David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute
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2740 Lawrence Avenue East Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, M1P 2S7 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°45′12″N 79°15′34″W / 43.75333°N 79.25944°WCoordinates: 43°45′12″N 79°15′34″W / 43.75333°N 79.25944°W |
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| School type | Public, High school |
| Motto | Nil Sine Magno Labore (Nothing without great effort) |
| Founded | 1959 |
| Status | active |
| School board | Toronto District School Board |
| Oversight | Toronto Lands Corporation |
| Superintendent | John Chasty |
| Area trustee | David Smith |
| School number | 4130 / 903590 |
| Principal | William Papaconstantinou |
| Vice Principals | Nicholas Leslie English Alison Kelsey |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 972 (2015-16) |
| Language | English |
| Campus size | 15 acres |
| Colour(s) | Red and Black |
| Team name | Thomson Titans |
| Feeder schools | Donwood Park Public School Edgewood Public School John McCrae Public School Knob Hill Public School Robert Service Sr. Public School St. Andrew's Public School |
| Website | www |
| Last updated: January 1, 2016 | |
David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute (sometimes called David and Mary Thomson, DMT, or Thomson) is a semestered English-language high school located in the Bendale neighbourhood in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, originally sanctioned by the Scarborough Board of Education and since 1998 under its successor board, the Toronto District School Board. Its motto is Nil Sine Magno Labore (Nothing without great effort).
The David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute school building was built in 1958 and opened on September 8, 1959, by the Scarborough Board of Education, splitting off the population of Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute and R. H. King Collegiate Institute in the heart of historical Scarborough. The building was designed by the architects Peter L. Allward and George Roper Gouinlock.
It opened as the sixth secondary school in the borough. W. A. Porter Collegiate Institute, the fifth, had opened the year before. These two years marked the beginning of a rapid growth period in the Scarborough school system necessitated by equally rapid growth in business and industry and in population.
When Thomson was in the planning stage, the potential for television in education was a popular topic for discussion but not much had been done about it. Thomson became the first secondary school in Scarborough, possibly in Canada, to have cable television incorporated in the structure of the building. Some of the earliest experiments in this system involved transmitting a display or experiment produced in one classroom simultaneously to several other classrooms. For example, a teaching model of the Shakespearian Globe Theatre was telecast in this way, as was the dissection of a frog in a science lab. Since that time video tape machines have entirely changed the original concept of educational television. Thomson attracted a wealth of applications from both experienced and inexperienced personnel for both faculty and secretarial positions. Staff connections with Malvern Collegiate Institute in Toronto were so numerous that it was jokingly suggested that the school should be called David and Malvern instead of David and Mary.
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