Meadowvale Secondary School
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| Meadowvale Secondary School | |
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| Address | |
| 6700 Edenwood Drive Mississauga, Ontario, L5N 3B2, Canada |
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| http://meadowvaless.peelschools.org/ | |
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| School number | 925551 |
| School board | Peel District School Board |
| Religious affiliation | none |
| Superintendent | Roger Martin |
| Area trustee | Sue McFadden |
| Principal | Pat Noble |
| Vice Principals | Bill Clarke Wendy Lautamus Jamie Robertson |
| School type | High school |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Language | English |
| Mascot | Falcon |
| Colours | White and blue |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Enrollment | 1677 (September 30, 2005) |
Meadowvale Secondary School is a part of the Peel District School Board of in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Meadowvale Secondary School was built in 1981 on the lands of the old farm lands bought by the Peel District School Board. Meadowvale is a non semestered community school with over 60 extra curricular activities that focus on student leadership. The school is a home to a cooperative education program, which gives the students who want to join the workforce skills and experience in their field.
The school's staff are focused on preparing the students for university, college and the workplace. With a large student population, encouraging student engagement is a critical goal. Meadowvale is a multicultural school with people of various backgrounds; however the most prominent ethnic groups are Pakistanis, Indians, Palestinians, Poles, Chinese, Germans, and Jamaicans. Meadowvale is a diverse school and it appreciates and celebrates its cultural diversity every year at the remarkable presentation of the Multi-Cultural Festival.
Meadowvale is also a host school for the Applewood Secondary School, where it also hosts intellectually and physically challenged students. Two feeder schools for Meadowvale Secondary School are Edenwood Middle School and Applewood Acres School.
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[edit] Extra curricular activities
Meadowvale Secondary School is home to various activities and clubs like the MSU (Meadowvale Students Union), the Yearbook Club, The Peace Club, The Smoke Out Campaign, lead by Fatima Siddiqui, The Multicultural Club, The Biology Club, Youth Rotary Club, lead by Fatima Siddiqui, Newspaper Commitee, lead by Fatima Siddiqui and various others.
Meadowvale Secondary School offers many athletic opportunities, including rugby, cricket, basketball and wrestling.
In recent years, Meadowvale hosted a Law Symposium where people from various schools participated in mock trials.
[edit] Notable Alumni
Bob McCown (Radio personality for the FAN 590)
[edit] In the news
Between 1998 and 2000, Meadowvale Secondary School was the test site for a pilot program of the Youth News Network. Based on the American Channel One News, it saw the company Athena Educational Partners provide the school with free television sets and computers. In exchange, students would watch a daily newscast (unless they opted out), which included two and a half minutes of advertising[1]. This provoked protest from a variety of community groups, who disagreed with the idea of showing commercials in the classroom.[2] The program was discontinued.
In June of 2006, Meadowvale Secondary School was thrust into the international media spotlight when three of its former students were charged in an alleged terror plot. [3] A fourth student was charged later.
[edit] Trivia
Renamed Meadowvale High School, it was a filming location for the 1988 horror movie The Brain.
