Skin Colour Is Never A Crime, But Racism Is These days, we keep seeing disappointing news reports about violent events that happened in North America because of racism against Asians. Crestwood Preparatory College disagrees with any racial hatred and commits to ethnic equality at all levels. Here we want to appeal to every Crestwood student
Category: Crestwood News
Anti-Asian Racism
The Crestwood community grieves the senseless loss of eight lives in Atlanta, Georgia, six of whom were women of Asian descent. Our heart goes out to all the victims and their families. This heinous crime represents only one instance amidst a surge of Anti-Asian violence since the beginning of the pandemic, which disproportionately affects women.
Artist of the Month, Charlie Haddrell!
I am happy to present the new artist of the month, Charlie Haddrell. Different styles, different interests, different ways to create is what makes each exhibition really unique. Charlie is the master of the line, he uses lines so freely in his drawings. He loves animals and studies them carefully as you can see
Row Row Row Your Boat!
Using all the instruments from their music bag, SK’s are learning about rhythm while playing along to the words to Row Row Row Your Boat! Amanda Birchard
Cheers to Friends!
Top of the mornin’ to Crestwood School from SKB! The wee laddies and lassies had a fun filled St Patrick’s Day! We enjoyed lucky charms, a leprechaun hunt, and a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Everything was green in our classroom. Green shamrocks, green glitter, green food colouring, green grapes,
PrinciPALs
Dear Parents, We are thrilled to report the students came back from the long weekend feeling refreshed and ready to learn! Despite the lost hour of sleep on Sunday, we had a great week of growing and learning. We had our 1st ever St. Patrick’s Day celebration on Wednesday! It was a blast seeing
Semifinalist in the 2021 Poetry In Voice Competition
A huge congratulations to Amy McCulloch who was selected to be a Semifinalist in the 2021 Poetry In Voice Competition for her outstanding recitations of “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop and “I Feel the Sun” by Wang Xiani. In addition to winning a cash prize and moving on to the final round of the competition,
Crestwood Gives Continues – Hygiene Kits for the Homeless
Crestwood students will be taking on an initiative to create Hygiene Kits that will be donated to a local homeless shelter to support individuals within our city. We have compiled a list of bulk items that can be purchased from Amazon and donated to the school. Students will then organize, sort and put together individual
Lucky Charts
Top O’ the mornin to ye! Nothing finer than graphing Lucky Charms on St. Paddy’s Day in SKA! Carolyn Haywood & Christina Teixeira
PrinciPALs
Dear Parents, The second week of March has certainly been a wonderful one! The weather was on our side bringing us warm, spring-like temperatures which certainly lifted our spirits. We have some wonderful news to report ….. All the students and staff that have been tested thus far are NEGATIVE! That means that all
SKA Dinos
Long, long ago When the earth was new, The SKA dinosaurs swam and flew, We love to learn and we love to play Have a great day From SKA xo Carolyn Haywood & Christina Teixeira
Summer School
Crestwood Preparatory College is pleased to offer a number of Ontario high school credit courses. Courses are designed to provide students with an exceptional academic experience in the early summer. This schedule allows course completion by mid-July allowing students time during their summer months to work, attend camp, or a vacation with family. CPC’s School’s
“Take A Break” Care Packages
As we move into a long weekend we want to remind all students to take a break to care for their mental health and wellbeing! Over the past week members of Crestwood Cares and the Jr. Prefects have been distributing “You Deserve a Break” bags to students every morning. The bag included snacks and activities
American Math Contest
Please wish Sophia Gu and Shaan Lin good luck today as they write the American Invitational Mathematics Exam! They qualified for this exam by placing in the top 5% of participants on the American Math Contest last month.
Teachers On Day 4
Here is the caption: “Wonder where your teachers are on Day 4’s at 2:00? Look out back.” Click to view video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeh68QyB/
Celebrating Black Artists
Hello Crestwood Families! For the month of February, the junior music classes have been celebrating Black History Month and its rich musical background. The students in grade 5 and 6 ended the month by making some wonderful artist posters featuring African American artists who have created change in the musical world and used their
Steven Lazar (’20)
His Siena Saints finished in first place in the MAAC.
Jadaia Reid (’20)
Her Delaware Blue Hens finished their regular season in the CAA in first place.
Remeke Demeke (’20)
Her NC State Wolfpack finished in first place in the ACC.
Aaliyah Edwards (’20)
Her UConn Huskies finished in first place in the Big East. Aaliyah was also named to the All-Freshman Team and named Sixth-Woman of the Year.
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Today gives us an opportunity to reflect on the progress made towards achieving gender equality and celebrate the acts of courage and determination by individuals who have played an extraordinary role in advancing gender equality in their communities.
Leprechaun Trap
3A was faced with a STEM challenge this week. Our goal was to build a trap that would catch a sneaky little leprechaun in our classroom. We imagined what our traps would do, planned out what they would like, created our designs and then thought about improvements that we could make to our traps. Teeny
PrinciPALs
Dear Parents, The first week of March has certainly been difficult for everyone. We want to thank you all for your continued support and cooperation as we navigate this challenging time. We know this week brought a lot of worry, tension and confusion to our school community, and we appreciate your patience as we
CPC Volunteer Hours
Are you in need of community service hours and looking for a way to brighten the day of someone? Sending Sunshine is a not-for-profit that is trying to reduce the negative effects of social isolation among seniors by providing them with handwritten cards. With the pandemic, the opportunities for volunteering are limited. With Sending Sunshine
Gr.6 Spacescapes
The grade 6 science classes spent the week making models of our solar system. Students designed scale representations that dealt with multiple celestial relationships, including: the locations of terrestrial planets, gas giants, and dwarf planets; the relative positions of the sun, earth, and moon during both solar and lunar eclipses; and the appearance of
Art Room Rumblings
Our Grade 4 and 5 students celebrated World Cat Day on March 1st. Inspired by Warhol and Steinberg students have been working hard to create their own cat creation with a variety of medias. The Grade 6 classes are currently working on self-portraits. They are learning from great masters like Matisse, Picasso and Modigliani
CPC InCITE Writing Competition Finalist!
Dear students: Thank you all so much for participating in this year’s InCITE Writing Competition! Thank you for creating such fascinating, wonderful stories and poems, and for sharing your work with us. It is our great pleasure to announce this year’s finalists: Gr. 7-8 stream: RJ McDerment for his short story, “Runner” Runner – by RJ McDerment
Royal Canada Legion Remembrance Contest
Every November, Crestwood history students are encouraged to participate in the Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Remembrance Day contest. The contest, with categories for visual art, poetry and prose writing, asks students across the country to reflect on the overall theme of remembrance, and apply their creative talents to that theme. We were very happy to
CPC Oral History Project (Mar. 5)
Over the past two weekends the Crestwood Oral History Project has continued its Sunday sessions, introducing students to members of the wartime generation. On Sunday, February 21 and again Sunday, February 28, we did zoom sessions with Holocaust survivors in Israel, and each time Mr. Masters and Mr. Hawkins welcomed approximately 20 students to listen
CPC Oral History Project – Gordon B. Smith
Gordon B. Smith was born in the east end of Toronto on February 25th, 1924. He attended Eastern Commerce, but left to enter the workforce before graduating. When the war came, Gord was eager to follow his older brother’s example, and joined up right as soon as he was able. He spent a year doing
