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 . It is run by School District 43 Coquitlam.
As of 2012 Gleneagle ranked 103 out of 279 by the Fraser Institute.
Gleaneagle Secondary is known for their drama, art, and sports programs. They have succeeded in the participation from their students, which makes those programs stand out as a "whole". Its Model United Nations team is particularly successful, with 75% of its participants winning awards at the Canadian International Model United Nations 2012.
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.
Gleaneagle Secondary is ranked by the Fraser Institute. As of 2011-2012, it was ranked 7th out of 288 Vancouver, lower mainland schools.
Gleneagle is also known for it's drama, art, and sports programs. Placing first in every competition so far.
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.
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