Kassidy Ruelle, 15, has been riding since the age of three and turned heads in 2013 jump competitions A lifelong dedication to her sport has made Nanaimo’s Kassidy Ruelle a talent to watch in equestrian. The 15-year-old member of the Queen Margaret’s School equestrian team will receive an award today from the B.C. […]
QMS Equestrian Team Heating It Up
QMS Riders Continue Hot Streak The summer heat wave isn’t slowing down members of the Queen Margaret’s School Equestrian Team from continuing their string of strong performances at BC events. Most recently, their hard work at Arbutus Meadows and Thunderbird earned a rainbow of coloured ribbons. QMS Head Coach, Cheryl Keith, continually encourages […]
Lights, Camera, Action!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
1200 teachers participate in the second ISABC Pro-D day
At a recent FISA (Federation of Independent Schools) meeting addressed by the Parliamentary Secretary for Independent Education and Minister for Education, Don MaCrae stated that ‘we do not do enough to address sharing best practice; we need to help share best practice within the system’. Teachers of the 22 member schools in the Independent Schools […]