Academics

King’s provides young people with a well-rounded education which emphasizes excellence in languages, maths and sciences.

In equipping the students for university college or the workforce, we provide a technology-rich environment where computers are essential learning tools. Complementing the core subjects are a range of fine arts courses and an extensivre extra-curricular program to encourage participation in athletic endeavours, music, dramatic arts and other areas of interest.

Archeology Challenge - Ancient History

Below find the unique challenge that faces Mr. Ford's Grade 11 Ancient History class - and enjoy the pictures of the second day of school, where Devon Elliott, archaeologist from the Ontario Archaeological Association presented a workshop to the class. He brought various artefacts for students to handle and decipher. Mmm...suddenly Ancient History sounds sort of cool.

Real Life Archeology - Are You Up to the Challenge?

Your family usually goes up north, away from the city, to enjoy Canadian wilderness at its best. Your cottage is in a particularly wild spot and of course is very beautiful.  Its charm lies in the fact that it lies a full day’s travel away from the nearest city.  There have been some really bad storms recently and you wonder whether they have damaged your cottage. Worse still, there is further bad weather on the way and thunderstorms are expected.

When you arrive, you find that there are some trees that have blown over and a gully has been eroded near your driveway.  You inspect the damage and start to worry because you notice that there are strange stained round marks in the sand and some sharp jagged ‘stones’ sticking up.  Where the tree has fallen over, the roots have pulled up some unusual rocks, charcoal and some lumps of green coated stuff on the side of a mound – your favourite spot overlooking the lake.  You suspect that the light debris that has floated downhill and collected there may be important.  Unsuspecting, you may have ended up with an archaeological responsibility!

Your family decides to clear up the area so that they can have a good holiday and asks everyone to come together to allocate the different chores fairly.  Given the fact that you have just completed Mr. Ford’s History course, what do you tell you family?   You give the matter some thought and make careful notes in point form to support your point of view.  You also suggest a responsible plan of action – you will have to convince your family to be responsible.  This is such a complicated issue that you find you have drawn up 1 ½ pages of notes on the subject!