Meadowlands is truly a community school. We serve the area bounded by Baseline Road, Merivale Road, Woodroffe Avenue and Fallowfield Road, as well as the subdivision of Country Place. We have a dual language kindergarten program. We welcome English program students from 1 to grade 6 and French Immersion students from 1 to grade 6. Children entering our grade 1 program may choose to enrol in either an English or French Immersion program from senior Kindergarten. We also have an ESL program. We also have the Extended Day Program to care for our students both and after school hours.
Our staff is kind, caring and compassionate and our students echo these traits as they welcome guests and parents into the school. We also believe that a child's quality of character is their most important asset. We have integrated character education into our curriculum. We promote and celebrate ethnic and cultural diversity through our curriculum and in our extra curricular activities. Our goal is to produce not only life long learners, citizens of the world, and stewarts who take care of the environment. Many educators and classes practise outdoor learning and spend many hours in nature in an engaged and scholarly manner. We support and guide children with their social-emotional growth and build in a growth mindset, and many mindful moments.
Our teachers are dedicated educators who are constantly updating their qualifications. Many on staff have post graduate degrees. Our teachers are widely respected in the community, serving as mentors for teacher candidates from Ottawa University and Nippissing University, as well as early childhood educator, social work, child and youth worker program supervisors for students from Algonquin College. We have an active School Council who plans, organizes and hosts a variety of events to build community and raise funds for the school's initiatives, such as, in the past, the recreation of the school's library into a meadowy Learning Commons with a makerspace. We also have a number of dedicated parent volunteers who read to our students, support our classroom activities, and on field trips.
Meadowlands is an outstanding school and community made greater with every new child and their family.