Category: Crestwood News

The Crestwood School Parents’ Association is only as effective as its volunteers and we have been extremely lucky to have met many great people over the past few years. Maryann, Pam and Melanie would like to specifically thank Linda Fata-Glover and Renita Greener for their extraordinary contributions as members of the CSPA 2016/2017/2018.  We were

Dear Parents, Welcome back to the start of a new school year. A special welcome goes out to the new families that are joining us for the first time. After you drop off your children, I hope you can join us in the cafeteria for coffee and take the opportunity to meet other parents and

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the Early Settlers in the 1800’s? The Grade 3’s stepped back in time and spent a day at Black Creek Pioneer Village to find out.  The children and teachers dressed up in time period clothing to experience life in Upper Canada in the 1860s. We toured many

On Friday, May 25th, the Grade 5 students traveled to Milton to explore Crawford Lake and its Wendat village. The students enjoyed their hike around the lake, and learning about the lake’s unique qualities and exploring the natural resources around the lake which would have been used by First Nations inhabitants. After lunch, students got

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018 from 3:30pm to 7:00pm NEW ATTRACTIONS, activities, silent auction and delicious food! Bring your family and friends! ADMISSION All Access Children Wristbands are available for $30 each in advance ($35 at the door) (This includes unlimited attractions, games, activities, snacks and dinner) Adult Wristbands are $10 each in advance and include dinner

Congrats to our Crestwood community on your excellent turnout for our Curriculum Share/Art Auction evenings. Between both nights were able to raise close to $7000 by auctioning off class art pieces. All monies will be used to pay for our new Junior playground as well as upgrades to our current Primary play area. Your support

On Saturday April 28th, nine Crestwood students participated in the Junior Science Olympics at Crescent School.  The students competed in engineering challenges like the Marshmallow Tower, Egg Drop, Wall Run, Tin Foil Boats, Bridge Building, Marble Ramp, Laser Maze, and many others.  These students worked hard, had fun, showed stellar team work, and demonstrated great sportsmanship. 

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

Tuesday April 3rd 7:00 – 8:15pm – UPPER CANADA COLLEGE PREP (Weston Hall) “The Second-Goal Parent: Developing Winners in Life Through Sports” (75 minutes) Everyone wants to win. That’s the first goal in sports. But in youth and high school sports there is a second, more important goal: teaching life lessons through sports. In this

On Wednesday, February 14th, Crestwood students are invited to don their red, white, and pink to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Please bring a toonie to contribute to Community Service’s ongoing fundraising drive in support of Neema International.

Crestwood students left no sofa cushion unturned this past week in their quest to gather stray coins to contribute to our Be the Change classroom challenge. Community Service students diligently collected, sorted, tallied, and rolled the tsunami of coins generously donated by students and their families. We collected an incredible $4414.76 that we will use to

Do you have an interest in advertising in our 2018/19 school yearbook? Well it is now or never. Read below to find out more. Who will see my ad? Crestwood’s yearbook is a 128-page, (28cm by 22cm) full-colour, hardcover book. Every year there are approximately 400 copies in circulation within the Crestwood community. Every student and

A representative from ‘Keating Explorica’ will be visiting the Crestwood School library on Tuesday, January 16th at 7 pm to present information regarding our 2018 Grade 6 Ottawa 3-day Spring Tour. All parents of Grade 6 students are encouraged to attend in order to gain valuable insight into the tour’s itinerary, costs and procedures for online registration.

Lisa Newton (Crestwood Preparatory College VP and Director of Athletics) along with some grade 7 students travelled to Crestwood School this morning. They provided our grade 6’s with an excellent picture of daily life as a CPC student. The friendly presentation covered a whole host of items from transportation to and from school, to course

The Grade 3’s visited the Gardiner Ceramic Museum this week.  We started off with a tour of the beautiful galleries where the students looked at various art pieces and discussed their components.  We played a game of “Eye Spy” as we tried to spot as many animals as we could on ceramic bowls, cups, and

The Grade 3 Classes had a “Scientists in Schools” workshop this week on the topic of Strong and Stable Structures. This connects to their unit in science, where students have been learning about the skills engineers use when creating structures we use every single day. The students were immersed in a hands-on morning and afternoon where they learned

On Monday, December 4th, the Grade 5 students traveled to Imagine Cinemas to have a VIP movie experience to watch Wonder. The movie really captured the essence and theme of the novel; choose to be kind. Students were very moved by the film and we look forward to them embodying the idea of always choosing

Dear Parents, Just a friendly reminder that we are still collecting items for your children’s classes for the St. Felix Centre.  Please send in donations to with your children to their homerooms up until Tuesday December 12th.  Should you have any questions please email us at cspa@ohp.crestwood.on.ca Thanks for your generosity! Crestwood Cares and the CSPA     

The Grade 3’s had a visit from a team of builders from TRIDEL on Thursday.  This hands-on presentation reviewed some facts that we have learned about structures:  both people and animals build structures, and both people and animals need their structures to be strong and stable and to last a long time. We looked at models of