On June 11, the junior kindergarten classes from West Point Grey Academy made their red-carpet debut at the first Big Picture Film Festival. Even more impressive? These creative, multitasking 4- and 5-year-olds not only developed the storyboards, wrote the scripts and made the props, but they acted in and directed the shorts themselves! Of […]
ISEA Track and Field Competition, Minoru Park, 30th May 2013
The Independent Schools Elementary Athletics schools held their annual Track and Field event at the end of May. St George’s School won the Boys’ event and Crofton House won the Girls’ event. But there is far more to the competition than just winning. Camryn Wong, Grade 7, York House School provides this delightful account […]
Clive Austin: A Life in Education
Clive Austin has been an educator for 47 years—and a student before that, yet Clive Austin credits his best educational experience not to one institution but to the school of life; that is, to travel. Born in Hertfordshire, England, Clive was just 9 months old when his family moved to India, and for the next […]
Aspengrove accredited as an IB Continuum School
It is with great excitement that Aspengrove School announces that it has been authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization to offer the IB Diploma programme beginning September 2013! There are currently 147 schools in Canada who offer the Diploma programme, 26 of them in BC. Aspengrove will be the 9th school in Canada to offer […]
GNS’s Evan Letkeman in Canadian world swimming trials!
Evan Letkeman, currently in Grade 12 at GNS, is swimming into unchartered waters—and it is a wonderful thing. In March, he qualified for the Canadian swimming trials for a place in the team that will, ultimately, head to the World Championships in Barcelona this summer. These trials are ongoing, this week, at the Saanich Commonwealth […]
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SMUS Ranks Number One in Advanced Placement Rankings
Saint Michael’s University School recently received some truly outstanding news from the College Board: it has been ranked the number-one school in Canada for “equity and excellence” in the Advanced Placement® (AP) program. Compared to nearly 600 Canadian schools, SMUS scores highest in the country for student access to the AP program combined with the […]