Thomas Haney

Last Updated: 10 May 2009

Thomas Haney Secondary opened in September, 1992 and we are currently in our seventeenth year of operation. The Secondary School is part of the Thomas Haney Centre which includes the High School, the offices of the Ridge Meadows College as well as Student Support Services of School District #42.

The school design and the instructional model anticipate the needs of future students and the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed by future citizens. A set of principles was identified and used to shape the personalized instructional model and the design of the building. The principles that shaped the redesign of curriculum delivery were that:

• all students learn at different rates and in different ways
• students will learn better if they take some responsibility for their own learning
• current learning should support students' life-long learning
• all students can learn and want to learn
• schools must be safe and orderly
• the building should support, not hinder, innovation