stickhandling through the school day at the peak centre academy - interactive display board

Ali Spier's fifth grade classroom looks a lot like other classrooms: there is a Canadian flag hanging in a corner above the world map.
The display board shows the cover of the books designed by the students, while the signage reminds young people to compete fairly and respect each other's feelings.
But the college is not ordinary.
The table in a classroom is like air.
At the hockey table, students arrive every morning with hockey bags.
A private school whose curriculum emphasizes hockey skills, students practice and exercise from time to time during the days of the peak center College
Ice is ahead of public schools, while small classes with personalized teaching rank the school's institutions among the highest in the country.
The atmosphere is relaxed: for example, seatsin Speer's classroom is comfortable with office chairs on wheels. Students —
Less than 50 students enrolled in grades 5 to 10
Often on their laptops, snacks are eaten all day long.
Most students seem eager to arrive every morning, and many want to insist on getting university scholarships, the Ontario Hockey League, the Canadian national team, and even the NHL and the Stanley Cup.
* The school, located on the second floor of Bell schenspley, was born where its director, Ken brunette, called it a "board meeting" when he and other hockey parents stood around the ice rink, watching their children play and lamenting their physical condition --
Education programs in public schools.
"One day after school, I went to pick up my son," he recalled. "He and his friends stood there against the brick wall.
I asked them why they were not playing on the football field and they said they were not allowed.
"I think public schools are canceling sports.
Another hockey parent at the first meeting
Now the principal of the school
Paul Robert is the administrator of Ottawa.
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If anyone else is interested, he offered to help start a private school.
Brunet, who manages the Human Performance Summit Center outside Bell Sensplex, quickly agreed.
He has been thinking about similar ideas for more than two decades.
The summit Center, formerly part of the University of Ottawa, has developed test and training agreements for Canadian national sports teams.
When Canadian sports cut funds in 1993, Peak joined the private sector.
In 2005, it moved into the newly renovated Sensplex, and when other tenants there began to leave, it began snapping up vacant houses to start schools.
The school opened in 2009, including the sons of brunette and Robert, with a total of six fifth-grade students.
Each subsequent year, a grade was added, and today 47 students participated in grades 5 to 10.
This fall will add a grade 11 queue and a Grade 12 class in the second year.
Brunette said: "The only uncertainty we have is that OHL started to train children from grade 10, and if we have a class, for example, children in grade 10 are called up, we won't have Grade 11.
"Tuition during the peak period is about $16,500, comparable to other private schools in the region --
The price of Ashbury is about $22,500, Elmwood is about $18,500, and leekai Crowder is about $11,000.
Tuition fees at the nearest preparatory school after the end of the province's curriculum --
Ontario Hockey College in Cornwallis $37,500.
Instructure sat Peak is an Ontario certified teacher, and some have participated in hockey competitions at high competitive levels.
Speer, for example, is the captain of the Blues academy at the University of Toronto.
At the same time, the Peak curriculum meets the requirements of the Ontario Department of Education.
Robert pointed out that the school's concentrated teaching, coupled with the smaller class size, allows peak students to complete the course faster without assigning homework.
"That way, they can play with the hockey team at night, have dinner with their family and be children.
"We have attracted positive young athletes who are usually A or B-class students," Brunette added . ".
And it often goes well;
We tend to finish the course more quickly and then have full or tutoring.
"These students have received a lot of attention.
"While most of Peak's students want to continue to study hockey after graduation --
Boys usually get OHA or NCAA scholarships and some boys wear the Stanley Cup in their eyes and girls are more likely to get scholarships or women's national teams --
Others participate in academic programs at Peak, focusing on sports and not playing hockey outside the school.
"If you ask elementary school students, I think they all want to be NHL," Brunette said . ".
"If you ask high
The kids at school, I think they are more realistic because they have fun and stay healthy, so they realize they are in it.
Still, Brune noted that seven out of a dozen Grade 9 students during the peak of last year were selected for the Central Canadian Hockey League draft.
"Most schools are lucky if there are other schools.
Like everyone else here, Grade 10 students Anand Oberoi and Conor senken would love to play the NHL game, but their more direct goal is to play junior hockey, or get a scholarship from the NCAA Academy, which has a Level 1 hockey program.
Oberoi said that as his school life broke down due to hockey and gym workouts, he had little feeling of going to school.
Teaching at school includes an hour of hockey, a Thursday day.
"It's great to play on ice four days a week, especially after the hockey season, when you have nothing to do. It’s fun.
Senken added: "The teachers at Peak have an understanding attitude, especially regarding the schedule for out-of-class hockey.
"If one morning you were late or tired for the tournament the night before, they wouldn't beat you for it. ”During the on-
In their days, students do not play real games, but do exercises and develop skills.
"We provide a skill component," said Robert . ".
"So you can have someone who has never played hockey, the best player in the area, who can do the same training together.
Meanwhile, Brune joked that the school's hockey program helped "cheat" students to achieve higher academic achievement.
"They think they play all day, but they have four hours of teachable time here, while in typical primary schools in Ontario they have three hours and 40 minutes.
So we actually taught them 20 more minutes and they didn't really realize that.
"But there's a lot of research that proves that being healthy can make you perform better, both at work and in the classroom.
But in some parts of the world this seems to be reversed.
In Canada, for example, we're taking philes.
Because some math scores are falling.
"Let's do more math," they say, and they don't realize that children can't sit for eight hours.
How are you supposed to focus for such a long time, we're going to take Philes-
Ed, we're going to take the break between classes, we're going to take their hockey sticks, they can't play outside.
"Ninth grade students and goalkeeper Cedrick André said he used to hate school, but since he first registered four years ago, he likes to reach the peak every morning.
"It's not like a regular school that is strictly required, but you're still doing your job.
"In my previous school, you just sat down and listened, but there was more interaction and more personal.
The result of Peak proves its method.
Last spring, Canada's results test ranked the top five in the country, and the reading level of 11 9-year students in the school almost reached Grade 12, writing conventions, vocabulary, and mathematics in spelling, calculation, and estimation, as well as above level 11 mar k.
9 th grade student Madeline Snook is one of the six girls at the college and she had little love for the school before she reached her peak three years ago, but she recognized that she was getting the NCAA
She also wants to play in Canada.
It depends not only on her hockey abilities, but also on her performance in the classroom.
"There is no mess here," she said . "
"I have to do a good job on ice and ice because Hockey can't be higher if your academic level is not high.
Peak's small class, she says, makes it like having a private tutor all year round.
She added that in a regular school, she might get lost in a class with 30 other students.
Peak starts class at 15.
"It's interesting here and they make things easier to understand.
Like a family.