Roberta Bondar Public School
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Roberta Bondar Public School is an elementary school in Ottawa, Ontario from kindergarten to grade eight with a dual stream of English and Immersion. Construction began on the school in the Fall of 1995 and was completed in early August of 1996. The school first opened its doors to regular classes on Tuesday,September 3, 1996. Currently, over 850 students are registered in various programmes. They are considered one of Ottawa's best public school.
In 2006 a gang of vandals broke into the school and broke lockers and vandalized classrooms. The Ottawa Police adressed this situation and suspects were looked for.
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[edit] Mission Statement
English: We commit to building a safe and respectful learning environment that encourages confident, responsible, independent, life-long learners striving for excellence.
French: Nous nous engageons à créer un milieu d'apprentissage, où règne le respect et la sécurité, qui encouragera l'épanouissement à long terme d'un étudiant confiant, responsable et autonome.
[edit] Mascot
The current Mascot of Robert Bondar Public School is Buzz Lightyear
[edit] Principals
1996-1997: Bill Smirle
1997-2000: Garry McCaffrey
2000-2001: Torry Hansson
2001-present: Suzanne Malinos
[edit] Grade Divisions
- Roberta Bondar divides it's students into three groups, the kindergartners, primaries(grades 1-3, juniors(grades 4-6), and intermediates(grades 7 and 8). The intermediates occupy about half of the entire population, as students come to other schools running only from kindergarten to grade 6, mostly from Robert Bateman P.S. And Dunlop P.S. The different intermediate claases are then assigned letters to distinguish between them, eg. 7D, 8B. The numbers represent grades. Currently, there is also a 7 and 8 split class known as 7/8F. This sometimes leads to confusion between the classes 7F and 7/8F. To date, the grade 7 classes go up to 7F, whereas the grade 8 classes go up to 8G. Classes 7A, 7/8F, and 8G are the French Immersion classes for the intermediate level. Generally, for the primary and junior divisions, there is only one French Immersion class.
[edit] Schedules
For the most part, the primary and juniors stay in one class for the entire day, maybe moving classes once, twice, or three times, at most, in a day. They are also taught by the same teacher for most of the day. The intemediates, however may change classes up to six times a day, in 50 minute intervals called periods. They also have 15 minute nutrition breaks, where they get to eat snacks and just talk or play. Their schedule is as follows:
9:00: School begins
9:00-9:50: Period 1
9:50-10:40: Period 2
10:40-10:55: Nutrition break 1
10:55-11:45: Period 3
11:45-12:25: Lunch hour recess
12:25-12:45: Lunch
12:45-13:35: Period 4
13:35-14:25: Period 5
14:25-14:40: Nutrition break 2
14:40-15:30: 6th (Last) Period
[edit] Sports
Roberta Bondar is a very athletic school and has two gyms. They have won the volleyball tounaments in 2005-2006 and the basketball champions 1999, 2000, 2004, and 2005.
