Meadowvale Secondary School
| Meadowvale Secondary School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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6700 Edenwood Drive Mississauga, Ontario, L5N 3B2, Canada | |
| Information | |
| School number | 925551 |
| School board | Peel District School Board |
| Religious affiliation | Public |
| Superintendent | Carol Speers |
| Area trustee | Allison Van Wagner |
| Principal | Brent Coakwell |
| Vice Principals | Michael Pankarican |
| School type | High school |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Language | English |
| Mascot | Falcon |
| Colours | White and Blue |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Enrollment | 1600 (September 2010) |
| Homepage | http://meadowvaless.peelschools.org/ |
Meadowvale Secondary School is a part of the Peel District School Board in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
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. Two feeder schools for Meadowvale Secondary School are Edenwood Middle School and Lisgar Middle School. In addition, Meadowvale hosts an open house every year to welcome future students to the Meadowvale community by showcasing art work by current students, music performances, drama plays and scientific experiments.
Extra curricular activities
Meadowvale Secondary School offers many athletic opportunities. and not so athletic opportunities , including: Canadian football, rugby, basketball, volleyball , track and field, swimming, curling, badminton, tennis, cheerleading, 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, Senior Girls Tier II Rugby twice and ROPSSAA Curling.
In recent years, Meadowvale hosted a Law Symposium where people from various schools participated in mock trials. Furthermore, Meadowvale has developed a green initiative to encourage students to be more environmentally aware of their community by hosting park clean ups and introducing appropriate waste bins.
Meadowvale also has a very active student leadership program including the Link Crew program and the Meadowvale Student Union. These student run clubs are designed to welcome future students and to improve the overall Meadowvale community.
Each year, Meadowvale Secondary School hosts an awards banquet in addition to an honour roll ceremony to celebrate the accomplishments of students in the arts, athletics and in leadership. This is a highly anticipated event that brings together the community to end of each school year with a positive attitude.
In the media
Meadowvale Secondary School was used as the school for the 1988 B-movie The Brain, in which it was renamed "Meadowvale High School".
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. Spearheading it was Jeff Ridout, now a TV producer and independent content developer with Barking Mad Media inc.
Notable Alumni
- Ed Gataveckas, Current Teacher, Former Canadian Football League linebacker with the Hamilton Tiger Cats from 1981 to 1990
- Elias Theodorou, Class of 2006, UFC Middleweight Fighter & The Ultimate Fighter: Nations Winner
- Wesley Morgan, Class of 2008, Actor
- Chad Shaule, Class of 2008 - IBJJF Gold Medalist Pro Champion/Coach
- Ryan Sproul, Class of 2011, NHL Professional Player - Detroit Red Wings
