Tag: Millarville School

  • Millarville School News: Little Bandits Basketball 2015

    Millarville School News: Little Bandits Basketball 2015

    After much success in 2014 we are excited to announce that we will be running our Little Bandits Basketball program for its 2nd year beginning April 14th. This year we will be running a 4 week program in Black Diamond for youth Grades 1 through 6. Our goal is to develop important motor skills through…

  • Millarville School News: Congrats to Wildcat Basketball Players

      Congratulations to our Grade 7/8 boys basketball team for winning the 2015 boys Basketball League Championship finals at the end of February. The boys also took 2nd place and the girls took 3rd in the Oilfields tournament held the first week of March. Our boys and girls combined team won 1st place in the skills competition.…

  • Millarville Community School: What’s Happening in the Classrooms in March

    Millarville Community School: What’s Happening in the Classrooms in March

    The Kinders are inquiring into how people communicate their feelings. They’ve been looking at different artists and will share their own artwork on Thursday, March 26. The Grade 1s are looking at communities and how buildings are constructed to provide for needs and wants. They will be celebrating their learning at an upcoming assembly on…

  • Millarville School Principal’s Message: Jumping for Heart Health

    Millarville School Principal’s Message: Jumping for Heart Health

      On February 26th the whole school took to the air to show their support for the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Jump Rope for Heart! Our energetic Grade 8’s took the lead and ran centers for the rest of the school to try out different styles of rope jumping. Thanks to our Grade 8’s for…

  • MCS Presents the Students (and Staff) of Awesomeness for February

    MCS Presents the Students (and Staff) of Awesomeness for February

    The following students have been recognized by their peers or teachers for exhibiting one or more of the IB Attitudes in their time at MCS. Student names will be pulled from this growing list of names for additional surprises at upcoming assemblies. Maya(2) – for Respect & Appreciation Josie(2) – for Confidence William (6)– for…

  • MCS: Principal’s Message for February: Teacher’s Convention

    MCS: Principal’s Message for February: Teacher’s Convention

      Last week you received an emailed one-minute survey to help provide our staff with some feedback about how we are doing as a learning and caring school. The image above is the response of over 40 parent responses indicating where we are successful as a school. This and the other responses will be shared with the rest of…

  • Millarville School News: Wildcat Ice – Hockey Canada Skills Academy

    Millarville School News: Wildcat Ice – Hockey Canada Skills Academy

    Wildcat Ice wrapped up its inaugural season on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Wildcat Ice is Millarville Community School’s name for our Hockey Canada Skills Academy (HCSA). It is an option that students in Grade 6-8 sign up for to improve their hockey skills. On Wednesday afternoons these students gathered to participate in on-ice and off-ice…

  • Millarville Students of Awesomeness for January

    Millarville Students of Awesomeness for January

      The following students have been recognized by their peers or teachers for exhibiting one or more of the IB Attitudes in their time at MCS. Student names will be pulled from this growing list of names for additional surprises at upcoming assemblies. Courney Gr. 5 for appreciation Olivia Gr. 4 for integrity Maryanne Gr. 5 for…

  • Millarville School News: Alberta Education Accountability Pillar

    Millarville School News: Alberta Education Accountability Pillar

      As an annual check-up on the education system, the Accountability Pillar provides an opportunity for Alberta Education and school authorities to ensure that we are equipping students for success. The Accountability Pillar uses a set of 16 indicators consisting of surveys of students, parents and teachers on various aspects of quality; student outcomes such as dropout…

  • Millarville School News: What’s Happening in the Classrooms

    Millarville School News: What’s Happening in the Classrooms

    Kinders are inquirying into what we learn from our families by investigating family trees. They will also find out who does all the work around the house! Mom? Dad? The Grade 1s are researching arctic animals and one student wants to find out how reindeer fly. Hopefully they will find some answers! The Grade 2s…

  • Millarville School News: Happy New Year

    Millarville School News: Happy New Year

    Welcome back! We are happy to return to learning with your students! We hope you had a restful and happy holiday season with your families. New year – new resolutions! This month as a staff, we have resolved to focus on activities with the students that involve understanding the benefits of caring for those around…

  • Six for Six from Fore!

    Six for Six from Fore!

    The Turner Valley Charity Golf Classic held last summer in conjunction with the RCMP Turner Valley Detachment has made presentations totalling $6,000 to six schools in our area. The $1,000 cheques were presented to: Chief Jacob Bearspaw Memorial School towards the new iPads for graduating students to use C. Ian McLaren School towards a Yamaha…

  • Millarville School News: Principal’s Holiday Message

    Millarville School News: Principal’s Holiday Message

    Last Thursday the MCS community came together to double the population of the Hamlet of Millarville for our annual Christmas concert. This year the performance was entitled “It’s Christmas, Carol!” Maddy Peters played the role of Carol, a grumpy workshop manager at the North Pole. Visited by three mysterious ghosts (aka Jacob, Wes and Aidan),…

  • Millarville School News – Principal’s Message for December

    Millarville School News – Principal’s Message for December

    December is finally here and the Christmas season started off with a bang last week with our grade 6-8 students’ performance at Oilfields for our annual junior high band concert. I remember fondly my time in junior high when I first picked up the trombone, blew my first couple of notes and then was asked…

  • Millarville Community School is proud to present It’s Christmas, Carol!

    Millarville Community School is proud to present It’s Christmas, Carol!

    Thursday, December 11, 2014 Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Show 7:00 p.m. Please join the students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 as we share a seasonal musical that sees a very Scrooge-like Elf named Carol change from bitter to better through the power of friendship and caring. As this musical takes place in Santa’s Workshop,…