Glenlyon Norfolk School

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Glenlyon Norfolk School
GNS crest.jpg
Address
Glenlyon Norfolk School
781 Richmond Avenue

Victoria
,
British Columbia
,
V8S 3Z2

Canada
Coordinates 48°25′13″N123°19′48″W / 48.4202°N 123.3300°W / 48.4202; -123.3300
Information
School type Independent, Co-ed, Day
Motto"Veritate Valore Optime Agis"
(Do your best through truth and courage)
Founded1932 (Glenlyon School)
1913 (Norfolk House)
1986 (amalgamation)
Head of SchoolChad Holtum
Grades JK-12
Enrollment800
LanguageEnglish
AreaJunior Campus: Oak Bay, Middle & Senior Campus: Pemberton
Colour(s)Blue and green   
MascotGryphon
Team nameGryphons
Website www.mygns.ca

Glenlyon Norfolk School (GNS) is an independent, co-ed, university preparatory day school in Victoria and Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada. It was formed in 1986 with the amalgamation of Glenlyon School and Norfolk House. The school offers instruction from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12. The school offers the International Baccalaureate at all three levels: the Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme and, at the high school level, offers the IB Diploma Programme. [1] Of the 2,124 schools that participate in the IB programme in North America and the Caribbean, Glenlyon Norfolk School is one of only 25 schools to offer the programme at all three levels. [2]

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GNS is a member of the International Baccalaureate Organization, Round Square, the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS), Independent Schools Association of British Columbia (ISABC), and National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).

As of 2023, the head of school is Chad Holtum. [3]

GNS was ranked by the Fraser Institute in 2017/2018 as No. 9 out of 251 British Columbia Secondary Schools. [4]

History

In 1913, a pair of British women, Miss Atkins and Miss McDermott, founded Norfolk House School, an all-girls school on what is now the Pemberton Woods Campus. Glenlyon Preparatory School for boys was established on the Beach Campus location by Major Ian Simpson in 1933. The schools joined together in 1986 but maintain separate campuses. Crystal Shea is the principal in the junior school,[ citation needed ] Russell Marston the middle school,[ citation needed ] and Carolyn Green the senior School,[ citation needed ] while the entire school is administered by the head of school, Chad Holtum. [3]

In 1996, the school was accepted as an International Baccalaureate World School and began offering the IB Diploma to students in Grades 11 and 12. This was followed by authorization to offer the IB Middle Years Programme in 2004 and the IB Primary Years Programme in 2007, making GNS one of a few schools in Canada to offer the full IB continuum.[ citation needed ]

In June 2007, the board of directors approved a plan for comprehensive campus transformation. In 2009, an artificial turf field was installed. In 2013 Denford Hall, seating over 350, was completed. The WONDER Campaign was launched in 2018 to refurbish the school's two campuses, at Beach Drive and Pemberton Woods, which was supported by a $5 million donation by Gordon Denford. [5]

On Friday, May 24, 2019, the school celebrated the official opening of the school's new junior kindergarten and kindergarten facilities and the re-dedication of the boathouse, one of the buildings originally designed by Francis Rattenbury. [6]

Brother schools

Setagaya Gakuen School  [ ja ] - Tokyo, Japan [7]

Heads of school

Notable Graduates

Chris Wylie, Canadian data consultant and whistleblower associated with the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. He claims to have dropped out at age 16 spending grades 9–11 at GNS. [10] [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Glenlyon Norfolk School, International Baccalaureate,Ωaccessed May 14, 2007.
  2. ↑ IB World School statistics: Number of schools by programme combination and region Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine , International Baccalaureate, accessed May 19, 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Glenlyon Norfolk School to use Oak Bay Guest House for student housing". March 12, 2021. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Home". compareschoolrankings.org.
  5. 1 2 Jeff Bell, Victoria developer gives $5M to Glenlyon Norfolk School at timescolonist.com, dated December 5, 2018, accessed May 10, 2019
  6. ↑ Travis Paterson, Rattenbury residence to be restored next as Glenlyon Norfolk School opens new buildings at oakbaynews.com, dated May 29, 2019, accessed July 29, 2019
  7. ↑ "Setagaya Gakuen Hosting by Glenlyon Norfolk School, Victoria". www.mygns.ca. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  8. ↑ Frank Keane, ed., Independent schools of British Columbia (1989), p. 82; Helmut Opitz, ed., World Guide to Scientific Associations and Learned Societies, Vol. 8 (KG Saur, 2002), p. 46
  9. ↑ Derek Bingham, The ECIS International Schools Directory 2009/10 (2009), p. 470
  10. ↑ "Who is Christopher Wylie? How a B.C. high school dropout set out on path to political data harvesting". CBC News . March 20, 2018. Archived from the original on November 17, 2022.
  11. ↑ "How a Victoria kid ended up at heart of Facebook data-mining story". March 20, 2018.
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