Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School is a high school in Bracebridge

Bracebridge, Ontario

Bracebridge is a town and the seat of the Muskoka District Municipality of Ontario, Canada.The town was built around a waterfall on the Muskoka River in the centre of town, and is known for its other nearby waterfalls . It was first incorporated in 1875...

, Ontario

Ontario

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. It serves approximately 1500 students, grades 9 through 12, from Bracebridge and surrounding areas in Muskoka; attached to it is the Bracebridge Sportsplex and the Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre.

BMLSS is one of seven secondary schools in the Trillium Lakelands District School Board, and is one of only two high schools in Bracebridge; the other is St. Dominic Catholic Secondary School.

The building also houses several unique modernized classrooms. The Communications Technology class has a green screen constructed into two walls, as well as a sound room for further editing and creation.

Location

BMLSS is located at 100 Clearbrook Trail, Bracebridge, Ontario, in the same building as the Bracebridge Sportsplex and the Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre. The facility is new, having completed construction in August 2007; the following month, the facility became open for use. The theatre and sportsplex are open to all students, and are used regularly by the dramatic arts classes and phys ed.

Physical education

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 classes.

The facility was opened to replace the old high school, located closer in town, built in the late 1920s, as well as the old Bracebridge Culture and Recreation centre, which was over 30 years old. The old buildings still exists; the old location of the high school is vacant, while the old Culture and Recreation centre was remodeled and became a Georgian College

Georgian College

Georgian College is an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology. Its primary campus is in Barrie, Ontario, with satellite campuses in Orillia, Midland, Collingwood, Bracebridge, Port Colborne, Orangeville, and Owen Sound....

 campus for Muskoka.

Special programs

BMLSS offers an Advanced Placement (AP) program, which allows students to potentially bypass a first-year credit in University; the school is one of only two in the district to offer this program. Grade 12 courses offering this include Physics

Physics

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, Biology

Biology

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, Chemistry

Chemistry

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, Functions, French

French language

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, and English

English studies

English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...

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BMLSS also offers regular exchange programs to various countries around the world; the student may choose from one-month, three-month, or year long exchanges.

The school also offers the High Skills Construction Major program.

Teams and Clubs

BMLSS has been widely known for sports; in 2006, two senior female soccer players were asked to play for a Toronto team. One of them has now been asked to try out for the Canadian Girls National Soccer Team.

In 2007, BMLSS Native Alex Watson was accepted onto the Canadian U-17 Rugby Team.
In 2008, Students, Curtis Lauzon and Thomas Edwards were accepted onto the Ontario U-15 Rugby Team.

Teams and groups include: fencing, soccer

Football (soccer)

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, basketball

Basketball

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, gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

, hockey

Hockey

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, curling

Curling

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, badminton

Badminton

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, rugby

Rugby football

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, lacrosse

Lacrosse

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, cross-country, track and field

Track and field

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, nordic skiing

Nordic skiing

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, field hockey

Field hockey

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, swimming

Swimming (sport)

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, and volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

. Other clubs at BMLSS include their improv

Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre takes many forms. It is best known as improv or impro, which is often comedic, and sometimes poignant or dramatic. In this popular, often topical art form improvisational actors/improvisers use improvisational acting techniques to perform spontaneously...

 teams Electric Impulse, Static Shock, and Nine Volts, chess

Chess

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 club, band

Band (music)

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, Outers Club, the Mountain Bike Club, Horticultural Club, and Reach

Reach for the Top

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 Team, Fencing, Robotics, Character Education, Student Parliament (SPAR), and Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) Club. All of the sporting teams both have Senior and Junior divisions separated by gender.

BMLSS is also the high school for local musician Kasandra Cutting, who often plays on the local radio, Moose FM

CFBG-FM

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External links

• Official web site
• School Profile at the Trillium Lakelands District School Board web site
• Profile at the Education Quality and Accountability Office
  Education Quality and Accountability Office
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  (EQAO) web site