Jim Stamatopoulos

Using student voice in our School Improvement Plan with our trustee @frajwani and our superintendent @npersaudLC4 @MilneMS

For Children’s Mental Health Week, students at Milne are writing positive messages to leave on our front foyer display! Photos and messages are a reminder of their fond memories and acts of kindness they’ve displayed throughout the school year! Compassion connects us all! @tdsb

Working with our ICYCs Daniella, Jen & Camille, this morning on consent and boundaries! We used drama to act out scenarios about boundaries & categorized images into “yes” “no” “maybe,” to reinforce our understanding of what true consent is. @TDSB_MHWB

Graphic novels in the making! 💥📖📚@tdsb @LC2_TDSB

Like what you see? Students in 6A are using the oil pastel medium & the principle of design, emphasis, to create an eye-catching composition. Here are a few creations completed by 6A students. (Please rotate your device’s screen) 👁️@LC2_TDSB @tdsb

@MilneMS staff participating in the 100 Classrooms Challenge this year! Looking forward to building community and empowering our students in navigating A.I. @casey_macdo @LN10Alvarez @tdsb @P_Stamatopoulos

Gotcha Ms. MacDonald! 🍭 Members of student council are making their rounds to our wonderful admin., staff, and students with our positive affirmations caring-o-grams initiative. “Thank you for being so kind to me and always smiling! I appreciate you!”-S.M. @TDSB_MHWB

Students in 6A are preparing their physical portfolios to show their best work for Parent-Teacher interviews & our student-led conferences! @tdsb

Creating simple paper circuits in 6A! Next up, creating series & parallel circuits in a creative design! Watch this space!🔋💡@TDSB_GC @tdsb

Sharing the learning and opening our classrooms to our LN & Feeder schools for Building Thinking Classrooms in Action @MilneMS Session 2 @LN10Alvarez @TDSBmath

Building Thinking Classrooms and sharing with our colleagues through observing lessons @MilneMS @casey_macdo @P_Stamatopoulos @LN10Alvarez

Exploring Nature and Science through an Indigenous peoples lens @OntScienceCtr with the @MilneMS Grade 6 classes!

It’s #BellLetsTalk today. Our class spent some time listening to 🇨🇦 author Kyo Maclear’s “Virginia Wolf” & talked about how at times, we’ve all felt ‘wolfish.’ We brainstormed some ideas on how to turn our ‘Gloom into Glad.’ Check them out below! @TDSB_MHWB #MentalHealthMatters

6A collaborated w/ 6MI to create recycled origami as part of @studentsrebuild initiative of the Extraordinary Earth Project! We are submitting our artwork in hopes of tackling the issues around the climate crisis across the world. @LC2_TDSB @TDSB_GC

Seeing the MVMS LLC full of engaged students creating, collaborating, studying and reading during lunch makes my day, every day. @MilneMS

Milne Cafe was a huge hit today!! Congratulations to our Student Council for all their hard work and dedication in building student relationships & enhancing school spirit. The student reps proposed & voiced the idea of a cafe & worked hard to implement it effortlessly! ☕️🍪🍩

Building Thinking Classroom framework implemented in our Grade 8 afterschool literacy/numeracy support program! Thanks to @anubahri for joining us today in our session! Q: Using 3 unique numbers of choice, can you get the answer for 1 - 10? @TDSBmath @pgliljedahl @Jason_To

6A collaborated w/ our teacher-librarian, Ms. Gagliardi, in a book tasting. We explored diff. genres of books & books that we wouldn’t necessarily choose right away. We took some risks in our learning & recognized what we loved &willing to try in our reading exploration! 📚

6A had a beautiful opportunity to explore The History Box from the Canadian Museum of History. We explored Canadian artifacts with themes around identity, geography and environment, & Indigenous relations. @CanMusHistory

And here is the final display put up on our classroom’s Writing Wall of Frames!! @LC2_TDSB