Category: Crestwood News

Last week a group of Art and World Issues students travelled to New York City.  Students had the opportunity to visit The United Nation Headquarters, the Museum of Modern Art, Ellis Island, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, the High Line, 9/11 Memorial, a visit to Broadway to see Wicked.  Overall, the entire group submerged themselves

The Crestwood Chess Club invites all Crestwood staff and students to participate in our second annual Speed Chess Tournament.  Held over two lunch hours on December 3rd and 10th, the tournament limits participants to five minutes to complete their moves.  The winner is the one who gets to checkmate first, or the last to run out

Many students and parents have expressed interest and/or curiosity about American universities. For that reason, Mr. Jeff Mitz in the Guidance Department will be running a special workshop for students and parents about U.S. universities on Wednesday November 27, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. in room 103. The workshop is expected to run approximately an hour, and will

All students in grade 12 have received their PIN number which will allow them to log on to the Ontario University Application Centre website and begin the postsecondary application process. This comes on the heels of multiple individual interviews conducted since the beginning of school which allowed students to discuss their postsecondary research with either

On Friday, November 7th Crestwood held a grub day bake sale for brain cancer research in support of the honour, strength and courage of the indomitable spirit that is Olivia Wise.  By the end of the day, Crestwood students, parents and teachers had raised over $2000 dollars for the LIV WISE Fund. Olivia was diagnosed

Yesterday, Crestwood participated in the annual SSAF Under-20 Indoor Soccer Tournament. In the round robin portion of the tournament, the boys jumped out to three quick wins, and held on through two tough games at the end to stay undefeated, and finish on top of the tournament bracket.  Despite having a very short bench, the

On Tuesday, November 5th, 28 students from grades 9 through 12 participated in the annual DECA Regional competition, all hoping to win a spot to Provincials this coming February. All students came dressed to impress in business attire and practiced their presentation and problem-solving skills in case study presentations both individually and in teams. These

Thank you everyone who dressed up yesterday for Halloween. The entire day was yet another show of Crestwood’s social life in full bloom. Further congratulations to yesterday’s costume award winners: Georgia Gardner, Allie Niddam and Jeffrey Radford-Grant!

All winter sports tryouts begin next week in the gymnasium. Tryouts will run consecutively the weeks of November 4th through to the 8th, as well as November 11th through to the 15th. Check the gymnasium schedule for your practice times.

A “Spooktacular” Edition of the Crestword is available, with the newspaper featuring an all-Halloween edition. Learn about the We Scare Hunger food drive, find out the origins of the night, read a scary student-written short story, try your hand at our crossword, or see some of your favourite teachers as children in their costumes. Can

Mr. Cardinale along with his grade 11 and grade 12 Computer Science classes, travelled to Ryerson University on Tuesday. They participated in an engaging and interactive robotics kits that use a robot called Alphi. Students were given the opportunity to learn about how to program and wire up these robots to make them follow a

This weekend in Sudbury, Ontario Caitlin Skain competes against Ontario’s best in the OFSAA 5000m Cross Country Championships. In what has turned out to be a marvelous Cross-Country Season for Caitlin, we hope she continues her winning ways and brings Gold back to Crestwood!

Crestwood Preparatory College’s Open House will be held on Wednesday, November 6th at 7:00 p.m. in the school gymnasium. There isn’t a better opportunity to get to know the school, the staff, and the programs. The formal presentations and question period will be about half an hour long. The evening includes a tour of the

Crestwood is taking part in Holocaust Education Week, which begins next Monday.  Our presentation of the “National Narratives of the Shoah” will take place in the Jacobs Family Theatre, 2nd Floor, Brain Health Centre- Kimel Family Building in the Baycrest complex. This is closest to the north- east end of the building (note that  there

On October 24th, Crestwood handed out its annual academic awards to those students who had achieved the highest grades for the 2012-2013 academic year.  The following students are congratulated for their amazing efforts and we hope they keep up the good work in years to come. The winners for grade 7: 3rd Highest – Hannah

Congratulations to alumnus Benjamin Baker ’13 whose short story “The Puddle” won first place in the Young Writers of Canada’s 2013 writing contest! Benjamin has been featured in their publication “A World Away,” and has set a precedent for Crestwood’s future writers.

On Friday October 18th, trivia reigned at Crestwood as over 100 students from all over the CIS competed in the first annual CIS Reach for the Top Festival. Crestwood’s Senior A team, with Kevin Todd, Zachary Brown, Jake Pascoe, Victor Minkov, and Justin Memar went a perfect 3-0 to place 6th out of 18 teams in

On Thursday, October 17 Crestwood Lower School grade 5 and 6 students visited the Upper School in what was an eventful and activity-filled morning.  Both grades toured the Upper School as well as partook in group activities such as fingerprinting in the science labs and building newspaper towers in the gym. We can’t wait to see

In what has turned out to be an outstanding run for Crestwood’s U14 Boys Soccer team, please congratulate the boys for finishing the Division II regular season in first place overall. Crestwood will host the Div II U14 Championship next Saturday, October 26th. Come on out to support the team. Let’s go Lyons! [nggallery id=10]

On Oct 9th Mr. Scott Masters was yet again honoured for his contribution to teaching.  Mr. Masters was presented with the Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education by Citizenship and Immigration Canada Minister for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney. Mr. Masters was honoured for his innovative approach to promoting understanding and awareness of the Holocaust as well

Next Friday, October 18th, over 100 students from around the CIS will descend on Crestwood in a battle for trivia supremacy.  Mr. Jull and Mr. Masters, along with our intrepid Reach for the Top teams, will be hosting the first annual CIS Reach for the Top Festival.  Teams from St. Catherines, Hamilton, and all over

This week we began our Crestwood Walks Across Canada Challenge.  Our goal is to walk the 7428km across Canada.  Collectively as a staff we have walked over 900km this week, taking us half way across Nunavut, on our way to the North West Territories.  The Crestwood Staff would like to challenge the students beat us

Representatives from universities will continue their visits next week, and grade 11 and 12 students are encouraged to sit in on these sessions to receive information and ask questions. This week Crestwood will host Huron College (at Western) on Monday, the University of Toronto on Tuesday, Richard Ivey School of Business and Acadia University on

On Wednesday, October 2nd, Mr. Jull and Ms. Sawka led a group of senior Art, World Issues, and YARRD students in an exploration of new work by Canadian environmental photographer, Edward Burtynsky. They travelled to the Nicholas Metivier Gallery for a guided tour of his latest exhibition, then toured TIFF Lightbox for a screening of

Crestwood participated in the National School Run Day to support the Terry Fox Foundation. Students and teachers came to school decked out in Red and White to show support for Terry Fox. It was an amazing morning which began with a 2 kilometer walk through the ravine. After the walk students challenged the teachers to

On Wednesday, October 2nd, Mr. Jull and Ms. Sawka are leading a group of senior Art, World Issues, and YARRD students in an exploration of new work by Canadian environmental photographer, Edward Burtynsky. We will be travelling to the Nicholas Metivier Gallery for a guided tour of his latest exhibition, then walking to the TIFF

Congratulations to all members of the Cross Country team that participated in the meet last week at Riverdale Park. Your first race is under your belt and you now know what to expect and how to pace yourself when faced with challenging courses and runners. Our U12 Girls Basketball team traveled to Trafalgar Castle, to