The Millbrook Times


  • Real Estate Market Update

    Residential real estate values in the Peterborough area in 2016 rose 10%, a rate which began to escalate at the end of the year. Competition for residential properties is heating up, and the practice of waiting a week or more between the listing date and the review of offers which has been common in…

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  • Math Strategy Focuses on Words Before Numbers

    In Ontario schools, the focus has shifted from literacy to numeracy, and students are knuckling down on math through a new strategy aimed at all student levels from kindergarten to Grade 12. The Renewed Math Strategy is the Ontario Ministry of Education’s response to declining math results among Ontario students as evidenced by among…

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  • All Gluten, All the Time

    When I found myself newly single, I started spending a lot of time baking.  I love not only the taste and the smell of it, but its underlying message:  that no matter how bad things may look in the beginning, they can always turn out with the right combination of energy and time.  In…

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  • Crazy Sock Day at MSC

    See any cool socks lately? Many of the students at MSC have! Just recently Millbrook South Cavan Public School had another schooltastic spirt day, on Friday 27th many students at MSC participated and showed some school spirt for the Millbrook Hawks by sporting some creative and fun socks! by Newspaper Club Member, Jordan

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  • Film Festival

    Hey Millbrook, the grade 4 to 6 classes went to the Film Festival and one of the many amazing films they showed was a girl who wanted to drive a gondola but her father said no it is only for boys. This film was called ‘The Girl and the Gondola’.  The others films we…

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  • Gymnastics

    Present, cartwheel, dive roll, round off- get ready Millbrook, Gymnastics is invading Millbrook South Cavan P.S.! There will be hard work, dedication and NO injuries. But also fun and friendship, along with a dance routine. Some of things we love are that gym is always filled with high energy people at the practices, plus…

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