Crestwood’s YARRD (Youth against Racial and Religious Discrimination) held its annual Valentine’s Day Candy-Gram Toonie Grub Day. All week long students have been hard at work preparing for the event, buying, selling, and making Candy-Grams, which were delivered Wednesday in homeroom. Proceeds will go to support Native Child, maintaining Crestwood’s commitment to reconciliation. […]
Last Friday, February 9th the Crestwood Community came together to celebrate the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year. Students, parents and teachers gathered together to eat, celebrate and welcome the “year of the dog”. Student volunteers organized the event, hosted the evening and entertained the crowd with singing, dancing, musical acts and even a yo-yo […]
Crestwood students participated in UTMUN last weekend, braving the snow and the perils of international diplomacy as they debated and passed resolutions, and staved off or caused grave international conflict! Congratulations to all the students, with a special mention to Tristan Agensky for his delegate award. […]
Important Dates, Upcoming Events, and Financing Post-Secondary Education [VIDEOS] View Online Important Dates, Events, and Financing Education | February 2018 An Evening with King’s – Toronto * Free on-the-spot admissions * * Applicants can enter a draw towin FYP books for next year * Prospective students and their families are invited to join us onFebruary 22, 2018 for An Evening […]
Happy Family Day Weekend! We wish everyone a very enjoyable Family Day long weekend. Hope to see you at Trivia Night this Thursday, February 22 at Revival. It will be great fun for a great cause. Next pizza lunch is this Friday, February 23. […]
A Message Released by the Reach Organization Reach has just been named the recipient of a $30,000 donation from TD Securities Underwriting Hope fund, and all because Alexa Gibson fiercely advocated on behalf of the charity! Alexa’s father, Glenn Gibson, works for TD Securities. It all started when Alexa Gibson and her partner, both students […]
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Basketball The U14 Boys’ Basketball team ended their last game of the season this past Monday against Bayview Glen with an impressive 66-48 win. Well done to the entire team for some great teamwork! Playoffs begin end of February, please come out and support the Lions as they push to maintain their undefeated record this […]
Hockey After a two week hiatus, the Varsity Hockey Team took to the ice last night against RSGC. The team started off sluggish and slow, but were able to turn things around by the end of the second period. With some spectacular saves by Roy Pejcinovski down the stretch and some explosive offence from Sam […]
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Please see below, a message from New Paramount Studios. […]
This year’s multicultural day was once again a big success! The grade 8 and 9 geography students put on a fantastic symposium of food. They successfully showcased their country’s culture, climate, politics and especially native dress. We successfully raised enough money to cover our 3 foster kids once again. Thank you to all those who […]
On Monday, Mr. Jull led a group of Grade 7 and 8 students to the Mattamy Athletic Centre at Ryerson University to participate in the Toronto Regional Heat of the Kids Lit Quiz competition. This is an international contest where teams of elementary-aged students answer questions from the genres of classical and contemporary children’s literature. […]
Applications for the Summer 2018 #YouthAmbassadors Program with Canada are now OPEN! The program brings together students, ages 15 to 18 who will not be graduating June 2018, and adult mentors from across Canada to promote mutual understanding, increase leadership skills, and position youth to make a difference in their communities. The Youth Ambassadors Program […]
Upcoming Events P.A. Coffee and Meeting – February 15 at 8:45 am Please join us for coffee and conversation in the boardroom. Everyone is invited to attend and the coffee is really good. Trivia Night – February 22 Come out for a great evening at Revival for Trivia Night in support of The Crestwood Foundation. Pizza Lunch – February […]
Mr. Scott Masters and students from the Grade 12 History class will be visiting Branch 10 of the Royal Canadian Legion, where they will deliver a talk on “The Asian Perspective in WW2”, using testimony from their oral history interviews. The talk will take place at 11AM on Saturday, February 24 – a great event for those who want […]
Ella Lee-O’Rourke (class of ’22), Chiara Codron (class of ’23), Kian Torabi (class of ’22) spent their PA day at this year’s Future Prize 2018 organized by Future Design School. Our Crestwood team named “Kids of Tomorrow!” spent five hours prior to the contest to survey and interview users and research possible solutions. The group decided […]
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Upcoming Events Chinese New Year Celebration – February 9 Hope to see you at the Crestwood Chinese New Year Celebration at the Crown Prince Banquet Hall. P.A. Coffee and Meeting – February 15 at 8:45am Please join us for coffee and conversation in the boardroom. Trivia Night – February 22 Come out for a great evening at […]
Reminder that course selection is due on Wednesday, February 14th. […]
On Tuesday January 30th over 50 basketball players from the lower school and over 50 basketball players from the Upper School got together at the college to enjoy some fun and games. Teams consisted of players from Grade 3 – 10, with Grade 11’s and 12’s refereeing. Teams scrimmaged and played together and then enjoyed […]
Volleyball On Wednesday, the Junior Girls’ Volleyball team traveled to TMS. In our first meeting, TMS beat us 3-2 so the girls were determined to avenge this loss. Right from the first point, the ladies were focused and showed the hustle that would be needed for victory. With amazing net play from both Megan Pearlman […]
The Crestwood Oral History Project is hard at work this month. World War Two veterans and Holocaust survivors have been visiting with the CHC2D students, helping them to complete their oral history interviews. Earlier this week Mr. Masters and Mr. Hawkins took 21 students to Sunnybrook, where 5 veterans were interviewed. They included army, navy […]
Edward Li generously donated his fencing prize money this past week to the LivWise Foundation. Thank you Edward! […]
We heard our CPC Lions roar this week!!! The Athletic Council put together another awesome spirit week again this year. The week was filled with fun theme days, staff vs student challenges, senior CISAA games, and spirit rallies. Students could be seen walking the halls in pjs, western gear, rainbow colours in support of pride […]
Crestwood is having a Chinese New Year celebration on Friday, February 9th at the Crown Prince Banquet from 5:00-7:30 pm. It is a great evening of dining and entertainment. Everyone is invited! Tickets are $45 for dinner and wonderful performances. […]
On January 18th 2018, Edward Li travelled to Quebec city to compete in the 2018 Canada Cup East. In this tournament he fenced in the Men’s Foil Junior Teams, which is an event where a maximum of four people on a team compete with other teams and try to reach for the top. There were […]
Basketball The Junior Boys’ CISAA basketball team picked up a huge win over St. Mike’s 79-72 on Wednesday afternoon. The boys led 48-25 at halftime, but St. Mike’s would not go away in the 2nd half, closing the lead to 1 point with less than 3 minutes to play. The Lions regained their composure though, […]
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Information regarding the Parent-teacher Interviews and instructions on how to book a time-slot were included with the report cards. All interview bookings are taking place through Edsby. The ability to book appointments will remain open until Tuesday, January 30th at 3 pm. If you are having difficulties logging into Edsby please contact Mr. Matthew David at […]
Students in Grade 12 Chemistry completed their Organic Chemistry unit by making a common medication used to treat pain, fever and inflammation called acetylsalicylic acid, more commonly known as Aspirin. Over the course of three days, students completed a traditional organic chemistry lab where they were responsible for synthesizing (creating) aspirin by performing an esterification […]
Please welcome Chef Julian Castano to our Crestwood Food Service team. Chef Julian started his culinary career at the age of 17, with the help of his family, while still at home in Columbia. Those lessons learned within his family restaurant gave him the foundation to transport his talent to Canada 8 years ago. We […]
Swimming It was an early start to the Wednesday. We hadn’t had a chance to get our practice on. The water was cold. So cold. Then things started to change when Zach Brown zapped through his 50m Freestyle and dropped 5 seconds from his personal best time. Even after an uncertain start, Amy Cai placed […]
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On Friday, we had the pleasure of having Anne Michaels visit at Crestwood for our CPC poetry readings. Anne Michaels is Toronto’s current Poet Laureate. Ms. Michaels is a decorated novelist and poet, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Toronto Book Award, a two-time finalist for the Giller Prize, the Griffin Poetry […]