Category: Crestwood News

Congrats to our Crestwood community on your excellent turnout for our Curriculum Share/Art Auction evenings. Between both nights were able to raise close to $7000 by auctioning off class art pieces. All monies will be used to pay for our new Junior playground as well as upgrades to our current Primary play area. Your support

On Saturday April 28th, nine Crestwood students participated in the Junior Science Olympics at Crescent School.  The students competed in engineering challenges like the Marshmallow Tower, Egg Drop, Wall Run, Tin Foil Boats, Bridge Building, Marble Ramp, Laser Maze, and many others.  These students worked hard, had fun, showed stellar team work, and demonstrated great sportsmanship. 

Crestwood School’s Musical Theatre students have been working extremely hard to put on the BEST GREASE YET! This production is for all Crestwood students, families, and friends so please pass on the word to any and all theatre enthusiasts. We hope you can join us for this “Must See Show” on Thursday, May 17th @ Ryerson

Tuesday April 3rd 7:00 – 8:15pm – UPPER CANADA COLLEGE PREP (Weston Hall) “The Second-Goal Parent: Developing Winners in Life Through Sports” (75 minutes) Everyone wants to win. That’s the first goal in sports. But in youth and high school sports there is a second, more important goal: teaching life lessons through sports. In this

On Wednesday, February 14th, Crestwood students are invited to don their red, white, and pink to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Please bring a toonie to contribute to Community Service’s ongoing fundraising drive in support of Neema International.

Crestwood students left no sofa cushion unturned this past week in their quest to gather stray coins to contribute to our Be the Change classroom challenge. Community Service students diligently collected, sorted, tallied, and rolled the tsunami of coins generously donated by students and their families. We collected an incredible $4414.76 that we will use to

Do you have an interest in advertising in our 2018/19 school yearbook? Well it is now or never. Read below to find out more. Who will see my ad? Crestwood’s yearbook is a 128-page, (28cm by 22cm) full-colour, hardcover book. Every year there are approximately 400 copies in circulation within the Crestwood community. Every student and

A representative from ‘Keating Explorica’ will be visiting the Crestwood School library on Tuesday, January 16th at 7 pm to present information regarding our 2018 Grade 6 Ottawa 3-day Spring Tour. All parents of Grade 6 students are encouraged to attend in order to gain valuable insight into the tour’s itinerary, costs and procedures for online registration.

Lisa Newton (Crestwood Preparatory College VP and Director of Athletics) along with some grade 7 students travelled to Crestwood School this morning. They provided our grade 6’s with an excellent picture of daily life as a CPC student. The friendly presentation covered a whole host of items from transportation to and from school, to course

The Grade 3’s visited the Gardiner Ceramic Museum this week.  We started off with a tour of the beautiful galleries where the students looked at various art pieces and discussed their components.  We played a game of “Eye Spy” as we tried to spot as many animals as we could on ceramic bowls, cups, and

The Grade 3 Classes had a “Scientists in Schools” workshop this week on the topic of Strong and Stable Structures. This connects to their unit in science, where students have been learning about the skills engineers use when creating structures we use every single day. The students were immersed in a hands-on morning and afternoon where they learned

On Monday, December 4th, the Grade 5 students traveled to Imagine Cinemas to have a VIP movie experience to watch Wonder. The movie really captured the essence and theme of the novel; choose to be kind. Students were very moved by the film and we look forward to them embodying the idea of always choosing

Dear Parents, Just a friendly reminder that we are still collecting items for your children’s classes for the St. Felix Centre.  Please send in donations to with your children to their homerooms up until Tuesday December 12th.  Should you have any questions please email us at cspa@crestwood.on.ca Thanks for your generosity! Crestwood Cares and the CSPA     

The Grade 3’s had a visit from a team of builders from TRIDEL on Thursday.  This hands-on presentation reviewed some facts that we have learned about structures:  both people and animals build structures, and both people and animals need their structures to be strong and stable and to last a long time. We looked at models of

Dear Crestwood Parents, In celebration of the upcoming holiday season, Crestwood Cares in partnership with the CSPA, would like to provide some seasonal happiness to those most deserving this time of year. This year we have decided to partner with the St. Felix Centre, a non-profit community centre, located in downtown Toronto. The St. Felix

This week, the Eco-Team hosted a guest speaker for grade 2,3 and 4 classes. Professor Pricklethorn is an internationally certified arborist who facilitates exciting workshops for kids about the importance of trees in urban environments. We participated in the “Trees Please and Thank You PEP Rally.” It focuses on photosynthesis, tree facts and explore the

Baubles, bangles, beads and shoes and clothes and wine and cheese and more!!  What a fabulous evening it was! Many thanks to Teresa DeGasperis (4B) who so graciously invited us into her home, Alicia Gouviea (6B) for all of her efforts and to Pam Sulpizi (2B) for organizing such a lovely evening. The parent turnout was amazing and from

The Grade 3’s visited the Ontario Science Center this week to assess the effects of strong and stable structures on society and the environment.  We reviewed the fact that a structure is a supporting framework, with a definite size, shape, as well as purpose, and that a structure holds a load.  We were able to identify structures

Congratulations to the Crestwood School community on our recent “Skip It” Initiative. We raised 1167.05$ in total as we had 97 students skipping their favourite things to do in order to help others. All monies go towards the Red Cross International Disaster Relief Fund. Cedar House led the way with 23 skippers. Great job! –

Thank you to all of the parent volunteers at the Scholastic Book Fair!  We sold over $11,000 worth of books this week, which translates into more reading children, as well as funds raised for the library to host author visits and buy more books. A special thank you to Hayley Wine and Jen Hastings for

On Thursday, the Grade 3’s went on their first school field trip.  As an extension to our Social Studies Unit, Living and Working in Ontario, we jumped on a bus ready to explore our great city.  Our first stop was the CN Tower in downtown Toronto.  We rode the elevator up to the top to

Preserve your child(ren)’s masterpiece on a variety of keepsakes. The works of art are coming home in the next week!! Read the instructions on the order form (see below), choose as many products as you would like and please make cheques payable to Crestwood School Parents Association (CSPA) – one cheque per child!! ORDER FORMS –

Please remember that pumpkins are still for sale at the atrium with ALL proceeds going directly to benefit your children. For those of you who have been asking, ALL of the funds generated from the pumpkins are going towards the purchasing of 20 new iPads and other technological enhancements in our children’s classrooms. If you have

The Book Fair is a great opportunity to stock your home with some new, interesting books for your kids.  This is also a great opportunity to shop ahead for the holidays – and what better place to shop than our own Crestwood library where a portion of the Book Fair sales will go back to