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

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

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

PrinciPALs

  Dear Parents, Our last week of February was a great one at Crestwood School. Luckily, the huge amounts of snowfall made for lots of fun recess play. Students are settling back into school routine, and are engaging in lots of exciting learning opportunities in their classrooms.  On Tuesday, we celebrated Pink Shirt Day! The

Pink Shirt Day at CPC

Wednesday February 24th was National Pink Shirt Day.  Whether on zoom or at the school it was great to see so many Crestwood students wearing pink to send a very important message about bullying.  Pink shirts are worn as a symbol and as recognition that bullying will not be tolerated at Crestwood.  Even Roary wore

Grade 12 Yearbook Quotes

Attention Grade 12s graduating this June! Graduation quote submissions for the yearbook are now available using the following google form. Yearbook quotes are due on March 5, 2021. A graduation quote is a quote that is meaningful to you in some way. It can be inspirational, motivational, sentimental or something that you would like to be remembered

Course Selection

Just a reminder that the deadline to submit course selection choices for the new school year is Thursday March 4, 2021. Grade 9-12 Course Selection: All grade 8-11 students are to submit their high school course selection choices online through: XELLO. Grade 8 Course Selection: All grade 7 students are to submit their grade 8 course selection choices

CPC Oral History Project – Rod White

Rod White was born February 16, 1925 in Trenton, Ontario.  Rod’s father died when he was only four, and some of his early memories are of his mother struggling to raise her seven children in difficult economic times. Rod left school after Grade 8, going to work and helping to support the family. Work took

CPC School Nurse: Information on Masks

To the Crestwood Preparatory College Community: Crestwood is doing a great job, keep up the great work! With the new, more contagious variants, we need to continue our diligent mask wearing.  Wearing medical-grade masks (the blue surgical masks) provide adequate protection against incoming pathogens and is highly recommended by Toronto Public Health, and remember to:

Canadian Open Math Contest (COMC)

In November, members of the Problem Solving Club participated in the Canadian Open Math Contest.  Run by the Canadian Math Society, the COMC encourages students to explore, discover, and learn more about mathematics and problem-solving. The following students achieved a Performance with Distinction certificate for ranking in the top 25% of contestants: Alex Chen Danny