Meadowvale Secondary School

Meadowvale Secondary School is a part of the Peel District School Board in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Meadowvale Secondary School
Address
6700 Edenwood Drive

Mississauga
,
Ontario
,
L5N 3B2

Canada
Coordinates43.5779°N 79.7613°W / 43.5779; -79.7613
Information
School typeProvincial, High school
Founded1981
School boardPeel District School Board
SuperintendentSoni Gill[1]
Area trusteeNokha Dakroub[1]
School number925551
PrincipalAnu Arora
Grades9-12
Enrollment1105 (December 11, 2019)[1]
LanguageEnglish
Colour(s)White and baby blue   
MascotFalcon
Websitemeadowvaless.peelschools.org
Last updated: December 11, 2019

Two feeder schools for Meadowvale Secondary School are Edenwood Middle School and Lisgar Middle School.

Extra curricular activities

Meadowvale Secondary School has many extra-curricular opportunities in the Arts, Athletics, and other clubs. In the Arts, the school has a vibrant drama program. They participate in two festivals: the Peel Studentwrights Drama Festival, which features student written and student directed works in a non-competitive festival; and the National Theatre School DramaFest, a competitive festival. The school has won several awards in the NTS DramaFest including Outstanding Production, and Excellences in Directing, Writing and Ensemble work. Every other year, the school does a large drama production and alternate years, they do a musical. Musicals have included West Side Story, Footloose and Chicago. The Drama department focuses on building student leadership through directing, producing and stage managing, as well as, allows students to explore their creative voice through original student works. Students have graduated from the drama program and gone into film, TV, media related fields, broadcasting, reporting, etc. Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, star of Netflix's Never Have I Ever, graduated from Meadowvale. The music program offers instrumental band, jazz band, and a vocal ensemble. Students perform twice a year in evening concerts and several times over lunch hour in Rock in the Lecture Hall events. The drama and music programs work closely together on musicals. The visual arts department runs an Art club and the art department features stunning murals throughout the school. The media department uses PCs and Macs and has a 3D printer. The school also 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 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.[2] This provoked protest from a variety of community groups, who disagreed with the idea of showing commercials in the classroom.[3]

Former Meadowvale Secondary School student (Rene Charlebois) and two other former students (Giuseppe (Joseph) Manchisi, Robert Grewal) 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 prosecution.[4]

In June 2006, MSS was thrust into the international media spotlight when three of its former students, Fahim Ahmad, Saad Khalid, and Zakaria Amara were charged in an alleged terror plot.[5] A fourth student was charged later.

IBT Program

In 2013, Meadowvale started the IBT (International Business Technology) program. This regional program aims to enhance student's thinking and to give them a better understanding of the working world, helping them in Post-Secondary.

Notable alumni

See also

References
  1. "About Us". Meadowvale Secondary School. December 11, 2019. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  2. Peel District School Board - Get the Facts
  3. YOUTH NEWS NETWORK edited by Lesley-Ann Browne from the April 1999 Bulletin of the NLTA Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
  4. CTV.ca | Parole Board called sex offender 'a role model'
  5. School Ties Link Alleged Plotters
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