Helping families choose private schools and summer camps
As summer ends, so does the carefree schedule. For many families and especially children, going back to school is even more difficult because of the need to re-establish a long-forgotten routine. Staying up late is no longer an option. Our bodies need time to adjust to the new clock and it is important to take [...]
In a gymnasium full of parents, Dr. Adam Cox spoke on how to best connect and communicate with boys. In an event hosted by the Toronto French School’s Mississauga campus on Thursday, May 20, 2010, Dr. Cox explained that even though boys and girls are more similar then they are different, those small differences can [...]
Today, I saw a demonstration of an outdoor synthetic ice rink at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Ontario that will be open to the public all year long. The Natrel Kinder Rink will be permanently installed along side the boardwalk next to Lake Ontario (beside the Natrel winter-only ice rink) and will only be covered [...]
This week the Fraser Institute released its 2010 school rankings of 2,742 Ontario elementary schools. The rankings are largely based on the results of Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) of Grade 3 and Grade 6 measurements of reading, writing and math. For many schools listed in the report five years worth of EQAO [...]
“It was fifteen minutes.” For Grade 12 student Callagy Ross that was the time between her history class and setting off in life rafts with her 63 shipmates from S.V. Concordia as the ship began to sink off the coast of Brazil on February 17, 2010. The students, teachers and crew of West Island College’s [...]
Turn around. No matter what direction you face all you see is flat blue water. As you walk about, you constantly maintain three points of contact to maintain your balance. As you sit on the side of the ship and work on your homework, a single albatross flies overhead. As nighttime falls and the horizon [...]
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