Posts Tagged ‘MPS’

Students cut and prepare the fruit. Photo MPS MANITOUWADGE, ON – MPS has always promoted healthy eating and this week our kindergarten class got a lesson with Kristie Lachance from the Best Start program.  Our little chefs enthusiastically cut fruit, poured juice, yogurt, and all kinds of [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – January 27th was designated as Family Literacy Day so the students and staff at Manitouwadge Public School once again jumped at the opportunity to show off just how much fun reading can be!  The students met in the library and were organized into groups of ‘young’ and [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Physical activity is crucial during a child’s growing up years for good health in the present, and to promote an active lifestyle in the future.  These are just 2 of the reasons Manitouwadge Public School (MPS) promotes activities in and out of the classroom, [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – What a busy week at Manitouwadge Public School as our students and staff had an impressive line up of activities and educational events to lead them into the 2014 Christmas Break.  Every morning MPS staff and students were joined by family, friends, and the staff and [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – ‘Lest We Forget’ became an important motto for our students and staff on this very important Remembrance Day.  Our students and staff were pleased to be able to take part  in the local ceremony  with others from the community.  We marched in the procession to the [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Recently MPS students and staff took part in a “Take me Outside Day“.  The initiative is organized by www.TakeMeOutside.ca  in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation and the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada. It  is a chance for schools across [Read more]

OTTAWA, ON – New Democrats have ramped up pressure in House of Commons for the government to call an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, says Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. New Democrats took control of the House agenda on Friday forcing a debate and a vote on the [Read more]

  MANITOUWADGE, ON – New clothes, new backpacks, new faces!  That was the scene at Manitouwadge Public School (MPS) on the first day of school this week.  Our students and staff are excited to start an educational, social and fun filled school year!  Our school boasts a well-rounded [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Manitouwadge Public School was proud to celebrate, along with parents and friends, their 2014 graduates from Senior Kindergarten and Grade 8 the later class now moving on to secondary school studies at Manitouwadge High School in September. Lexie Lalonde was the [Read more]

  MANITOUWADGE, ON –  World Earth Day, April 22, and of course the students and staff at MPS celebrated with their typical exuberance! Intermediate students became leaders for the afternoon and taking the primary students under their wing to do ‘earthy’ things.  All of [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – In our classrooms there are no limits to the learning possibilities for our students.  These three young culinary artists are learning another important life-skill, preparing their own food.  Under the guidance of our competent staff members these chocolate chip cookies [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – One hundred of this and one hundred of that. That’s what the Primary students at MPS were talking about February 11th as that day noted 100 Days of School!It seemed that nothing was left ‘uncounted’ that day – does anyone want to know how many floor tiles are [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Recently our Student Council spearheaded a very generous project for our school.  They ran a ‘challenge’ for individual classrooms to bring in a non-perishable food item for our local food bank.   Every classroom donated quite impressively. In the photos above and [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – In the true spirit of scariness, the students and staff at MPS were doing a great job on Halloween day.  Our Primary classrooms were filled with monsters, princesses, super heroes, and fairy tale figures.  It was nice to see that not all of the ‘out of the ordinary’ [Read more]

PROMOTING WASTE-FREE LUNCHES AT MPS MANITOUWADGE, ON – In a world of so much fast and packaged food, discarded packaging is becoming an enormous problem for the environment.  The students and staff at MPS take these ecological concerns very seriously and believe of taking action to be part [Read more]