Riverdale Chill!

You all are the BEST! Gonna miss you.....

What's up this summer?

Kids have different ideas about how to spend their summer time..... This script was written by a very clever grade 3 student who could see both sides of the story. Then he asked a classmate to help him bring his script to life in this video.

Take a look!

What's YOUR opinion? And, could you write and perform a cool play like this?

Write your comments below....

They think she is GREAT!

This short video speaks volumes!

posted by Ramzan and Tomas, grade 4 and 5

Talent Galore at NMPPS!

Check out this slideshow of our 2010 Talent Extravaganza!

Second installment, coming soon!

posted by Hana and Mandeq, grade 6

Roving Reporter Covers NMPPS Renos!

What's happening to our school?

posted by an extraordinary grade 3 reporter, with Ms Grann

A Fine Frogly Poem

posted by Helena, grade 6

EarthHour - coming up SOON! Don't miss it!!!

EarthGirl wants SunshineGirl to be more responsible, to stop wasting energy and water, and to keep the environment clean.

They want you to know YOU CAN make a difference, by turning your lights OFF for one hour this Saturday night, at 8:30.

Then look out your window, an watch REGENT PARK GO DARK!

Check out their video:

For more information check out the official world wide website: http://www.myearthhour.org//welcome

Thanks to a very special grade 7 student for helping us write this script, and to our wonderful mentor, Kate Bruce-Lockhart!

NEWS FLASH!!! Trip to GREENHOUSE

My class went to the green house and we learned about plants. It was a bit far and we go tired! We all had to walk in a long line and took one street car. Ms Wells and Darlene went with us. We planted bean seeds. We got to take the plant home and take care of it. It is still growing. I love to go on field trips!

posted by Ahmad, grade 4

The Tragedy in Haiti

You all probably know about the tragedy that unfortunately happened in Haiti. A massive earthquake hit Haiti causing major damage to a city named Port-au-Prince destroying houses, buildings and more, leaving many homeless. Many people were stuck under the rocks and crushed houses, many Canadians are missing in Haiti also. Aid organizations are working extremely hard to help free every person trapped under the rocks but they aren’t the only people helping out Haitians, emergency relief teams are providing medical help for the people of Haiti too.
All around the world are giving donations and even making benefit concerts to raise money for Haiti. Nelson Mandela Park Public School Girls’ Group were also helping raise money to support Haiti by creating this raffle contest to win some prizes. They sold the tickets at 25 cents and many people participated in the event. They raised about $500 WOW! Later on they organized a bake sale to also help Haiti through the crisis too.
Then later Haiti received at least 52 aftershocks. Almost 300, 000 people were found injured and 230,000 were found dead! It’s really sad and some of them are kids who have lost their families and maybe even their friends due to deadly the earthquake. Some people are still missing and they need any help they can get.

posted by Hana, grade 6

What will YOU do for 9 free days?

pic from www.fotosearch.com

March break is what we’ve all been waiting for!
It starts next Friday afternoon, March 12, at 3:30.
We have 9 whole days with NO school….what will YOU do?
Here are some ideas:
- Visit family
- Go for hot chocolate
- Play in the park
- Go skating
- Go to the candy store
- Sleep over at a friend’s house or family’s house
- Eat cookies and milk
- Stay home and read
- Go on the computer
- Play with your baby brother and sister

- Watch TV
- Go to sleep

- Play games
- Write a story about when I came to Canada
- Go sledding
- Go to watch a movie
- Go shopping
- Draw a picture

If you have other good ideas, share them by clicking "comments" below!

posted by Kamaria, grade 7

TURN OUT THOSE LIGHTS!!!!!

Click on the video arrow below!

posted by Tonusri, grade 3

Come to our Talent Show - it will be here soon!!!

Rainbow Colours

Room 19 loves the Olympics

My class is keeping track of Canada's Gold, Silver and Bronze medals. How we are doing it is using a bar graph. And if you want to know about the Olympics, check out this website!

http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-medals/medallists/index_ct-hX.html?cat1=CAN

Let's hope all our athletes have fun and do their best. We hope there are no injuries. We hope they win lots of medals.

posted by Tonusri, grade 3

Be a Junior Journalist !

Global Voices

Do you want to help around the world?

Do you want your writing to be published?

Well then Global Voices is your place.

Help around the world through writing!
Global Voices is a group of youths or Junior Journalists, who express themselves through writing. They write articles for the Toronto Star.

If you want be a junior journalist, then ask your teacher if you have the potential to be one. If your teacher recommends you then come to the Global Voices meeting that will be held in the school on March 3rd from 2:30-4pm. If you want to learn more, check out: http://www.thestar.com/topic/juniorjournalists.

You will be able to meet one of the Free the Children coordinators in the meeting as well.

posted by Emman, grade 8

Advice of the day


Do you want advice? Well we can help you accomplish that. We’re Dianna and Jasmine.

We give advice to you, so this is how our routine works. You send us an problem and we pick one of your problems and we write, it into a list whether it’s : bullying, being scared, friendship problems, school, fashion advice or boredom. Whether its here, there, big or small we can help you with it all.

So, click on “comments” below this post. Just write in your problems and we’ll have all your problems solved in no time. Start typing and your solution will come in a blink of an eye! (ASAP)

posted by Dianna and Jasmine (alias!)

Science Center Visit!

Room 19 and 15 are going to the Science Center!


On February 1st, room 15 and 19 are going to the Science Center. The Science Center is very fun. There are cool dinosaur bones. Dinosaurs lived a long time ago. Some ate plants and some ate meat. You can take pictures of the dinosaur bones. It is cool because they put the bones together to make them look like real dinosaurs. There is even a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Maybe you should go to the Science Center too!

Now we've been to the Science Center!

To get to the Science Center by bus it takes a few minutes. First we put our stuff in some of the lockers. We saw a very very big skeleton but we didn't know what it was. There was a place that you walk around the middle then you make a tornado. We saw a black "rat" snake and it was very cool. We got to touch it. We went into a room like a rainforest and it was very hot. There was a bridge that we got to walk on. In the water there was a turtle underneath the bridge. "Kids' Spark" was a very fun playground. There was also an arcade. I think the Science Center is a really cool place!

Games after class in Ms. Rachel's room

Language games are happening here!!!

On Fridays after school I like to go to room 16 to play games. The people there are Ahmad, Deb, Ms. Rachel, and Salman and Ramzan. Sometimes we play Word Bingo, sometimes we play Numbers, sometimes we play I Spy With My Little Eyes. I get to eat yogurt if I am hungry. We play so we can learn and have fun and be friends. Thanks to our teachers for letting us come on Fridays.

posted by Ahmad, grade 4

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Our Holiday Concert

December 15 2009 Nelson Mandela Park P.S. had our annual holiday concert. The concert was to celebrate the end of the calendar year and the start of the 2010 year. The concert had all sorts of wonderful holiday music such as the great holiday concert singers led by Ms. Werbitsky and Ms. Orpen, the rocking junior and senior band led by Mr. Rossetti and the sweet sound of the senior and junior steel pan led by Mr. Burgess. The concert started at 6pm and ended at 7pm.
Parents and friends were invited to the festivity to watch their kids perform and have fun on stage. If they got hungry Jean and her students baked around 200 chocolate chip cookies. They tasted really good but unfortunately they were gone so fast. Usually the holiday concert is held in the gym but this year was different, it was in the main foyer. The place was packed so many people came to see the wonderful things we had to show them. And we wowed them for sure, GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!

posted by Hana, grade 6

Our Rose Ceremony

Never Again!
Violence against Women

Today we want to talk to you about the ceremony that happens at our school every year on December the 6th. It reminds us that violence against women has happened in terrible ways, in the past, and we must be aware so it won’t happen any more. This is called the Rose Ceremony and it helps us to remember the 15 women engineering students who were killed at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. Each of the girls in the Leaders of Tomorrow represented one of the women, and honored her with a rose.

The 15 women were killed because they were studying and learning how to be engineers. The man who killed them was against women’s rights. The man’s name was Marc Lepine. This happened in December the 6th 1989. He was really evil to come into the school and murder all 15 women because he felt that women didn’t have the right to become engineers.

Women have rights and women can do anything that men can do. Especially they have the right to be free from the violence and oppression of men who want to limit them or hurt them.


Posted by Varda & Nadia, grade 6 and 5

Our Roving Reporter Interviews Teachers about R.P. Reno

I, Matthew, from room 25 in grade six, interviewed a few teachers about what they think about Regent Park and if they’re ready and excited about all the changes.

Last Monday I interviewed Mr. Ng, Ms Werbitsky and Ms Hersey, and this is what they think.

Mr. Ng hopes that the people who live here should come back when the buildings are nice and cleansed. He thinks that the kids in Regent Park are full of life and special and wonderful. He’s looking forward to the rest of the renovations.

Ms. Hersey thinks revitalization is a great idea because the buildings are very old and the streets need opening up. She hopes the school will have more modern equipment. She says our kids are REAL, and have HEART and even though they have different experiences they could all be SUCCESSFUL.

Ms. Werbitsky thinks there will be more activities in Regent Park when the buildings and the school are done. The tenants deserve new buildings. This will help decrease the violence, make everyone feel safer, and much more comfortable.

To skate - is great!

WE ARE GOING SKATING

Ms. Correia’s grade 3/4 class in room 19 are going to learn to skate. I think skating is going to be fun. There are a few other classes that are coming with us. My class is very excited. Maybe you can go skating too. We are crossing our fingers so we might go.

Tomorrow is our first day. We want to be safe so we are wearing helmets. No kids are allowed to bump into each other or push. New skaters are going to skate a little slower. An instructor is going to give lessons.

When we are finished skating, we are going to wipe our blades so they don’t rust. We will come back to class and keep working.



Posted by Tonusri, grade 3

Dance Diaries

"Victoria" and "Elisabeth" let you into their private correspondence, their innermost experiences of BALLROOM DANCING!

posted by two grade 6 young women who prefer to use their pseudonyms.

Phase One - What a Change!

We took a tour; here is what we found!