D. Roy Kennedy Public School
| D. Roy Kennedy Public School | |
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| Address | |
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919 Woodroffe Avenue Ottawa, Ontario, K2A 3G9 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 45°21′55″N 75°46′11″W / 45.3652°N 75.7697°WCoordinates: 45°21′55″N 75°46′11″W / 45.3652°N 75.7697°W |
| Information | |
| Founded | March 1966 (built 1954) |
| School board | Ottawa Carleton District School Board |
| Superintendent | Peter Gamwell Source |
| Area trustee | Douglas Michael Lloyd Source |
| Administrator | Celeste Tratch |
| Principal | Catherine Donnelly |
| Grades | JK-8 |
| Language | English & French |
| Website | www |
D. Roy Kennedy is a public elementary and middle school in the Bay Ward of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, offering classes from kindergarten to grade 8. It is located at the corner of Woodroffe Avenue and Lenester Avenue in Ottawa's Glabar Park neighbourhood. Students come from varied ethnic backgrounds and many speak a third language.
The school was built in 1954. The school is named after D. Roy Kennedy, who would in later years become a prominent Kiwanian and Ottawa educator.
The CBC reported in January 2010, that two students at Ottawa's D. Roy Kennedy Public School had started a petition to be allowed to play with balls on the playground in winter time. Balls had been banned from D. Roy Kennedy in the winter months due to safety concerns. January 25, 2010 On February 27, 2013 D Roy Kennedy Public School Invited The Ottawa Food Bank Which Held an Assembly . On Thursday morning, September 26, 2013 D. Roy Kennedy Public School was evacuated after a man with a replica firearm entered the school and pulled the fire alarm . The Children were sent home without any injuries. On October 1, 2014 A Package was found in the parking lot was deemed safe .a ribbon was cut for a new playground in November 2015.
This school offers students a choice of English (with Core French) and French immersion programs as well as specialized instrumental music, visual arts and sports. The school offers Special Education and English Language Support. It has a notable emphasis as well on academics, having produced the "best speller in Canada", the youngest life master in Bridge, and many other academic programmes. In April 2008, Grade 8 student Emma Brownlie was the winner of the Canwest CanSpell National Spelling Bee. She made it to the fourth round on to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
Graduating grade 8 students attend a number of high schools including Woodroffe High School, Nepean High School, Glebe Collegiate Institute, Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School and Canterbury High School.
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