Helping families choose private schools and summer camps
At the first ever Our Kids Summer Camp Expo, representatives and staff from over forty-five different summer camps filled the hall with booths equipped with beach balls, wooden cabin-like roofs, as well as frisbees, arts and crafts, and even mini-s’mores! Each camp brought it’s own slice of summer to meet with over 600 curious families, consisting of parents as well as their budding campers, whether they browsed through their options in strollers or in tightly-packed huddles of teenage friends.
February is the shortest month of the year, and it sure felt like it this time around. But while parents are still occupied with the day-today bustle, kids have been patiently awaiting the month of March and what it will bring: plenty of puddles to splash in, green cookies on St. Patrick’s Day, and the Holy Grail – March Break! A whole week off school to frolic, play, and burn off all that energy built up since the Winter Holidays with a fun-filled schedule that their parents haven planned for them weeks in advance. Right? Unfortunately many parents across Canada aren’t usually as diligent at counting down the days as their kids, so March Break can sneak up suddenly. But hopefully we can help. Here are our picks for fun activities for kids and the family during the March Break in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Backstage Notes offers a look behind the scenes of the quality artistic programs found at private school and summer camp! First we heard from the Director and a students performer from the Avenue Road Arts School, as they prepare a musical theatre revue show based on the hit television series Glee. Now here are the thoughts of another young star.
The Design Exchange (DX), an internationally recognized non-profit educational organization that promotes greater awareness of design and its role in fostering economic growth and cultural vitality, is proud to announce the 16th Annual Sears Canadian High School Design Competition.
Aimed to promote the study of design disciplines in high schools across Canada, students of all ages (grades 10 and below in the ‘junior’ level and grades 11 and up in the ‘senior’ level) are encouraged to submit entries into one or more of four categories.
We painted, we danced, we braved the stage. From the smallest hamlet to the busiest metropolis across Canada, the first annual Culture Days weekend was a fun-filled success.
Last month, Newsweek magazine ran a feature story discussing how “for the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining.” While creativity may seem difficult to quantify, there is in fact a series of tests called Torrance Scores, which have been shown to be remarkably good at predicting kids’ future accomplishments. Children who have [...]
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