Northumberland Regional High School ( NRHS ) is a Canadian public high school located in Alma, Nova Scotia . Students that attend the school come from the western part of Pictou County , including the towns of Stellarton , and Westville . The school is administratively part of the "Celtic Region" in the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board . Its official colours are red, white and black and the mascot is a Nighthawk nicknamed "Squawk". The sports teams from NRHS are called the Northumberland Nighthawks.
11-1109: NRHS may refer to: Educational institutions [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Northumberland Regional High School , Westville, Nova Scotia United States [ edit ] Narragansett Regional High School , Templeton, Massachusetts Nashoba Regional High School , Bolton, Massachusetts Nauset Regional High School , Eastham, Massachusetts North Reading High School , North Reading, Massachusetts Newfound Regional High School , Bristol, New Hampshire Nazareth Regional High School (Brooklyn) , New York City, New York New Rochelle High School , New Rochelle, New York North Rockland High School , Thiells, New York North Rowan High School , Spencer, North Carolina North Ridgeville High School , North Ridgeville, Ohio North Royalton High School , North Royalton, Ohio Nansemond River High School , Suffolk, Virginia Other uses [ edit ] National Railway Historical Society , United States See also [ edit ] NRH (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
22-403: Is a Canadian public school serving the central-western part of Pictou County , Nova Scotia . The school is located in the rural community of Lyons Brook . WPCS had 440 students enrolled in grades K-8 as of 2009. The school was established in the 1950s in a white painted wood-framed structure located at the corner of present-day Stewart Rd and Highway 376. The West Pictou District High School
33-520: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Northumberland Regional High School Northumberland Regional officially opened on November 25, 1966. It is one of three high schools of Pictou County, Nova Scotia (the other being North Nova Education Centre and Pictou Academy ). It replaced West Pictou District High School , Stellarton High School , and Westville High School . NRHS has approximately 991 students from grades 9-12. Its student body
44-680: Is drawn from various schools including but not limited to; Dr. W A MacLeod Consolidated , West Pictou Consolidated School and Walter Duggan Consolidated NRHS offers a wide variety of courses to its student body, with about 130 courses (excluding grade 9 and CEP courses). These courses include math (essentials-, foundations-, academic-, and advanced-level; this includes calculus ), sciences ( chemistry , physics , biology , etc.), languages ( English and French ), fine arts and technology (drama, visual arts, film and video, communications technology, etc.), and phys ed (mostly introduced in 2008; phys ed yoga , phys ed leadership). Also, NRHS has
55-685: The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme . It officially became an IB World School on April 21, 2007. NRHS offers the diploma program in English and Immersion-level (high level) French. The NRHS campus is located in Alma, Nova Scotia. Its facilities include: NRHS has an active Students' Council with over 80 members who raise a large amount of money each year for the school community. The Students' Council funds sports facilities, supports dances and many other events held throughout
66-545: The Career and Employment Preparation (CEP) which offers courses to introduce students directly to industries such as food services , auto care , forestry , and retail ; although this program is considered an alternative to academic courses, many students that complete the program go to university. NRHS primarily focuses on math and sciences over fine arts. NRHS is the first, and currently only, school in Pictou County to offer
77-596: The building, built in the early 1960s as a high school, more appropriate for a K-8 school. Chignecto-Central Regional School Board stated that as of January 2013, $ 1.7 million had been spent to upgrade the building's boiler, sewage service, water supply, gymnasium floor, locker rooms, hallway fire doors, bathrooms, parking lot, and school bus loop. Remaining projects include renovations to the creative technology facilities (industrial arts workshop, art room, learning commons/technical space), library, office and administrative areas, and entrance doors. These individuals attended
88-487: The formation of new clubs and committees. NRHS offers many extra-curricular activities, such as: Communications, Interact, Yearbook (part of the Publishing 12 course), and Environmental club among many more. NRHS also has many sports teams, including: rugby , basketball , hockey , volleyball , cross country running , track , and soccer . West Pictou Consolidated School West Pictou Consolidated School (WPCS)
99-404: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title NRHS . 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=NRHS&oldid=983358936 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
110-433: The school year. The Students' Council is voluntary and is administered by an executive featuring two co-presidents (elected by the student population) as well as several committee heads and a staff adviser. The executive handles the major decision making of the council and keeps track of finances. The executive also discusses, approves, or declines fundraising proposals for various sports teams and other activities, as well as
121-454: Was established next door in the 1960s. In 2005 the high school building was vacated after Northumberland Regional High School opened; that year saw WPCS move into the old high school building and the original WPCS building was demolished. In 2011 the Government of Nova Scotia budgeted $ 3.9 million in capital funding toward upgrades at WPCS, to be implemented in several phases in order to make
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