Eric Hamber Secondary School is a large public secondary school located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It offers a variety of advanced classes and is notable for its many wins in the field of fashion.
Eric Hamber also has a history in television and film; one of the parking lots was extensively used in the early days of 21 Jump Street, including a memorable confrontation involving Johnny Depp. More recentely it was used as the highschool in Juno.
The school is named after Eric Hamber, former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
Eric Hamber offers a wide variety of Fine Art Courses. All students who enroll in grade 8 at Eric Hamber will take several core courses. They must all take a combination that includes two of Choir, Art, Band, and or Drama. These courses are all half-year courses, similar to semesters. The only exemption from these courses is to take an “Enriched” band program which runs all year long.
Home Economics is offered and is required. It is offered as a trimester, where new students learn cooking and sewing for a third of the year, do business education for the next third, and drafting, woodwork, and metalwork for the remaining third. This exposure to several different courses allows students to choose what kind of courses they would like to enroll in next year.
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Eric Hamber
5025 Willow St. V5Z 3S1
Tel: (604)713-8927
Fax: (604)713-8926
Web Site: http://hamber.vsb.bc.ca/
