Lambrick Park Secondary School is a four-year (grades 9-12) public

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located in

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. It is on the traditional lands of the Lekwungen people. The school, part of Greater Victoria's School District 61, opened for the 1976-77

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and had its first graduates in 1978. Lambrick Park is part of the family of schools that include Torquay Elementary School and Gordon Head Middle School.

Programs

In addition to courses in English, mathematics, history, science and social studies, the school has programs in business and technical education, physical education, fine arts, computing and home economics.Lambrick Park courses and departments
, accessed 7 January 2009. Lambrick Park offers four years of FrenchLanguages at Lambrick
, accessed 7 January 2009. and three years''Pride''
June 2008, p. 15 of Spanish instruction. School is in session from 8:55 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.; each class period is 80 minutes long, with four such periods daily Mondays through Thursdays. On Fridays, classes finish early at 1:15 p.m.; each class is shortened to 50 minutes. There is a school concert choir, a jazz choir, and a band program. The school also has an active athletic program, with sports including badminton, basketball, baseball, field hockey, golf, tennis, rowing, rugby, soccer, swimming and volleyball, as well as cross-country and track and field. As the school mascot is a lion, the sports teams are generally named either as the Lions or Pride. Lambrick Park High School also hosts th
Diamond for Excellence
program. This academy provides on-the-field instruction in baseball and softball skills and in-the-classroom instruction in five specific areas intended to enhance student athletes' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the science of sport and training as it applies to baseball and softball.

Notable alumni

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, former player on

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of British Columbia for

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(2017-) *

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, and the

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* Emma Entzminger, Softball Canada infielder (2020 Summer Olympics Bronze medalist) for the

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References

External links

Lambrick Park Secondary SchoolSchool District 61Diamond for Excellence baseball academy
{{VictoriaSchools High schools in British Columbia Educational institutions established in 1976 1976 establishments in British Columbia