Pleasant Valley Secondary School
high school in Armstrong, British Columbia, Canada
Pleasant Valley Secondary is a public high school in Armstrong, British Columbia part of School District 83 North Okanagan-Shuswap.
PVSS unanimously voted for their school mascot to be a hawk.
The school board has been working on changing the team name “Saints and Sinners” because it has many negative undertones.
As of May 2021, the PVSS sports teams has changed their name to the Hawks.
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