Happy Holidays! We wish all Crestwood families a refreshing and happy holiday and a fantastic 2018. Enjoy!
The Future Design Project
This past week at Crestwood all the grade 8 students participated in the Future Design Program. Here the students learned the art of innovation, determination and design. The students were given the question of “How might we help Crestwood students get to and from school efficiently, safely and on time”. The students excitedly began working
The Crestword
The latest edition of The Crestword can now be viewed for your holiday reading pleasure. This will be the last edition of the 2017 year and we will bring you more to come for 2018!
Holiday Office Hours
The Main Office will be open during the winter break with revised hours. The holiday office hours will start Friday, December 21st, 2018 and will be from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. The school will also be closed on the following dates: Monday, December 24th Tuesday, December 25th Wednesday, December 26th Monday, December 31st Tuesday,
Crestwood Cafe Closed for the Holidays
The Crestwood Cafe will reopen on Monday, January 7th 2018.
CPC Basketball Remains Undefeated in CISAA Action!
Basketball The Crestwood Junior CISAA Boys’ Basketball team overcame a 19 point halftime deficit to defeat Crescent 66-56 on last Monday afternoon. Crescent went on a 25-6 run during the 2nd quarter to lead by a score of 35-16 at halftime. The Lions would not back down though, and pushed the pace in the second
Crestwood College Q&A
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
U12 Hockey Slip by Sterling
The U12 Co-Ed Hockey had an exciting start to their season yesterday in front of a fan filled York Mills Arena. Crestwood and Sterling have had many epic puck contests in the past few years and yesterday was no different. The home side took the lead early and quickly added two more to build a
U10 B-ball Shock the Sharks
On Thursday afternoon the U10 Basketball team left their boots behind and laced up their shoes as they took to the court for their season opener at Sterling Hall. Off the opening tip the SHS Sharks took an early lead dropping a couple of quick baskets. The Cubs weren’t going to let that keep them
Gardiner Museum for Grade 3
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
Crestwood Basketball in Washington
Last weekend the Senior Boys and Senior Girls Prep basketball teams headed to Washington for 4 days. Both teams played some excellent basketball but it was the girls who stole the show. The senior girls won all three teams, including the number ranked team in Canada. It was an excellent opportunity for our student-athletes to
Parents’ Association News
A Sweet Bake Sale Thanks to our fantastic volunteers and hungry customers, our holiday bake sale was a sweet success. A special thank you goes to Justine Codron for her hard work and creativity in managing our bake sales.
Join us for Semi Formal at the Factory Lounge
Come dance the night away in a Winter Wonderland at Semi Formal. Get your tickets now! Please click here to view our Semi-Formal Promotional Video
Trivia Night at Crestwood
Please join us for a fun and entertaining night of trivia at Crestwood! Tickets may be purchased in the main office.
Crestwood’s Holiday Basketball Camp
Join us at Crestwood for our Holiday Basketball Camp!
CPC Student Wins International Awards
CPC student Gaven Wei ’18 wins International CFGL (Centre for Future Global Leaders) Award. The CFGL is a worldwide association that chooses the top 5000 students from North America, Asia and the Middle East. Out of those places, only 4-5 students qualified for a national award from each location. Gavin has received awards for Math-
CPC Varsity Hockey Skates Circles Around HTS and TCS!
Hockey Monday night the Varsity Hockey Team traveled to Richmond Hill to take on HTS in their second game of the season and the team did not disappoint. Led by Chuckie Nogas with his hat trick and another multiple point by Cole Eichler, the team cruised to an 8-2 win. Roy Pecjinovski had another stellar
Strong and Stable
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
Holiday Concert Reminders
Holiday Concert next Wednesday, December 13th at 7pm Toronto Centre for the Arts Reminders: Please remember to bring instruments and music books on MONDAY(Dec.11), TUESDAY(Dec. 12) and WEDNESDAY(Dec. 13) for all grade 4,5,6’s. We are walking to Lawrence Park Community Church for our dress rehearsals on Monday and Tuesday mornings. Please dress for the weather
WONDERful Monday
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
Girls V-ball Topped by TFS
The U12 Girls Volleyball team played a great game against The York School Tuesday night, keeping the pressure on TYS right up until the last minute. Unfortunately TYS just barely scraped by — winning the second set by a score of 26-28. Jordyn, Selene, Sylvia, Amy, Andrianna, and Judy demonstrated some beautiful serving. And Izzy, Mikayla, Chloe, Viana, and McKenzie did
St. Felix Centre
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
Winter Festival of the Arts
Thursday evening, the music students in Grades 8-12 performed for family and friends at the Annual Holiday Concert. The Grade 8 class played three festive pieces to kick off the holiday season. … “Dance Celebration”, “A French Noel” and “Glorioso”. Following that, the Junior Jazz Band impressed the audience with their swinging renditions of “Topsy”
Future Design School
The grade 8 class is about to embark upon a unique educational experience. Beginning on Monday, students will be attending sessions throughout the school day, originally introduced to CPC by the Future Design School. This innovative curriculum will teach students the critical skills of ideation, prototyping, design thinking, presentation of ideas, and ultimately, showing how to
Crestwood Gives
Over the past two weeks Crestwood families have been generously donating toys, clothes, books, and other items to support 16 families from both the Durham Children’s Aid Society and the Native Child and Family Services. As in previous years, our Crestwood community stepped up to the task and we saw over 20 bags of goods
Crestwood U14 Curling Defeats TMS
Curling Our U14 curling team defeated TMS Wednesday in a close first game at the Royal Canadian Curling Club. Our boys came back from behind to tie it up in the sixth and final end, causing an exciting draw-to-the-button tie-breaker shot. William MacInnis threw a perfect stone which was also swept to perfection by his
Parents’ Association News
Don’t forget this week is the bake sale!
Guidance News
Today was the deadline for University applications. If you have any questions please contact Jenn Hann or Jeff Mitz in the Guidance department.
Senior Robotics’ Team Challenging
The Senior Robotics’ Team has been working hard the last couple of months to build a bluetooth controlled soccer playing robot. With many late nights in the lab and battles through many setbacks, the team pulled through and created two incredible robots and demonstrated what they can do with a little bit of dedication and
Book Swap
The Book Swap will take place between 12:20 and 1:15 on Tuesday, December 5 for all participating students. Thanks to everyone who contributed. More books would be great! Please drop them off at the library on Monday. Thank You. -Lara Bafaro
