TISDALE — Stakeholders with the Tisdale Middle and Secondary School (TMSS) have voted 87 per cent in favour of adopting a new logo.
The new logo was designed by Cheyenna Kidd, an artist and former student of the school.
The original logo, as well as the Tornado name, was created through a collaboration of students when TMSS first opened.
The new logo removes Raja, the school’s Siberian Tiger mascot and features the tornado more prominently. The middle of it reads, “TMSS Tornados”, where the original had “Home of the” on top, then “Tornados” at the bottom. The middle of it has Raja lunging out of a tornado funnel.
David Painchaud, vice-principal at TMSS, said while the current logo is filled with history, it causes some confusion in regards to their sports teams’ identity as the Tornados.
Through his 12 years with TMSS, he said he has received several questions from other sports teams, as well as students, for what the logo represents.
“We’ve had opponents and other students come up to me and say, ’Are you guys the TMSS Tornados, or the TMSS Tigers, or are you the Tiger Tornados, what are you?’ So there is some confusion our logo, I feel, brings,” Painchaud said.
“It’s shared among other students as well, they see that there is a little bit of confusion under our current logo.”
Painchaud ensured that the Raja would remain the school’s mascot, and the Tornado name will remain the same to keep the history there.
“We’ve removed Raja just from the logo, we’re not removing Raja from the school. Raja will continue being an ambassador for TMSS.”
TMSS’ new logo was released in a reveal video that can be found at: https://youtu.be/V_kvb6-YwYM.
Painchaud said Kidd was chosen because of her connections to the school.
“Being a recent grad, I reached out to her to see if she would be interested in collaborating and coming up with some ideas.”
The poll to decide whether to change the logo to the new design was held on Facebook from June 2 to 5 with 224 respondents.
“We initially released it to staff and students,” Painchaud said, adding that this was changed to include all stakeholders. “Given it’s open, anyone can vote on it.”
The logo is planned to be implemented this fall.
