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St. Roch Catholic Secondary School is a high school in Credit Valley,
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, Canada. The school's principal is Jeff Quenneville. St Roch Catholic Secondary School opened on September 8, 2009. The school is located in the Credit Valley neighbourhood of
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Elementary Feeder Schools

* Guardian Angels Catholic Elementary School * St. Jacinta Marto Catholic Elementary School (North of Queen Street) * St. Jean-Marie Vianney Catholic Elementary School * St. Ursula Catholic Elementary School


Regional Centre for the Arts

St. Roch is a Regional Centre for the Arts with curriculum in dance, drama, instrumental music, media arts and vocal music. Students wishing to pursue the arts must successfully complete a rigorous application and audition process involving teacher referrals, character recommendations and auditions in front of faculty. As of September 2020, the board's planning department had put a cap on 375 grade 9 students, since it cannot accommodate portables on site. It redirects incoming Grade 9 students to nearby
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RochTV

RochTV is an in-school TV station run by the students of St. Roch Catholic Secondary School enrolled in the media program. The school's broadcast infrastructure operates at 1080i HD broadcast signal to LCD TVs, Smartboards, or HD data projectors that are installed in classrooms throughout the school. The show broadcasts a monthly production schedule in which segments highlight monthly stories, important events and team sports updates, all being put together by the students. Historically, Roch TV has been presented in a pre-recorded format, however, in 2013, a shift to live TV has taken place. Each year, Roch TV organizes a boot camp to provide all Media Majors with the opportunity to re-certify on all cameras as well as learn about any new equipment that requires training and certification. Roch TV also helps to train students on core equipment and also how to create basic segments for a newscast. Senior students are trained each year on audio equipment and the studio control room technology.RochTv, 2013


Community location

The school is located in the Estates of Credit Ridge Springbrook Community. The school's specific location is Credit Valley, Brampton, Ontario, 200 Valleyway Dr. Its catchment area is bounded by Mississauga Road to the West, Fairhill Avenue to the North, McLaughlin Road to the East and Queen Street to the South.


Chaplaincy

St. Roch is a Catholic School that includes a chapel, and the chaplain is Kevin Senra. The school represents itself through
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. The designated parish of the school is St. Jerome's Parish.


Athletics

The mascot of the athletics teams is the Raven. St. Roch is home to a variety of team-associated sports, including; *
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Hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...
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Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...
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Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
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Skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IO ...
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Flag football Flag football is a variant of American football where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a Down (gridiron football), down. The sport has a ...
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Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...
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Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
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Curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...
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Notable alumni

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Kyra Constantine Kyra Cheresse Constantine (born August 1, 1998) is a Canadian sprinter specializing in the 400 metres. She won the silver medal in the women's metres relay event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. She also competed in the women ...
, Canadian Olympic sprinter
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, actor and singer.


School uniform

St. Roch requires all students to wear the school uniform, which consists of a black rugby shirt with purple stripes and school emblem or a dry fit long sleeve golf shirt with the school emblem (As of the 2016/17 school year, a black dry-fit shirt with the school emblem has been added as an alternative option to the rugby), combined with casual beige pants embroidered with the Ravens athletic emblem. Gym uniforms consist of black printed dazzle shorts and a grey emblemed T-shirt. In the 2022/23 school year, the school added new purple shirts and black pants.


See also

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List of high schools in Ontario The following is a list of secondary schools in Ontario. Secondary education policy in the Canadian province of Ontario is governed by the Ministry of Education. Secondary education in Ontario includes Grades 9 to 12. The following list include ...


References


External links


Official site
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