Category: Crestwood News

Crestwood Preparatory College is pleased to offer a number of Ontario high school credit courses. Courses are designed to provide students with an exceptional academic experience in the early summer. This schedule allows course completion by mid-July allowing students time during their summer months to work, attend camp, or a vacation with family. CPC’s School’s

As we move into a long weekend we want to remind all students to take a break to care for their mental health and wellbeing! Over the past week members of Crestwood Cares and the Jr. Prefects have been distributing “You Deserve a Break” bags to students every morning. The bag included snacks and activities

Please wish Sophia Gu and Shaan Lin good luck today as they write the American Invitational Mathematics Exam!  They qualified for this exam by placing in the top 5% of participants on the American Math Contest last month.

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His Siena Saints finished in first place in the MAAC.

Her Delaware Blue Hens finished their regular season in the CAA in first place.

Her NC State Wolfpack finished in first place in the ACC.

Her UConn Huskies finished in first place in the Big East.  Aaliyah was also named to the All-Freshman Team and named Sixth-Woman of the Year.

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.  Today gives us an opportunity to reflect on the progress made towards achieving gender equality and celebrate the acts of courage and determination by individuals who have played an extraordinary role in advancing gender equality in their communities. 

3A was faced with a STEM challenge this week.  Our goal was to build a trap that would catch a sneaky little leprechaun in our classroom.  We imagined what our traps would do, planned out what they would like, created our designs and then thought about improvements that we could make to our traps.  Teeny

Are you in need of community service hours and looking for a way to brighten the day of someone? Sending Sunshine is a not-for-profit that is trying to reduce the negative effects of social isolation among seniors by providing them with handwritten cards.  With the pandemic, the opportunities for volunteering are limited.  With Sending Sunshine

Dear students: Thank you all so much for participating in this year’s InCITE Writing Competition! Thank you for creating such fascinating, wonderful stories and poems, and for sharing your work with us. It is our great pleasure to announce this year’s finalists: Gr. 7-8 stream: RJ McDerment for his short story, “Runner” Runner – by RJ McDerment

Every November, Crestwood history students are encouraged to participate in the Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Remembrance Day contest. The contest, with categories for visual art, poetry and prose writing, asks students across the country to reflect on the overall theme of remembrance, and apply their creative talents to that theme. We were very happy to

Over the past two weekends the Crestwood Oral History Project has continued its Sunday sessions, introducing students to members of the wartime generation.  On Sunday, February 21 and again Sunday, February 28, we did zoom sessions with Holocaust survivors in Israel, and each time Mr. Masters and Mr. Hawkins welcomed approximately 20 students to listen

Gordon B. Smith was born in the east end of Toronto on February 25th, 1924. He attended Eastern Commerce, but left to enter the workforce before graduating. When the war came, Gord was eager to follow his older brother’s example, and joined up right as soon as he was able. He spent a year doing

  Tuesday February 23rd was Pink Shirt Day at Crestwood School.  It was wonderful to see so many Crestwood students wearing pink to send a very important message about bullying. Pink shirts are worn as a symbol and as recognition that bullying will not be tolerated at Crestwood School.

Wednesday February 24th was National Pink Shirt Day.  Whether on zoom or at the school it was great to see so many Crestwood students wearing pink to send a very important message about bullying.  Pink shirts are worn as a symbol and as recognition that bullying will not be tolerated at Crestwood.  Even Roary wore

Attention Grade 12s graduating this June! Graduation quote submissions for the yearbook are now available using the following google form. Yearbook quotes are due on March 5, 2021. A graduation quote is a quote that is meaningful to you in some way. It can be inspirational, motivational, sentimental or something that you would like to be remembered

Just a reminder that the deadline to submit course selection choices for the new school year is Thursday March 4, 2021. Grade 9-12 Course Selection: All grade 8-11 students are to submit their high school course selection choices online through: XELLO. Grade 8 Course Selection: All grade 7 students are to submit their grade 8 course selection choices

The Grade 2 classes had a wonderful time reading for the MS Read-A-Thon! We are all thrilled to support such an important cause! –Ms Ingram, Ms Mandel and Ms Robinson 

Rod White was born February 16, 1925 in Trenton, Ontario.  Rod’s father died when he was only four, and some of his early memories are of his mother struggling to raise her seven children in difficult economic times. Rod left school after Grade 8, going to work and helping to support the family. Work took

To the Crestwood Preparatory College Community: Crestwood is doing a great job, keep up the great work! With the new, more contagious variants, we need to continue our diligent mask wearing.  Wearing medical-grade masks (the blue surgical masks) provide adequate protection against incoming pathogens and is highly recommended by Toronto Public Health, and remember to: