CPC Athletic Update (Nov. 11)

This week Crestwood has been running our tryouts for winter sports teams.  Things are well underway and the winter season looks promising.  Tryouts will continue this upcoming week, students can check dates on the bulletin board outside the PE office. This week also wrapped up our 3-on-3 basketball intramural tournament for our U14s.  After 5

Remembrance Day (Nov. 11)

Today is November 11 – Remembrance Day.  Today we remember all the veterans who have sacrificed for Canada.  We also remember Bob Middleton, who passed away last month.  Originally from Toronto’s east end, Bob was a proud Canadian who served in the RCAF during the Second World War. Bob grew up in the Beaches neighbourhood

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day, we thought we would share some very special news with all of you. When you are outside the school, take a look at the Canadian flag flying in front of the school. The flag that flies over Crestwood today is one with a very important story. Thanks to an amazing gift from 102-year

Guidance News (Nov. 11)

Research & OUAC Applications This is a friendly reminder to all grade 12s to keep working on your post-secondary research and refining your list of schools/programs that you would like to apply to. Below are the upcoming OUAC application seminar dates that will take place in your English classes: November 15 – ENG4U-04 (Mr. Jull)

Breaking Book Fair Sales Records!

  Wow!  Crestwood students love their books! Our Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success! Our fair sold over $18,000 worth of books between the in person and virtual fairs!  Your investment in your reader helped our school to earn valuable Rewards that can be redeemed for new books for our school. Thank you to all families, teachers, and students who participated,

Way to go, Crestwood!

  Thank you so much to the Crestwood Community for generously donating goods and monetary donations to support Share Your Smiles and the Anduhyaun shelter. This week, the community service team packed care packages filled with essential care items and Olivia and Maya will be delivering the packages. The shelter will be passing them out to Indigenous women and

Grade 11 Environmental Science Class

Our Grade 11 Environmental Science class has been working on an out of this world project.  We are part of the award-winning Tomatosphere ™  program that will investigate the effects of space on growing food. Students have designed their own ultimate growing medium and have planted two groups of tomato seeds: untreated ‘control’ tomato seeds, and

Junior Boys Volleyball

   Crestwood’s Jr. Boys Volleyball team are the undefeated DII Volleyball champions! On Wednesday, November 3rd, CPC Jr. Boys Volleyball closed off their season with a win against Lakefield College. CPC dominated the game and won it in a best 3 out of 5 sets. This all-star team went undefeated throughout their Division II season, and

Senior Boys Volleyball

The Sr. Boys Volleyball team ended their season on Wednesday with a final game against LCS. They fought hard, taking it to the fifth set, but unfortunately could not take the win. Coaches Colwill, Letham and Podlovics would like to congratulate the team on a great season, finishing 2nd in their league!

Guidance News (Nov. 5)

Upcoming Post-Secondary Presentations Held during lunch in Room 227 @ 1:15pm Ryerson University– November 8th Research & OUAC Applications This is a friendly reminder to all grade 12s to keep working on your post-secondary research and refining your list of schools/programs that you would like to apply to. Below are the upcoming OUAC application seminar

CPC Winter Athletic Tryouts

Our tryouts for the CISAA winter season will begin the week of Nov. 8-9th, with the exception of Hockey tryouts which begin next week.  The following teams will be running this winter: U14 Girls DIII Volleyball Junior Girls DIII Volleyball Senior Girls DIB Volleyball U14 Boys DI Basketball U14 Boys DIII Basketball Junior Boys DI

Mr. Rachlis’ Grade 7 Science Class

Recently, the Grade 7 Science students participated in an investigation to predict and then measure the number of water drops that would fit on various Canadian coins. The students used the opportunity to develop their science-process skills including safe conduct and proper use of equipment, while practising making accurate quantitative and qualitative observations.       

Guidance Update (Oct. 29)

Upcoming Post-Secondary Presentations Held during lunch in Room 227 @ 1:15pm Trent University – November 3rd Ryerson University– November 8th SHAD Shad Canada is an annual Canadian summer enrichment program for high-achieving grade 10 & 11 students in July SHAD focuses on STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics The program is open to

Matter Mania!

  This week students in the Grade 5 worked with professional scientists in order to discover more about solids, liquids and gases. The students were visited by a virtual presenter from the organization “Scientists in the School” and used their knowledge of matter to perform chemical experiments in the hopes of identifying a mystery substance. It was