worldwide association of more than 80 schools that allows students to travel between schools,tour foreign countries, involve themselves in community service and discover cultures along the way.-History:...
. The school currently enrolls approximately 500 senior (grades 9-12) and 150 junior (grades 4-8) students. The current headmaster is Tam Matthews, with Brian Storosko directing the Junior School. The Senior School has three Assistant Headmasters: Daily Life, Peter Ostrom; Academics, Malcolm Mousseau; Planning and Technology, Tim Putt.
Ashbury College is an independent private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
which offers a joint Ontario High School Diploma and Ashbury College Diploma, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma and International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma. Originally a single-gender boys school, Ashbury began accepting girls in 1982. Currently, the male/female student proportion of the Senior School is 55%/45%, but is becoming increasingly equal. The campus is 12 acres (48,562.277 m2) in Rockcliffe Park. Tuition fees for the 2009-2010 school year are $18,250 for day students and $42,250 for boarding students. There are about 80 boarders yearly from approximately 30 countries throughout the world.
Notable alumni include The Rt. Honourable John Turner
John Turner
John Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984....
, Canada's seventeenth Prime Minister; and The Honorable Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., the first leader of the now defunct Canadian Alliance
Canadian Alliance
The Canadian Alliance , formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance , was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held...
, who later served as the Federal Minister of International Trade and President of the Treasury Board in the Stephen Harper government. Other alumni include Ben Barry
Ben Barry
Ben Barry is a Canadian entrepreneur, author, and women's health advocate. He is the founder and CEO of the Ben Barry Agency, a modelling agency and consultancy known for its use of diverse models, and the author of the Canadian bestseller Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship...
'01, founder of the modeling agency Ben Barry Agency Inc.; Canadian war artist and heraldry expert Alan Beddoe
Alan Beddoe
Lieutenant-Commander Alan Brookman Beddoe, OC, OBE, HFHS, FHSC was a Canadian artist, war artist, consultant in heraldry and founder and first president of the Heraldry Society of Canada in 1965....
, actor Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry (actor)
Matthew Langford Perry is a Canadian-American actor and comedian, best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Chandler Bing on the popular, long-running NBC television sitcom Friends...
; and Adrian Harewood, current host of television show "CBC News: Late Night" in Ottawa, who graduated as the School Captain
School Captain
School Captain is a student appointed or elected to represent the school.This student, usually in the senior year, in their final year of attending that school...
in 1989.
History
Ashbury College was founded in 1891 by Canon George Penrose Woollcombe, an Oxford University graduate and a new Canadian, who served as Ashbury's Headmaster for 42 years.The three-room school for boys was originally located on Wellington Street in Ottawa, but soon moved to bigger quarters also on Wellington Street and then on Argyle Street near the present Museum of Nature in 1900. In 1910, the school - called Ashbury College after Woollcombe's English home - moved to its current location on 12 acres in the village of Rockcliffe Park.
Arthur Le B. Weeks (architect) designed the Ashbury College (1909) on Mariposa Avenue. With the support of Ottawa benefactors, a new building was constructed for the 115 students, 48 of whom were boarders.
Ashbury was originally an all-boys institution but began admitting women for grades 9-12 in 1982 and then admitted girls for the first time into fourth grade (the youngest grade offered) in 2010. The institution is divided between the Senior School and the Junior School, who have separate faculties and students, but share resources such as the cafeteria (MacLaren Hall), gymnasiums, art departments, music facilities, theatre, and the chapel.
Senior School
Admission
Most students are accepted into fourth grade, seventh grade, and ninth grade, deemed "admission points". Ashbury's selective admissions process has approximately 25 spots per year for boarding students and 110 spaces a year for day students. Spaces are filled for each class in through two rounds: Round I (usually more competitive) and Round II. Round I begins in early October with offers extended in mid-December while Round II begins in the last week of January and offers are extended in the first week of March. 90% of students are selected in Round I and only Round I candidates are considered for scholarships. Students are selected through a rigorous admissions process which includes an entrance exam and an interview.House System & Prefects
The House system has been in place since 1937 and Ashbury students are divided into four houses upon entering in ninth grade. Each house has roughly 30 students per grade and 120 in each house during any academic year with the exception of Wollocombe House that has roughly 80. Students with older siblings or alumni parents are put in their "family" house and others are randomly assigned. Houses are permanent from 9th grade until graduation and identification is often through the house-specific neck-tie or commonly worn house t-shirts during physical education, house events or after 4 pm when No. 3 (casual) uniform can be worn. The houses compete for the "Wilson Shield" which is awarded at the end of the academic year. The houses are:- Woollcombe House (Blue)
- New House (Green)
- Connaught House (Red)
- Alexander House (Yellow)
Each house is led by prefects, graduating students chosen for their leadership, role-model ability, involvement in school life and strong academic standing. Prefects are typically identified by their burgundy blazers.
University Placement
Ashbury College offers the International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma program and has a university placement rate of 100% for the past ten years. Graduates often matriculate to colleges and universities in CanadaCanada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, the USA, and around the globe. For a number of years, the students of the graduating class have received 100% university placement. Recent graduates have matriculated to University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
, McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
, Queen's University
Queen's University
Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
, University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, University of St. Andrew's, Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is...
, Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
, Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
, New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
, Bishop's University
Bishop's University
Bishop's University is a predominantly undergraduate university in Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Bishop's is one of three universities in the province of Quebec that teach primarily in the English language...
, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Vermont
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...
, University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
and the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
.
The average SAT score from Ashbury College is 1338/1600, (1998/2400) or in the 90th percentile of all test takers. Further, the average IB Diploma score is 33, 4 points of the global average of 29. Eighty-two percent of students were admitted to their first choice university For the Class of 2010, the most popular university choice was McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
(26 students), followed by Queen's University
Queen's University
Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
(19 students), and then the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
(13 students).
Student Life
Students in grade 9 and 10 are required to participate in co-curricular activities in all three terms. Grade 11 students must participate in co-curricular activities in two terms and grade 12’s in one term. As a requirement for the Ontario Diploma, all students complete a minimum of 40 Community Service Hours, although many complete more and are rewarded with Bronze (60 hours), Silver (120 hours), Gold (200 hours), and Platinum (400 hours) awards respectively. Ashbury also offers co-curricular programs in bilingual debating, drama & theatre, Model United Nations, the Yearbook Committee, and the 'Blazer' (student magazine), among many others. Additionally, Ashbury students can complete requirements for the The Duke of Edinburgh's AwardThe Duke of Edinburgh's Award
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award , is a programme of activities that can be undertaken by anyone aged 14 to 24, regardless of personal ability....
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Athletics
Ashbury College is a member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools (CAIS), the Ottawa Independent Schools Athletic Association (OISAA), the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic Intermediate Athletic Association (OCCIAA), the National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association (NCSSAA) and the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA). Ashbury is recognized for its strong athletics program. In 2010, the senior boys varsity basketball team won the Ontario provincial championship (OFSAA) for the first time by defeating Ridley CollegeRidley College
Ridley College is a co-educational boarding and day university-preparatory school located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 20 miles from Niagara Falls...
while the senior boys varsity hockey team also won the Ontario provincial championships over St. Charles College
St. Charles College
St. Charles College may refer to:* St. Charles College, a Catholic seminary school in Ellicott City, Maryland,* St. Charles College , a now defunct Methodist college in St. Charles, Missouri...
. Senior girls basketball won provincial titles in 2003 and 2007, while Women's Rugby has won the provincial championships three times (2002, 2003, 2007).
Ashbury maintains teams for the following sports:
- BadmintonBadmintonBadminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- Field HockeyField hockeyField Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
- GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- RowingRowing (sport)Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
- Cross country runningCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- Ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
- RowingSport rowingRowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
- Rugby unionRugby unionRugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
- Downhill SkiingDownhillDownhill is an alpine skiing discipline. The rules for the Downhill were originally developed by Sir Arnold Lunn for the 1921 British National Ski Championships....
- FootballCanadian footballCanadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
- SoccerFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
- Track and FieldTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
- TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
At the end of the 2006/2007 school year, Ashbury College was ranked 48th in Ontario for high school sports by the Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Citizen
The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Canada. According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the paper had a 2008 weekly circulation of 900,197.- History :...
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Junior School
The Junior School is a division of Ashbury College for students from grade four to grade eight. Unlike the Senior School's blue colors, Junior School uses green as its dominant color which is prevalent in many locations as a symbol, including the website and uniforms. Junior School students typically wear uniform ties with maroon, grey, and green stripes, while Senior School students wear a specific Senior school tie on Mondays and wear an appropriate tie of choice on other days of the week, including but not limited to house ties. Like the Senior School, Junior School students are placed into one of four houses upon their arrival, inspired by J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
's "The Hobbit
The Hobbit
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald...
" and "The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...
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- Dragons
- Hobbits
- Wizards
- Goblins
Houses compete extensively throughout the academic year in athletic (e.g. Track and Field Day), artistic (e.g. House Music Competition, Shakespeare Reading Contest), and academic (e.g. Scholar Roll) activities and house points are accumulated throughout the year. Students are identified by house in many situations, primarily athletic, where everyone sports a house shirt with varying colours for physical education activities. Students are also assigned a "home form", where there are presently one for each of grades four, five, and six, and three for both grades seven and eight.
Since 2003, the Junior School also features a leadership program called L.E.E.D. The program's goal is to develop leadership qualities in students. Students in grade 4 and 5 are introduced to the program at a young age. In grades 7 and 8, house captains, who are elected by the student body, serve as leaders and role models for the house. They are responsible for organizing activities and initiatives. For example, responsibilities include organizing inter-house sport activities and fund-raising for charities, with the ultimate goal of driving their house to win the annual competition. The arts programme is another area of focus of the Junior School. In the Junior school, classes of art, music and dramatic arts are offered to students. One of these courses is optional for students in grade 8. The arts program is very diverse and includes school play productions, inter-house music competitions, and the creation of personal artwork. Junior School students have participated in Theatre Ashbury production, and former Junior School students have often played major roles. Recently, the Junior School has presented musicals, beginning in 2002 with "Rana's Pond", and continuing with two original productions, "News" in 2004, directed by Ingrid Boyd, with words by Ingrid Boyd and David Polk, music by John Merritt and set by Elisabeth Arbuckle and another original production ("Artifacts!") produced in 2006 by Alex Menzies with words by David Polk and music based on established scores, and set design once again by Elisabeth Arbuckle. This production has been re-produced in Spring 2007.
Maclaren Hall (formerly, Great Hall)
The Maclaren Hall is Ashbury's cafeteria. Opened in 2004, the MacLaren Hall serves breakfast, lunch and dinner for boarders and lunch for day students (Junior and Senior school alike). Open from 7 am to 7 pm, MacLaren Hall offers selections for vegetarians as well as those with other needs. In addition to cash being tendered, students are able to use their student cards to access meal plans and "flex dollars", which is a refillable debit card system.The Great Hall is one part of the new addition to the College that was completed in 2004 as a part of the "Building Futures" fundraising campaign. Other additions included a new double gymnasium, four new classrooms (equipped with SmartBoards), a student common area, a staff room, and several offices. The increase in square footage has added more than 20% of usable space to the school.
The Great Hall was re-named in 2006 as the Maclaren Hall in honour of alumnus Don Maclaren.
Notable Ashbury College alumni
- John TurnerJohn TurnerJohn Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984....
, Canadian Prime Minister - Stockwell DayStockwell DayStockwell Burt Day, Jr., PC, MP is a former Canadian politician, and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a former cabinet minister in Alberta, and a former leader of the Canadian Alliance. Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of...
, Member of House of Commons - Ben BarryBen BarryBen Barry is a Canadian entrepreneur, author, and women's health advocate. He is the founder and CEO of the Ben Barry Agency, a modelling agency and consultancy known for its use of diverse models, and the author of the Canadian bestseller Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship...
Entrepreneur - John Emilius FauquierJohn Emilius FauquierJohn Emilius “Johnny” Fauquier DSO & Two Bars, DFC was a Canadian aviator and Second World War Bomber Command leader. He commanded No. 405 Squadron RCAF and later No. 617 Squadron RAF over the course of the war. A bush pilot, prior to the war, he joined the RCAF as a flight instructor in 1939. He...
Royal Canadian Air Force Commodore - Matthew PerryMatthew PerryMatthew Perry is Canadian-American television and film actor.Matthew Perry or Matt Perry may also refer to:*Matthew C. Perry , American naval officer who forcibly opened Japan to trade with the West...
, actor best known for his role as Chandler on the hit TV show 'Friends' - Ryan SempleRyan Semple (skier)Ryan Semple is a Canadian alpine skier.Semple's best finish on the Alpine skiing World Cup circuit is 11th place in a combined at Kitzbühel in 2010...
, 2006, 2010 Olympian, Skiing. - Trevor MatthewsTrevor MatthewsTrevor Matthews is a Canadian film producer and actor. He is the youngest son of telecommunications billionaire Sir Terence Matthews and Ann Matthews.-Early life:...
, Founder and CEO of Brookstreet Pictures - Donald StevenDonald StevenDonald Steven is a Canadian-American composer, music educator, and academic administrator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award in 1970, the Canadian Federation of University Women's Golden Jubilee Creative...
, composer - Stewart Johnston, President - TSNThe Sports NetworkThe Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...
- Adrian HarewoodAdrian HarewoodAdrian Harewood is a Canadian television and radio journalist, and the anchor of CBOT's CBC News: Ottawa at 5/5:30/6 and CBC News: Late Night in Ottawa....
, CBC news journalist - Chris Murray (property)Chris Murray (property)Chris Murray, born in 1970, is the co-founder and Managing Director of Ridgeford Properties.-Early Life:Chris Murray grew up in Ottawa, Canada, where he attended Ashbury College, an independent day and boarding school located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Canada.The Murray family has a history in...
, co-founder and Managing Director or Ridgeford Properties - Lt. Gen. Guy SimondsGuy SimondsLieutenant General Guy Granville Simonds, CC, CB, CBE, DSO, CD was a Canadian Army officer who commanded the II Canadian Corps during World War II. He served as acting commander of the First Canadian Army, leading the Allied forces to victory in the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944...
, Canadian army officer, commander of the II Canadian Corps during World War II, later named Chief of the General Staff (most senior rank in the Canadian Army)
Controversy
During a 2007 field trip to Boston, four students allegedly committed sexual assault on another student, sparking controversy and a lawsuit against the school. As a result, several students were expelled, and more stringent punishments were handed down to the perpetrators. Criminal charges were laid against the former Ashbury students. The young men pleaded guilty in a Boston courtroom to the charges, and were punished according to youth criminal justice laws (namely, probation and juvenile detentions).One of the perpetrators pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was sentenced to four years probation. He apologized to the victim and his family saying he was pulling a common prank. The victim and their family submitted victim impact statements detailing the effect the events had on their family.
The allegations against the school have not been proven in a court of law and Ashbury has yet to respond to the charges, thus the lawsuit remains pending.
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