L A Matheson Secondary School

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name= L A Matheson Secondary


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streetaddress= 9484 122 St
city= Surrey
province= British Columbia
postalcode= V3V 4M1
areacode= 604
phone= 588-3418
fax= 588-7245
email=
url= http://www.sd36.bc.ca/sites/lamath/
schoolnumber= 3636079
schoolboard= School District 36 Surrey
superintendent=
trustee=
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principal= Mrs J Henriques
viceprincipal= Mr.Cross, Ms.De Luca, Ms. Shier
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staff= 71
fundingtype= Public
schooltype= high school
grades= 8-12
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mascot= Max the Mustang
teamname= Mustangs
colours= Navy and White
founded=
enrollment= 1936
enrollment_as_of= 16 January 2006

L A Matheson Secondary School is a public high school in Surrey, British Columbia and is part of School District 36 Surrey. The school opened in 1969 as a junior secondary school as a feeder to Queen Elizabeth Secondary School but in 1998 became a full secondary school serving grades 8 through 12.

Academics

L A Matheson Secondary School was ranked 201st in the Fraser Institute annual ranking of schools in 2004/05" [http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/admin/books/chapterfiles/70BCESC06RANK.pdf Report Card on Secondary Schools in British Columbia and Yukon: 2006 Edition] ." "Fraser Institute". April 2006.] .

Athletics

Sports and athletic activities are governed by the Surrey Secondary Schools' Athletic Association. The athletics program includes volleyball, soccer, swimming, boys and girls basketball, golf, cross-country, running, track and field, cricket. [ [http://www.sd36.bc.ca/lamath/athletics/athleticintro.html#2007aa L A Matheson - Athletics] ]

Activities

Each year, students partake in various events around the school. Some of these events include the Grad Committee's Dodgeball Derby; various dances put on by Student Council; The spring Multicultural show "Diggin' the Roots"; the 30 hour famine; Matheson's Got Talent (formerly Matheson Idol) and BYOB day (Bring Your Own Banana day, where students receive a free ice cream sundae).

In recent years the school's Theatre Company has done three one act plays in December and a larger full length production in the spring. The schools band programme goes on a trip each year. Every second year they go to Banff and Edmonton for 6 days with the senior band class and ever other year they go on a bigger trip (past locations have included New York City, Disneyland and Cuba).

Each year the Physics 11 class is responsible for constructing racecars completely designed out of cardboard to compete in an annual physics car race.

Each Friday during the second class of the day students take time to watch "Matheson on the Move", a weekly news broadcast presented by volunteers and the Media Services 8 class.

They also have a bhangra team that goes around to different schools and halls performing excellent dances for special occasions.

Anti-racism launch

Provincial Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh chose this school to launch five "Responding to Racism" booklets in October 1999. [ [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-59246556.html "Stirring the racism pot"] , Alberta Report, 25 October 1999]

Notable alumni

* Jacob Hoggard, musician [ [http://www.movietome.com/people/309674/jacob-hoggard/trivia.html "Jacob Hoggard"] , Movie Tome, "accessed 19 November 2007".]

Notes

Alisha Pillay, Singer/Songwriter (www.alishapillay.com)

External links

* [http://www.sd36.bc.ca/lamath/ School web site]
* [http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/reports/pdfs/school_perf/03636079.pdf School Data Summary 2001/02 - 2005/06] , British Columbia Ministry of Education.