Girls Bball Clipped by Kingsway College

The U12 Girls Basketball team played their final regular season game yesterday at Glendon against Kingsway College. The teams were very evenly matched and the score stayed close throughout the game. We started to lose focus in the third quarter and fell behind by 8 points. In the fourth, we dug deeper, and came back

Crestwood Celebrates Literacy

The Book Fair begins on Tuesday. Mark your calendars so you will not miss this celebration of literacy with us. It is being held from Tuesday, November 1st – Thursday, November 3rd from 8:30-4:30 each day.  It’s a special event for our entire school community. Our Book Fair gives you and your children the opportunity to buy carefully selected, quality books and

A View from the Crosswalk

I am one of the few teachers who that have the pleasure of starting some of my days on our crosswalk greeting our students and starting their day with a smile. Along with getting to share some morning cheer, I get to begin the day with one of the most important activities we are entrusted with as teachers; ensuring the health and

Community Service Sweep!

This week, Crestwood’s Community Service Team recruited some amazing volunteers to help clean up our playgrounds.  We gave out gloves and bags and swarmed both playgrounds, collecting several bags of garbage! Thank you to all the students who helped to keep our playgrounds beautiful for everyone to enjoy! -Ms. Calway  

Soccer Festival Fun

On Wednesday October 19th, the U12 Festival soccer team travelled to Villanova College for their tournament. The boys played three outstanding round robin games. They tied one game and suffered two heartbreaking losses. The boys and girls showed incredible teamwork and sportsmanship throughout the entire day. The next tournament will be played in Hamilton next Saturday. Players

Lost and Please Help Me Find?

My son Josh lost his clarinet at the end of September. We’ve been searching everywhere but it hasn’t turned up. Could you all kindly check your kids’ instruments and school lockers in case it was picked up inadvertently.  The clarinet should be tagged Josh Paquin, 5D.  If you do find it please kindly pass on

Urban and Rural

On Wednesday the Grade 3’s boarded a bus and headed to Toronto’s city core to explore our urban community from 553.33 meters high up in the sky.  As we travelled up the elevator of the CN Tower in a mere 56 seconds, we were on a mission to discover the special features of our city. From

Budding Artists

Dear Parents: After much anticipation, your budding artist’s will be bringing home their masterpieces in the next few weeks! Included with his/her artwork, is your order form to purchase greeting cards, mugs, coasters, compact mirrors, magnets, jigsaw puzzles, placemats, coffee mugs, gift tags, etc. This is an ideal gift with Hannukah and Christmas right around the corner!

Bringing Order to Gr.6 Math

Today in Miss Suckstorff’s math class students practised comparing and ordering numbers.  Students worked together to put 50 large numbers in order from least to greatest and greatest to least.  Students completed the task a second time without speaking, using only gestures to get the job done.  It was a great exercise in place value,

U12 Soccer Stops Sterling

Another game and another victory for the Traditional U12 Soccer team. Our small squad of 12 players made the short trip up to Glendon to face a strong Sterling Hall team. Crestwood started brightly with a succession of chances that were carved out by some good link up play. Our two outside backs, Adam J

X Country to Crescent

The Grades 3-6 Cross Country Team walked up to Crescent yesterday for a friendly meet between the two schools.  Our students all raced with enthusiasm and excellent stamina.  Legs were pumping and hearts were racing along the beautiful, fall-coloured hills of the course.  We are so proud of all of our runners.  Special mention goes

Gr.1 Apple Pickin’

Recently, the Grade Ones set off for Chudleigh’s Apple Farm with very unsettled weather looming. When our happy Grade Ones arrived, so did the beautiful, sunny weather! A day outdoors with a tractor ride, apple picking, learning how to make apple cider as well as tasting it, and a petting zoo, couldn’t have been better

Got Milk!

Daisy, the Holstein Cow, visited the Grade 3 classes on Tuesday to talk about the connection between urban and rural communities.  Here are some quick “A-MOO-zing” facts that we learned: DID YOU KNOW… Most Canadian dairy farms are family owned. Dairy cows give an average of 27 litres of milk per day and they are milked twice

Crestwood Clubs

Crestwood School Club Information has been sent home with all students today.  Please make sure you return the club forms on Tuesday, October 11th.  Club confirmation letters will be sent home on or before Friday, October 14th. Thanks -Grace Cruz

Zoo for Grade 2

On Thursday, October 6th the Grade Two classes travelled to the Toronto Zoo to participate in a workshop on Animal Classification. We were lucky to have a beautiful, sunny fall day for our trip! We spent the day learning about all of the diverse and unique animals that call the Toronto Zoo home. We had fun discovering and

U12 Soccer Storm Cyclones

After waiting 40 minutes for our opposition to arrive, the Crestwood U12 Traditional team were keen to get the game started and pressed CDS back into their defensive half from the kickoff. A succession of overlapping runs and crosses came close to opening the scoring.  The pressure soon paid dividends as Beckett scored his first

U9 Soccer Travels to TFS

On Friday, September 30th the U9 soccer team had a great showing at the TFS invitational. We played a total of 8 games, tying 4 and losing the other 4 by only 1 goal each game. All teammates showed great sportsmanship and enthusiasm in all of the games. We practice again on Tuesday and play The Country Day

Art Committee Kicks Off

The Art Committee has commenced and we are already working hard on sets for the grade one and three plays. A warm welcome to our new members! We are very excited for all of the amazing projects that we will be creating throughout the year. Thank you for your initiative, dedication and hard work. -Ms. Romanenko

U9 Soccer vs. Crescent

Yesterday the U9 soccer team had their first game of the season vs. Crescent School. Despite their determination and enthusiasm they fell short. Our 4 goalies (Jayin Vohra, Brayden Cox, Zidan Asghar and Coco Aylward) had a combined 33 saves! On the field every player worked hard to help protect the net and get the ball down the

U12 Soccer Crush Crescent

The Crestwood U12 Traditional Soccer team traveled to Crescent for their opening game of the season. Playing our 4-2-3-1 System the boys started brightly and quickly took the lead with a goal from Co-Captain Adam Pearlman. Crestwood’s other Co-Captain, Dylan Wilkinson took control of the back line keeping the host team scoreless through the half.

CSPA presents Screenagers

The Crestwood School Parents’ Association would like to invite you to a viewing of the documentary SCREENAGERS. ABOUT THE FILM: Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that with her own kids and learned that the average kid spends 6.5 hours a

Terry Fox Run

At Crestwood we are proud of the commitment we have made to Community Service in the past. We are beginning the 2016-2017 school year with our annual Terry Fox Walk/Run, which will take place during the afternoon of THURSDAY, September 29TH, 2016. Students should be in their House t-shirts, Crestwood gym shorts or track pants