Cawthra Park Secondary School

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Cawthra Park Secondary School
Address
1305 Cawthra Road
Mississauga, Ontario, L5G 4L1, Canada
Information
School number 899003
School board Peel District School Board
Religious affiliation Public
Superintendent Anthony K. Edwards
Area trustee Janet McDougald
Principal Wendy Lautamus
Vice principal Mrs. Rita Betro
School type High school
Grades 9-12
Language English
Motto "Learning the art of Living...Living the art of Learning"
Mascot Panthers
Colours Purple, Orange and White             
Founded 1972
Enrollment 1,350 (70% Female 30% Male) (Sept 2010)
Homepage http://www.cawthrapark.com

Cawthra Park Secondary School, also known as CPSS, is a public high school built in 1972 located in Southeast Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Cawthra Park provides instruction to students from grades 9 to 12 and is under the jurisdiction of the Peel District School Board.


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Arts [edit]

Cawthra Park is home to Peel's Regional Arts Program (RAP), for which students audition to study music (instrumental [concert band, guitar, and piano] or vocal), dance, dramatic arts or visual arts. Approximately three quarters of Cawthra's students are in the RAP program, with the remaining students coming from the local area.

The school also puts on a fall musical and a spring play annually.

Fall Musical Spring Play
2012–2013 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Agamemnon
2011–2012 Sweet Charity Leaving Home
2010–2011 The Scarlet Pimpernel Romeo and Juliet
2009–2010 Footloose Mad Forest
2008–2009 Jesus Christ Superstar[1] The Miracle Worker
2007–2008 Cabaret Les Belles-sœurs
2006–2007 Merrily We Roll Along One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2005–2006 West Side Story The Laramie Project
2004–2005 Into the Woods Doctor Faustus
2003–2004 The Sound of Music A Midsummer Night's Dream
2002–2003 Les Misérables A Streetcar Named Desire
2001–2002 Carnival! Auntie Mame
2000–2001 Godspell Dark of the Moon
1999–2000 The Apple Tree Servant Of Two Masters

Music [edit]

The music department has performed over the years at various prominent venues, including mass at the Vatican City, onstage at Disney's Magic Kingdom, Austria, and for the American ambassador to Canada, David Wilkins.

The music department includes many different choral and instrumental ensembles, made up predominantly of 'music majors,' but also including students not enrolled in the music program. The Ritz, a concert choir with over 360 members, is the largest in North America. Other ensemble groups include Chamber Choir, Les Belles Classiques, Singsation, Jazz-A-Peal, Mississauga Tranzzit, Jazz Lab, Intermediate and Senior Concert Bands, and the Senior Wind Ensemble.

Each year the music department organizes a trip in the spring as an opportunity to perform outside of the GTA, open to any student involved with the department. Locations have included Disney World, Italy, Boston, New York City and Chicago. In the spring of 2012, the music department traveled to Austria for its second trip to Europe (first since 2006).

The Music Department only offers open guitar and musical theater classes to students outside of the program. Every ensemble has achieved gold status at MusicFest, and has received frequent invitations and awards at National competitions.

Dramatic Arts [edit]

Cawthra's drama facilities include three modern and well equipped studios, as well as a large, professional auditorium. Approximately sixty drama students are accepted per year, giving each year two classes with around thirty students each. Course contents range from practical scene studies and stage combat to more theoretical concepts including a unit on 'great acting teachers' and theatre's roots in Ancient Greece. This intensive program run by Mr. Randolph Swyer, Mr. Scott Sprague and Mrs. Stacy Tiller brings an introduction to many aspects of theatre. Including, theatre production music theatre set and costume design to many other aspects that make theatre work. Students are also introduced to other areas of study, Art, Music and intensive dance and movement throughout the for year program.

Students are introduced to several theatre professionals who can and will bring upon connections with their friends to advance the careers and lives of the students they are only meeting for a short period of time.

Every two years the Drama department goes on senior trips, some destinations have included, Greece, Rome, Chicago and most recently New York City! This trip is open to any grade 11 and grade 12 theatre student.

The Dramatic Arts program attracts more than three-hundred applicants each year, and only the few selected experience an incredible and unforgettable high school experience.

Visual Arts [edit]

The Visual Arts Department offers a wide variety of courses available to students both in the art program as well as to students pursuing other disciplines. Courses include traditional, modern and post-modern art, desktop design, media arts and photography. The department also has ties to other departments at Cawthra Park such as fashion and communication technology. One major event for the Visual Arts department is the annual Visual Arts SpringFest where the school is transformed into an art gallery. Senior Visual Arts students also partake in an art-focused week long class trip to New York City.

Dance [edit]

Throughout the four-year program, students refine their technical skills and develop their creativity in dance. Dance forms that are studied include ballet, modern dance, musical theater and jazz. Besides practical experience, the students are also required to study a theoretical curriculum that includes topics such as the history of dance, kinesiology, composition, criticism and social issues relating to the dance community such as eating disorders, and arthritis. The department provides the opportunity for students with and without formal training to develop dance skills through the Regional Arts Program. The department also offers elective dance courses for students not enrolled in the dance program, as well as dance opportunities for all students regardless of their arts discipline. Major events for the Dance Department include Dance Springfest in early April and Dance Mosaix in late May.

Athletics [edit]

Athletic courses include boys and girls hockey, basketball, volleyball, badminton and soccer teams, along with several others.

The Cawthra Panthers Baseball Team won the 2007 ROPSSAA Tier 1 Baseball Championships for the first time in the schools history with a 6-2 win over Mount Carmel. The Cawthra Park Hockey Team reached the ROPSAA finals on several occasions.

Notable alumni [edit]

Past students of Cawthra Park include:

See also [edit]

Notes [edit]

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