Medway High School (Arva, Ontario)

High school in Arva, Ontario, Canada

Medway High School

Address

14405 Medway Road

Arva

Ontario

N0M 1C0

Canada

Information
School type| Public, High school
Founded| 1949
School board| Thames Valley District School Board
Superintendent| Paul Sydor
Principal| Greg Howard
Grades| 9–12
Enrollment| 1600[1] (Oct. 2023)
Language| English
Colour(s)| Scarlet & White
Team name| Cowboys
Website| medway.tvdsb.ca/en/index.aspx

Medway High School is a high school in Arva in Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, approximately one kilometre north of London, Ontario, Canada city limits.

## History

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Medway was built in 1949. Its original name was East Middlesex High School, but it was known locally as the Arva School. The name was changed to Medway to reflect the Medway Creek which winds through the area.

Medway was part of the Middlesex County Board of Education. Today it is part of the Thames Valley District School Board, which is Ontario's third largest board.

## Music Program

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The Medway Choir won the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation choral competition for the best youth choir in Canada in 1980.

In 1996, Ken Fleet conducted London Pro Musica, the Medway Senior Concert Choir, and the Medway Girls Choir in recording seventy-two songs for Nancy Telfer’s Choral Audio Library. The five CDs have been played on national radio in Italy, Israel, Australia, and Argentina and used extensively at major national and international music conferences.

## Chess Team

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In the 2009–2010 school year, Medway High School's chess team became the first to win all five local tournaments held in Thames Valley District School Board. In the nearly 20-year history of these tournaments, this feat has never before been accomplished. The same chess team was the first to win every game played (20-0-0) in a single tournament.[citation needed]

## Sports

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* Archery
* Badminton
* Boys Hockey
* Boys Rugby
* Boys Soccer
* Chess
* Cross Country
* Curling
* Field Hockey
* Girls Hockey
* Girls Rugby
* Girls Soccer
* Golf
* Junior Boys Basketball
* Junior Boys Volleyball
* Junior Football
* Junior Girls Basketball
* Junior Girls Volleyball
* Special Olympics
* Senior Boys Basketball
* Senior Boys Volleyball
* Senior Football
* Senior Girls Basketball
* Senior Girls Volleyball
* Swimming
* Track and Field
* Varsity Baseball
* Wrestling

## Notable alumni

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This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (June 2016)

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* Greg Brady \- radio/TV broadcaster, host on CJCL , CFIQ, and BBC Radio
* Jonny Gray – actor[2]
* Garth Hudson – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee for the Canadian-American rock group The Band[3]
* Scott Moir – figure skater, three-time World champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist in ice dancing[4]
* Matt Read – NHL hockey player, Philadelphia Flyers[5][circular reference]
* Jacob Ruby – CFL football player, Edmonton Eskimos[6]
* Mike Tompkins – YouTube personality[7]
* Kimberly Tuck – curler[8]

## See also

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* Education in Ontario
* List of secondary schools in Ontario

## References

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1. ^ "TVDSB Secondary Enrollment by Grade (2018–19)" (PDF).
2. ^ "Talented to the Max". The London Free Press.
3. ^ "Legendary keyboardists entering hall". The London Free Press.
4. ^ Virtue, Tessa; Moir, Scott (20 December 2011). Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold. House of Anansi. p. 60 - via Internet Archive. "Scott Moir medway arva."
5. ^ Matt Read
6. ^ ""Jacob Ruby Bio."". RichmondSpiders.com.
7. ^ "Being in the right place". The London Free Press.
8. ^ Robinson, Jacob (2014-01-24). "Tuck takes her turn at the "Scotties"". Strathroy Age Dispatch. Retrieved 2022-08-24.

## External links

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* Medway High School

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Secondary schools in the Thames Valley District School Board

* A.B. Lucas
* Arthur Voaden
* B. Davison
* Central Elgin
* Clarke Road
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* East Elgin
* Glencoe District
* Glendale
* H. B. Beal
* Huron Park
* Ingersoll District
* London Central
* London South
* Lord Dorchester
* Medway
* Montcalm
* N. Middlesex District
* Oakridge
* Parkside
* Saunders
* Sir Frederick Banting
* Sir Wilfrid Laurier
* Strathroy District
* West Elgin
* Westminster
* Woodstock

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