Holy Spirit High School is a high school in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador. The school is part of the Eastern School District of Newfoundland.
Holy Spirit High School, is part of the Eastern School District, which operates 122 schools. The Board employs approximately 4000 full-time equivalent teachers, in addition to student support, secretarial and maintenance personnel. The school has an enrollment of nearly 800 students and offers programs in Grade 9 and Levels I-II-III-IV. Prescribed programs are presently offered in English and French Immersion.
Holy Spirit High School is located in the Town of Conception Bay South, and serves students in that community and in the Town of Paradise. The school delivers high quality programs under the jurisdiction of the Eastern School District. Holy Spirit High is entrenched as a neighborhood school aspiring to the principles of academic excellence, co-curricular participation, life-long learning and community partnerships. This school is committed to excellence in English and French literacy, mathematics, science, technology, social studies and the fine arts as program priorities.
The past school year has seen much progress in academics, student involvement and parental participation. The students are recognized for academic achievement at the district, provincial and national levels in many curriculum areas.
Famous quotes containing the words holy, spirit, high and/or school:
“We have suffered much, we have worked much, we have made much effort to redeem, in the eyes of God, what was unconventional in our happiness by what was holy in our love.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I remember once dreaming of pushing a canoe up the rivers of Maine, and that, when I had got so high that the channels were dry, I kept on through the ravines and gorges, nearly as well as before, by pushing a little harder, and now it seemed to me that my dream was partially realized.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is not that the Englishman can’t feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)