Aspengrove School

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Aspengrove School
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Aspengrove School
7660 Clark Drive

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Canada
Coordinates 49°14′11″N124°03′50″W / 49.2365°N 124.064°W / 49.2365; -124.064
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School type Independent, Junior Kindergarten - Grade 12
Founded2003
Grades Pre-K-12
LanguageEnglish, French, Spanish, Chinese
Colour(s)Blue, Green, & Gold
Website www.aspengroveschool.ca

Aspengrove School is a pre-school to grade 12 school in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The school is an independent, non-denominational, co-educational, and university-preparatory school. Aspengrove has three houses: Oak, Cedar, and Arbutus.

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Aspengrove School

History

Aspengrove School was founded in 2003 and was originally located at 6553 Portsmouth Road in Nanaimo. At the time of its grand opening 42 students and 8 faculty occupied the 1-acre (4,000 m2) lot. The first principal was Cathy Grunlund. Over the summer of 2006 the school relocated and currently operates on a 40-acre (160,000 m2) parcel. There are approximately 310 enrolled students and 50 faculty offering instruction from Jr. Kindergarten for 3-year-olds to Grade 12. The school is accredited as an International Baccalaureate World School [1] and offers the IB Primary Years, IB Middle Years and IB Diploma programme and received a 10 out of 10 by the IB Organization (IBO) in 2011. Aspengrove is currently 19 years old.

Events

Aspengrove School has many events, like the trips to Tribune Bay, Strathcona or Bamfield. There are many open houses and field trips for all ages.

In 2023, the former head of Aspengrove was banned from teaching for 15 years after, in August 2022, he sent sexually explicit messages to and attempted to meet up with someone he believed to be 15 years old. [2] That person was actually an adult vigilante posing as an underaged youth in order to catch predators in what is known as a "creep catcher" sting operation. [3] After a video of the attempted meet-up and screenshots of their online conversations were posted to a Facebook group and the school became aware of the incident, the school fired Pierotti and reported him to the Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, [4] as per the Independent Schools Act.

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