Monthly Archives: May 2019

Botany Lunch

The Elementary class are inviting their parents to school on June 5th at 12.30 to view their botany portfolios and share a lunch they designed made up of all parts of the plant (roots, leaves, stems, flowers, fruit and seeds). … Continue reading

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West End Phoenix Visit

Today the children who wrote submissions for the Young Voices contest co-sponsored by The West End Phoenix and Six Shooter Records presented them to Dave Bidini at the Gladstone Hotel. Dave reviewed them and gave them some writing tips. Next … Continue reading

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Peer Teaching: The Fibonacci Sequence

Two of our Upper Elementary students used the cubing material to demonstrate the Fibonacci sequence to their younger classmates. As a lovely touch, they added objects from the nature museum in the classroom to describe how it is found in … Continue reading

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High Park Nature Centre

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West End Phoenix Assignment for Uppers

On Wednesday, May 22nd, Upper Elementary students will meet with Dave Bidini at the West End Phoenix offices at The Gladstone Hotel to chat about the paper and hand in their submissions for the New Voices award co-sponsored by the … Continue reading

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Botany and Mothers

      We are completing the botany series on functions, parts and adaptations of plants. Each week, an Upper Elementary child collaborates with Holly to present the material on leaf, stem, root, flower, fruit and seed. Today, our presentation … Continue reading

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