Category: Lower School

The track and field season ended this week for both the Grade 3 team and the Juniors. The Grade 3’s celebrated by participating in a friendly meet at Crescent School. Our grade 3 students exhibited great fun and skills against other private schools during the sunny, afternoon meet. The Junior students competed in the CIS

The Crestwood Junior Track and Field Team participated in a meet at St. Andrew’s College on Monday this week.  We competed in events against 700 other students from different schools.  Our athletes ran an 80 meter dash, a 400 meter race and  an 800 meter run as well as hurdles.  Discus, javelin, shot-put, standing long

Our Teachers Appreciation lunch is Thursday, June 7th. We are looking for a few delicious desserts to serve our ever so deserving teachers after their catered lunch. If you wish to contribute a nut free dessert, please let the CSPA know by contacting melaniemorel@outlook.com Please deliver it Thursday, June 7th to music room in atrium or front office complete

Dear Parents, Crestwood School’s Grades 4-6 Music Program, along with the Primary and Junior Choir’s, would like to invite you to attend the Spring Concert, which will be held on Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. All performers are expected to arrive by 6:40 p.m. Please join us for this special event, which will

Our summer “Baskets of Fun” donations are coming along great. Please bring in any/all items ASAP. We would like to begin wrapping them up first thing next week. This initiative is in support of the CSPA in purchasing 2 new play structures for our school. The baskets will be auctioned off at Fun Fair! Thank

On Friday, 6A and 6B ventured out to the Apple store at the Eaton Centre. There we created posters in their program “Elevating Ideas into Action”.  Our posters focused on the devastating problems surrounding child labour and what we, as Canadians, can do to help these children preserve their childhoods.  Our students used the programs

What a beautiful day for a track meet for the Grade 3’s. We all walked up to TFS for a friendly meet against Crescent, Bayview Glen, The York School and TFS. Our grade 3 athletes rotated through 9 stations of track and field events. Running events included hurdles, relay races, long distance and sprints. Crestwood

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

Crestwood’s junior track team traveled to the Pan Am Stadium at York University on Wednesday to participate in their second meet of the season. Even though we didn’t have all our team members, it was a gorgeous day to compete. All athletes showed their best effort at each of the events and we are very

2A and 2B have been working tirelessly to put together their musical, Making The Band. Their hard work truly paid off as they brought the house down with classics like Twist and Shout and Livin’ On a Prayer.  Making The Band is a musical that begins in a mechanic’s garage and ends with a killer garage band.  The students

The Grade four classes travelled back in time to the Middle Ages on Wednesday. There they learned about the Code of Chivalry, feasted on poultry, mash and ale (Pepsi) and took in all of the sights, sounds and smells of Medieval culture. During the jousting tournament, Crestwood’s black and white knight valiantly competed but was

On Tuesday, the Eco-Team had a guest speaker from our very own school community: Ms. Davies! Not only is she a fantastic music teacher, she is a beekeeper! She taught our team about the big job of little pollinators! We explored the importance of pollinators for plants, animals and humans! We discussed threats they encounter

The Grade 5 students had an incredible opportunity this morning to hear from Dave Hayles, the operations coordinator at Grand Valley Wind Farms, about the process of constructing, operating and managing a wind farm. Students enjoyed seeing pictures of the construction process and were amazed to hear the amount of time, effort and money that

On Tuesday, Grade 3A and 3B were greeted warmly by the staff at the Eaton Centre Apple Store.  Our instructors provided us with a lesson on Keynote Presentations and how we can use this tool to create interactive stories.  We used I-Pads to type in some funny, wacky weather stories and then added both animations

A huge thank you to all parents who came out to support our Used Uniform Sale this week, it was a huge success.  Special thanks to Linda Fata-Glover for having run the uniform sale for us this year and her team of parent volunteers!!!  We are looking forward to next year when Somayeh Walton will

Grade 3 had a great day with Jacqui Burke, artistic director of Jaybird Productions!  Through games and fun exercises they were able to gain a deeper understanding of their characters and what it means to truly be a performer.  Jacqui brought with her an arsenal of theatre arts activities and techniques to reinforce the essence

Read, read, and more reading…all of our students have been busily reading books and raising funds for the MS Read-A-Thon. Since it’s inception in 1977, students across Canada have read millions of books and raised millions of dollars in support of the MS Society’s work to fund multiple sclerosis research and provide programs and services

It’s Spring and everything beginning to bloom.  On Tuesday, the Grade 3’s went to the Toronto Botanical Gardens to check out the growth and changes that are happening with the plants in our community.  We noticed that plants come in all shapes, sizes and colours as we hiked through the Wilket Creek ravine.  We spent an

All of the Grade 3 student’s became pedologists this week as we investigated the importance and the make up of soil. A pedologist is a soil scientist and boy, did we get our hands dirty with soil and wriggly creatures. We learned that good, rich soil is made up of organic matter and plenty of

The message was loud and clear in this morning’s all school assembly. Each and every one of us can and needs to do more in order to protect and sustain the planet on which we live each day. The grade 5 classes did an excellent job in conveying to their audience that the current issues

Congratulations to both Selene Wen and Judy Zeng on being selected as Crestwood School’s Artist of Month. Hello, my name is Judy Zeng. I am 10 years old and I am in 6C. My homeroom teacher is Mrs. Krashinsky. My favourite classes are Language, P.E., Math, Science and Art. I play the piano and clarinet.

Dear families, Next week is Earth Week! The Eco-Team has some great activities planned for Crestwood students throughout the week. Every day, students are encouraged to wear outfits inspired by our beautiful planet. The Eco-Team will also facilitate themed games and activities at recess inspired by important ecological issues. The games will be optional and students who choose to

Today, Crestwood students will be receiving their MS Readathon package. Earlier this week we conducted an assembly introducing our students to this important endeavor. Each package explains the process for raising funds. All money will be collected up until Monday, April 30th. We will be conducting a school “Read In” on Tuesday, April 24th where

On Thursday April 12, 1A had a visit with Scientist Kathy from Scientists in the School.  Our topic of the day was “Structures: Under Construction!” A structure is an object that has a definite size and shape and serves a definite function or purpose. We learned that structures can be human or nature made.  5 amazing experiments were completed