Page | 1 North East School Division #200 Treaty 6 Territory Box 1000 800 101 Street Tisdale, Saskatchewan S0E 1T0 Phone: (306) 873-2352 Fax: (306) 873-2941 [email protected]Principal Mrs. Carmen Messer Vice-Principal Mr. David Painchaud Vice-Principal Mr. Dallas Thiessen Principal’s Message Mrs. Carmen Messer Welcome to the 2019-20 school year at Tisdale Middle & Secondary School. I hope that everyone (staff, students and families) found time over the last couple of months to relax and recover from the previous year. With school commitments and all the activities that our kids enjoy, life with children can certainly get hectic. Summer should be a time to reconnect with friends and family and partake in a little down time! I am excited to begin my new position as principal at TMSS and to work with a new admin team, Mr. David Painchaud (gr 8/9 Vice Principal) and Mr. Dallas Thiessen (gr 6/7 Vice Principal). Mr. Thiessen has previously been the principal at Arborfield School. For the first time in several years, all three administrators live in Tisdale and are raising their families here which indicates how engaged we are in this school and the community as a whole. TMSS also has Mrs. Lee moving into the office as the academic advisor and four new teachers: Miss Cierra Brittain (replacing Mrs. Simpson on her maternity leave), Mr. Riley Hobbins (our new welding/shop teacher), Mr. Jordan Lam Ma (mostly a gr 10 teacher) and Mr. Garrett Yee (our new Foods/PAA teacher and another art teacher). Despite all the new staff, our school’s mission, vision and commitments (you can find these on our school webpage at tmss.nesd.ca will continue to be our guiding principles, including our student mantra: Commit to G.R.I.T. Throughout the year, our entire staff will be encouraging our students to have a growth mindset, develop resilience and integrity, all the while working together with others. As part of Mr. Kerr’s admin team the last four years, I helped develop this mantra and, now as principal, I remain loyal to our long term plan feeling that these qualities are essential for our children to be successful in our community throughout the 21st century. In addition, our school will be continuing to work on goals that the Ministry of Education has set for public schools in this province. They include: 1) Helping students with their overall wellness and understanding that if students’ mental health is not strong, then academics and learning will not be either; 2) Increasing the number of students achieving fully meeting or higher with their reading, writing, and number strand in math; and 3) Improving our graduation rates. I have updated a lot of the student handbook on our webpage to align with our current practices. You can find the student handbook under Student Info – Student Handbook. Traditionally, the TMSS principal has been the administrator for the gr 10 through 12 students and that practice will also be continuing, but for those families that have not met me in the past twenty years that I’ve been living in Tisdale or have not dealt with me while I’ve been teaching at TMSS the last eleven years, I encourage you to come into the school to say hello and discuss the exciting year that we have planned.
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North East School Division #200 Treaty 6 Territory Box 1000 800 101 Street Tisdale, Saskatchewan S0E 1T0