Mentor College
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| Mentor College | |
| Address | |
| 40 Forest Avenue Mississauga, Ontario, L5G 1L1, Canada |
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| Information | |
| Principal | Lori Girard |
| Grades | JK - Grade 12 |
| Area | Port Credit, Mississauga |
| Motto | Leading by example. Inspiring excellence. |
| Mascot | Marty The Marauder |
| Team name | Marauders |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Enrollment | 1500 |
| Homepage | http://www.mentorcollege.edu |
Mentor College is a private school located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the former town of Port Credit, near the intersection of Hurontario Street and Lakeshore Road.
Mentor College was founded in 1982 by Art Steinberg and Ken Philbrook, as a partner institution to TEAM School, founded in 1980.
Mentor provides education from junior kindergarten to grade 12. There are two campuses for Mentor College: the Primary Campus at 56 Cayuga Avenue and the Main Campus at 40 Forest Avenue. The school also provides a Marine Biology Centre in the Turks and Caicos Islands and an outdoor education centre (OEC) in the Muskokas.
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[edit] Academics
Emphasis is placed on the basics of reading, writing, and mathematics, and on preparing students for an active, rewarding life. The school aims at building and maintaining a unique environment where children can experience the joys of learning and develop self-confidence and self-esteem.
The school educates children from Junior Kindergarten through to a university entrance level. Children at Mentor College are grouped by age and experience in three levels of study: primary, junior-intermediate and high school. These groupings follow the curriculum set out by the Ministry of Education (Ontario) for all schools in the province.
The teaching staff are experienced educators who have been chosen for their knowledge, classroom experience, and innate teaching skills. Mentor College seeks those who have a teaching degree, subject specialty and a warm and sensitive attitude towards children. This combination of caring and teaching ability helps students reach their full potential and find personal satisfaction in achievement.
The curriculum challenges, stimulates, and motivates children to achieve academic excellence from Junior Kindergarten to University entrance level.
Classes are kept small to ensure that every student has ample opportunity to participate in class discussion. Teachers are able to monitor each student's progress every day. When students have demonstrated proficiency with the assigned work, they are presented with more stimulating advanced studies and are encouraged to express their ideas. When a child encounters difficulties, the teacher is quickly alerted and can take the necessary steps to rectify the situation.
Smaller classes permit greater interaction between students and teachers and enhance the student's desire to participate in all activities.
The close, attentive relationship strengthens the child's ability to listen carefully, think clearly, speak thoughtfully, be a discerning reader, and ask questions.
[edit] Athletics
In the Primary and Intermediate Divisions, Mentor plays in the Private Schools' Athletic Association (PSAA) league versus other private schools in the Mississauga-Oakville-Toronto area, and also hosts several invitational tournaments each year. Each of the sports serves to help our students get a solid background for their high school sports career.
At the high school level, Mentor College is a full member of the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA), and competes in the local playdowns to qualify for the provincial championships in basketball, volleyball, soccer and rugby. These teams have qualified for OFSAA on 14 occasions: boys' basketball (1994, 2003), girls' basketball (1996), boys' rugby (1996, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007), girls' volleyball (2006), girls' rugby (2006, 2007) and boys' volleyball (2001, 2002, 2003). Individuals have qualified on 30 occasions, including alpine skiing (1993, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002), badminton (2005, 2007), cross-country running (2002, 2006, 2007), swimming (2001 to 2008), tennis (2003 to 2007 inclusive) track and field (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007), wrestling (2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008), and Nordic skiing (2008).
Within its region, Mentor competes in the Region of Peel Secondary Schools Athletic Association (ROPSSAA) in league play. Mentor competes in archery, basketball, volleyball, cross-country, golf, tennis, badminton, soccer, alpine skiing, rugby, table tennis, swimming, Nordic skiing, wrestling and track and field at the ROPSSAA level. Our most successful team ever was our 2007 girls' swimming open relay team who not only won the OFSAA gold medal, but shattered the old record by over 7 seconds! Mentor also offers "tournament teams" in boys and girls hockey.
In the 2007 year, Mentor College introduced their new mascot "Marty The Marauder".
[edit] Arts
Drama has been an integral part of Mentor College since its inception and continues to be a valuable way for students to express themselves in a non-academic setting. 800 students and teachers were involved in the drama productions held at the school in the 2006-2007 school year.
The Primary Division has a very active drama club programme from Grades 1-4, performing skits and plays for assemblies. At the end of the school year, the whole school gets together to perform as cast, dancers, pit band members and chorus singers for a musical. In June 2007, the students were proud to present The Wizard of Oz.
The other divisions produce their own ensemble musicals in the recently-refurbished O'Brien Hall. The Intermediate division (Grades 5-8) usually has a 50-person cast and crew accompanied by a 250-voice chorus for their production in June. In 2007, the students tackled the ambitious Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat where most of the dialogue was sung! The intermediate division also has a Drama Club that experiments with improv and a host of other activities.
In High School, there are three opportunities for performance on stage. In December, a full musical is presented and the 2006 show was Hot Mikado.
In the second term, the school participates in the Sears Festival series with plays written, acted and directed by students. In February 2007, the Hoffmann Drama Collective hosted the Sears Festival at Mentor College and writer/director Brendan May walked off with two awards for scriptwriting and direction of his play Might.
The mostly-improvisational dramatic production Lives of Great Waitresses was performed in April 2007 with the new-and-improved Might reprised at that time as well.
[edit] Campuses
Mentor currently owns two different campus, one for primary & the other for grades 5-12.
[edit] Extracurricular
Activities include academic clubs, athletics, visual, musical and dramatic arts, language clubs, outdoor studies groups and computer clubs. Sports teams go on trips to different tournaments and games.There is an opportunity in both the Intermediate and Highschool Division for students to participate in the Student Council. In the Intermediate Division, there is a secretary, treasurer, vice-president, and president.
