2019 Opening Week Schedule: Senior School

Tuesday, September 3rd “Welcome to New Day Students and Returning Boarders” There is no morning bus today. New day students in casual dress/Greeters in house shirts.

9:00 a.m. Headmaster Stuart Grainger meets with all new day families and gives a brief introduction to life at TCS (with head of Senior School, dean of academic & student support and academic directors) in the Dick and Jane LeVan Theatre 9:30 a.m. Breakout to houses for a short information session with housemasters 9:30 a.m. Admissions staff meets with all day student greeters (LeVan Hall) 10:30 a.m. Tour and orientation of campus with greeter to include meeting with advisor, a potential visit to the health centre, school store and/or finance office, laptop set-up and form drop-off in Cirne Commons, consult with guidance about any outstanding academic concerns 12:00 p.m. Lunch is served in Osler Hall 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Peer support, head of house & assistant head of house training (Davies Student Centre) 4:30 p.m. Day bus leaves 7:00 p.m. Headmaster meets with all returning boarders (Memorial Chapel) 8:00 p.m. Boarding house meetings/activities 10:00 p.m. Curfew for all boarding students

Wednesday, September 4th “Welcome to New Boarders and Returning Day Students” There is bus service today, arriving at TCS for 8:00 a.m. New boarders in casual dress/Greeters in house shirts.

8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Day students fitted for uniforms with Top Marks (Upper level LeVan Hall) Boarding students can visit Top Marks any time after 10:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Admissions team meets with all boarding student greeters (Dick and Jane LeVan Theatre) 9:45 – 10:00 a.m. Headmaster meets with all returning Grade 10-12 day students (Dick and Jane LeVan Theatre) 10:00 a.m. All day students (new and returning) report to their house lounge for house meetings Schedules and daily planners will be handed out to returning students (after the meeting, day houses head off campus for house outings) 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. All new boarding students arrive 11:15 a.m. Lunch for Junior School students only (Osler Hall) 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch available for boarding students and new families only (Osler Hall) 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Tour and orientation of campus with greeter to include meeting with advisor, a potential visit to the health centre, school store and/or finance office, laptop set-up and form drop-off in Cirne Commons, consult with guidance about any outstanding academic concerns 1:00 p.m. All parents meet with academic directors to review the academic, co-curricular and community expectations at TCS (Dick and Jane LeVan Theatre) 1:30 p.m. Breakout to house meetings for an information session with housemasters (locations to be announced at the previous session) 3:00 p.m. Headmaster meets with all new boarding families (Memorial Chapel) 4:30 p.m. Day buses leave 5:00 p.m. BBQ on front terrace for all students and families (if parents would like to take their children out for dinner they are welcome to do so but must return by 6:30 p.m.) 6:00 p.m. Dessert for boarding parents with the headmaster (The Lodge Garden). 6:30 p.m. Late bus for day student football players (after 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. practice) 7:00 p.m. Boarding parents leave campus 7:30 p.m. Boarding house welcome meetings for all students in each house 10:00 p.m. Curfew for all boarding students Thursday, September 5th There is bus service as per the regular schedule. All students must be in #1 dress.

8:15 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast for all students; day housemasters present in lounges 9:00 a.m. Opening chapel service with all faculty (Memorial Chapel) 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Day 1, Period 1 (Block A) 10:20 – 10:35 a.m. Day 1, Period 2 (Block B) 10:40 – 11:20 a.m. Advisor Meetings (Individual locations to be provided by advisors) 11:25 – 11:40 a.m. Day 1, Period 3 (Block C) 11:45a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Day 1, Period 4 (Block D) 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Lunch for Grade 9 & 10 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Meeting with grade coordinators for all Grade 9 students (Dick and Jane LeVan Theatre) and all Grade 10 students (Davies Student Centre) 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch for Grade 11 & 12 1:15 – 2:00 p.m. Concussion education session for all students (Dick and Jane LeVan Theatre) 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Athletics program launch (competitive and Activity for Life) for all students (Cirne Commons), followed by tryouts for teams, fall play and dance troupe 4:00 – 5:45 p.m. All Student Fun & Games 6:00 p.m. BBQ dinner 7:00 p.m. Day bus departs 8:00 p.m. Boarding house meetings/activities 10:00 p.m. Curfew for all boarding students

Friday, September 6th There is bus service as per the regular schedule. Students may wear non-uniform dress.

8:15 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast for all students/day housemasters present in lounges 9:00 a.m. Chapel 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Day 2, Period 1 (Block E) 10:20 – 10:35 a.m. Day 2, Period 2 (Block F) 10:40 – 11:20 a.m. Advisor meetings (Individual locations to be provided by advisors) 11:25 – 11:40 a.m. Day 2, Period 3 (Block G) 11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Day 2, Period 4 (Block H) 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Lunch for Grade 11 & 12 12:15 p.m. Grade 10 excursion departs (with packed lunch) 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch for Grade 9 12:45 – 3:45 p.m. Grade 11/12 leadership activities (on campus) 1:15 p.m. Grade 9 excursion departs 4:15 – 5:45 p.m. Athletic tryouts and fall play auditions for Grade 11 & 12 students 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Dinner (Osler Hall) 7:00 p.m. Day student bus departs 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Reception for parents/guardians of day students (Wright/Orchard Lounge) 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. Grade 12 post-secondary information presented by guidance (Dick and Jane LeVan Theatre) 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Optional program for all students (four stations around campus, student’s choice) 9:30 p.m. Day student bus departs 10:00 p.m. Curfew for boarders

Saturday, September 7th There is bus service as per the regular schedule.

9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Breakfast for all students 10:00 a.m. Sports tryouts for all teams and AFL physical activities; fall play auditions 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. House volleyball 5:00 p.m. onwards Residential programming and/or boarding house outings 10:45 p.m. Curfew for all boarding students

Sunday, September 8th There is no bus service today.

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Brunch Afternoon Residential programming and/or boarding house outings 8:00 p.m. Chapel (mandatory for boarding students) 10:00 p.m. Curfew for all boarding students