D. Roy Kennedy Public School
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| D. Roy Kennedy Public School | |
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| Address | |
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919 Woodroffe Avenue , , K2A 3G9 | |
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| Founded | March 1966 (built 1954) |
| School board | Ottawa-Duggah District School Board |
| Superintendent | Peter Gamwell Source |
| Area trustee | Douglas Michael Lloyd Source |
| Administrator | Celeste Tratch |
| Principal | Randy Little |
| Grades | JK-8 |
| Language | English & French |
| Website | D. Roy Kennedy Public School |
D. Roy Kennedy is a public elementary and middle school in the Bay Ward of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, offering classes from kindergarten to grade 8. It is located at the corner of Woodroffe Avenue and Lenester Avenue in Ottawa's Glabar Park neighbourhood.
History
The school was built in 1954. The school is named after D. Roy Kennedy, who would in later years become a prominent Kiwanian and Ottawa educator.
The CBC reported in January 2010, that two students at Ottawa's D. Roy Kennedy Public School had started a petition to be allowed to play with balls on the playground in winter time. Balls had been banned from D. Roy Kennedy in the winter months due to safety concerns. January 25, 2010 [1]
On Thursday morning, September 26, 2013 D. Roy Kennedy Public School was evacuated after a man with a replica firearm entered the school and pulled the fire alarm. [2]
Programs
The school is notable for its music program, and its emphasis on French immersion. It has a notable emphasis as well on academics, having produced the "best speller in Canada", the youngest life master in Bridge, and many other academic programmes. In April 2014, Grade 8 student Emma Brownlie was the winner of the Canwest CanSpell National Spelling Bee. She made it to the fourth round on to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. [3]
D. Roy Kennedy School feeds Woodroffe High School.
Prominent Teachers
- Paul Dewar, a Canadian Member of Parliament with the New Democratic Party, teacher and former elected representative of the Ottawa Carleton Elementary School Teachers' Federation, taught at D. Roy Kennedy prior to entering politics. [4]