Gleneagle Secondary School

Gleneagle Secondary School
Address
1195 Lansdowne Drive Coquitlam, British Columbia, V3B 7Y8, Canada
Coordinates	49°17′03″N 122°48′24″W
Information
School board	School District 43 Coquitlam
Principal	Mr. Gerald Shong
Vice principal	Mr. Jeremy Clarke, Mrs. Carol Coulson
School type	Co-educational Public Secondary
Grades	9 to 12
Language	English
Area	Coquitlam
Mascot	Eagle
Team name	Talons
Colours	Black, White and Gold
Founded	1997
Enrolment	1,200
Newspaper	The Edge
Theatre group	Broken Wing Theatre
Outdoor Education	C.O.A.S.T.
Homepage	http://www.gleneagle.org

Gleneagle Secondary School, or simply Gleneagle, is a public coeducational high school located in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The school serves grades nine through twelve and has an enrollment of about 1,200 students[1]. It is run by School District 43 Coquitlam.

Broken Wing Theatre is the name given to the theatre program at Gleneagle. The school has presented more than 260 scripted plays and musicals since it opened in 1997. In addition to a number of plays performed by acting classes, extracurricular plays are presented in the fall and spring; as well as the annual school musical also presented in the spring. Broken Wing Theatre often practices Black Box Theatre with minimal basic sets, music, and lighting for the acting classes, so as to speed up the rate of production and to focus resources on actor training and learning by participating, rather than reading about it or spending time creating sets. The use of scripts is a constant in Broken Wing Theatre's approach to acting: at any given point, all actors in the program are either rehearsing or performing scripted plays, musicals, scenes, or monologues. Gleneagle has also been an active participant in the local high school district theatre festival in the fall, Metfest. Notable productions of the past include: The Grapes of Wrath (play), Parfumerie (play), The Actor's Nightmare (play), The Wizard Of Oz, Seussical (musical), and a number of student-written and director-written/adapted plays.

Gleneagle is also host to the School District 43 TALONS Program, a two year program for gifted students in Grades 9 and 10. Other programs within the school include the JumpstArt program, chef training, hairdressing, and the COAST outdoor program.

Gleneagle's art program has a working partnership with Emily Carr University of Art + Design, which chose Gleneagle as a venue for night classes for grade 12s wishing to take advanced art classes.

External links

• Gleneagle Secondary School