WHSS June Exam Schedule
This year, exams begin on Thursday June 20. Each day there is an instructional period in the morning followed by a nutrition break and then the exam. For more details and an exam schedule, click here
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Message from the Principal
Welcome to West Hill Secondary School! We are in Owen Sound on Georgian Bay located in a beautiful area just below the West Rocks, which is part of the Niagara Escarpment. The Bruce Trail runs right past our front doors. We are only thirty minutes from Sauble Beach and Blue Mountain and are at the base of the Bruce Peninsula. Owen Sound is an area known for outdoor activities such as skiing, hiking, biking, boating and sledding to name a few. We are also a cultural centre and home to the Tom Thompson Art Gallery, Grey Roots Museum and the Roxy Theatre.
West Hill is the largest secondary school in Bluewater with an enrolment around 1200 students and over 100 staff. We have a great Link Crew program in our school which has senior students welcome our new grade 9’s to the school and mentor them for their entire first year of secondary school.
Our parents are always encouraged to be a part of our school. West Hill has a very active School Community Council who is a valued part of our school community. New parents are always welcome. Meetings are held bimonthly, on the second Wednesday of the month. Contact the school to find out the date of the next meeting.
We have a wonderful diversity in our programs at West Hill. We offer French Immersion, allowing students to take 1/3 of their secondary courses in French. We have a strong technology department offering courses in construction, manufacturing, automotive, design, communications and hospitality. The Arts are alive at West Hill! Our drama students put on great plays each year. Our music department is a thriving area which is award winning. Our art department offers a wide variety of courses including photography. We offer a very popular Specialist High Skills Major in Art and Culture where our students will specialize in fashion and hairstyling and aesthetics. This year marks our first graduates from this program.
West Hill offers a wide variety of extracurricular opportunities in the form of teams and clubs. We enter a team in almost every sport that participates in the Bluewater Athletic Association. Many of our teams and athletes are very successful winning league, CWOSSA and OFSAA championships.
West is best! We say this because we have such great students in our school and a hard working and caring staff who make being at West Hill such a pleasure.
Dan Hobler
Principal
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