St. Mary's Education Centre/Academy

Welcome back St. Mary’s Education Centre/Academy family and friends!

Staff at SMEC/A are very excited to welcome our new and returning students to fantastic learning opportunities and fun-filled events throughout the 2024-2025 academic school year.

At St. Mary’s Education Centre/Academy. we align our learning environment with the Strait Regional Centre for Education System Improvement Plan striving to foster student safety, well-being, and generating a variety of learning opportunities in an inclusive community atmosphere. We generate our Student Success Plan in correlation with the System Improvement Plan focusing on goals of well-being and improving student achievement through engaged literacy and mathematics.

As a member of staff here at St. Mary’s, I want to extend gratitude to Building Operator Jasper Jordan, Custodial staff Phillip Wilson, Sheryl Hodgson, and Terry Smith for the incredible work with preparation, planning, and placing our building in outstanding condition for our school community.

St. Mary’s Education Centre/Academy is delighted to welcome some new faces to our team. On Tuesday, September 10, 2024, we are hosting a ‘Meet the Teacher’ evening with ice-cream and snacks for introductions to our new staff members. Further communication will be sent via our messaging system regarding times for the evening.

The academic 2024-2025 school year also brings together the opportunity to continue fostering extra-curricular opportunities in athletics, arts, clubs, and music.

Communication will continue to be a focal point of our staff here at SMEC/A to inform families of learning opportunities and school activities. Specifically, we will share communications through our alert messaging system, Facebook page and website. We look forward to continuing our strong community engagement and involvement building trust, confidence, and connectivity with our students, staff and the broader community.

We wish all families a safe, and happy return to our 2024-2025 academic year and we as a staff are very excited to see those happy smiling faces working together with us to provide the best learning opportunities possible for our students.

Sincerely,
Trevor MacIsaac, Principal