Brookfield High School

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Brookfield High School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in the Riverside Park neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was officially opened in 1962.Like most of the Ottawa schools, it is composite and semestered. It specializes in a French immersion program, and is one of the few schools in Ottawa to offer instruction in Arabic. It also offers English as a Second Language (ESL) classes and German and Spanish as third languages. Brookfield is known for their athletics. They are usually strong in men's Soccer, Hockey, and Wrestling, also men's Rugby.Brookfield High School was recognized by the George Lucas Foundation in 2008 for their outstanding achievements in the integration of technology across the curriculum.Music programThe Music program of Brookfield High School has various groups such as: Junior/Senior Concert Band, Jazz Band, the World Voices Choir, and Guitar class. The program recently got the prestigious MusiCounts Grant of $10,000 to upgrade their musical instruments. Brookfield High School is the only school in Ottawa to get this grant.The program has created outstanding music and has achieved honourable accomplishments by working hard at rehearsals either early morning at 7:30 a.m. or after school until 4:30 p.m. and even beyond the instruction of Greg Prest. With this, the Senior Concert Band has achieved a Gold status at Regional Music Fest for three years in a row, with a Silver status at Nationals. The Junior Concert Band achieved silver status twice and gold status once at Regional Music Fest. In the 2011 music festival, the senior band achieved gold once again. In 2012 the Senior Band received gold at the Kiwanis Music Festival and Silver at Nationals.