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Top Teen Chef has been a wonderful success thanks to the hard work of Santiago! He spent time learning from two Montreal chefs, Chef Michael Minorgan and Chef Derek Bocking. Time now to see if he remembered what he learned from at least one of them! To that end,
Santiago was hustled off to the EMSB headquarters to serve up a meal to
the staff
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our thanks for all the EMSB has done for Marymount over the years. Read More...
Isolation
After a regular day at school, some students need to remain to the detention room for their bad behavior. Everything seems to be fine until the fire alarm goes off. Following the regular procedures of the school, they all leave the room to go outside. As they get to the door, their detention teacher is the first one to go out. As soon as she steps out, something terrible happens…
Isolation is a bilingual web series about survival. Students need are confined in their own school and have to survive all together because they don’t know what is happening on the outside (or they are cut off from the outside). They will have to deal with the language difference, the amount of food left and they will have to get along to make important decisions. But what is really happening? You won’t want to miss the action, twists and turns of isolation.
MMA Top Teen Chef In The News
Marymount Academy International has it's own Top Teen Chef in Santiago Delgado. Soon to be a Youtube hit with 5 episodes, Santiago, with the help of renowned Montreal chefs is making great food happen. Check out the Montreal Times Edition and video teaser.
http://mtltimes.ca/montreal/marymount-done/
The Montreal Children's Hospital is concerned about the health and well being of children and teens. A new endeavor is the first ever Montreal Youth Spartan Race coming this spring, May 16th @ Mont. Tremblant. Marymount will be putting a team together to compete for fun, health and a great activity. View Flyer
Marymount Student Awarded Scholarship
Marymount Academy International is proud to announce that Manisha Khan has been awarded a 5,000.00 Horatio Alger Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney Quebec Scholarship. Press Release
Slam Poetry
The first ever slam poetry was a major success @ Marymount Academy International on Thursday, February 27th, 2014.
A brain child of Nayem Alam, over 30 participants from 5 different schools entered the first ever competition and it was a tremendous success!
Marymount was represented well in those who placed as Nayem Alam was the first place winner in the solo category while Mathias McCrae placed second in the solo category.
A Very exciting morning for an event that is just gaining momentum. CTV Link/Global Link
Here is a recap of the month of February. Please load Spotlight February 2014 Document in MMA Trending News
Thursday, Feb 27th, playing at home, the MMA Juvenile Boys Cougars defeated Howard S. Billings H School before a packed house of over 200 @ the Cougars court. Led by MVP Javon Joseph, the Cougars dispatched Billings 70-58 in a very highly entertaining contest up until the last 2 minutes as the Cougars were able to pull away with relentless defensive pressure to close it out!! Go Cougars!!
Marymount Academy International had the privilege of having CFL Allstars, Kyries Hebert and John Bowman of the Montrreal Alouettes join us for a very important assembly about making right choices, working hard, doing things the right way and not giving up. Hebert & Bowman spoke openly and honestly about their journey and they were very inspiring.
Marymount Academy International is proud of our music program, directed under the skilled hands of Ms. Gabrielle Smith and some of our students were showcased recently in the Quebec High School Junior band event held at Vanier College. Playing a variety of pieces under the tutelage of conductor Isabelle Latulippe, Marymount was represented by Sarah Ford (flute), Jessica Brownrigg, Destiny Marshall Hamilton, Alexandra Sarmiento (clarinet), Shanaya Gardener (bass clarinet), Rahul Bhattacharjee (french horn), Dylan Dacraes, Joel Lokonga (trombone). We are proud of their achievements.
Marymount Academy International is exactly that...International in thought, feeling and action. With our students whose cultures cover a wide spectrum, how could we not have a day where we experience and share every little bit of what makes them special. Their costumes, their language and food! International Day was spearheaded by student Najnin Hossain. The school became a colourful reflection of 40 different countries and students and staff were treated to kiosks boasting different types of food. There was even a mini cultural/fashion show. Bravo Najnin!
We are all very, very excited about Marymount’s Top Teen Chef - a video that will be shot in the school and put on Youtube. We were even more excited at the prospect of Chef Michael Minorgan (La Louisianne, Bennedict’s and Mesquite) who joined Santiago, our teen chef, in the kitchen to teach him a Thai recipe. Marymount is a cultural mosaic of students - what better way to learn about each other’s culture than through food! This also teaches the students how to prepare foods that will serve them well nutritiously -
Coming up on April 3, Chef Derek Bocking, Head Chef of Icone on St. Laurent, will be joining Santiago when he once again learns from a mentor how to prepare a special menu chosen by Chef Derek. Bocking was one of the contestants of the first show of Top Chef Canada! Watch Video
We kick off Black History month with Guest Speaker, Mr. Michael Farkas, director of Youth In Motion in Montreal. A noted speaker with Passages Canada, Mr. Farkas brings a wealth of knowledge and life experience that we believe will be great for our students.
Some have wondered what a sit down with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X would have been like. While no one knows for sure, based on their lives, The Black Theatre Workshop will be presenting a theatre play on what it could have sounded like. Always stellar performances, we look forward to welcoming the Black Theatre Workshop to Marymount.
What could be more fun than Dress Up Day on Valentine's Day? Love is in the air (or at least candy because candy grams are distributed too) and MMA wants students to look to good! the $2 for Dress Up Day goes towards the Year End Sports Banquet and in the afternoon, We welcome a Guest DJ for our afternoon dance. Will be alot of fun and a great day!!!
Spirit Days will be an exciting one at MMA! On Monday, members of the Montreal Alouettes will be joining us for a morning assembly. Will be alot of fun!! Tuesday, the whole school will be on the move around the city for various activities. Details to come..
Wednesday, will be our second International Day during periods 2,3,4. The student team has been very ambitious this year and not only will there be the very cool food tasting and artwork from around the world but there will be a fashion and cultural dance show as well. It will be a spectacular day!!
A brain child of one of our students, his idea has now become the EMSB's first ever Slam Spoken Word Competition which will be held, Thursday, February 27th @ 9:30am @ Marymount. Students from across the school board and other schools will be participating so the enthusiasm is high for this first ever competition!!
Just a reminder that parent/teacher interviews will be Thursday, February 27th from 3pm-5:30pm and . We encourage all parents to mark this date on your calendars and make plans to invest time in your son/daughter's success by coming and meeting their teachers.
Please click Jan 2014 Mid-term Exam to check exam schedule as some times and rooms for exams have changed since the original schedule was sent out.
Exam Instructions to Students mid-term 2014
Wintertime is the season Montrealers complain about most. We complain about the amount of snow there is to shovel, the salt and slush on the streets, the inconsistent buses and STM, the below zero weather and on and on.
It is rare that we find people who celebrate the holidays in a joyful mood. (The Suburban) - Read More...
It was powered by kids who care. That’s the Sun Youth Toy/Food Drive at Marymount Academy.
It started a couple of weeks ago with classrooms in competition to see how many tins of food they could collect. Miss Doughan’s class was the clear winner!
Then on Tuesday, December 10, two IB students were taken to Tours de Jeux at Fairview where they purchased toys to be added to the drive. The money collected for this was the sole initiative of one student who collected from her fellow students over a matter of months. Read More»
MMA’s Annual Winter Holiday Concert Thursday, Dec 12th 7:00 pm.
It’s that time of year with carols and music in the air and at Marymount, we’ve got you covered!! Our award winning bands will be playing and you won’t want to miss it! $3 in advance, $5 at the door. Your support will help fund future MMA band initiatives.
MMA Welcomes Alvin Powell Tuesday, Dec 17th 10:30am
Marymount welcomes special guest, Alvin Powell to our school. Alvin speaks to students and people of all ages that they can make it, no matter what has happened in their lives. A former professional football player, Alvin shares his life experiences to give students courage that it’s never too late to make positive changes.
MMA’s Snow Ball Dress Up/Dance Day Thursday, Dec 19th $2
It’s our annual Snow Ball Dress Up Day, Thursday, Dec 19th. Students love this day to dress up, savor a great lunch in a great holiday atmosphere, then have an afternoon dance! The moneys raised will go towards this year’s prom!
Marymount is offering a 4th placement exam morning coming up, Saturday, Dec 7th at 9am. As our incoming grade 7 class is projected to be a large one, space is limited. Please contact the school at 514-488-8144 and ask for Dr. Khodaie or email him at rkhodaie@emsb.qc.ca for more details.
We are pleased to have Geordie Theatre Productions visit our school on Thursday, Dec 5th to present the dramatization, "Shared Account". Always a great contributor to our school and opening up the world of the arts to our student body.
A brain child and dream of one of our students, Nayem Alam, the EMSB/Marymount will be host to the first ever Speak/ Spoken Word Competition in February, 2014. A board wide workshop takes place on Thursday, Dec 5th @ 1pm. We're excited about hosting a "Fresh, New" concept here in Montreal! It will be awesome!!
What better way to kick back and enjoy a good movie than to join us on Friday, Dec 6th @ 5pm. Cost is only $2 and there will be free popcorn. We'll be expecting you!
Sun Youth Toy Drive Wednesday, Dec 11th 9am4pm.
In collaboration with Sun Youth and Tours De Jeux, Marymount Academy will be having their second annual Toy/Food Drive for Sun Youth. Details are on the poster ad but the need is great. Please consider donating new toys and non-perishable food for the needy in our city. Donations can come in earlier than the 11th. Call the school for more information.
Marymount's Elementary School Holiday Musical
Wednesday, Dec 11th 10:30am-noon
We are really excited about having grade 6 elementary students from a number of our elementary schools come and hear our award winning bands play holiday favorites and we will have a number of surprises coming their way as well.The school will be alive with sights, sounds and alot of music!!
November 6, 2013
Remembrance Day is not just one day or one minute at Marymount Academy.
On November 6, the students at Marymount joined together in assembly and heard first hand what it was like to be sent away from home, from your family, from everything you knew, straight into the ravages of war.
“...happened to be smoking a cigarette at the time. And we hopped out, got into this slit trench and a bomb went off so close that I couldn't see daylight. It blew the cigarette right out of my mouth. And I thought, good heavens, this is the end of the war.”
Mr. Alan Canavan is a World War Two veteran who enlisted in the summer of 1941. He served overseas during the Normandy and the Northwest Europe campaign with the intelligence section of the 7th Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars), the reconnaissance unit of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division.
Now, at the age of 92, Canavan faced the assembly of students and told tthem of the horrors of being in a foreign country with bombs falling around you, eating rationed food - a small pat of margarine straight into the mouth because he had nothing to spread it on - watching his friends fall beside him, but having to move on. In one case, he was severely reprimanded for using his own bandage to bind the wound of another soldier - “I did what I felt I had to do”.
The room was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop. Canavan brought the realities of war to the students, dispelling any thought of grandeur and heroism. When he came home to Canada, unlike in the US, there was no special welcome, no parades, he went right back to work.
The lessons learned by the students from Canavan’s talk are invaluable. They bear repeating, and should not not be forgotten, for the students are the future.
Remembering our Veterans continues with official ceremonies on November 11, 2013, in the school and with some students attending Remembrance Day in Ottawa.
First communication report cards have been distributed as of Friday, October 11th. Please contact the school for any additional information.
Marymount Academy welcomed Montreal Canadiens Great, Chris Nilan to MMA to open Kindness month for October on Monday, October 7th. Chris challenged the students to stand up to bullying, be kind when no one would be looking, and to be assertive for good!! Chris is truly proof positive that even though a person can stumble, the script is always being written. Great assembly!!!
Marymount Academy was honored to have Ms. Sharon Draper, celebrated New York Times best selling author at Marymount, Monday, Sept 30th. Ms. Draper had 2 morning assemblies where she talked to the students about how she became a writer and her unique perspective on how every day life has had a big influence on her writing. In the afternoon, Ms. Draper worked with senior students in a special writing session with them. We are most grateful for Ms. Draper taking time out of her busy schedule to spend a day with us!
Wednesday, Oct 2nd, Marymount Academy opened it's doors to the community to give perspective grade 6 students and their parents a Marymount Academy "World Of Possibilities" Open House experience. We had over 200 people pass through our doors and we are excited about the continued growth of our school! Need more information about registering your child for 2014-15? Click on our admissions page for registration information or call and/or email the school.
MMA had the privilege of having Former World Champion Boxer Otis Grant come and speak to our student body! It was a tremendous morning!! The students appreciated his words of hope and encouragement. Great humanitarian, loves people, especially young people and it showed not only in his talk but how he spent time with students after it was all over.
The words that many will remember were, proper preparation prevents poor performance.
MMA had it’s 2nd annual Fall Ball Welcome Back Activity day, Wednesday. We had all sorts of fun with Air Bounce Inflatable’s like Rock Climbing Adventure, Equalizer, Crazy Ladder and Log Roll. The food was pretty good as we had pizza, corn, TCBY etc. All the students who participated had a great time and fun was had by all!!!
MMA as a school banded together to say that helping others is important so we raised money for Cancer Research and then went out and ran and walked in and around the Westmount area. So proud of our students and the many staff members who contributed to an incredible day!!
So Friday, we had quite a crazy lunch hour. First, Mr. Bray, Mr. Cho and Mr. Bunn gave up their hair being shaved by the homeroom that raised the most money for the Terry Fox Cancer Research Challenge. That honor went to Rm #101, who not only shaved their heads but also a few other students who got a close shave!! Not only that, we had a few singers who were not bad but…. There were a few cracked windows!!!!
It’s a tradition at Marymount Academy! A literacy initiative heading into its third year. Marymount Academy Reads is a program designed to instill within the Marymount student body a love of reading, not only of books in the school curriculum but also to encourage students to pick up a book at home and read just for the love of reading, learning and engaging their imaginations. Read More....
Thursday, Sept 26th from 6:30pm-8:00pm. It will be an information opportunity to meet teachers from each subject department to go over standards, procedures and expectations for the coming year. We look forward to welcoming you to Marymount for this important connection night.
At Marymount Academy, we understand the importance of selecting a High School that will support the academic and personal success of your child and allow them to flourish. In addition to academically rigorous programs, wide ranging academic support, and interesting and diverse activities, we invite you to discover the many other things that make Marymount Academy special.
Personalized tours may easily be organized by contacting Dr. Ramin Khodaie, International Baccalaureate Coordinator at Marymount Academy (rkhodaie@emsb.qc.ca). It will be a pleasure to showcase all that Marymount Academy does offer, and how it truly does provide
“A World of Possibilities”.
The dates for the I.B Placement Exam for potential grade 6 students is Saturday, October 5th and October 12th at 9:00am.
Here’s a recap letter of our visit to our Local Police Station 11, Friday, Sept 20th with a picture from the afternoon. Dear Mr. Rousseau, Ms. Cote and all the wonderful police men and women, Thank you for your warm welcome at the police station, the students couldn’t stop speaking about how glad they were to have met you and upon return there were others who expressed their disappointment that we did not take them along. It should not be rare to appreciate people who make a difference in our lives, either directly or indirectly. We live in a society where we are interdependent and even though we do not often get the chance to say it, we are thankful for the chance of receiving good education, the materials that we have and the people who make it possible.The police force is just one of those communities that makes a difference in our lives. They make education possible in a special way; by keeping our roads, our community and our town safe so we can go to work and school without fear or bother. We at Marymount Academy (School), salute all the men and women of the Police for all their hard work and dedication. The program held at your police station thanks only a small group of employees but it is a token of our love and appreciation for the entire personnel. We would just like to say: “Marymount vous remercie”
"Marymount Academy students believe that it is important to not only say we care and want to be kind, we actually are kind!" The month of October is Kindness month with special guests, a special "Teddy Bear" project for the children of Lac Megantic to name a few things that will happen. Because, "No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted." Kindness Month @ MMA »
Marymount is excited for all the events coming up for Welcome Week! Beaver Lake Grade 7 trip, Special Guest Otis Grant, Activity Day with games, food and massive fun, Terry Fox Run/Walk, Karaoke and a few other surprises!! Don’t miss any of it!!! Welcome Back Week September 23-27
The Library and IB Council of Marymount Academy proudly presents Sharon M. Draper author of "Darkness before Dawn," September 30, 2013. Book available at the library Sharon Draper »
"Marymount's backyard is getting a makeover!! From a soccer field, to an amphitheater to all sorts of other surprises, the backyard will be the envy of others!! Construction » begins this summer and phase 1 goes into effect in September!!" the construction plans pdf can be clicked on to see. »
