New principal at Prince Charles Public School

Jenna Leslie | Oct 05, 2016

Peter Mouncey has taken over the role as school principal at Prince Charles Public School in Verona for the 2016-2017 school year.

“I truly believe in education, particularly public education, as something that can be transformative,” he says. “It can change individual lives; it can change communities and when we do a good job with our schools then I think we’re doing a good job with our society.”

Mouncey has been with the Limestone District School Board since 2000. He got his first position as a vice-principal and has not slowed down since. He has worked at seven different schools since starting with the board. Before Prince Charles he was at First Avenue, Marysville, Holsgrove, Selby, Westdale Park, Southview and Winston Churchill.

Mouncey says that growing up he was always drawn to teaching. Whether it was as a leader at cub scouts, camp counselor, Sunday school teacher or tutor, he has always had a love for leadership.

“Anything that a teenager could do that was directed towards working with children I just gravitated to naturally,” he says. “I really can’t imagine doing anything else with my life.”

After graduating from the Queen’s University Concurrent Education program, Mouncey got his first teaching job working at an international school with his wife Sharon Isbell in Hong Kong. It was there that he and Isbell got married.

The two of them stayed in Hong Kong for two years before moving back to Canada to start teaching in Eastern Ontario.

The Cobourg native got his first taste of Verona in the summer of 1977 while playing in a baseball tournament. After getting a co-op with an outdoor and experiential education program in his final year of teachers’ college, Mouncey returned to Frontenac and really started to fall in love with the area.

He and his family made the move to the Kingston area in the summer of 2000 and have been here ever since. Now with three children, the couple spends their time racing from work to hockey arenas and dance studios.

Mouncey says that he was very pleased to get the position in the Verona area. He says that the students and parent community at the school have been incredibly welcoming of him. He has loved his time at Prince Charles so far and is looking forward to a great school year.

“I can’t emphasize enough how well this first month has gone,” says Mouncey. “I truly have felt very welcomed and supported. There are folks in Verona and the surrounding area who really do value and support their school and I’d like to thank everybody for how things have gone so far.”