Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School

Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School
Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School
Address
	100 Clearbrook Trail; Bracebridge , Ontario , P1L 2E9 ; Canada
Coordinates	45°03′53″N79°19′14″W / 45.06472°N 79.32056°W
Information
School type	Public, high school
Motto	Nihil sine labore (Latin); (Nothing Without Labour)
Founded	1925
School board	Trillium Lakelands District School Board
Area trustee	Esther Childs
School number	895660
Principal	Geoff Corbett
Grades	9 to 12
Enrollment	730 (2021–22)
Language	English ; French immersion
Colour(s)	Red, Black and White
Mascot	Poseidon
Team name	Lakers
Website	bml.tldsb.on.ca

Last updated July 08, 2024

Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School is a high school in Bracebridge, Ontario. It serves approximately 730 students, grades 9 through 12, from Bracebridge and surrounding areas in Muskoka; attached to it is the Bracebridge Sportsplex and the Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre.

Location

BMLSS is located at School, Bracebridge, Ontario, in the same building as the Bracebridge Sportsplex and the Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre. The facility completed construction in August 2007; and was opened the following month..The theatre is open to all students, and is used regularly by the dramatic arts classes.

The facility was opened to replace the old high school, located in town, built in the early 1920s, as well as the old Bracebridge Culture and Recreation centre (the "Centennial Centre"), which was over 30 years old. The original high school was remodeled for residential use, while the Culture and Recreation centre was remodeled and became a Georgian College campus for Muskoka.

Special programs

BMLSS offers an Advanced Placement (AP) program, which allows students to potentially bypass a first-year credit in University; the school is one of only two in the district to offer this program. Grade 12 courses offering this include Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Functions, French, and English.

BMLSS also offers regular exchange programs to various countries around the world; the student may choose from one-month, three-month, or year-long exchanges.

The school also offers Specialist High Skills Major programs in construction, transportation and health & wellness.

Teams and clubs

BMLSS teams compete in GBSSAA and OFSSAA regularly.

Teams and groups include: fencing, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, hockey, curling, badminton, rugby, lacrosse, cross-country, track and field, nordic skiing, field hockey, swimming, and volleyball. Other clubs at BMLSS include their improv teams, chess club, Concert Band, Stage Band, Outers Club, and Reach Team, Robotics, Character Education, Lakers Leadership Council, and Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Club. All of the sporting teams both have Senior and Junior divisions separated by gender.

Lakers Leadership Council

In 2014 BMLSS retired the student parliament (SPAR) and replaced it with Lakers Leadership Council (LLC). The first year running the council was split into four divisions: social, academics, recreation, and communications. Each division had two co-chairs who ran members for their respective division. The following year they replaced that structure with one communal division and two co-chairs and one student administrator.

LLC runs many events on campus including coffee houses, school dances, Relay For Life, Summerfest, Winterfest, spirit days, and many more.

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[OMOEProfile-1] 1 2 3 4 "Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School". Secondary School Profile. Ontario Ministry of Education. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

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