Frances Kelsey Secondary School
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953 Shawnigan-Mill Bay Road Mill Bay, British Columbia Canada |
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| School type | High School |
| Founded | 1995–1996 |
| School board | SD79 |
| Superintendent | Rod Allen |
| School number | 07965039 |
| Principal | Jeff Rowan |
| Grades | 8–12 |
| Enrollment | 920 (2014–2015) |
| Language | English |
| Colour(s) | White, Navy, Gold |
| Mascot | Orca |
| Team name | Breakers/Whalers |
| Website | www |
Frances Kelsey Secondary School (FKSS) is a high school located in Mill Bay, British Columbia, Canada, named after Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey. The school, under founding Principal Allan MacLeod, adopted a self-directed learning system. FKSS is one of School District 79 Cowichan Valley's four mainstream secondary schools.
By 1990, the SD 79 Board had put together a committee consisting of senior district administration, teachers, school administrators and south-end parent representatives to develop plans for the new school. In 1990, the Summary Report of the South Cowichan Consultative Committee was published. This document represented a distillation of the ideas gained by the committee during fact finding tours to other districts and schools in BC and Alberta, professional reading and research, numerous parent and community meetings and the advice and recommendations sought from parents, students, educators and other professionals for the design of the new south-end secondary school.
The document reflected the need to construct a school that incorporated local community desires for unique features, that would support programs geared for the hospitality tourism industry such as a teaching kitchen and an auditorium, that would lend support to a performing arts program, and that would serve as a large group teaching area. In addition, there was a strong desire to seek the most effective ways to incorporate the new “principles of learning” emerging from the Ministry of Education that stated:
In carefully examining how these principles might be addressed, the committee recommended that the “self-paced, continuous progress” model similar to Calgary’s Bishop Carroll Secondary School could be successfully implemented at the new south end high school.
By 1991, the site had been purchased and the firm of Dalla-Lana/Griffin - architects had been hired to begin the task of designing a building that would later become known as Frances Kelsey Secondary School. Construction began in 1994 and the building was substantially completed by February 1995. The school's math, English, socials, and science areas were enlarged, and another, smaller gym added, along with several hundred more lockers in the fall of 2004.
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