News and Announcements

We are pleased to welcome Mr. Stephen Morris to the role of vice-principal at William Lyon Mackenzie CI effective September 2014. Mr. Morris will be replacing Ms. Liane Celseti who will be vice-principal at Kipling CI starting in September.

Please see the attached letter below from Superintendent Jeff Hainbuch and Trustee Howard Kaplan for more information.

WL Mackenzie NewAdmin Sept14

Students will have the opportunity to review their final exams on Monday June 23rd between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.

The schedule for the morning is as follows:

Per 1:  10:00 – 10:25

Per 2:  10:30 – 10:55

Per 3: 11:00 – 11:25

Per 4: 11:30 – 11:55

Report cards may be picked up on Friday June 27th at the following times:

• 9:00-10:00 Surnames A-L
• 10:00-11:00 Surnames M-Z

Your assistance is appreciated in facilitating the return of all overdue library books and school textbooks.

Students, who are still in possession of library items or course textbooks, are reminded to return these materials to the main office as soon as possible.

Semester 2 Final Exams will run from June 16, 2014 to June 20, 2014 inclusive.

Exams will be written at 9:00 a.m. and at 1:00 p.m.

Please refer to the attached schedule below for exam times and room locations. Students are advised to arrive at least 30 minutes before their scheduled exam time.

Exam Schedule with rooms Sem 2 June 2014

Please note that during the exam period, there is no cafeteria service nor are there any regularly scheduled classes running during the exam period.

The library will be open for quiet study in the mornings.

We are proud to announce that our school has achieved a Silver certification on our recent EcoSchools audit.

Congratulations to our EcoTeam, Forces of Nature, who worked very hard this year to improve student participation with respect to energy conservation and waste minimization in and around our school community.

We are pleased to announce the Yorkdale Student Executive for 2014/2015:

Retail Marketing Portfolio: James Im, Billy Bourikas

Environment Portfolio: Gary Wu, Tharani Anpalagan

Fashion Portfolio: Thea Lee, Andy Jeong

Technology/Blogging: Luckshanon Balakrishnan, Brandon Feinerman

The National Biology Competition is an annual competition run by the University of Toronto in Canada and the US.  This competition is one of the requirements to qualifying for the National Biology Olympiad team which would represent Canada in an international biology competition.

The results for this year’s competition has brought us exciting news. Out of 3485 Canadian entries, Jerry Liu placed second in Canada.  Jerry received a certificate designating him as a National Biology Scholar with Distinction and an admission scholarship.

Other honourable mentions:

• Kelvin Hong placed in the top 5% and received a designation of National Biology Scholar.
• Ugan Sivagnanenthir placed in the top 10%.
• Out of the 209 Canadian teams that participated, our school placed 17th in Canada and 4th in TDSB

You can see detailed results posted on the National Biology Competition website: http://www.biocomp.utoronto.ca/

We are proud of all of our contest participants!

We are excited to announce the 2014-2015 Mackenzie Student Activity Council who were elected by the students this week. We would like to congratulate the successful candidates and acknowledge all of the students who ran in this hard-fought election.

We look forward to an exciting year of school spirit and fun events with our new Student Council.

 Summer School registration for high school students and adults is now online.

Students are asked to go to www.creditprograms.ca to select a course and register.  Once they have registered on-line, students must bring their confirmation sheet to their guidance counsellor for final approval.

TDSB students will need their TDSB login information to access the site.  For step by step instructions please click the link  E-Reg Student Login

SummerSchool – FAQs

All grade 9 students who are taking math this semester will be writing the EQAO Grade 9 Mathematics Assessment on June 12th & June 13th.

In order to prepare our students for this evaluation, the math department has organized a mock test to be written on Tuesday May 20th. Both the mock test and the actual EQAO assessments will be written during the student’s regularly scheduled math classes.

Starting on May 26th, there will be math clinics running everyday at lunch to prepare students for the EQAO and for their final examination in mathematics. Please contact your child’s math teacher for more information.