Martin Twiss arrived at North Cavan Public School in 2016 as Principal in what he planned as the final stop in an extensive career in public education. During his time with the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, Twiss has been in the classroom, Board Superintendent and finally, Elementary School… Continue reading
Local Grade six students are familiar with Camp Kawartha through the annual winter camp event that has been a tradition in the curriculum for decades. Established in 1921, the camp is an accredited, award-winning not-for-profit educational organization offering environmental education for students ages four to seventeen. Through their extensive programs,… Continue reading
Millbrook South Cavan students in Mrs. Armstrong’s grade one class have been meeting virtually with the Peterborough zoo once a week for the past five weeks. The zoo offered a virtual pet program and our class chose a rabbit. In the last couple of weeks we also visited a Chameleon… Continue reading
Peter and Anne Ramsay, curators for the Historical Society’s display cabinet at the Millbrook Library, unearthed some of the tried and tested Fisher-Price sets from the period when Quaker Oats owned the Fisher-Price Company (1969-1991) and earlier. These toys were manufactured in the USA and Canada. The guiding principles for… Continue reading
Change can be scary, and when news first emerged that Millbrook Grades 7 and 8 might be moving to a new, intermediate school housed at Crestwood Secondary School in the fall of 2019, there was considerable anxiety, but excitement, too. At the time, some of the students were concerned about… Continue reading
A year ago at this time, we didn’t know what was to come. We were planning programs for the 2020 March Break and gathering valuable feedback from families regarding what we could do to improve our programs as well as what families enjoyed and valued about The Old Millbrook School… Continue reading
The CMLibraries is open and operating in a modified manner. Materials can be requested by calling the branches, or reserved through the catalogue or by emailing questions@cmlibraries.ca. We are still working with modified hours of operation to ensure that staff are working at one branch only. Upon return, materials are… Continue reading
It’s been a different school experience this year, with many of the “fun” seasonal events impossible, including seasonal concerts and the carolling event that took senior students to three local seniors’ homes to entertain with songs, greeting cards and stories. For the past nine years, North Cavan teachers Kevin Woollacott… Continue reading
Guye Vondette has his fingers crossed that the season will fly this year. After holding out as long as possible, he finally had to cancel the season last year, but forty percent of his registered players chose to roll over their registration for the upcoming season. This is the fifth… Continue reading
