Summer is upon us and

another busy school year

filled with memories and

achievements has come to an

end! Malvern students have

once again reached new

heights in academics, athlet-

ics and the arts. Our students

showcased their many talents

in various productions such

as Docudramas, Battle of the

Bands, Fashion Show, Board-

walk Ball and our expanded

Art Exhibit.

Our school continues to

shine in many sports through-

out the city and the province.

Sincere congratulations go

out to our coaches, advisors

and athletes who have made

us very proud of their incredi-

ble dedication and accom-

plishments. Many teams were

active during our Spring

Sports Season. This year for

the first time Malvern had its

first ever Ultimate Frisbee

Team which competed enthu-

siastically against more expe-

rienced teams. We look for-

ward to their fast paced play

next year! Our Boys Baseball

team is in the process of re-

building and Mr. Salvatore

has declared their play this

season indicates they have a

very promising future for next

year. We had 2 Girls Soccer

teams this year with the Tier 1

team losing in the first round

of playoffs. Our Boys Rugby

team is also in a growth year

and Mr. Underwood is very

encouraged with his Grade 9

players and optimistic about

our play for next year. Our

Track and Field Team

coached by Ms Blackmore

had a very successful season

with a large number of ath-

letes going on to OFSAA. Con-

gratulations to Kersti Sorra who

placed 8th in triple jump, Amy

Carpenter who placed 8th in

shot put, Sarah Emilio who was

4th in the 1500 meter race and

Peter Nikolovski who placed 8th

in shot put and brought home

the Bronze Medal in discus.

Our Boys Lacrosse Team head-

ed by Mr. Steel made us all

very proud as they were once

again City Champions and went

on to represent us at the OF-

SAA Lacrosse Festival. Finally,

kudos to our Girls Rugby Team

coached by Ms Gage and Ms

Tyrell who were City Champions

for the third year in a row and

made their incredible 4th trip to

OFSAA where they placed 5th. I

am also very proud to mention

that Ms Gage and Ms Tyrell

were the recent recipients of 2

very prestigious TDSSAA Lead-

ership Awards. Ms Gage won

the Doug Lougheed award for

her outstanding leadership in

athletics and Ms Tyrell the

TDSSAA Leadership Award for

her exceptional contributions to

high school sports. Malvern is

indeed very fortunate to have

such exceptional teachers and

coaches on staff.

Malvern students once again

had tremendous opportunities

for travel and excursions this

year. In addition to many local

and out of province excursions

such as Stratford and Bark

Lake they were able to travel to

New York, Boston, the Galapa-

gos, Greece, Italy, France and

Vimy Ridge. These wonderful

learning experiences take

place because our teachers

give up a lot of their time and

energy to make sure that our

students get the most out of

their time at school inside and

outside the classroom. A sin-

cere thank you to our teachers

and support staff for all that

they do each day for our stu-

dents.

I am extremely pleased to

announce that for the third

year in a row Malvern has

achieved Platinum Level desig-

nation for Eco Schools. In such

an old building with a pool re-

quiring a tremendous amount

of energy this is not an easy

award to achieve. Thanks to

Mr. Steel, Ms Farintosh and

Eco Schools Council president

Leila White who worked with

our staff, students and Science

Club members to make this

possible. Finally, various stu-

dent groups showed all of us

that they really do care for the

less fortunate. The MSAA Spor-

tathon held in March raised

over $2,500.00 with the bulk

of the proceeds going to sup-

port the Food Bank at Corvette

PS. As well, our popular and

well attended “Malvern’s Night

Out” Fashion Show raised over

$3,600.00 for the Red Door

Shelter.

Our Parents and Community

members continue to work

hard to make Malvern a better

place. The last phase of our

War Memorial Restoration in-

cluded a beautification plan of

the area surrounding our War

Memorial. Thanks to the lead-

ership of Ms. Farintosh and

members of the Beaches Gar-

den Society who worked togeth-

er with neighbours and Malvern

students in planting 2 beautiful

new gardens in front of the

school. They hope to plant red

and black tulips this fall and

continually add to their work as

time goes on. Many thanks to

our parents headed by co-chair

Casey Fleming as well as Diane

Principal’s Message Important Dates

2012/2013

August 29th —Registration Grades 9 &

10

August 30th—Registration Grades 11 &

12

September 3rd —Labour Day Holiday

September 4th—First Day of School

(Special Schedule)

September 11th—Home & School Coun-

cil Meeting (7:00 pm)

September 25th—Leadership Camp

September 27th—Gr. 9 Parents’ Night

September 27th—Terry Fox Run

September 28th—Gr. 9 Elections/Co-

Curricular Fair

October 5th—Red & Black Day

November 9th —Commencement

November 29th—Parent/Teacher Inter-

views

December 24th to January 4th—Winter

Break

February 14th— Progress Reports

February 21st—Parent/Teacher Inter-

views

March 11th to March 15th—Spring Break

April 11th—EQAO Literacy Test

May 10th -12th 110th Anniversary/

Reunion

June 3rd & 4th—EQAO Math Test

June 7th—Boardwalk Ball

June 12th to 25th—Exams

Inside this issue:

Malvern’s New Garden 2

Best Buddies 2012 3

Successful Art Show 3

Spanish Exchange 4

Track Team’s Season 5

Boys’ Lacrosse City Champs 6

Guidance News 7

06/2012

June 29, 2012

MALVERN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE 55 Malvern Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4E 3E4

Telephone: (416) 393-1480 http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/malvern Fax: (416) 393-1493

Malvern Collegiate Institute

Wyman and David Studer who are work-

ing on updating our Grade 9 parent hand-

book which will be distributed to our new

parents in August. I would also like to

acknowledge our Home and School Coun-

cil Executive comprised of Casey Fleming,

Diane Wyman, Vicky Tsorlinis and Dianne

Chadwick who have done an outstanding

job keeping parents informed, supporting

our Commencement, inviting guest speak-

ers for parents and helping organize the

Boardwalk Ball. Finally, I do want to recog-

nize our wonderful “Basket Queen and

Malvern Ambassador Extraordinaire”

Vicky Tsorlinis who has worked tirelessly

since September in planning every aspect

of an incredibly successful fundraising

marathon which culminates with our June

Boardwalk Ball held at Bluffers Restau-

rant on June 8th. The evening featuring

the talents of our outstanding music stu-

dents led by Mr. Falla and Ms Norris

raised over $6,000.00 for Commence-

ment awards and bursaries for our gradu-

ates. Well done Vicky and all of our par-

ents who helped out with this event! It

was certainly an evening to remember.

We are already busy planning for the

next school year. Once again we will have

early registration dates on August 29th

and 30th for picking up timetables and

agendas. We are requesting that students

bring $75.00 with them which will cover

the cost of yearbooks, agendas, school

photo cards, fridge magnets as well as

support for our tremendous array of

clubs, teams and extra -curricular pro-

grams. Please see the enclosed Registra-

tion Bulletin for more details. Please note

that changes to the timetables in Septem-

ber may only be considered due to con-

flicts, summer school results or gradua-

tion requirements. Students are expected

to carry their courses through June once

programs have been settled in Septem-

ber. Withdrawal in a course will only be

considered if a student has made a sin-

cere effort in the course.

There are a number of staff members

who will sadly not be with us next year. I

would like to extend my best wishes to

the following valued staff members who

will not be returning to Malvern in Sep-

tember: Mr. Lawrence, Ms Acorn, Ms Fon-

tes, Ms Blackmore, Ms Farintosh, Ms

Khan, Ms Furgiuele and Mr. Bergeron. All

the best next year to Ms Grzela in our

Guidance Department who will moving to

Monarch Park CI as the new Assistant

Curriculum Leader for Guidance. We also

have 4 retirements of key individuals who

will start new life adventures this July: Ms

Copeland our Assistant Curriculum Leader

for Guidance has been at Malvern since

2001, Mr. Fallis in our English Depart-

ment here since 1994, Ms Bradbeer in

our Special Education and English areas

has been with us since 1980 and Ms

Rutledge our invaluable support on so

many levels in the Main office will be leav-

ing us after over 24 years at Malvern. A

sincere thank you goes out to all depart-

ing staff for your many years of service to

staff, students and parents here at Mal-

vern. We are sad to see you go and you

will be sorely missed!

Classes for the fall term will begin with a

special schedule Tuesday September 4th.

Grade 9 students will report to the audito-

rium at 9:00 a.m. and will be dismissed

by 11:30 a.m. Students in grades 10 to

12 should report to school by 1:00 p.m.

Master lists of home form classrooms will

be posted in several locations on the first

floor. Students should locate their home

form classes, be in attendance by 1:00

p.m. and will be dismissed by 2:00 p.m.

School will resume with a regular sched-

ule for all students on Wednesday Sep-

tember 5th.

This year we worked very hard with our

parents, staff, peer leaders and Equity

Council members to incorporate anti-

hazing initiatives in our curriculum and

our activities such as our Equity Confer-

ence, Pink Day and Peace Week. The

efforts are reaping their rewards as we

have had a noticeable positive improve-

ment in school in the tone and no reports

of any hazing incidents last September.

We hope to continue these measures as

well as special activities and schedules

planned for our new Grade 9 students in

September along with our Peer Leaders.

We fully expect that all of our Grade 10 to

12 students will continue to model and

demonstrate appropriate caring and com-

passionate behavior to appropriately wel-

come our new Grade 9 students.

In closing, I want to sincerely thank all of

the members of the Malvern Community

for their tremendous support throughout

the year and wish all of you a safe, peace-

ful and enjoyable summer!

Line Pinard

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We Have a Garden!

Thank you to all who helped make our

Malvern garden a success. The Beaches

Garden Society along with Lisa Orridge

(local garden designer) and many Malvern

students helped plant two beds on Mal-

vern Ave. The two gardens have native

plants as well as weeping white pines to

commemorate the sacrifice of past Mal-

vern grads. A large part of the funding

came from the MRBS as well as a local

Canadian Tire grant. Many of our classes,

including our EcoSchools club, helped in

prepping the beds, weeding, digging

holes, spreading mulch and soil. A huge

thank you to our two neighbourhood vol-

unteers who are watering the beds

throughout the summer. This could not

have been accomplished without all of

your help!

Heather Farintosh

New York City

2013

Malvern Collegiate Institute

“That’s a famous school.”

Is what a fellow said to me recently in a

downtown elevator. You see I was wear-

ing a Malvern coaching jacket.

Malvern is a prestigious public high

school with a long and illustrious history.

Parents, alumni, teachers, students and

the Beaches community want it to be the

best school it can be.

These days there are things the Toronto

District School Board can’t fund. Like

some school trips, athletic equipment,

musical instruments, academic awards,

auditorium seats and more. The list is

long. And that is where the Onward Mal-

vern Foundation comes in. Malvern

stakeholders can donate towards school

projects and receive an income tax re-

ceipt. This year we are featuring the

2012 Malvern Catalogue. To donate,

please visit www.Canadahelps.org. And if

you have any questions please don’t hesi-

tate to phone me at 416 690 8801 ext.

233.

Steve Thomas

New York City scheduled for Thanksgiving

of 2013. It seems like a long way away,

but some students may want to consider

where they want this summer’s employ-

ment money to go. It’s important to start

saving now, because payment for the trip

will begin part way through the coming

school year. Most of the payment will be

completed before the start of next sum-

mer, so it’s this summer’s money that

counts. Students going into gr. 10 and 11

for September 2012 will be offered the

opportunity to attend this fabulous trip.

More information will follow in the fall.

Sean Matthews

Thank you to Erin Boyd and Katarina

Young, for co-coordinating this event as

well as many others. As both Erin and

Katarina are graduating next year, next

year’s coordinators are Sara Jarvis and

Heather Kee. Cecily Boyd and Justine

Tenzer grade 10 students, will also be

helping to recruit more members in Sep-

tember. Come out and join us and share a

part of life you may never otherwise expe-

rience.

Marie Axler

This year the Malvern Best Buddies Chap-

ter engaged in another rewarding year

with our Buddies at Danforth Technical

and Collegiate Institute. Other than our

activity filled visits with the Danforth

chapter, Malvern hosted a spectacular

day of games, drumming and lunch dur-

ing Equity Week. A shout out to Mr. Kalim

for leading the very popular drumming

circle at the event. Visit the MCI Clubs

page for photos.

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Onward Malvern Foundation

Best Buddies 2012

The Malvern Art Show on May 3 was a

huge success. Everyone I spoke to was

very impressed with the quality of work on

display. One parent even said, “I had no

idea there was such a good art program

at Malvern!” We owe it all to the students,

really. Their contributions to the show

were very impressive. The Beach Metro

News did a feature photo on their front

page of Emma Burkeitt, pictured with her

artwork and SNAP magazine included a

section in one of their papers with a few

photos of guests and artwork.

It is our hope that we will do another show

next year, expanding into other depart-

ments within the school, so keep your

eyes open for that.

Sean Matthews

Malvern Art Show a Success!

This is an announcement so that families

can start planning ahead for the grade 11

and 12 Visual Arts and Media Arts trip to

Making Music

Malvern Collegiate Institute Page 4

The Peer Leaders have been busy prepar-

ing for the next group of Grade Nine stu-

dents. With the changing of the guards,

we are happy to announce that Adrian

Hutcheson and Jaimie Wilson are taking

on the role of Super Captains for 2012 –

2013 school year. We would like to thank

Catharine MacKeigan and Dylan Ciccarelli

for their outstanding contribution to the

Peer Leader group this past year. Also,

thanks to the graduating Peer Leaders

who dedicated their time and energy to

ensuring that the transition for the Grade

Nine students to High School was a mem-

orable one.

Our new Peer Leaders will be participating

in some training prior to the first week of

school. The first week of school will be a

busy one with the Peer Leaders organiz-

ing activities for the Grade Nines as well

as ensuring that students arrive and de-

part safely from school.

We would like to thank all of the Peer

Leaders for their contribution to school

life here at Malvern. We would also like

to thank Ms. Copeland for all of her sup-

port over the many years that she has

been in Guidance. We hope that she

enjoys her time in retirement.

Claudine Tyrell

Malvern's language department is plan-

ning to offer students the chance to par-

ticipate in an exchange with a school in

Spain next school year. Students would

travel to Spain for 2 weeks in March

2013, and host a Spanish student for 2

weeks at another time during the year

(the hosting time is still to be confirmed).

The exchange is open to all Malvern stu-

dents.

Peer Leaders

ing events, and displaying their passion

for music. We would also like to thank

the Music Student Council for contribu-

tion to this years success. Lastly, but not

least, we would also like to thank the

students for their commitment and dedi-

cation to this program for it would not be

what it is without them. Thank you!

Mike Falla & Laura Norris

Spanish Exchange

To say this year has been busy is a bit of

an understatement. For example, we

performed at Red and Black Day, Board-

walk Ball, Graduation, Parents nights,

Winter and Spring Concerts, Assemblies,

Parades, and the Music Annual Depart-

ment's Fundraising Dance. It also brought

on some new and exciting performance

opportunities such as the jazz Choir and

jazz Combo performances at a fundraiser

for the Turner Syndrome Society of Cana-

da, the marching band in a Coca Cola

commercial, Jazz Vespers at Beach United

church, Courcelette's 100th anniversary,

jazz night with the Jazz 91.1FM Youth

Band, and the featured performances of

the concert choir and senior concert band

at Massey Hall for the Sounds of Toronto

evening.

Every year we perform at music festivals.

This year our Jr. Concert Band performed

at the York Region Arts Alive festival

achieving a Bronze rating. As part of our

music trip to Boston, Massachusetts our

senior concert band, senior jazz band,

jazz choir, and girls choir performed at

the Worldstrides Heritage Performance

Festival where we received high acco-

lades and large trophies. A great trip had

by all.

Laura Norris and I would like to thank our

Music Parents Council for their effort this

year for helping out at concerts, fundrais-

If you would like more information,

please speak with la señora Geddes.

Listen in September for announcements

of meetings to organize the trip.

Janine Geddes

MALVERN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE

Malvern Collegiate Institute

Congratulations to all members of Mal-

vern’s track and field team for a spectac-

ular season. All of the hard practices paid

off, as our athletes had many outstanding

performances at the meets we attended.

At the South Regional Championships,

our team placed fourth overall and

brought home 11 gold, 10 silver, and 10

bronze medals. We were also the Senior

Girls Champions in the South Region!

Nineteen athletes made it on to the Metro

Championships, where they would com-

pete for a spot at OFSAA. At Metros, Amy

Carpenter placed 1st in shotput and Ker-

sti Sorra was 1st in triple jump. Peter

Nikolovski was 1st in discus and 2nd in

shotput. Adrianna So was 4th in triple

jump and Jessica Lemieux was 3rd in long

jump. Roz Harvey Ridout and Dylan Cic-

carelli both placed 4th in the sprint hur-

dles. Kate McCubbin-Sprack was 3rd and

Sarah Emilio finished 4th in the 3000m.

Special mention goes out to the senior

girls relay team who was yet again so

close to qualifying, placing 5th with a new

best time of 51.77 seconds in the

4x100m relay.

At OFSAA, Peter Nikolovski won the

bronze in discus and finished 8th in shot-

put. Sarah Emilio ran a personal best time

of 10:02 in the 3000m, finishing 4th and

beating her time from last year at OFSAA

by 18 seconds! Kersti Sorra finished 7th in

triple jump and Amy Carpenter placed 8th

in shotput. Adrianna, Jess, Kate, Roz and

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Track Team’s Spectacular Season!

This year, as a result of a great turnout at

tryouts, we were able to have both a Tier I

and Tier II Girls Rugby team. The Tier II

team consisted of mostly grade 9 stu-

dents who were eager and willing to learn.

They played their hearts out and never

gave up. We look forward to seeing all of

the players again next year.

The Tier I team had another undefeated

season and went to Ottawa for the fourth

time to participate in the OFSAA Champi-

onships. They battled in a tough first-

round against Sacred Heart, scoring in

the final minutes of the game. Round -

two saw the team play against a deter-

mined St. Peter’s Secondary School. Un-

fortunately, the girls were not able to

score and lost that battle. The pride of

wearing the Malvern jersey came through

when the team defeated a feisty Mayfield

team by a score of 8 – 7 in their friendly

match. Congratulations to the girls on a

very exciting season. We would like to

take this opportunity to wish our graduat-

ing group: Margaux Daly, Catharine

MacKeigan, Abi Moody, Jamie Porter, and

Katarina Young all the best in their future

endeavours.

Coach Tyrell

Dylan also competed at OFSAA and did

very well this season!

All team members should be proud of the

efforts they put forth and the success

they achieved throughout the season.

Congrats to our MVA’s Adrianna So, Peter

Nikolovski, and Jordan O’Connor. Good

luck next year .

Coaches Blackmore & Grzela

BLACK KNIGHT SPORTS

Girls’ Rugby 2012

Football

Pre-Season

Malvern Collegiate Institute

The 2012 version of Malvern rugby fea-

tured a bantam and a senior team. The

bantam team was made up of a spirited

group of grade 9s who demonstrated en-

tertaining wit off the field and sparkling

rugby on the field. Malvern ran into a few

injury problems mid-season and suffered

two losses. The team returned to full

strength and form at the end of the sea-

son handing Northern their only loss and

winning their final game over a massive

Laurier squad. A great combination of

speed and skill in the backfield and fitness

and determination in the forwards will

make this a squad to be reckoned with in

the future. A 2014 OFSAA date is surely in

the cards.

The senior team boasted a large number

of players this year, many of them totally

new to the game. The Black Knights post-

ed some big wins during the regular sea-

son over Leaside, Humberside, Forest Hill,

and North Toronto, but suffered defeats to

Northern and Lawrence Park. The city

semi-final versus Northern was a game

that could have gone our way, but some

unfortunate events resulted in a loss. The

third place finish was good enough to

qualify Malvern for the city play downs. On

a hot, humid day, the lads gave a spirited

effort, but were unable to keep pace with

Thomson. We say thanks and good luck to

our graduating players, and to those re-

turning, start working on that fitness now!

Coach Underwood

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Successful Season for the Lady

Knights

Boys’ Rugby

The Varsity Boys baseball

team had a successful

rebuilding year finishing

4th in the south region

Tier 1 league. The 2012

edition Black Knights

included some of the

most talented junior aged players in the

city. Despite only having one senior aged

starter the team compiled a 4-3-1 record

and seemed poised to make a run deep

into the playoffs. In the city quarterfinals

against Humberside the boys played a

hard fought game but fell in 10 innings.

The team will surely learn from these

tough games and be ready to make a run

for the City Championships in 2013.

Coaches Blackmore, Salvatore and

Thomas

All boys interested in playing Jr. & Sr.

football for Malvern this fall are asked to

attend a mini-camp held on August 28th,

29th & 30th, from 11:00 am -1:00 pm on

the Malvern field. All grade nine students

are encouraged to attend the camp as

no pre- vious experi-

ence playing foot-

ball is required.

Players should bring

a water bottle and

appro- priate foot-

wear to the training

sessions.

Coaches Salvatore & Underwood

Boys’ Lacrosse

City Champs 2012

BLACK KNIGHT SPORTS

The Malvern Lacrosse team regained their place at the top of the standings this year after falling short in 2011. The Black Knights cruised through the regular season, culminating in a hard-fought win against East York for the City Championship Gold Medal. Under the leadership of team cap-tain Blair McDonald, the boys travelled to Brampton for the OFSAA provincial champi-onships. Despite stellar performances from Braeden Dale, Andres Kopstals and Eliot Foster, Malvern did not move on to the medal matches. Congratulations to the boys for another winning season and spe-cial thanks to our coaches Brett Kikot, Da-mon Edwards and Aaron Brown.

Mark Steel

Varsity Boys’

Baseball

Ontario Universities

Ontario Universities Admission

Information Service

June 6 – August 31, 2012

Qualified Ontario secondary school stu-

dents applying for admission to an Ontar-

io University for September 2012 who do

not receive an offer of admission can

inquire about possible openings at other

Ontario universities through the OUAC

(Ontario Universities Application Centre).

Check their web site www.ouac.on.ca or

call (519) 823-1063 Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday and Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00

p.m., Thursday: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Val Copeland

GUIDANCE NEWS

If you haven’t applied to college but wish

to do so or if you were not accepted into

your chosen program, visit

www.ontariocolleges.ca and check out

which programs are still taking applica-

tions for September.

To find out which programs are still open,

search by program availability and apply

as soon as possible to get into the pro-

gram of your choice for September.

Jenna Grzela

Ontario Colleges

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