Category: Crestwood News

Dear Parents, Guardians, Teachers and Students of Crestwood Preparatory College: I hope this communication finds you all well. We have had little respite from uncertainty in all quarters for many months. More uncertainty was communicated today, largely the offspring of continuing debates regarding online and in-person schooling. Another Covid school year end only adds pressure

Dear Parents, Guardians, Teachers and Students of Crestwood Preparatory College: As a small token of our appreciation for your son’s and daughter’s graduation from CPC, please be advised that lawn graduation signs will be delivered over the next two days.  Congratulations to all our families. As we all know, graduation day, and graduation signs, are

  Welcome to SKB’s jungle filled with a streak of TIGERS. We had a ROARING good week learning about zoo animals!   Question: How does SKB describe their awesome tiger hats?   Answer: Absolutely Purr-fect!  

  This month we have been busy working under the influence of Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific drawings. We have been studying nature and discovering all sorts of wondrous plants! Some poisonous ones, world’s biggest ones and all the naturally useful plants that surround us daily. Here are some of our botanical illustrations. Anya Romanenko

Next year’s Calendar and Booklist have now been posted. They can be found by logging into your school admin portal (https://crestwood.schooladmin.ca/users/sign_in) or on the website (https://ohp.crestwood.on.ca/upper-school-docs/).

On May 27, 1942 Belgian Jews were forced to wear the yellow star, signalling what would be an ominous change in the tone of the Nazi occupation of their country. One of the Belgian Jews who had to endure this was Anne Eidltz. She was born in 1936, just before the war started. She was born

In April, several grade 11 and 12 Crestwood students participated in the Euclid Math Contest.  The following students received an award of distinction for placing in the top 25% of all contestants: Alex Chen (1st) Danny He (1st) Casper Yang (2nd) Sophia Gu (3rd) Vera Wang Tony Wu Shaan Lin Aries Wang Robert Muresan Amy

The finalists from each Grade 8 English class competed in the championship round of Crestwood Reads. It was a fierce competition, where panelists advocated for and debated about the independent novels they’d selected to read this term. In the end, the novel Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, was voted as the winner. Many

  SKB is praying that we go back to school soon with our praying mantis!! Carly Hebscher & Julie Fox  

Last week the students of Mr. Masters’ and Mr. Major’s Grade 11-12 classes had the chance to learn from people who made history, courtesy of the Social Equity Committee.  We were able to host two speakers who visited with our students over zoom.  First Alice Pretlow visited us; in 1964 Alice attended an integrated school

Grad Panel 2021: Thank you to our 2021 Grad Panelists who spoke to the grade 12s on Thursday about making a smooth transition to post-secondary and maintaining balance and well-being as a student!  

Dear Parents and Guardians of Crestwood Preparatory College: There are several popup Pfizer mobile clinics for ages 12+. You’ll need to provide proof of address in the M3A postal code and proper identification. For proof of address, you can use any Crestwood report card from this school year. 1. John Polanyi CI (640 Lawrence Avenue W) 11am-9pm

This year’s Crestwood Youth and Philanthropy Initiative winners are hosted by:  Gabriel Pogrin, Jay Lu, and  Kian Torabi-Ardakani. Our finalists are: Tal Shram, Arvini, and Mark Starkman presenting Food Share; Simran Anand, Karianne Engelbert, and Evan Prosserman presenting Women’s Abuse Council of Toronto;  Jean-Luc Audet and Michael Lawson presenting Holland-Bloorview Foundation. Please click on the

Nursing Week is the annual celebration of this critical profession.  It is held every May to coincide with the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.  This year more than ever we have to be aware of the critical role these health care providers play in Canadian society, as has been true through

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Mr. David Lee, (father of Julia Lee ’18). After thirty years in Education, David retired three years ago and immediately became a valued member of our FOUNDATION BOARD.    As CPC’s inaugural Board Chair, David brings a diverse skill-set and a wide variety of Independent/Private School experience. Along with being an award-winning teacher and coach, he has an

The Festival of the Arts & Technology evening is an amazing way to celebrate Art, Music, Drama, and Technology by showcasing the abilities of the students of Crestwood Preparatory College.  Traditionally, we transform our hallways and classes into displays of talent and creativity. However, this year we once again will take the Festival of the Arts from the classrooms and halls of Crestwood to

Grace Yu, a Crestwood graduate (Class of 2018), who studies chemical engineering at McGill University just won a prestigious award for Summer Undergraduate Research Award in Engineering (SURE). SURE is a program where top students are selected to work with Engineering professors at McGill on a summer research project for 16 weeks. Grace will be

“TI a drink with jam and bread! … Fancy a cuppa anyone? SKB is almost at the top of their solfege ladder, having made their own TI” Amanda Birchard  

We had such fun in Grade 3A this week.  We created some sock puppets at home out of old socks and bits and bots that we found around our homes.  We then wrote dialogue between ourselves and our puppets in class.  We shared lots of giggles during our Drama lesson as we watched each other