Public School is an elementary school in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. It was opened in 2002 in the community of Vellore Woods. The school is a continuation of two other schools, one a log cabin one-room schoolhouse built in the 1830s, and the second a more impressive structure which, although closed in 1957, was an operating school from the 1860s and is still standing today. The community itself was named after the town of Vellore in India, site of a British victory in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
The school has several sports teams including : Volleyball Team (Both genders, separate teams and a junior mixed team) Basketball Team (Both genders, separate teams) Boys Soccer Team, Cross-Country Team (Both genders together) Track and Field Team (Both genders together)
The school mascot is a wolf. The school is often referred as "Vellore Wolves" or "The Wolves"
The school's current principal is Mr. David Moore, and the current vice-principal is Ms. Mona Bongard.
Famous quotes containing the words woods, public and/or school:
“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen—but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)