Crestwood is holding its annual “Swing Into Summer” sealed bid auction, with all proceeds going to the Crestwood Preparatory College Scholarship Foundation. This is an amazing opportunity to contribute to the Crestwood family and support a wonderful cause. Items up for bid include: Toronto Maple Leafs Tickets – December 5, 2013 A pair of platinum

On December 10th, 2013, Crestwood’s Student Government and Parent Association will be running an exciting after-school event! Participating students (Grade 7-12) will be leaving school at 3 pm, and travelling down to the Harbourfront Centre arena for an evening of ice skating at one of Toronto’s most scenic outdoor rinks. Bus transportation will be provided,

Crestwood will take part in Bullying Awareness Week, beginning on Monday, November 18 through to Friday, November 22.  Members of the Female Peer Leadership Group, along with their grade 7-8 female mentees, will be hosting several events to raise awareness about the harmful impact bullying can have on children.  Students will be asked to sign

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