River East Collegiate earned a spot competing in the Reach for the Top nationals at the end of May. Some of our city councillors (Jeff Browaty, Brian Mayes, and Jason Schreyer, plus Brian Mayes’ son) challenged the REC team to a friendly match. Mayor Brian Bowman read some of the questions. The result? A draw! The team also had a visit recently from Kathy Mulder, who was on the REC team that won the Reach for the Top nationals in 1971. She shared her experiences with the students—apparently, her team thought they had no chance of winning, so they went in just to have fun… and ended up Canadian champs! 🏆

Congratulations to our students who took part in Career Trek and earned themselves honours! Career Trek Inc. is an organization that helps young people discover the importance of education and career development by providing hands-on career-oriented programming. The following students were presented with awards: Sierra Jones (Class Act Award for Theatre & Film)—Bernie Wolfe Community School Demi Sojirin (Community Champion Award for Native Studies)—Hampstead School Jordan-Lee Kinley (‘Kin’ for the Win Award for Kinesiology)—Prince Edward School Anthony Alexander (Sparking Interest Award for Electronics)—Polson School Winter Bird-Mackenzie (I Will Succeed Scholarship Award)—Polson School Hunter Bouska (Matter Master Award for Cheminstry)—Radisson School Mckenzie Fischer-Andrews (Leaders of Tomorrow Award for Peace & Conflict)—Radisson School Vincent Frias (Friend of the Environment Award for Environmental Science)—Sherwood School Hala Kasem (High Flyer Award for Aerospace)—Salisbury Morse Place School Ashton Leclerc (The Little Engineer That Could Award for Engineering)—Salisbury Morse Place School

#OutdoorLearning ♥️🌳🐇🌱

Bertrun E. Glavin Elementary recently completed a large six-panel mural they worked on over the winter. It was mounted last week. Great work, kids! 🎨🖌

If you're looking for something free to do with the family this weekend or your child is interested in history, check out Doors Open Winnipeg. Some of it takes place in our neck of the woods, such as the Historical Transcona and Murals of Transcona walking tours.🏦🏫⛪️

Our McLeod Adult Learning Centre students... getting out and about! 🚍

Staff at McLeod Adult Learning Centre challenged all their classes to spend a minimum of one hour spreading kindness throughout our community for Conscious Kindness Day on May 15—a United Way Winnipeg initiative. The results were impressive! They read to nursery school students, did a spring cleaning of the classrooms, baked cookies for staff and students, delivered bouquets of flowers to the RETSD Administration Offices, and made kindness cards to share with people they care about. One class hosted breakfast for all the staff and students at MALC. Well done, everyone! 😊♥️ #ConsciousKindness

Murdoch MacKay Collegiate students Alliyah Kowalson and Josef Weiss had lunch with Education Minister Kelvin Goertzen yesterday to celebrate their success at Skills Manitoba (they both earned golds) and their pending trip to Halifax for Skills Canada, May 28–29. Good luck to them! 🤞😃 PHOTO: Murdoch MacKay principal John Muller, Alliyah Kowalson, Education Minister Kelvin Goertzen, and Josef Weiss.

Due to potentially rainy weather 🌧, the RETSD Folk Dance Festival scheduled for tomorrow at Centennial Park has been POSTPONED to Tuesday, May 28.