D. W. Poppy Secondary School

Last updated
D.W. Poppy Secondary
Address
D. W. Poppy Secondary School
23752 52 Ave

, ,
Canada
Coordinates 49°05′46″N122°33′57″W / 49.09604°N 122.56595°W / 49.09604; -122.56595
Information
School type Public, high school
Motto"We don't just go to school, we go to Poppy."
Establishedc.1973
School board School District 35 Langley
School number3535034
PrincipalDiane Smillie
Staff57
Grades 8-12
Enrollment~984 (2019)
LanguageEnglish
Hours in school day6.25
Campus size5.86ha
Area0.86ha
Colour(s)Red, White, Blue
MascotRed Hawk
Team nameD. W. Poppy Redhawks
Website dwps.sd35.bc.ca
Last updated: 2023

D. W. Poppy Secondary is a public high school in the Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada, and is part of School District 35 Langley. [1] It serves much of rural Langley Township, including western portions of Aldergrove. [2]

Contents

History

The school opened in 1973 as D. W. Poppy Junior Secondary (grades 8 to 10), with the students remaining on shift at Langley Secondary for the first year. David Watkins was the first principal, holding that position for four years. The first vice principal was Wally Eggert. There were approximately 600 students enrolled with the grade 10 students feeding into Langley Secondary or Aldergrove Secondary for their senior years. In 1975 Graham Leask became vice principal, and in 1977 he became principal with Kiyo Hamade as vice principal.

In the first years of the school, the administration experimented with the quarter system, but presently the school is on the semester system of classes.

D. W. Poppy Secondary is situated on just over thirteen acres of land in a still-rural area of Langley. It is built of pre-cast concrete with aluminium windows. It is served by a drilled well (230 feet deep) and a septic tank system for sewage. It has five tennis courts, a floor hockey court, a basketball court, a rock dust jogging track, and three playing fields.

In 1980 the school added a grade 11 class, and in 1982 the first graduating class, with 115 members, finished grade 12. With the change from a junior to a senior school came a doubling in the size of the structure, with the addition of senior science laboratories and other classrooms. By 1983 the school had 930 students. [3]

D.W. Poppy was one of a trio of Langley schools built from the same, or similar plans - designed to accommodate expansion. The others were R.E. Mountain Secondary School and Brookswood Secondary. After extensive renovations at all three schools, they are hardly recognizable as having evolved from the same plan. Brookswood (currently the largest of the three) and Poppy have both completed their courtyard enclosure, while Mountain remains closest to its original form.

Notable alumni

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)</span> Municipality in British Columbia, Canada

The Township of Langley is a district municipality immediately east of the City of Surrey in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It extends south from the Fraser River to the Canada–United States border, and west of the City of Abbotsford. Langley Township is not to be confused with the City of Langley, which is adjacent to the township but politically is a separate entity. Langley is located in the eastern part of Metro Vancouver.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Langley, British Columbia (city)</span> City in British Columbia, Canada

The City of Langley, commonly referred to as Langley City, or just Langley, is a municipality in the Metro Vancouver Regional District in British Columbia, Canada. It lies directly east of Surrey, adjacent to the Cloverdale area, and is surrounded elsewhere by the Township of Langley, bordered by its neighbourhoods of Willowbrook to the north, Murrayville to the east, and Brookswood and Fern Ridge to the south.

École Secondaire South Kamloops Secondary School (SKSS), Home of the Titans, is a grade 8-12 school in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It was formed in 1904 under the name Kamloops High School, and moved to its present campus in 1952. It gained the name South Kamloops Secondary School in 2003 through the merger of John Peterson Secondary School and Kamloops Secondary School, two secondary schools located adjacently on the same block.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aitchison College</span> Semi-private school in Punjab, Pakistan

Aitchison College is an independent, semi-private boys school for boarding and day students from grade 1–13 in Lahore, Pakistan. It has a tradition of providing an education that uses academics, sports, and co-curricular activities as tools for character development. The school follows a curriculum designed to culminate in the International General Certificate of Education and AS Level/A Level qualifications and is geared towards preparing students for university education. The institute is the only Pakistani school that is a member of the G30 Schools of the World. Aitchison has educated former Prime Ministers, Imran Khan, former President Farooq Leghari, lawyers, cricketers, and politicians.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edina High School</span> Public school in Edina, Minnesota, United States

Edina High School is a four-year public high school located in Edina, Minnesota, United States, a suburb of Minneapolis. The current student population is 2,683.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Virgil's College</span> School in Austins Ferry and Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

St Virgil's College is an independent Catholic primary and secondary day school for boys, located over two campuses in Austins Ferry and Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Established in 1911 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, the College has a non-selective enrolment policy and caters for approximately 680 students, from Years 3 to 11, with 120 at the junior campus and 480 at the senior campus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brookswood, Langley</span> Neighbourhood in Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada

Brookswood is a community in the Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada, located on the west side of that municipality to the south of the Nicomekl River. It is largely a residential area with several commercial areas, a Recreation Centre with a hockey area and curling rink.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Indiana Area School District</span> School district in Pennsylvania

Indiana Area School District is a public school district in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It is composed of White Township and Armstrong Township, along with Indiana and Shelocta boroughs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brookswood Secondary School</span> Public school in Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Brookswood Secondary School is located in the community of Brookswood in Langley, British Columbia. Among other resources, the school has an automechanics workshop, two gymnasiums, a theatre, a dark room, and a television studio. The school also offers a French Immersion program as well as Spanish and German.

Aldergrove is a community in the Township of Langley within British Columbia, Canada, approximately 59 km (37 mi) east of Vancouver. The community is urban in nature and, although not incorporated as a town, is often referred to as one. Aldergrove is located at the southeastern edge of both the Township of Langley and the Greater Vancouver metropolitan area, near the western edge of the Abbotsford metropolitan area. It is home to the Lynden–Aldergrove Border Crossing, one of the Lower Mainland's five land border crossings, connecting it with Lynden, Washington.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Triton Regional High School (New Jersey)</span> High school in Camden County, New Jersey, United States

Triton Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Bellmawr, Gloucester Township and Runnemede, three communities in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as one of three secondary schools of the Black Horse Pike Regional School District. Triton serves all students from Bellmawr and Runnemede, along with those from the northern portion of Gloucester Township.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Britannia Secondary School</span> High school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Britannia Community Secondary School is a public community secondary school located in the Grandview–Woodland neighbourhood on the east-side of Vancouver, British Columbia. The school educates its students using a district-wide block schedule program that alternates four blocks every two days. Students are subject to eight different blocks in total.

School District 35 Langley is a school district in British Columbia. This includes the municipalities of Langley Township and Langley City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guildford Park Secondary School</span> High school in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Guildford Park Secondary is a grade 8 through 12 Secondary School in North Surrey, British Columbia. It is located just west of the Port Mann Bridge and Guildford Town Centre, in a suburban inner-city community close to Holly Park. Guildford Park Secondary has over 1200 students, and it is proud of its cultural and ethnical diversity. It has students from all over the world, as 51 different languages other than English are spoken by students as their first language.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aldergrove Community Secondary School</span> High school in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada

Aldergrove Community Secondary School is a public high school in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada, and is part of School District 35 Langley. It is the second oldest high school in the Langley School District, first opening its doors as Aldergrove High School in 1958.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">R. E. Mountain Secondary School</span> High school in Langley, British Columbia, Canada

R.E. Mountain Secondary is a public high school in northern Langley, British Columbia and is a part of School District 35 Langley. It originally opened in 1977 and was relocated to a new facility in 2019. As of 2014, the school no longer offers Grade 8 as Yorkson Creek Middle School took the position. As of the 2020-2021 schoolyear, the administration changed the schedule layout to a quarterly system as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">R. H. King Academy</span> Public, alternative magnet high school in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

R. H. King Academy, formerly known as Scarborough High School, Scarborough Collegiate Institute and R.H. King Collegiate Institute is a secondary school and a de facto alternative school located in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, part of the Toronto District School Board. The school was established in 1922, then became a collegiate in 1930, renamed in 1954 and again in 1989. This school was named after Reginald Harold King, a Canadian educator and classicist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Russell High School (Ontario)</span> School in Russell, Ontario, Canada

Russell High School is a secondary school in Russell located under the jurisdiction of Upper Canada District School Board. In addition to Russell, students from Embrun, Casselman and Limoges attend Russell High School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fraser Valley Adventist Academy</span> Independent k–12 school in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada

Fraser Valley Adventist Academy is an independent Christian school located in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada, that offers Kindergarten through Grade 12 education from a single campus. The school is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist school system, the second largest Christian school system in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University Wensam College</span> Public private partnership school

University Wensam College is a higher secondary school located in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Previously called Government Comprehensive High School Dera Ismail Khan, it was renamed when it was taken over by Gomal University in 1979. It produces best results in male education in Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Dera Ismail Khan.

References

  1. "D W Poppy Secondary". The Fraser Institute. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  2. "September 2013 Secondary School Catchment Areas" (PDF). School District # 35 - Langley. 22 January 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  3. "D.W. Poppy Secondary School | "We do not remember days, we remember moments." – Cesare Pavese | George Main".