Crestwood Gives – Holiday of Hope

We would like to thank the entire Crestwood community for all the amazing donations for our Holiday of Hope Hampers in support of Durham Children’s Aid.  Because of so many generous donations we were able to help 6 families receive EVERYTHING on their Christmas list.  The Durham Children’s Aid Society and the families they support were extremely grateful

Guidance News (Dec. 4)

Post-Secondary Applications The Guidance department would like to remind all grade 12s to take the time this weekend to make any last minute changes to their post-secondary applications and submit by Monday December 7, 2020. This is a reminder that December 7 is Crestwood’s in-house deadline. Students may still choose submit their applications until the

CPC’s Virtual Festival of Arts & Technology

The Festival of the Arts evenings is an amazing way to celebrate Crestwood Art, Music, Drama, and Technology by showcasing CPC student’s abilities.  Traditionally, we transform our hallways into displays of talent and creativity. However, the Arts never sleep. Therefore, we have decided to take the Festival of the Arts from the classrooms and halls of Crestwood to your home in our Virtual Festival of the Arts. If you

CPC Webinar: Building Community Resilience in a Time of Chaos

This is a reminder that next week the Guidance department is pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar: “Building Community Resilience in a Time of Chaos“, presented by clinical Social Work/Therapist, Tim Sitt. Due to the global pandemic, students are experiencing significant struggles related to their mental health. The upcoming webinar will provide tools

Holiday of Hope

Thank you to so many of you that have made generous donations to our Holiday of Hope already.  As we shift to online learning for the next week we understand that dropping off donations is more difficult.  We have been in contact with the Children’s Aid Society and they have given us an extension until

Meet the Teacher: Lisa Belanger

Meet the Teacher:  Lisa Belanger Subject:  Visual Arts, ESL & Classical Civilization Grades:   7 – 12 Ms. Belanger grew up in a very loving home in Scarborough. She has one older brother and continues to be very close to her family.  She went to Wexford School of the Arts, which is located not far from Crestwood.

Guidance News (Nov. 20th)

What’s Next? All grade 12s now have access to their post-secondary applications (Ontario, Canada, US and abroad). It is important that they take the time to populate, review and submit these applications over the next few weeks. The major dates and deadlines are listed below: Ontario Universities • December 7, 2020 (Crestwood Deadline) • January

Youth Against Racial and Religious Discrimination Club

On Thursday November 19th, grade 12 students in Mr. Hawkins Challenge and Change in Society class, along with members of the Youth Against Racial and Religious Discrimination club were lucky to be visited (via Zoom) by Mr. Farley Flex. In addition to being a major name in Canadian entertainment, Mr. Flex is an anti-racism educator

Anti-Bullying Week at CPC

This week it was great to see so many CPC students and staff getting involved in Anti-Bullying activities going on throughout the week.  We kicked off the week with Odd Sock Day. Odd Sock Day was started in England a few years ago to send the message that we are all unique in our own

Meet the Teacher: Nicole Reinsma

Meet the Teacher:  Nicole Reinsma Subject:  English and Drama Grades:   7 – 10 Ms. Reinsma grew up in the countryside of Bowmanville, Ontario.  Her father works for a tech company, but Nicole took after her mother, who is also a grade 7/8 teacher. She is thankful that she is close to her two brothers; so

CPC’s Jay Lu (’20) on CBC Radio

Crestwood Preparatory College is very of our very own Grade 11 student, Jay Lu.  Jay was interviewed on CBC radio’s Metro Morning show on Wednesday.  Please listen to Jay and WW2 veteran Bert Shinwell chat with Ismaila Alfa here:  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-39-metro-morning/clip/15808113-keep-remembering-a-wwii-vet-high-school-student-talk.

Guidance News (Nov. 12th)

UBC & McGill Application Seminar The Guidance department will be hosting an online seminar for those students who are interested in applying to UBC and McGill University on Monday November 16 at senior lunch Both Ms. Somerville and Ms. De Cata will walk students through the step-by-step application process via zoom On Monday November 16,

Meet the Teacher:  Anthony Mariano

Meet the Teacher:  Anthony Mariano Subject:  Music Grades:   7 – 12 Mr. Mariano was  born in Montreal and spent his formative years in Houston, before moving to Toronto for most of his elementary years and all of high school. He moved to Montreal to attend McGill and has returned to Toronto since. Anthony is a

Crestwood Gives

Crestwood Gives Next week we’ll be kicking off our Crestwood Gives initiative.  There are so many people in need of our help, this year more than ever.  The Crestwood community has always been amazingly supportive of these initiatives and we strongly believe that it is important to teach our students about the importance of helping

Peer Tutoring Now Available

We are pleased to announce that the Peer Tutoring service is now available for students requiring some assistance with their academic courses.  We have carefully selected several grade 9-12 students with proficient academics to provide this service.  Tutoring is available to students in all grades from 7-12.  Sessions will take place over Zoom to adhere

Anti-Bullying Week

Next week is Anti-bullying week at Crestwood.  We have several initiatives planned for the week to raise awareness for this important issue.  This weekend spend some time finding the following items for the following theme days:   Monday November 16th – Odd Sock Day – Wear your brightest and loudest mismatched socks to show that

Report Cards and Parent-Teacher Conferences

Report Cards have been completed and have been mailed out.  Information regarding the Parent-Teacher Conferences and instructions on how to book a time-slot is included with the reports. All interview bookings will take place through Edsby (https://crestwood.edsby.com/).  The ability to book appointments will be open on Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 at 9 am and will

Food Drive

Over the course of last week, staff and students at Crestwood brought in donations of canned goods, rice and cooking oil in support of the North York Harvest Food Bank.  This drive was the culmination of the school’s focus on Empathy as our Character Education trait of the month.  The food was delivered to the

Meet the Teacher: Briana Doble

Meet the Teacher:  Briana Doble Subject:  English Grades:   7 & 8 Ms. Doble grew up in Scarborough and lives in Toronto with herpartner and her cat. Her parents are happily retired and spend as much time as possible at their cottage. Her younger sister is also a teacher and is currently teaching in London, England.

Meet the Teacher:  Nicole Sapir

Meet the Teacher:  Nicole Sapir Subject:  History Grades:   7 & 8 Ms. Sapir grew up in Thornhill and went to school in Kingston and Toronto. She is the youngest of three children and has an older sister and brother.  Nicole’s family is Jewish. Her father is from Georgia and her mother is from Ukraine.  Both

A Message from CPC’s School Nurse

To the Crestwood Community, Hello, my name is Ana Bacopulos and I’m the School Nurse at Crestwood Preparatory College. I am very excited to be joining the Crestwood Community and I hope I can provide much needed support during these difficult times. If anyone has any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact