Fleetwood Park Secondary is a public high school in Surrey, British Columbia

Surrey, British Columbia

Surrey is a city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of Metro Vancouver, the governing body of the Greater Vancouver Regional District...

 part of School District 36 Surrey

School District 36 Surrey

School District 36 Surrey operates schools in Surrey, White Rock, and Barnston Island, British Columbia. It is the largest school district in British Columbia with 66,100 students during the 2005/2006 school year. District 36 includes 99 elementary schools, 20 secondary schools, and 6 learning...

. The school ranked 55 of 316 according to the Fraser Institute Studies in Education Policy in 2007–2008.

Academics

Fleetwood Park operates on an 8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. schedule which includes four periods and at 11:15 am, a break for lunch during which all students may leave school grounds to eat lunch. The four periods are broken in blocks with the numbers 1,2,3,4 during which different classes take places and giving students five minutes to walk to their next class. The blocks are rotated on a fix schedule between Monday and Thursday, but the schedules change weekly on Friday. Every third Monday of the month has an early dismissal with school ending at 1:25 p.m. and is called a Flex Day.

Fleetwood Park students are obliged to undertake a curriculum that includes four years of English, three years of history

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

, three years of science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

, three years of mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

, two years of fine arts or applied skills, two years of Physical education

Physical education

Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....

 and a year of enterprise studies. Besides classes that students are obliged to take, students are allowed choose the courses they wish to fill into their schedule. Classes at a grade ten level or above give four credits for each successfully completed class with the required curriculum earning 48 credits. A total of 80 credits is needed to graduate.

Fleetwood Park offers a wide selection of elective courses such as carpentry

Carpentry

A carpenter is a skilled craftsperson who works with timber to construct, install and maintain buildings, furniture, and other objects. The work, known as carpentry, may involve manual labor and work outdoors....

, drafting

Drafting

Drafting or draughting may refer to:* Campdrafting, an Australian equestrian sport* Drafting , slipstreaming* Technical drawing, the act and discipline of composing diagrams that communicates how something functions or is to be constructed. E.g.:** Architectural drawing** Electrical drawing**...

 cooking

Cooking

Cooking is the process of preparing food by use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions. Cooks themselves also vary widely in skill and training...

, computers, engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

, drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 and music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

. Students are able to choose from three Advanced Placement

Advanced Placement Program

The Advanced Placement program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college...

; chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

, physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

, or calculus

Calculus

Calculus is a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus, which are related by the fundamental theorem...

 allowing them to earn post-secondary education credits if they choose to take a test provided by the province or institute. A joinery program is also available for carpentry and cooking. Fleetwood Park offers only two foreign language courses, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

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The math academics of Fleetwood park are diverged into three categories for different levels. During the first year, students are able to enter a Math Honours eight class. In math ten and above, the courses diverge into three levels for students labeled as Principles, Applications, and Essentials respectively with decreasing difficulty.

School facilities

The school's education mainly takes place in the building three story highs. Recently, school portable buildings were added to the lot behind the school to add classrooms to the growing number of students.

Extracurricular activities

ReachOut

ReachOut is a club that focuses on promoting diversity and raising awareness about global and community issues. In the year of 2008-2009, ReachOut fundraiser raised $8500 dollars to which was used to build a school in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

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External links

• Fleetwood Park Secondary School Official Website
  • Course Selection Book