Glashan Public School
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Glashan Public School is an Ottawa
, Ontario
junior high school teaching grade seven and grade eight. It is located in the Centretown
neighbourhood between Kent Street
and Bank Street
.
It was originally founded as the school for the small community of Orangeville to the south of Ottawa. It was known as Hugh Street School, as Kent Street was then named Hugh Street. In 1889 the town was amalgamated with Ottawa, and its one room school house became part of the Ottawa school board. This part of the city was rapidly growing, and in 1889 the one room one teacher school was overcrowded with 99 students. Thus in 1897 four rooms were added, and in 1905 another four. The school was also renamed Glashan PS, after J.C. Glashan, Chief Inspector of Ottawa Public Schools from 1876 to 1910. The school was expanded again in 1922 and 1931. In 1931 it became one of a group of Ottawa schools to switch to the pioneering intermediate school format, and has remained a junior high school ever since.
In 1979-1980 the old school was demolished and the current one erected. This was one of only a few Ottawa Board of Education
projects in that era of shrinking demographics. The school today offers a number of programs. It is home to gifted, core French, late french immersion, and ESL
programs. It is also well known for its excellent volleyball
teams. One disadvantage of the school's downtown location is that there is no room for a playing field attached to the school, and students are forced to walk two blocks to a field south of the Queensway
.
school. Mr. Rick Desclouds was the coach of the Glashan Boys Spikers, Glashan's AA team but retired at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. In 2005, Glashan lost two of its best volleyball players to a deadly fire. Danny and Gary Thatch will always be remembered by the students. The boys volleyball team have won the provincial championships a total of 18 times and two straight years in 2006 and 2007. This year however the boys lost in the semi-finals and came in third. The girls came fourth. It is the first time in 18 years the girls made the Final Four. Glashan hosts two volleyball tournaments, one in November and another in January. The November tournament is a friendly tournament. The one in January is a very competitive one, sometimes with as much as 30 teams from all around the Eastern Ontario region participating. Glashan participates and is successful in many other sports, including Touch football
(In the school year of 2010-2011 the Glashan girls finished first at the regional tournament and went on to take gold at the board wide tournament as well), Track and field
, and Badminton.
team. Two teams, coached by Miss Sarah Roberts finished 1st and 2nd in the regional Math Olympics competition in April 2008, defeating many other strong teams from local schools, such as Bridlewood
and Greenbank
. Both teams qualified for the provincial event in May. The team that finished first in the regional competition finished 6th, and the other Glashan team won the provincial title, Glashan's first ever at this competition. On the 25th of April, 2009, Glashan's Math Olympics team took first place again, for the second year in a row. The team won all four team events, the first time this has happened in the history of the competition. The other team, however, did not do as well and did not qualify for the provincial event.
Glashan's technology team, coached by Mr. Jeff Griesbach, has done quite well in both regional and provincial events over the past few years. Last year the robotics and constructions teams came in 3rd place at a provincial tournament hosted at Waterloo University.
Glashan recently made a wonderful play called Law and Order: Fairy Tale Unit, in this play the Three Little Pigs have their houses blown down. The big bad wolf
is the first suspect but then the pigs confess that they committed insurance fraud. The audience simply adored the play and often utilized words such as hilarious and creative to describe the play.
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...
, Ontario
Ontario
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junior high school teaching grade seven and grade eight. It is located in the Centretown
Centretown
Centretown is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Canada defined by the city as "the area bounded on the north by Gloucester Street and Lisgar Street, on the east by the Rideau Canal, on the south by the Queensway Freeway and on the west by Bronson Avenue." Traditionally it was all of Ottawa west of the...
neighbourhood between Kent Street
Kent Street (Ottawa)
Kent Street is a major street in downtown Ottawa, Canada. One block west of Bank Street, Kent is one way running north. It begins at the Queensway at the south and ends at Wellington Street. The street has fewer storefronts than Bank Street. South of downtown it is mainly small and medium sized...
and Bank Street
Bank Street (Ottawa)
Bank Street is the major north-south road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs south from Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa, south through the neighbourhoods of Centretown, The Glebe, Old Ottawa South, Alta Vista, Hunt Club, and then through the villages of Blossom Park, Leitrim, South...
.
It was originally founded as the school for the small community of Orangeville to the south of Ottawa. It was known as Hugh Street School, as Kent Street was then named Hugh Street. In 1889 the town was amalgamated with Ottawa, and its one room school house became part of the Ottawa school board. This part of the city was rapidly growing, and in 1889 the one room one teacher school was overcrowded with 99 students. Thus in 1897 four rooms were added, and in 1905 another four. The school was also renamed Glashan PS, after J.C. Glashan, Chief Inspector of Ottawa Public Schools from 1876 to 1910. The school was expanded again in 1922 and 1931. In 1931 it became one of a group of Ottawa schools to switch to the pioneering intermediate school format, and has remained a junior high school ever since.
In 1979-1980 the old school was demolished and the current one erected. This was one of only a few Ottawa Board of Education
Ottawa Board of Education
The Ottawa Board of Education was the public school board for Ottawa from 1970 to 1998. The board was created as part of a province-wide reorganization of the public education system. Previously, elementary schools had been supervised by the Ottawa Public Board of Education, while secondary...
projects in that era of shrinking demographics. The school today offers a number of programs. It is home to gifted, core French, late french immersion, and ESL
English language learning and teaching
English as a second language , English for speakers of other languages and English as a foreign language all refer to the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages. The precise usage, including the different use of the terms ESL and ESOL in different countries, is...
programs. It is also well known for its excellent 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...
teams. One disadvantage of the school's downtown location is that there is no room for a playing field attached to the school, and students are forced to walk two blocks to a field south of the Queensway
Queensway (Ottawa)
The Queensway is a major controlled-access freeway running through Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from Kanata in the west to Orleans in the east. It is the primary east-west transportation artery in the Ottawa-Gatineau area....
.
Sports at Glashan
Glashan Public School is proudly known as a popular volleyballVolleyball
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...
school. Mr. Rick Desclouds was the coach of the Glashan Boys Spikers, Glashan's AA team but retired at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. In 2005, Glashan lost two of its best volleyball players to a deadly fire. Danny and Gary Thatch will always be remembered by the students. The boys volleyball team have won the provincial championships a total of 18 times and two straight years in 2006 and 2007. This year however the boys lost in the semi-finals and came in third. The girls came fourth. It is the first time in 18 years the girls made the Final Four. Glashan hosts two volleyball tournaments, one in November and another in January. The November tournament is a friendly tournament. The one in January is a very competitive one, sometimes with as much as 30 teams from all around the Eastern Ontario region participating. Glashan participates and is successful in many other sports, including Touch football
Touch football
Touch football may refer to:* Touch football , a variant of American football where players touch, rather than tackle, their opponents* Touch rugby, games derived from rugby football in which players touch, rather than tackle, their opponents...
(In the school year of 2010-2011 the Glashan girls finished first at the regional tournament and went on to take gold at the board wide tournament as well), Track and field
Track and field
Track 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...
, and Badminton.
Other extracurricular activities of note
Glashan has a very successful competitive mathMathematics
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...
team. Two teams, coached by Miss Sarah Roberts finished 1st and 2nd in the regional Math Olympics competition in April 2008, defeating many other strong teams from local schools, such as Bridlewood
Bridlewood Community Elementary School
Bridlewood Community Elementary School is an elementary and middle school located on 63 Bluegrass Drive, in Ottawa, Canada. Operated by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, it is situated in the Zone 2 school board district with Cathy Curry as its trustee, in the Kanata neighbourhood of...
and Greenbank
Greenbank Middle School
Greenbank Middle School is an intermediate public school in Nepean, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1963, it aims to be a student-centered learning environment where students become informed decision-makers. It is located on Greenbank Road, from which it gets its name...
. Both teams qualified for the provincial event in May. The team that finished first in the regional competition finished 6th, and the other Glashan team won the provincial title, Glashan's first ever at this competition. On the 25th of April, 2009, Glashan's Math Olympics team took first place again, for the second year in a row. The team won all four team events, the first time this has happened in the history of the competition. The other team, however, did not do as well and did not qualify for the provincial event.
Glashan's technology team, coached by Mr. Jeff Griesbach, has done quite well in both regional and provincial events over the past few years. Last year the robotics and constructions teams came in 3rd place at a provincial tournament hosted at Waterloo University.
Glashan recently made a wonderful play called Law and Order: Fairy Tale Unit, in this play the Three Little Pigs have their houses blown down. The big bad wolf
Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf is a term used to describe a fictional wolf who appears in several precautionary folkloric stories, including some of Aesop's Fables and Grimm's Fairy Tales.-Interpretations:...
is the first suspect but then the pigs confess that they committed insurance fraud. The audience simply adored the play and often utilized words such as hilarious and creative to describe the play.