Meadowvale Secondary School
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| Meadowvale Secondary School | |
| Address | |
| 6700 Edenwood Drive Mississauga, Ontario, L5N 3B2, Canada |
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| Information | |
| School number | 925551 |
| School board | Peel District School Board |
| Religious affiliation | None |
| Superintendent | Paul Jones |
| Area trustee | Allison Van Wagner |
| Principal | Pat Noble |
| Vice Principals | Debbie Lang Wendy Lautamus Jamie Robertson |
| School type | High school |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Language | English |
| Mascot | Falcon |
| Colours | White and Blue |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Enrollment | 1700 (September 2007) |
| Homepage | http://meadowvaless.peelschools.org/ |
Meadowvale Secondary School is a part of the Peel District School Board in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Meadowvale Secondary School was built in 1980 on old farm lands bought by the Peel District School Board. It was opened in June of 1981. Meadowvale is one of the two non-semestered community schools with over 60 extra curricular activities that focusses 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 including Poles, Chinese, Germans, Filipino, and Jamaicans. Meadowvale is a diverse school and it appreciates and celebrates its cultural diversity every year at the Multi-Cultural Festival.
Meadowvale is also a host school for Applewood Heights Secondary School, where it also hosts intellectually and physically challenged students. Two feeder schools for Meadowvale Secondary School are Edenwood Middle School and Lisgar Middle School.
[edit] Extra curricular activities
Meadowvale Secondary School offers many athletic opportunities, including: Canadian football, rugby,basketball, volleyball, track and field, swimming, curling, badminton, tennis, and wrestling. Meadowvale recently won the junior ROPSSAA (Region of Peel Secondary Schools Athletic Association) Wrestling Championship, ROPSSAA Junior Boys Tier II Soccer, Senior Girls Tier II ROPSSAA Volleyball and ROPSSAACurling.
In recent years, Meadowvale hosted a Law Symposium where people from various schools participated in mock trials.
[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.
One current Meadowvale Secondary School student (Rene Charlebois, 15) and two former students (Robert Grewal, Joseph Manchisi) were murdered in 2004. Convicted sex offender Douglas Moore was arrested and charged for their murders but while awaiting trial in prison he allegedly took his own life to avoid persecution. [3]
In June of 2006, MSS was thrust into the international media spotlight when three of its former students were charged in an alleged terror plot.[4] A fourth student was charged later.
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