Secondary School Catholic Garneau

The secondary École catholic Garneau (known also under the name of ESC Garneau ) is a French school located in the community of Orleans (Ontario) which accommodates pupils of 7th until the 12th year.

History

Built in 1972, the school was named in the honor of the politician, poet and historian Canadian-French of the XIXe century, François-Xavier Garneau.

The building

The Garneau school was initially called “the bunker” because of its square form and the uniform color gray of the walls during construction. Following several suggestions and complaints, the external walls were painted colors yellow, red and blue, which is worth now the nickname of “GARN BARN” or " to him; lego bunker". In the east of Garneau is MIFO, an arts center which makes the promotion of the French-speaking culture near the pupils and the community.

Between 2001 and 2002, one built a new wing at this growing old school in order to integrate the pupils of 7th and 8th year of the close intermediate school Léo-D. - Side . This enlarging was justified by the demographic increase in Orleans and the cuts in the budget of the school council, CECLFCE (the Council of the Catholic schools of French language of Center-Is). The Léo-D school. - Side was closed and later used in order to move the elementary school there catholic Préseault as well as the catholic elementary school Of the Villagers. The name was changed at “Elementary school catholic Saint-Joseph of Orleans”.

Programs offered

Certification CCNA and data processing

Garneau offers to its students of 10th until the 12th year the chance to supplement a collegial certification of Cisco Systems; CCNA - reseautic and wiring. Courses in businesses and trade in data processing are also offered to any pupil of Garneau. This whole of course is called the Concentration Garneau .

Improvisation

A team of improvisation is trained in order to play in the Ligue of improvisation of Mifo, a league of improvisation which is held each week.

GuG

Known under the name of the Group User Garneau , this group is formed pupils of 7th at the 12th year who test and evaluate products given by the companies of plays and computer programs. This is a very practical means for the pupils to test new products, to learn from new software, to evaluate them and to dimension them according to whether they found the product excellent, average, or poor. A review entitled GuGabits is semi-annually published in order to give their evaluations to their silent partners.

The student Council

For the year the 2007-2008 council of the pupils is marvellous. The president is Maxime Lamothe and vice-chairing it is Catherine Calvert.

External bonds

Official site of Garneau

Official site of the school council (CECLFCE)

List French-speaking schools in Ontario

http://www.lebracelet.on.ca/

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