Delview Secondary School

Delview Secondary is a public high school in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. It is managed by the School District 37 Delta. The school mascot is a Raider, reflecting the Scandinavian roots in the school's area, when Norse settlers came to the Annieville area. Delview's school colours are black, white and red. The school currently educates just under 700 students under principal John Pavao.^[1]

The school was established in 1969, with the first Principal Ernie Marshall combining the names "Delta" and "Riverview" to make Delview. That September, the school opened, sharing premises at North Delta Secondary School. In February 1970, the school moved to its permanent site at 116th Street with a budget of $130,000.

Seismic upgrading of the school was approved in April 2006 and was completed by fall 2007.^[2]

Classes for students in grades 11 and 12 were added in 2006–07 and the school now supports a full 8–12 curriculum, no longer requiring students to switch over to North Delta Secondary School after 10th grade.^[3]

Delview offers a wide range of academic classes to its students. The programs listed below are only for academic courses available during the school day.

Delview's elective courses depend on the interest in the course, with a wide range of choices as well. Grade 8's do not get to choose their own electives for their first year at Delview, but instead go through a full rotation of all of the electives offered at Delview for three weeks each.

Electives are organized into Fine Arts and Applied Skills (ADST) for Grade 8s, until students can choose their own electives in Grade 9.

Delview operated on a two-semester timetable, consisting of 8 courses total over both semesters, with 4 courses a day, labelled as blocks A, B, C and D.

Innovation 10 is a special course offered only at Delview, co-taught by teachers Mr. Kung and Mr. Turpin. It is a cross-curricular course covering Science 10, Social Studies 10, and English 10 along with an Independent Directed Study (IDS) elective all together. Students are part of a cohort of students meeting every day for two consecutive blocks during the semester (students completing the course will earn credit for 4 courses in 2 blocks which adds up to 2 extra blocks in their schedules).

The majority of activities combines aspects of the three academic areas. Students learn about topics varying from cosmology and Canadian Confederation, to the writing of character origin stories and creation myths, all learned by doing hands-on projects and using critical thinking.

Students have produced many memorable projects from this course, such as publishing books, doing interviews, and having heated debates. Students have created podcasts covering eating disorders, air pollution, racism, ocean waste and homelessness, as well as written published books such as The March of Humanity,^[4] The World (Almost) Sucks,^[5] and More Than the Sum of Our Parts: A Student Understanding of Mental Health.^[6]

Delview Secondary offers a number of athletic programs, but all of the programs depend on student enrollment, which means programs change depending on interest.

For the 2025–26 fall season (Sept–Nov), Delview offers boys junior and senior soccer, as well as grade 8, junior, and senior boys and girls volleyball teams.

For the 2025–26 winter season (Nov–Apr), Delview offers grade 8, junior, and senior boys and girls basketball teams as well as a co-ed wrestling program.

For the 2025–26 spring season (Apr-May), Delview offers grade 8/junior and senior badminton teams, girls junior and senior soccer teams, a track and field team (co-ed), an ultimate co-ed team, and a ball hockey co-ed team.

The athletics director for 2025–2026 is Mr. Kent Laubman.^[7]

Delview has many clubs in its community of around 700 students, which vary depending on leadership and interest.

Some existing clubs at Delview as of 2023 are:

• The Delview Leos Club,^[8] a youth branch of the Lions Club International, committing to helping the community through service and leadership, youth branch of Surrey Central Lions Club. Events from the club have included tree planting, spaghetti dinners, community picnics, and park cleanups.
• Delview's Robotics Club, learning about how to create and code technology to be able to create robotics that can complete tasks and obstacles, and competing with other schools.
• Book Club, consisting of members eager to read books and share their thoughts together as well as enjoy reading new books that interests all.
• DYAC (Delta Youth Advisory Council), a program in all 7 Delta high schools after school playing an important role in communicating student's thoughts to the Delta Board of Education and creating a community for students.
• Grad Committee (grade 12s only), a club that focuses on creating grad events and on creating a positive environment for their graduating class.
• Morning Announcements Committee, a growing community of voices regularly displayed on the morning announcements to let the school know about upcoming events in the school.
• Rainbow Club, a club committed to spreading LGBTQ+ awareness in Delview, and a safe meeting place for those identifying students.
• Anti-Racism Committee, a club for spreading cultural awareness and breaking down stereotypes of race in a school setting.

In Grades 11 and 12, Delview students are able to join Leadership, an in-block course focused on contributing to the school and building leadership skills that are useful in everyday life. Currently run by Kent Laubman and Nadia Schalk, the Leadership program is active in helping new students coming to the school, running events to raise school spirit and have fun opportunities for Delview students to take part in, and arranging important events for Delview such as assemblies and fundraisers.

Theatre Company consists of a collection of X-block courses where students get to learn about the world of theatre, currently led by Drama Teacher Mark Turpin. There are 3 types of theatre courses offered at Delview as listed below:

• Theatre Company 9-12 offers students the whole performing package, with a variation of musical theatre and plays. Delview has performed musicals and plays such as The Addams Family, The Last Lifeboat, Urinetown, Delvusical, TDM Mixtape, D.O.A., and The Drowsy Chaperone.

• Theatre Production & Design 10-11 offers students a separate look into the makings of a production, eventually getting to help set up and organise the production set as well as do many creative projects in the program.
• Theatre Scriptwriting and Directing 11-12 offers students a chance to write and direct short plays and learn the techniques to making masterpieces on stage, eventually presenting a self-written play at the end.
• *Theatre Company "Club" (Grade 8) offers students the same benefits as Theatre Company 9–12, but does not give course credits- instead students can get volunteer hours while still acting in the play.

Yearbook is an X-Block course offered to students to give them a chance to learn visual and graphic design through photography, photoshop, and writing, coming together to form the yearbook, a book composed and sold to Delview students consisting of photos from the year.

Thanks 4 Giving is an annual event hosted in October at Delview Secondary where students, parents, and staff come together to collect non-perishable food items, recyclables and cash donations from across North Delta for the Surrey Food Bank and Deltassist. Class competitions also take place in school to raise cans and funds to support the cause before the main night.

On the night of T4G, teams of students collect donations door-to-door and bring them back to the school where they will be counted, sorted and boxed for pick up the following morning.^[9]

Started by teachers Ron McNeill, Barb Woodford and Sandy Ferguson in 1992 under the name "Ten-in-One" (10,000 items collected in one night), it has grown as a volunteer event that influences people from across North Delta to contribute and help out local food banks.^[10]

For the 31st year of Thanks 4 Giving on October 11, 2023, Delview's T4G committee raised 26,552 cans after the final count, setting a new record for the school.^[11][12]

Since 1992, T4G has collected over 480,000 non-perishable foods and is the largest one-day food drive in all of Canada.^[13]

Live @ Lunch is a music event occurring around once a month where students perform music during lunch for the school. All Delview students can sign up to perform and come watch.^[14]

Once per semester, Delview hosts its Fine Arts Night, a collection of performing arts, musical arts and visual arts all in one night. Delview's Media Arts and Photography portion, taught by Mr. Choy, as well as Delview's Art and Sculpture portions are displayed for viewing, taught by Mrs. Johnston. On stage during the night there are a variety of dance performances, taught by Ms. Hanson and musical performances opened to any Delview students. At the end of the year, the money raised from the event goes towards a Grad Arts Scholarship.

Delview's Leadership team often hosts Spirit Weeks throughout the year, encouraging everyone to dress up in different costumes to show off Delview spirit, such as "Twin Day", "Inside-Out Day", or "Anything But A Backpack Day". Other clubs such as Anti-Racism Club also encourage people to wear cultural clothing on specific celebratory holidays.

• Chris Crippin - drummer for Hedley
• Tiana Gordon - Production Designer for Riceboy Sleeps, Cold Copy, etc.^[15]
• Jenaya Robertson - 5-year TWU Women's Soccer Captain and recipient of the Chantal Navert Memorial Award for best Women's soccer player.^[16]
• Agape Mngomezulu - Professional actor, known most for Ginny & Georgia, The Parker Andersons/Amelia Parker, and Morningside.^[17]
• Edward Nicol-McCabe - Professional eSports player, NHL Gaming World Championship, 2022 ^[18][19]

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