The University of Toronto ( UTS ) is an independent high school affiliated with the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school follows a special academic curriculum, and acceptance is determined by competitive exams. UTS is associated with two Nobel Prize Winners.
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The University of Toronto Schools was founded in 1910 as a "practice school", also known as a school of laboratories, for the University of Toronto's Education Faculty. As originally understood and reflected in its present name, UTS is intended to be a collection of at least two schools, one of which will enroll female students. The initial plan was to recruit 200 teachers and 1200 students, but financial constraints limited the number of students to 375 boys.
The first headmaster of UTS history is H. J. "Bull" Crawford, who also teaches Classics at school. Crawford was responsible for most administrative tasks, which, until a secretary was employed in 1921, including signing a recognition slip. The School won its first Memorial Cup in 1919, as the country's best junior ice hockey team. They beat Regina Patricias in two games, with a score of 14-3 and 15-5. The school was the Eastern Canadian Champions, the same year, beating Montreal Melvilles 8-2 in a one-game playoff. Defenseman NHL future Dunc Munro plays for this team. In 1925, Mike Rodden coached the UTS Rugby team to an unbeaten season, culminating in the Canadian Interscholastic Championships.
In 1934, A.C. Lewis replaces John Althouse to become the third principal. In 1944, W. B. "Brock" MacMurray, a graduate of a school in 1924, became the fourth principal; His 28-year tenure at UTS remains the longest in school history. In 1957, the House System was established, with three of the four houses named after the first three principals - Crawford, Althouse, and Lewis. The fourth house, Cody, was named after the former president of the University of Toronto.
The 1960s was a "turbulent" decade in UTS history. Prior to the 1960s, the Ontario Ministry of Education required seniors to complete a number of matriculation tests in order to pass. Students who score the highest in their exams throughout the province will be awarded a Prince of Wales Scholarship; during the matriculation era, UTS students won thirteen Prince of Wales scholarships.
Although the matriculation exam was finally deleted in the 1960s, UTS students have been calling for change since the late 1930s in the form of speech and valedictory protests. The addresses in 1963 and 1966 targeted matriculation tendencies to reduce the "real desire for knowledge", which resulted in "minds that can not think for themselves". In 1967, a farewell speech persecuted a number of teachers and administrators who were responsible for holding UTS aloud in the past. The speech was not published in The Twig the following year, but it was still circulating among students. Dissatisfaction with the inability of the school to reform the climax in "Protest to Nothing" in May 1969. Unlike most protests, the plaque by the demonstrators was empty; When the principal of MacMurray asked their demands, a student famously showed me a blank piece of paper and stated, "This is our list of demands." The protest was front page news in Toronto newspapers and was widely reported in US media, including the New York Times.
At the turn of the decade, UTS developed a "New Program", focusing on completing subjects ("units") for graduation rather than matriculation. The government also agreed to allow students to complete their high school requirements within 4 years instead of 5, a benefit enjoyed up to a double group in 2003. The Executive Board was formed in 1968 to provide links between students and staff. Some of the Executive Council's first recommendations were implemented in 1969, including making optional Latin after the 11th grade and introducing non-numerical values ​​for the Arts and Music course. In addition to academics, certain aspects of the school's extracurricular gradually begin to be removed. In 1966, participation in Cadet Corps, which had become a bulwark of the UTS tradition, became an option; finally, the Corps is stopped. Changes were also seen in school teaching staff: in the 1960s alone, 35 new teachers were hired, compared with only 15 assaults during the 1950s.
Donald Gutteridge originally arrived in 1962 at the request of MacMurray, and has taught English 13th grade. In 1972, Gutteridge replaced MacMurray. Even though he is the school's fifth headmaster, he is the first to call himself a "headmaster". During his tenure as Prime Minister of Ontario, Bill Davis was criticized for funding UTS publicly, which Liberal education critic Tom Reed called the "elitist" institution. Under pressure from the provincial government and the University of Toronto, a decision was made to accept girls entering the school. Two proposals were submitted: the first involved expanding the school by keeping the number of boys coming in, and the second involves maintaining the class size by reducing the number of incoming boys. On January 18, 1973, the University of Toronto approved a second proposal, paving the way for co-educational UTS in the next academic year. The first two co-educational cohorts were 70 students; each cohort was divided into two classes of 35 students. Despite initial concerns about the diluted quality of athletic boys UTS, the junior women's basketball team won the city title in 1978. To help families in need of finance, UW's Endowment Fund was established in 1980; in 1989, about $ 50,000 was distributed to students in need.
In April 1993, the New Democratic government of Ontario announced the withdrawal of public funds from schools, leading to a dramatic rise in tuition fees, and encouraged the mobilization of all of its constituents to make a loss.
In 2004, UTS became an additional unit of the University of Toronto apart from the Ontario Institute for Education Studies. The school forms its own board of directors representing alumni, parents and university administration. Throughout the 2009-2010 school year, the school celebrates its hundredth anniversary with Kickoff celebrations at Varsity Stadium and Homecoming weekends to be held at the school itself. The hundredth year also saw the introduction of his new school song, written by Nathalie Siah '10, the Hundred Household spirit parade, as well as the House Cup, awarded the House that garnered the most points (athletic, literary, and spirit) over the school year.
In 2015, Anand Mahadevan, a teacher at the University of Toronto School, is a recipient of the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Possible relocation or redevelopment
The University of Toronto informed UTS in 2011 that they rejected proposals for a $ 48 million repair facility and that the university intends to reclaim property at 371 Bloor Street West for its own use. UTS has been given until 2021 to find and move to a new space. However, in 2014, it was announced by UTS board chairman that the University of Toronto and UTS negotiate to maintain affiliation between the two institutions and keep schools in the current location but to redevelop the site so that it can be suitable to meet the needs of universities and schools.
In October 2015, the University of Toronto and UTS announced a 50-year agreement that would renew the school's official affiliation with the university, enabling UTS to stay on the Bloor Street campus, redevelop 70,000 square feet of space and build 70,000 square foot additions. The redevelopment proposal will include the construction of a 700 seat auditorium that will also serve as a university classroom, double gym, atrium and black box theater. The University will retain building and land ownership but UTS will pay for construction and operational costs. This agreement must be approved by the university governing council.
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Reception
Most students enter in grade 7 through a two-stage competition process. Prior to 2014 class admissions, the first stage consisted of multiple choice exams; those who pass this test at the upper percentile (usually 200 students) are invited back for the second written exam and interview. However, starting with the 2014 class, the admissions process consists of a Junior High School Entrance Examination (SSAT), and for the top 170-90 applicants, the second exam (focusing on Mathematics and English) and interviews with many UTS staff members and alumni (using the format MMI). Ultimately, 96 candidates (48 boys and 48 girls) were selected from about 350 applicants in the first stage of the process each year; the typical cutoff for SSAT scores for grade 7 entry is in the mid to late 1900s for boys, and 1900 for girls, depending on the pool applicant for that year. For year-to-year the process is slightly different. UTS will receive about 24 students, average grade sizes, for grade 9, and few in grades 8, 10 and 11. Usually there are the same number of boys and girls who are accepted into school. On average, for the first year (F1/class 7) there are four classes of 30 students each. Candidates must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants and may apply to enter Class 7 or high school (Grades 9 and above).
Academics
UTS was attended by students from grades 7 to 12, with 78 students per class in the graduating class before 2001, 104 students per class in the graduating class before 2009, and 110 in the graduate classes thereafter.
UTS has enriched special courses and curricula, designed to challenge and educate at a higher level than in many public and many independent schools. Because potential UTS candidates are required to pass a rigorous entrance exam to attend school, the curriculum is accelerated assuming that students assimilate information more quickly. For this reason some of the higher subjects are taught at lower grade levels. For example, 10th graders can take enriched classes from the 11th Grade Ontario course in introductory, biological, and/or chemical physics and grade 7 students taking the 8th grade Ontario curriculum and the 8th grade curriculum. In addition, efforts are made to enrich the class with materials additional and more in-depth discussions.
UTS offers Advanced Placement courses, but does not have an International Baccalaureate program. In addition to the Ontario High School Diploma, graduates obtain the UTS Diploma, which marks the completion of certain specialized courses, including Latin and Romance of Antiquity (ROA), and proves levels of achievement beyond provincial standards.
The level of student achievement of UTS is commensurate with its selective acceptance policy, both in the academic field and in extracurricular activities. Almost all UTS students go to university after graduation. School alumni include 22 Rhodes Scholars and two Nobel Prize winners: chemist John Polanyi and economist Michael Spence.
The UTS class nomenclature is different from that used in the Ontario high school. This nomenclature has varied over the years, and partly because of the curriculum whose programs do not match the provincial assessment system, and part of what has been until the elimination of Class 13 in Ontario is a six-year course up to seven grade levels. Class-grade nomenclature, with a rough equivalent, consists of:
- Foundation Zero (F0): Grade 6 students who have been accepted and will begin attending UTS in the next school year.
- Foundation One (F1): Class 7. Previously known as Year of Foundation (F)
- Foundation Two (F2): Class 8. Previously known as Form II
- Middle Three (M3): Class 9. Previously known as Form III
- Middle Four (M4): Class 10. Previously known as Form IV
- Senior Five (S5): Class 11. Formerly known as Form V
- Senior Six (S6): Class 12. Formerly known as Form VI
Prior to the double cohort in 2003, F1 and F2 formed both sections of the Ontario Grade 7-9 curriculum; M3 is equivalent to Grade 10, and so on.
Extracurricular
Each student is placed in one of four Houses (Althouse Alligators, Cody Cougars, Crawford Knights, and Lewis Vikings); some competitive House events are held throughout the year. These events include House Track Meet, Lip-Sync contests, gameshow competition, intramural sports, and four-way football games. The home system is only one side of the extraordinarily rich extracurricular life at UTS, however, and activities range from the school newspaper and the yearbook - Cuspidor and Twig (along with its branches, i> Twig Tape featuring musical compositions of students and alumni) - to win teams and sports clubs, to the Science Club and Food Appreciation Team, to Card Strategy Club. The school has in recent years been a four-time winner of Reach for Upper National Trivia. UTS also won the Ontario Student Classics Conference for twenty-one years running in 2016, with the first victory coming in 1996. UTS students are actively involved in public speaking; UTS Debating Society is a large club and UTS student holding the South Ontario Model United Nations (SOMA), the largest and oldest United Nations Model United Nations conference run by high school students in North America and the second largest UN conference for Canadian high school students.
There are several other events during the school year such as Arts and Music Month, known before 2008-2009 as Art and Music Week, Halloween Fun Week and more. Art and Music Month is the month when UTS students showcase their artwork and show off their musical skills either in their music class, in small bands, solos, or in extracurricular groups. There are many shows like artwork featured in UTS gyms, band battles where students form small groups and play their preferred songs on stage in the auditorium, there is also a Holiday Breakfast where the student council (informally known as StudCow) makes breakfast for the entire school while holiday music is played by some music students. There is also a night of junior and senior music, where senior and junior music classes play music, and the Senior and Junior dramas, where both are paired by the Senior drama class, Junior Play is being followed up by the students. in the younger classes, and Senior Play is being followed up by students in older classes. The UTS Show is the largest annual school production organized by the student body. It is an amalgamation of acting, modeling, cultural dance, costume design, organizing construction and painting. All aspects of the show are 100% of students, from script writing to choreography to directing.
The building, 371 Bloor St. West was also used as a location for taking significant exterior and interior shots for Take the Lead films in 2006, but the school was only credited in DVD director comments.
Famous Alumni
- Brig. Donald Agnew, C.B.E., C.D., Commander of Canada Royal Military Academy
- Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and former Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan
- Jay Bahadur, journalist and author
- Charles Baillie, OC, adviser to Queen's University, former CEO of TD Bank
- Henry J. M. Barnett, CC, neurologist
- Rod Beattie, actor
- Ian Brodie, Chief of Staff for the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada
- Catherine Bush, novelist
- J. M. S. Careless, OC, OOnt, FRSC, historian and biographer, double winner of the Governor General Award
- Jim Chamberlin, Head of Avro Arrow Designer
- Sujit Choudhry, professor of law and dean of UC Berkeley School of Law
- Paul Davis, sailor and bronze medalist (racing for Norway) at the 2000 Sydney Games
- John Duffy, political strategist
- John Evans, CC, Rhodes Scholar, medical leader and former president of the University of Toronto
- Mark Evans, oarsman and gold medalist paired up the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles
- James Fleck, CC, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- David Frum, journalist and author
- Peter George, CM, president of McMaster University
- Chris Giannou, CM, war surgeon, former International Committee Red Cross Surgery Surgeon, and author
- Donald B. Gillies, computer scientist
- Peter Godsoe, OC, former Chairman of Nova Scotia Bank
- Ian Goldberg, computer scientist and cryptographer
- Laurie Graham, Olympic skiing athlete down, Alpine Champion
- Doug Hamilton, rower and bronze medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
- Lawrence Hill, author and essayist
- Greg Hollingshead, CM, novelist and winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction
- It's Jackman, OC, OOnt, entrepreneur and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- Paul Koring, award-winning journalist, The Globe and Mail
- Dennis Lee, OC, poet
- Pericles Lewis, professor of literature and former president of Yale-NUS College
- John Macfarlane, magazine editor
- Thomas MacMillan, chairman of Gluskin Sheff and President and CEO of CIBC Mellon
- Jack McClelland, CC, publisher
- Claire Messud, novelist
- Lydia Millet, author
- Dunc Munro, hockey player, Stanley Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist
- Fraser Mustard, CC, OOnt, FRSC, medical pioneer and founder of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- John C. Polanyi, PC, CC, Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry, 1986
- John Josiah Robinette, CC, OOnt, prominent litigator and constitutional lawyer, University Chancellor Tren
- Robert Gordon Rogers, OC, OBC, Lieutenant Governor 24 British Columbia and Victorian University Chancellor
- Robert Seaborn, MC, Archbishop of Newfoundland and Metropolitan Canada
- Jeffrey Simpson, OC, reporter
- James Sommerville, horn player and conductor
- A. Michael Spence, Nobel Prize Winner for Economy, 2001
- C. P. Stacey, OC, OBE, FRSC, historian
- Harry Stinson, a real estate developer
- Wayne Sumner, professor of philosophy and member of the Royal Society of Canada
- Thomas Symons, CC, OOnt, FRSC, founder of Trent University president
- John Tory, OOnt, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and the 65th mayor of Toronto
- John A. Tory, former financial advisor to Ken Thomson
- Paul Tough, editor of the New York Times Magazine
- Garth Turner, Conservative, then independent, then the Liberal MP
- Graham Yost, Speed ​​Screenwriter, Broken Arrow, Hard Rain, and Emmy Winner twice
- Simu Liu, an actor at CBC Television sitcom, Kim's Convenience
References
Further reading
- Batten, Jack. Toronto University School 1910-2010.
- Chapnick, Adam, ed. Through Our Eyes: A History of UTS Alumni, 1960-2000. Toronto: University Alumni Association of Toronto, 2005 (pdf).
- Lane, Byron. Toronto University School: Academic History of the Provincial-Wide Matriculation Testing Era in Ontario. Toronto: Byron Lane, 2005.
- Wong, Jan. The Chinese are being UTS-ified. Globe and Mail, November 27, 2004.
In popular culture
The school was used in the 2006 film Take the Lead.
External links
- Toronto University School
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