Category: Lower School

  Please note the parking map below. The spots shaded in red are the only visitor parking spots. If you are required to come to school for any reason please park in this designated area.  If these spots are occupied you may park in the Glendon parking lot. Parking at Glendon is complimentary until further

  Crestwood School is a nut-free environment. As some of you may be aware, there are children in our school who are allergic to peanuts, pine nuts, tree nuts, and other kinds of nuts. This allergy can cause an anaphylactic reaction – meaning the airway can close up and cause breathing to stop. Given that

  Dear Parents, We are thrilled to have finished our first full week of the 2020/2021 school year. Students, teachers and parents have all done a fabulous job adjusting to the new routines and procedures, and school life is feeling (almost) normal again!  We want to send a HUGE thank you to our teachers who

  Hi all Many students still have books from before the March Break.  Hopefully the books were enjoyed over and over again while all of us were stuck at home!  Please have a look around for them and send them back to school as soon as possible. Thank you. –Lara Bafaro, Teacher/Librarian

  Dear Parents: At Crestwood we are proud of the commitment we have made to Community Service in the past. We are beginning the 2020-2021 school year with our annual Terry Fox Walk/Run, which will take place during the day on WEDNESDAY, September 30TH, 2020. Students should be in their House t-shirts, Crestwood gym shorts

  Hundreds of years ago, before the invention of cameras, explorers took artists with them on long voyages to draw the many exciting things they discovered. We don’t need to travel many miles by sea or train to be an artist explorer. These treasures were found right outside of our school doors! –Anya Romanenko  

  Dear Parents, Thank you for your continued support and cooperation in screening your child(ren) each morning for COVID symptoms. We know it is not easy to keep your child at home for symptoms such as headaches and runny noses, however, this is imperative to the health and safety of all students and staff. Please

  What a wonderful first week in Grade 3C! We have had so much fun settling back into our school routine and meeting our new classmates. We created goals for ourselves, made selfie posters, and even made our own classroom rules! We also loved meeting our specialty teachers on zoom, and had a blast during

  Dear Crestwood Community, We the Crestwood School Parents Association (The CSPA) would like to welcome everyone back to school and hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable summer vacation – or what we like to call it, extended March Break. We would like to extend an extra warm welcome to new families for what will

  Welcome back everyone! And a very warm welcome to all of our new families! The anticipation is finally over!!! It was so wonderful to see all the students on the first day of school; seeing the smiling faces, smelling the lunches, and hearing the children’s laughter warmed our hearts! We would like to take

  Over the past two days we have experienced a much more efficient drop-off and pick up procedure and all of the credit goes to you. For morning drop-off, students have been packed up and ready to exit their vehicle when they enter their designated drop zone. It is obvious that parents have better prepared

  We are very excited to begin a new year of art creation, using our environment for inspiration! Here’s to a great start to the school year for everyone! –Anya Romanenko  

  Today, writing our final summer message, we are zoom fatigued, but ecstatic and proud.  As educators, and parents, our primary focus has been keeping children healthy, safe and engaged. What a journey this term has been for every human on our planet.   We’re so proud of our entire Crestwood community – our faculty and

  Once upon a time, there were two Grade One classes – Grade 1A and Grade 1B. The beginning of the school year felt like, “Once upon a time,” when they started on the very first day in September and entered their magical kingdoms.  As time went by, they were transported into the Zoom Room

  The Olympic motto, Faster, Higher, Stronger, motivated and inspired our Grade 6 Olympians during Wednesday morning’s grade-wide Zoom competition.  Divided into ten mixed-class teams, students strived for Faster in the rather comical “How many items of clothing can you put on in two minutes?” contest. (Twelve hats CAN be worn upon one head, it

The Grade 3 students have had a fantastic year learning and working together. We are so proud of all the students and how quickly they adapted to our new learning environment. Over the past few weeks, we have participated in many different hands-on activities and experiments together. Nothing could stop us from having fun in

The students of 6D and 6E put their families’ extra cardboard boxes to great use this week as they created arcade-style games and attractions for our (virtual) edition of the annual Cardboard Carnival. We began this activity by watching a short film called Caine’s Arcade, about a young boy named Caine who turns his father’s

  It’s almost time to cast your votes! The candidates for House Head next year have been working hard to perfect their speeches for you, so they can pass along the information they feel is important for you to know about them before you vote! By now hopefully you’ve had a chance to check out

  Congratulations to Ari Gutnik, TJ Brooks and Anika Yang: our Artists’ of the Week! I hope you enjoy their versatile creative work! Artists of the Week Ari Gutnik My name is Ari Gutnik. I am 10 years old. I love to do art. It brings my imagination to life. Sometimes I am not sure what to create,