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13-682: ADHS can refer to: Schools [ edit ] Acton District High School Alfred Deakin High School Almonte and District High School Athens District High School Arnprior District High School Athens Drive High School Other uses [ edit ] Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder , sometimes referred to as attention-deficit hyperactivity syndrome Appalachian Development Highway System Arizona Department of Health Services 2-amino-3,7-dideoxy-D-threo-hept-6-ulosonate synthase , an enzyme Topics referred to by

26-567: A CWOSSA cross-country title, and competing in British Empire Games or Olympic trials three times. Until 1971, Acton competed in the Central Western Ontario Secondary Schools Association (CWOSSA), at which point it opted to take a hiatus to concentrate on intramural sport. That was after a recent streak of winning titles in hockey , basketball and athletics . From 1973, the school moved to

39-584: Is debate as to its accuracy. In the Latin Vulgate Bible , the Hebrew phrase יְהִי אוֹר ‎ is translated in Latin as fiat lux . In context, the translation is " dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux " ("And said God let there be light, and there was light"). Literally, fiat lux would be translated as "let light be made" ( fiat is the third person singular present passive subjunctive form of

52-552: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Acton District High School The Acton High School (originally known as the Acton Continuation School) had been governed by the Acton School Board, since its establishment of a High School Department in 1903. It would receive its own building (later known as the "old stone school") in 1927. Administration of

65-905: The Halton Secondary School Athletic Association , which is now part of the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference . The school teams are collectively known as the Bearcats. Their former name was the Redmen. Fiat Lux " Let there be light " is an English translation of the Hebrew יְהִי אוֹר ‎ ( yehi 'or ) found in Genesis 1:3 of the Torah , the first part of the Hebrew Bible . In Old Testament translations of

78-593: The Koine Greek Septuagint the phrase is translated " καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεός γενηθήτω φῶς καὶ ἐγένετο φῶς " — kaì eîpen ho Theós genēthḗtō phôs kaì egéneto phôs . Γενηθήτω is the imperative form of γίγνομαι , "to come into being." The original Latinization of the Greek translation used in the Vetus Latina was lux sit ("light – let it exist" or "let light exist"), which has been used occasionally, although there

91-598: The Acton and Milton high schools was taken over by the North Halton High School District Board in 1948, which managed high school affairs for the towns of Acton and Milton, and the townships of Esquesing and Nassagaweya, with an aim to replace the schools with a newly constructed building at Speyside. This plan was effectively scuttled when Georgetown decided to accede to the Board in 1950 on the understanding that

104-509: The Board. The school's motto is Lux Sit , which roughly translates as "Let there be light." Why this particular phrase was chosen in place of the more classical rendition of Fiat Lux is not clear. The 2019 Fraser Institute Report Card on Secondary Schools gives ADHS the following ranking: During the 1960s, ADHS athletes accrued a notable record in track and field events, winning three individual OFSSA championships, accepting four related athletic scholarships to US colleges, winning

117-543: The building being officially opened in November that year. In September 2021, because of declining high school enrolment (mainly triggered by the increasing preference of Acton's Catholic families to send their children over to Georgetown's Christ the King Catholic Secondary School ), Acton students in grades 7 and 8 would have their classes transferred over to that building. This move was quickly ratified by

130-620: The phrase, translations include the Greek phrase γενηθήτω φῶς ( genēthḗtō phôs ) and the Latin phrases fiat lux and lux sit . It is part of the Genesis creation narrative . The phrase comes from the third verse of the Book of Genesis . In the King James Bible , it reads, in context: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness

143-776: The project would not proceed, and the Speyside plan was cancelled in July 1949. This would lead to the construction of a new high school building at Acton, which was opened in November 1954. Following the North Halton board's three-way split in 1959, the Acton High School District Board took over at the beginning of 1960, and would administer the school until the formation of the Halton Board of Education in 1969. The high school would move to its present location in 1977, with

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156-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ADHS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ADHS&oldid=1206941052 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

169-515: Was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, and it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. In biblical Hebrew , the phrase יְהִי אוֹר ‎ ( yəhî ’ôr ) is made of two words. יְהִי ‎ ( yəhî ) is the third-person masculine singular jussive form of "to exist" and אוֹר ‎ ( ’ôr ) means "light." In

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