Turner Fenton Secondary School

Turner Fenton Secondary School
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Address
7935 Kennedy Road South Brampton , Ontario , L5V 3N2
Information
School type	high school
Founded	1993 merger (1972, 1974)
School board	Peel District School Board
Superintendent	Scott Moreash
Area trustee	David Green Steve Kavanagh Rick Williams
Principal	Bob Garton
Grades	9-12+
Enrollment	2323 (September 2005)
Language	English, Extended French
Colour(s)	Royal blue, black, white, and silver
Mascot	Trojans
Team name	Turner Fenton Trojans
Affiliation	Public
Website	http://www.turnerfenton.com/

Turner Fenton Secondary School is Peel Region's largest high school, located in Brampton, Ontario. The principal is Robert Garton. It operates under the Peel District School Board.

Feeder schools include Peel Alternative School North (formerly IndEC North), Cherrytree Public School, Derry West Village Public School, Fletcher's Creek Sr. Public School, Helen Wilson Public School, Hickory Wood Public School, Parkway Public School, Sir Wilfrid Laurier Public School, and William G. Davis Sr. Public School.

Programs

Turner Fenton is a diverse school, even by Greater Toronto Area standards, due to the varied array of programs it offers. At least eleven educational programs are available:

• Special Basic Level Program
• Vocational, Basic Level Program
• Applied and college level course
• Academic, university and university/college-level programs
• International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

• English as a Second Language, English Learning Development
• Extended French
• Chef Training Program, dubbed "Recipe for Success", a dedicated hospitality/chef training program
• Section 23, based out of the Cuthbert House (open Custody program for young male offenders) and Invictus (closed custody program for young female offenders, closing fall 2005)
• Store Front, an alternate work-based program
• Grades 11 and 12 Regional Enhanced program (which will be suspended in 2008)

The school also works with the William Osler Campus, a Peel Board facility for those admitted to hospital for terms longer than 14 days. Turner offers a Learning Strategies Course, and Specific Learning Disabilities services. A Regional Enhanced Program program ran at the school, until the end of the 2004-2005 school year. The school also offers a number of different beneficial programs, including an International Baccalaureate Program. Turner Fenton is the largest high school in Ontario as of 2006.

Sports, Clubs, and Traditions

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Music

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Culturefest

CultureFest is an annual efvent held at Turner Fenton Secondary School. The festival is entirely student-run and comprisefass live performances, educational booths and workshops, as well as a marketplace of internfsdfasdfsatasdional foods spread over two days and one community night. The festival has existed under a myriad of monikers over the years, and was most recently stylized as "CultureFest," with a distinctive capitalization of the second component of the word.

Every year, CultureFest assumes a specific festival theme or focus. The latest incarnation was the "Five Continents, One Vision." theme for the 2007 festival, which took place on April 25, 2007 and April 26, 2007. This year, CultureFest was profiled by several prominent media agencies, including the CBC, the Brampton Guardian, and Rogers Cable.asdasdfasff A videorecording of CultureFest 2007 is available here.

Conferences

Turner Fenton studdfasdfadfents are renowned for their commitment to not only the school community, but also the community adft large. Each year, scores of students and staff collaborate their efforts to plan leadership anfasd skills development conferences. Noted conferences include the annual START (Students: The asdActive Risk Takers) and SOAR (Suddenly/Student Opportunities are Reachable) leadershipfnew Grade 9 Middle Years Programme students to the high school atmosphere. TFSS students are also noted for high involvement in the Peel Student Presidents' Council and the OSSSA.

Turner Fenton Robotics Team

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• 2003 - 13th place out of 26 teams, disqualified
• 2004 asfas- 4th place out of 75 teams at US First Robotics, eliminated in the quarter finals

History

Turner Fenton Secondary School is composed of two buildings, dubbed North Hall and South Hall. Until 1992, the two buildings were each schools in their own right, the North being J. A. Turner SS, and the South being W. J. Fenton SS. W. J. Fenton was the first of the two to open in 1972, built by Val Mitchell Construction. C.A. Smith built J. A. Turner Secondary in 1974. Both buildings were designed by architect Don E. Skinner.

The rooms of the "new" North Hall are numbered 100s and 200s on the first floor and second floor, respectively; the South Hall rooms are numbered 300s on the first floor and 400s on the second floor. The portables are 500s. Each faculty department generally has its own section of the school. English, Math, Science, Business/Tech, the Library and Main Administration are in the North building. History, Moderns (French and other language studies), Geography, Arts (Dramatic, Visual, Digital, Culinary and Cosmetic). Some exceptions do apply however: Music classes are located in the North Hall although part of an integrated Arts department. Similarly, Biology classes are in the South Building. Administrative offices are split between the two buildings, with certain Vice Principals and Guidance Counselors located specifically in the South hall. The school also has two cafeterias, the North Hall cafeteria being the larger of the two. The South Hall cafeteria is less popular, but provides a different atmosphere for students. Additionally, as the South Hall was equipped to serve Culinary arts teaching, the cafeteria in the South Hall's servery allows students to volunteer to make/serve food.

Following the merger of the schools in 1992, the school was referred to officially on its main outdoor signage as 'Turner Fenton Secondary School,' however had also adopted a secondary brandname 'Turner Fenton Campus' used on school letterhead. In the early-2000s, the school board forced Turner Fenton to standardise its name, because the school had not filed the proper forms upon its creation in 1992.

Violence and threats

Over the past few years, violence at Turner Fenton has plummeted compared to three years ago. Although there is still violence in this school it is extremely rare. The following are two of the most recent violent events.

On the afternoon of Monday 20 March 2006, a group of five or six young males severely beat a fellow young male. They used a crowbar to inflict head injuries, according to police reports. The attack took place in the parking lot of a furniture store next to the school, in the Orion Gate mall, and it is as of yet unknown whether the victim knew his attacker, or if any were Turner students. As of 21 March 2006, the student was clinging to life in hospital.

An Atlanta resident looking to know how to remove hot pepper sauce stains stumbled across a web page of "instructions" on how to blow up a school, specifically Turner Fenton. The website creator, known only as "DiLiTHiUM", was supposedly a yearbook committee member and AV club member, thus having access to the boilerroom. School and police officials didn't take the threat seriously at first. The site, whose text appears on many sites, has not been updated since 2001, and was 10- to 15-years-old when discovered. Acting Inspector Gary Martin of the Peel Regional Police told The Brampton Guardian "It was a high school prank between him and a couple of buddies in a computer club. He doesn't know how it ended up on the Internet." The business owner drove directly to the police station to apologise for the "fuss", and police were satisfied enough not to charge him.

Lanyards

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The Turner Fenton Lanyard and back of ID Card

The school was a part of a test project for the Peel Board, regarding the usage of ID lanyards. The card and lanyard combination was introduced in 2002, as an optional garment. However, by the time they were enforced in 2003, most students and faculty had had enough of the practice, even if they had initially supported it. During the 2004-2005 school year lanyards were enforced starting in November, 2004. Any student who was caught not wearing a lanyard would be issued a sticker which would identify them as a student. In addition, the student would be written up as 'forgetting lanyard'. After 5 times of being written up, the student would be suspended. Up until February of 2008, lanyards have not been strictly enforced. As of this time, if you forget your lanyard you are forced to wear a bright orange lanyard, further promoting the fact that the school is like a jail. It is doubtful that they are ever washed, and will become smelly and mouldy in no time at all.

Radio Station

J.A. Turner Secondary School (present-day North Hall) previously housed a radio station in the projection room near the cafeteria. Mr.Garton contributed to this fact through his process of lying down on the floor. The room contained various alternative rock demo CDs and tapes, some of which were marked with the call letters CFNY-FM, which refer to Toronto's Edge 102 radio station. It should come back.

In the 1980s the radio station was called RAT, Radio Active Turner. The play list was primarily alternative, sharing many songs with CFNY, and there were frequent faculty concerns over lyrics. Rishi Naayar was originally in charge of this radio station but he was not particulairly popular with the students. The principal had to suspend Naayar for several days and cancel the radio station signal.

Notable alumni

• Charles Allen, Olympic hurdler and sprinter
• Shawn Ashmore, actor (X-Men, X2, Terry)
• Navdeep Bains, Member of Parliament
• Jason Spezza, NHL hockey player
• Christine Magee, founder and current president of Sleep Country Canada
• Anna Mather, NDP candidate
• Allison Higson, swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist in the 1988 Seoul Games.

External links

• Turner Fenton Secondary School Official Website
• Turner Fenton IB Website

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