Dartmouth High School (Nova Scotia)
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Dartmouth High School | |
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French immersion | |
Colour(s) | Gold and Black |
Mascot | Spartan |
Team name | Spartans |
Website | dhs |
Dartmouth High School is a Canadian public high school located in the
Staff
During the 2005–2006 school year, Dartmouth High School has had a teaching staff of roughly 60, with about 12 support staff. Due to changes in the teacher pension plan in Nova Scotia, 19 retired in 2006.
The school's former
The Arts
Music Department
In 2001, 2003 and 2006, the school's concert band went to Cuba to help promote music and perform in the country. The concert band usually goes on lengthy and distant trips each year, though in 2007, they went on a smaller scale trip to Cape Breton for the Cape Breton Music Festival. In 2008 the band visited several European countries including Austria and the Czech Republic, and played in the Atlantic Music Festival. Following this trip, the band not go far in 2009, instead taking part in an Arts night, sponsored by the HRSB. The band went to Boston, Massachusetts in 2010. The School also has a Choral Group, Jazz Band,[2] Ska Ensemble,[3] and other smaller scale ensembles. The event known as "A Battle of the Bands" is held regularly in support of the Music Department.
Theater
The drama department stages a large scale production each year, usually in conjunction with the school's band or the Halifax Regional Arts, a division of the Halifax Regional Center For Education.[citation needed]
Stage productions
2023: the mouse trap
2019:
2018: Romeo and Juliet
2018: Seussical
2017: Julius Caesar
2017: Urinetown
2016: Makeup, Tights, and Everything Nice (original musical)
2011: A Christmas Carol
2010: Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
2009: Once Upon a Mattress
2008:
2007:
2006: Othello
2005: Ducktails and Bobbysocks
2004: The Flies
2003:
2002: The Importance of Being Earnest
1998: The Girl Who Wasn't Blue
1997: Hollywood Hotel
1996: Cats
1995: The Baltimore Waltz
Athletics
Dartmouth High School has competitive teams in all the major high school sports, most distinctively excelling in cross country and track and field where they have won many Metro banners. The Spartans have also won many recent Metro Boys Rugby titles, and Tier II Football titles in 1995, 2004, 2010 and current champions in 2018. The last Tier I Football Championship was won in 1971.
Dartmouth High School maintains a sports rivalry with cross-town school
School renovations
In March 2011 demolition started of northeast side of the school for the construction of new gymnasium facility and an entire wing under the direction of the
Transportation
Dartmouth High School is located next to the Bridge Terminal, a major bus station in the Halifax Transit system. In 2021, Halifax Transit launched a pilot program to provide high school students with free transit passes. The program aims to provide youth with convenient transportation and encourage the use of public transit. Dartmouth High School was chosen as one of four schools where the program is being piloted over the 2021/22 school year.[4]
References
- ^ http://www.hrce.ns.ca/tools/schoolfinder/findSchool.aspx?code=DHS [dead link]
- ^ "DHS Music Jazz Page". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
- ^ DHS Skaensemble
- ^ "Student Pass Pilot Program". Halifax Transit. Retrieved 11 October 2021.