Sacred Heart School of Montreal

• Established: 1861
• Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Students age: 12-18 years old
• Number of students: 226 people
• Language of instruction: English, French
• Type of education: private boarding school for girls.

Since 1861, the Sacred Heart School has been the city's only English Catholic Montreal high school for girls, producing successful and confident girls. The school strives to develop intelligence, wisdom, compassion, and a sense of justice in young women. School of the Sacred Heart of Montreal is part of a worldwide network of schools that share common goals, mission and values. The educational institution offers a 12th grade program.

The School of the Sacred Heart in Montreal builds on the principles underlying the Society of the Sacred Heart, founded by Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800. These include teaching girls to participate in public life outside the home or church. Barat sought to encourage girls to play a transformative role in society, which was a unique perspective for the time. Sacred Heart continues to pursue this ideal, realizing it in modern curriculum, extracurricular, online programs and solving the challenges of the 21st century.

Sacred Heart offers daytime accommodation and accommodation. Most of the boarders are accommodated in separate rooms: a shared toilet, shower room, round-the-clock supervision, a food program. Sacred Heart has a long history (since 1990) creating a warm, loving, caring atmosphere for its students. The offer is also valid for the foreign student contingent - boarding houses for them are located in the west wing:

• The Sacred Heart Residence offers newly refurbished modern single and double rooms on the fourth floor in the west wing of the current school building in the heart of the city.
• Rooms are equipped with single beds with under-bed storage, built-in wardrobe or wardrobe, elongated modern workstation including desk, lamps, ergonomic desk chair, multi-charger socket, bureau.
• The residence is under constant supervision by a local team to ensure the safety of all Sacred Heart students.
• The lower floor has a laundry room, a common room with a large screen TV, comfortable sofas, a large solarium, direct access to classrooms on the fourth floor, a fully equipped kitchen.
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner are offered.
• A clean, safe and smoke-free environment.

The all-inclusive international Sacred Heart program offers ESL and FSL classes, supervised learning after school, weekend social events (artistic and cultural), visits to Montreal's vibrant spots, travel to local events, sports and more.

• The Rich Arts program - concert groups for junior and senior schoolchildren, Show Choir is part of an extensive art education program, which includes the study of theater, visual arts in an art studio, filmmaking, multimedia lessons on the basis of a modern film and multimedia studio.
• Personal Development (PD) is a course built into the student's curriculum and focuses on the current issues facing adolescents: Internet safety, transition to high school, CEGEP, grade 12, sleep, stress, responsible decision making, healthy eating, sexual education.
• Sacred Heart conducts extracurricular athletics activities that promote leadership development, team building, good citizenship, and high academic standards. Extracurricular athletics requires a high level of commitment, skill, self-motivation, and helps prepare students for the challenges they face outside the school community.
• Robotics - Sacred Heart Robotics teams regularly compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition alongside the Loyola Northern Knights robotics team. This venture requires the integration of skills in science, engineering, mathematics, art, language, computer technology.
• SophieConnect Optional Online Courses - School students have access to a wide range of optional online courses offered through the Sacred Heart Network, SophieConnect. Courses are taught by teachers of the Sacred Heart Network and range from AP courses to classes in marine biology, human geography.
• Intensive French program (optional)
• Accelerated math program (optional).

Sacred Heart's student life is full of exciting experiences and rituals:

• Big and Little Sister program to ease the transition to high school.
• A house system that shapes the school spirit. Eight houses are named after the founders of the religious order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Barat, Digby, Duchenne, du Rouzier, Hardey, Sheldon, Stewart and Trincano).
• Annual Community Works Program, an annual all-school Community Works Day.
• Participate in competitive sports teams including hockey, soccer, basketball, golf, athletics, cross country running, volleyball, flag soccer, badminton, cross-country skiing, Halo, tennis and swimming.
• Participation in clubs: Green Team, Art, Model UN, World Scholars Cup, Photography, Cooking, Battle of Books, Free the Children, Loom Knitting, Show Choir, Concert) Choir, Concert Band, Midi-Jasette (French conversation), Pulse (School newspaper), Typing, Comic Book, Math Team, robotics.

• Sacred Heart School for girls with small classes and a location in the heart of Montreal is ideal to experience all this compact cosmopolitan city has to offer.
• 100% of graduates enter higher educational institutions well prepared for solving educational and personal problems.
• The Advanced Placement (AP) program allows applicants to earn college and university educational credits, study English as a second language, and take additional French lessons.
• Sacred Heart School is part of the worldwide network of Sacred Heart schools, which includes 148 institutions in 30 countries.

The school has a historic campus in the center of Montreal, comfortable renovated dormitories, sports facilities:

• Football field
• Gym
• Hockey arena
• Pool.

Prices include tuition fees, student supplies, additional materials, student services, technology fees, communications, administration fee, meal plan, extracurricular activities, textbooks.

• Non-refundable registration fee - 250CAD $.

Prospective students send an online application and a list of documents to the school:

• A copy of the birth certificate (which contains the names of the parents) with a certified translation into English.
• A copy of the passport (both student and parents - must be signed)
• Copy of the final report card for the last two completed school years
• Copy of the latest report card
• Letter of recommendation
• Passport size photo
• TOEFL / IELTS (for grades 9 and 10).

For admission to grade 12, a certificate confirming knowledge of English is not needed.

SHS has established a Scholarship Fund to financially support successful students.

The scholarship program was made possible by the generosity of the Fellowship of the Sacred Heart and fundraising initiatives. In 2019, 20% of Sacred Heart students received scholarships: financial assistance in the amount of $ 379,000 was provided to 49 families, the average scholarship was $ 7,750.

The Duke of Edinburgh International Prize allows young people to define what they are passionate about. Awards recognize achievement in 4 areas: service, skill development, physical recreation, adventure travel. The award encourages young people to take part in volunteer work, to benefit others, and to develop responsiveness and compassion.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision