The Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association (MHSAA) has unveiled the new members it will be inducting into its Hall of Fame for 2019. Included among them is Miles Macdonell Collegiate alumnae and multi-sport star Missy Penner! #mhsaa #halloffame 🙌

Luc Roy, a Grade 4 teacher at Sun Valley School, successfully applied for and received a bike rack for the facility last year. He said the school has "a very strong team when it comes to recycling and doing other Earth-friendly initiatives," which he thinks caught the attention of the selection committee.

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Always happy to welcome the school education officers of the WPS into our schools to teach the students how they can keep themselves safe. #safeschools👩‍✈️👨‍✈️

On March 13, River East Collegiate students competed in the High School Track & Field Championship Series at the University of Manitoba. Congratulations to these students who medalled in their events! - Adam Andres—1st place—Jr. Varsity 60m hurdles - Adam Andres—1st place—Jr. Varsity 200m - Maleek Ali, Adam Andres, Taron Barbour & Branden Huminuk—1st place—4 x 200m - Angela Kroeker—2nd place—Varsity 1500m - Calvin Reimer—2nd place—Varsity 1500m - Maleek Ali—3rd place—400m

The next meeting of the board of trustees is tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. Members of the public are welcome. For more info: https://tinyurl.com/y7veuuvz #CreatingStudentSuccess

Katie Moist is a graduate of Miles Macdonell Collegiate

Congratulations to trustee Rod Giesbrecht on receiving a 16-year Long Service Award for trusteeship at the 55th annual Manitoba School Boards Association convention. And congratulations, as well, to trustee John Toews and former trustee Eva Prysizney on both receiving a 12-year Long Service Award for trusteeship. Our division is very fortunate to have trustees who are so committed to #CreatingStudentSuccess. #mbsba2019

Recently, Manitoba Moose players Kristian Reichel and Luke Green stopped in to visit with a Grade 1/2 class at Wayoata Elementary School. They read to the excited students, chatted with them, and signed autographs. #gomoosego 🏒

Nazariy Demkowicz is a Kildonan-East Collegiate grad

Featuring John G. Stewart School 🥣

Today is Pi Day—an annual celebration of the mathematical constant pi (π). Some of our schools mark the occasion with activities involving math and pi memorization contests—River East Collegiate student Reagan Hofer was able to recite 125 digits of pi! Grade 10 students from Murdoch MacKay visited Wayoata Elementary to share their love of math with Grade 1/2 students. Schools also celebrated with pie-eating contests (see pics of Miles Macdonell students competing), and the Safeway on Henderson donated stacks of pies to River East Collegiate. Educational AND delicious. 🥧#piday

Congratulations to Grace Minsky of Murdoch MacKay Collegiate, who was one of seven Manitoba students presented with a Student Citizenship Award at the 55th annual Manitoba School Boards Association convention today. She was nominated for the award by the RETSD board of trustees. Grace is on the student council at Murdoch MacKay and volunteers with the school’s Youth in Philanthropy program. She’s taken part in Beyond the Hurt bullying presentations for youth, Ethics Bowl debates, and the annual school fashion show. Outside of school, Grace is a teacher assistant at MTYP, volunteers at Folklorama and with theatre productions, and coaches a youth softball team. She’s an accomplished young woman and wonderful role model—very deserving of this award. PHOTO: (left to right) Trustee Keith Morrison, board vice-chair Jerry Sodomlak, Grace Minsky, board chair Colleen Carswell, trustee Susan Olynik, and trustee Rod Giesbrecht.

Tomorrow, March 15, is a co-ordinated day and RETSD students do not attend classes. All schools are involved in either administration, professional development, or parent-teacher reporting activities.

The RETSD board of trustees passed the 2019–20 budget on Tuesday. For details, please see the attached media release. #CreatingStudentSuccess

Congratulations to the Murdoch MacKay Collegiate girls hockey team! They won the WWHSHL Hire Marketing Division championship against Springfield Collegiate yesterday, taking the final series in two games. And it’s an especially impressive achievement, as this is the team’s inaugural season! Also, Murdoch goalie Samantha Roberts and forward Sarah Rach were chosen as WWHSHL Players of the Game for the Finals Game 1. Way to go!

Good luck to the John G. Stewart School culinary arts students! "The Child Nutrition Council of Manitoba’s seventh annual Stone Soup fundraiser allows some of the city’s top chefs to go soup-on-soup in a stirring culinary battle that will help the council raise desperately needed cash to support nutrition programs in 259 schools throughout Manitoba. The soup scrap will see chefs from seven restaurants, Red River College’s culinary program, John G. Stewart School, Aurora Farm and 17 Wing dishing up exotic concoctions in hopes of winning the coveted silver ladle and getting their names engraved on the culinary version of the Stanley Cup — a big commemorative soup pot."

The 2019 Canada Games concluded in Red Deer on March 3, and we’re proud to say that we not only had several students compete, we also had some who brought home medals! Congratulations to Samantha Ulrich (silver for judo) and Graham Loewen (bronze for Team MB curling) from Miles Macdonell Collegiate; Zack Bilawka (bronze for Team MB curling) from River East Collegiate; and Austin Taylor (gold in individual archery and a silver in team archery), a former student at Kildonan-East Collegiate. And well done to our students who qualified to compete in this prestigious sporting event: Chloé Beauchesne (individual and Team MB speedskating), Lauren Hawkins (individual and Team MB trampoline), and Matthew Wilton (downhill skiing) from Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau; Rylan Halladay (freestyle skiing) and Jordyn Crerar (gymnastics) from River East Collegiate; and Mykola Kruk (downhill skiing), Emma Malkoske (cross-country skiing), and Jorja Koziuk (artistic swimming) from Miles Macdonell Collegiate. PHOTO: Former KEC student Austin Taylor, serving as the Manitoba flag bearer for the Canada Games closing ceremony.

Our Science for Kids! workshops have been creating a buzz! So, CTV's Rachel Lagacé popped by to see what's up. Check today's posts for the CTV podcast, and our Events section for upcoming Science for Kids! workshops. Here are a few pics from her visit. #science #scienceforkids

RETSD kids are "Mad About Science!"

Congratulations to teacher Nicole Ens and the River East Collegiate Chamber Choir for achieving “Choral Excellence” at this year’s Winnipeg Music Festival! They’ll be performing at the festival’s Evening of Choral Excellence: Wednesday, March 13, 7–8:30 p.m. Westminster United Church 745 Westminster Ave. The concert is open to the public. Adults $5 and children 12 and under FREE. Tickets available at the door. There’s enough seating for several family members per chorister. Rush seating only. 🎼