Category: Crestwood News

Grade 8 Graduation On Wednesday June 18th, 2014 our Grade 8 Graduation will be held in the gymnasium starting at 5:00 pm.  Gym doors will open at 4:30 and seating is on a first come basis. The ceremony will last until approximately 6:00 pm and will be followed by light refreshments.  Students are to be

On Friday May 9th, 2014 Crestwood Preparatory College will hold its annual prom at the Bayview Golf and Country Club (25 Fairway Heights Drive, Thornhill).  All students in Grade 12 are invited to purchase tickets for the event. Tickets are on sale in Mrs. Santomero’s room until Friday May 2nd and are $90.00 per person.

On Wednesday, April 9th, join Mrs. Winograd for the English department’s next workshop in a series aimed to aid student writing. The focus will be Organization, Test-Prep and Test-Taking Strategies, and will cover use of the agenda, frontloading, memory strategies, self-talk method for test preparation, breaking down multi-step test questions, and organizing ideas prior to

Crestwood student Justin Kim has been recognized as Legislative Page Co-Captain of the Day. Justin, who was selected to participate in the Ontario Provincial Legislative Page program, has been working as a student Page since the beginning of March. Congratulations Justin! Each year approximately 140 young students from across Ontario are selected to participate in the

The Spring sports season in just around the corner Crestwood! Try-outs continue next week.  Co-ed Badminton, Boys Rugby, Girls Soccer and Co-ed Track and Field practices run all week both before and after school.  If you are interested in trying out, click here for more information and practice times.

Mrs. Winograd’s grade 8 Roots Geography class has been researching an organization whose mandate is to help eradicate poverty.  Upon completion of their research the students will be making their own promotional media clip presenting its values and mission – with the goal of getting people involved in the fight against poverty!

There is still time to register for the Sporting Life 10 km race on Sunday, May, 11th. Training is after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays with Ms. Dickinson. Money raised from this event will send kids with cancer to Camp Oochiegas. This year we will be running to honour the memory of Olivia Wise. If

For the second year in a row, the Girls Varsity Curling team represented Crestwood and CISAA at the OFSAA Provincial Curling Championships. The team of Jessie Cooke, Mara Bowman, Sarah Mainprize and Amy Cho travelled to Brampton during the second week of March Break to compete with the 20 best girls’ rinks in the province.

On Tuesday March 4, 2014, Crestwood hosted one of the Senior Girls Volleyball OFSAA Championships’ Tournaments.  The games lasted for more than 12 hours, starting early in the morning, and finally ending when the final team won in the evening.   OFSAA, or the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations, hosts championships throughout the year

Tomorrow (Saturday, May 31st) is The Wings of Hope book launch, happening at Crestwood. The book launch begins at 10:00 am and will end at approximately 12:00 pm. The event will be a great opportunity to raise awareness for kids with cancer and will include a live performance by rising star Suzie McNeil.       If you plan on

Mr. Masters and Mr. Hawkins are happy to announce the winners of this year’s Black History Month competition. We had many impressive submissions this year, covering topics as varied as Rosa Parks and Kardinal Offishal. Students showed the amazing contributions to North American culture and history by African-Americans and African-Canadians. Selecting a winner and a

Let’s wish Catie Skain (100m freestyle swimming) and Crestwood’s Curlers good luck at OFSAA this week and next. Both will be competing in their events in the upcoming days and we hope they excel under pressure!

In what turned out to be a riveting, and heart-breaking Saturday for Crestwood sports, both the U14 Girls Volleyball team as well as the U14 Boys Basketball team came within a heartbeat of taking CISSA Gold. The girls lost a close match to powerhouse Ridley College 2 -1, and our U14 Boys lost a heart-wrenching game

Spring sports is right around the corner Crestwood. Tryouts for Junior and Senior Boys Rugby, U14 and Senior Girls Soccer, Coed Badminton and Track and Field all begin immediately after the break.  Please check the calendar for your practice and tryout dates! Go Crestwood!

The following is a selection of the current titles Crestwood’s teachers are reading. If you are looking for something to peruse over the March Break, these works are to be recommended!   Ms. Bryant The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami   Toru Okada begins the story unemployed and searching for his lost cat; however, soon Toru

This week Crestwood students visited both the Sunnybrook Veterans’ Wing and Baycrest’s Cafe Europa, where they had the chance to interview both World War Two Veterans and Holocaust Survivors. Through the Oral History Project, Crestwood students continue to appreciate the humanity and sacrifice that are at the heart of this modern conflict. [nggallery id=40]  

Correction to last week’s newsletter: Crestwood student Justin Kim has been selected to participate in the Ontario Provincial Legislative Page program. Last week’s newsletter mistakenly reported that Justin had been chosen for the Federal program. Each year approximately 140 young students from across Ontario are selected to participate in the Legislative Page Program.  This is

This year’s swim season was by far the best Crestwood has had. The ladies are to be congratulated for a great season. In a remarkable swim this week, Caiti Skain won first place in the 100m freestyle event as well as second place in the 50m freestyle event, qualifying in both for the OFSAA championship.

The winter season is almost over but the competition is heating up with Crestwood sports. This weekend we have FOUR teams competing in semi-final games: Our U14 Boys Basketball team goes for gold vs. Sterling Hall, while our Junior Boys Basketball team plays at Lakefield College. On the other side of the court, our U14

Come out this Saturday, March 29th and cheer on your U14 Girls Volleyball team as they go for the CISSA division II Championship. Match play begins at 10 am sharp in the Crestwood Gym. Arrive early and wear your Crestwood colours to show your support! Go Ladies!

Mara Bowman has been accepted as the lead character for the upcoming Canadian Children’s Opera Company’s production of East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon, a Norwegian folk tale.  The play will run at the Harbourfront Centre from May 29-June 1, 2014. Crestwood is proud to have such a spirited and creative talent

Each year, 40 students are selected from high schools and CEGEPs across Canada to travel to Ottawa to work as Pages in the House of Commons. Pages have the opportunity to learn about the House of Commons while witnessing the legislative process first hand. Crestwood Student, Justin Kim has been chosen to be a Legislative

This month’s featured Artists of the Month includes the following grade 7 artists: Chloe Zuckerman  Bailee Cohen Charlie Nogas Macaulay Harling The grades 7’s have been learning about the tormented, yet immensely creative life and art of Vincent Van Gogh. Using Van Gogh’s masterpiece “Starry Night” as inspiration, each student designed their own “Toronto Starry

On Monday February 24th, Crestwood is once again participating in The Sears Drama Festival! This year we are presenting an orignal piece by our own grade 12 student Jake Pascoe entitled “My Rose”; a story about a young woman with Autism who is struggling to connect to the outside world while searching for her father.

On Tuesday, February 18th, Crestwood was proud to host Black History Month performances by local black musicians John T Davis, Shelley Hamilton and Shaun Boothe.  Through a blend of live performance, historical narrative and interactive presentations, Crestwood students were enlightened as to the historic role of music in black communities in their quest for freedom

In May, our Grade Seven’s will be travelling to Niagara Falls for a trip that combines some great educational tours with some opportunities to unwind and have some fun and is an integral part of the Grade Seven program.  All the necessary information and registration items can be found here. If you have any questions

The Crestwood English department will be hosting upcoming workshops to help students who are struggling with particular writing issues. While extra help is beneficial for assignment-specific questions, these sessions will help develop students’ overall writing ability and will prove to help enhance students’ writing across all subject areas. Students will be encouraged by their teachers

Thank you bakers, makers and helpers for your delicious valentines themed goodies for the PA’s bake sale on Tuesday. It was another successful sale and thanks to students, teachers and parents buying up the goodies we were able to donate $403.15 to the LivWise fund. Well done Crestwood.  Elizabeth Stewart