Nº1 SEPT 2018 OFFICIAL NEWS @BAYVIEWGLEN Experiential Learning. First CO-OPPlacement Programme Age 2 to University Entrance | Coeducational | Multicultural | Multi-Denominational | bayviewglen.ca MESSAGE FROM THE What’s Inside... BOARD MESSAGE 4 Head of CAIS 4 EVENTS LISTINGS 5 School BEEHIVE 6 STAFF & FACULTY NEWS 7 EDU-FUN 8 GIVING BACK 9 CURRICULUM NIGHTS 9 KIM MCINNES WELCOME 10 September 30, 2018 PROBLEM BASED LEARNING 10 WELCOME BACK TO A NEW AND ROUND SQUARE 11 BOARD OF HEALTH 11 EXCITING SCHOOL YEAR 2018-2019 DINA ASTRELLA WELCOME 12 he 2018-2019 school year is In September, each student gets already shaping up to be an a fresh start and a new set of RECIPE 12 T exciting one. challenges. I encourage all students CAMP NEWS 13 to look at this year as an adventure We welcome Ms. Kim McInnes as the SHAD 13 Assistant Head, Lower School. I know and as an opportunity to excel. you will enjoy getting to know her as This is a time for all students to get PREP SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN 14 she is excited to work with you and involved in school life by joining TEACHING AND LEARNING 15 Fall your children. We also welcome Ms. one of the many activities like team Michelle Yarndley as our new Director sports, House Leagues, Round Square, BRYAN AULD WELCOME 16 of Global Education. We look forward clubs, choirs, bands, Robotics, Math MENTOR PROGRAMME 16 contests, Public Speaking, etc. to the new learning initiatives as we SEC 17 continue to address the demands of the A Bayview Glen education extends 21st Century. beyond the classroom as skills learned UPPER SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN 18 & Family Fun Run Congratulations to Mr. Christopher in these activities are transferrable, POST-SECONDARY PLANNING 19 Federico on his appointment as and also help develop the ‘whole child’. Fest5K Family Fun Run warm up at 9:45, Assistant Head, Academics. He will GEORGE DAWYDCHAK 20 Run starts at 10:00 am Our faculty and staff will do take on the responsibility of ensuring everything possible to ensure that each COOPERATIVE EDUCATION 21 Fall Fest is from 10:45 am to 3:00 pm the integration of the Global content student has a happy and successful MUSICAL OPPORTUNITIES 22 plus the educational continuum from school year by providing caring and Preschool to Grade 12, working with Mr. individual support. BACKSTAGE CREW 23 Denison and Ms. Yarndley. Special welcome to all new families ATHLETICS 24 Congratulations to Mrs. Heather joining Bayview Glen this year. You SOMA 27 Woodard and Mr. Kevin Neville, our are now part of a warm and supportive Co-Directors of Athletics. They will community with a sincere interest ADVANCEMENT 28 work closely together to ensure the in the well-being and success of your ALUMNI NEWS 30 BVG Athletics Programme continues child, and I look forward to getting to PARENT ASSOCIATION 32 to deliver a vibrant, competitive and know each and every one of you. fun experience for all participants. On the cover: Kattreen’s coop placement at the Thank you to Mr. Scott Milligan for his I also extend a warm ‘welcome back’ University of Toronto Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. work as the Assistant Athletic Director to all returning families. I look throughout the last academic year. forward to hearing your stories and summer adventures. In the world of education, September is the New Year and regardless of how Happy New Year 2018-2019. long you have been at Bayview Glen Sincerely, it becomes a time to make a fresh start, set new goals, and look ahead to the promises, the challenges and the possibilities a new year brings. This is especially true for our students. We think of each student as new in September as so much change occurs Eileen Daunt during the summer months. Head of School Prep School September PS & US In-School Orientation and 4 MESSAGE FROM THE first day of classes Grade 6 Curriculum Night & Welcome 5 Events Evening 5:15 P.M. Whole School 6 Grade 7 & 8 Curriculum Night 5:15 P.M. Board of Directors CAIS 3 Labour Day 7 LS & PS Welcome Back Assemblies ACCREDITATION 4 First Full Day of Classes LS & PS Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Every seven years, approximately all 4 Shops Open 8:30 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. 14 Assemblies Independent Schools who are members CISAA Fall Term Sports Tryouts Begin 5 PS & US Student/Parent Contract in of the Canadian Accredited Independent 14 Schools Association must go through an 9 Rosh Hashanah Begins Handbook Due The More Things Change accreditation process. Bayview Glen’s 11 Rosh Hashanah Ends 14 PS Photos Accreditation is set for September 2018. Parents Association Welcome This started a year ago with a visit from the 21 LS & PS Assemblies 11 Breakfast and 1st meeting (Shops Executive Director of CAIS and meetings closed during meeting) 27 LS & PS Civvies Day in House Colours with both the Board of Directors and the “you only get out what you put in.” I was faculty and staff to set the plan in motion. 18 Yom Kippur Begins 27 PS Terry Fox Run & Spirit Day never the best student, but BVG nurtured Yom Kippur Ends The Accreditation promotes a reflective 19 28 LS & PS Assemblies me to work harder than I thought possible. “It was the best of times, and collaborative school improvement Round Square International 20 Upper School BVG challenged me to become a better process, and provides validation of current Conference at LCC Begins version of myself. BVG taught me to 4 Grade 10 & 11 Curriculum Night 5:15 P.M. programmes and services and suggested 22 FLL Robotics Kickoff it was the worst of times;” adapt and develop solutions rather than planning for future growth and development. Grade 10 Outdoor Adventure & Sukkot Begins 4 crumble under the weight of impossible 23 Leadership Information Session Subsequent to the visit from the Executive Round Square International things. I never understood what the BVG 26 PS & US In-School Orientation Director, Bayview Glen appointed three Conference at LCC Ends 4 actually they were the best slogan (Whole Child Whole Life) meant Internal Coordinators to spearhead the 5 US Welcome Back Assembly until years later when I realized that BVG writing of our Internal Evaluation Report. 28 Newsletter Sent Home ingrained a process in me that has been There are 11 standards in all that must be 29 Sukkot Ends 12 Grade 9 Curriculum Night 5:15 P.M. the bedrock of my success. At the time I of times. I just didn’t know it. addressed that are the hallmark of the Preschool, PS, LS, and US Public Open US Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur 29 13 often wondered how it was possible for Accreditation and each must be met to House 9:00 A.M - 11:00 A.M. Assembly a 13 year child to balance everything that maintain accredited member status. Fall Fest & Family Fun Run 10:00 A.M. - PS & US Student/Parent Contract in I begrudgingly joined the BVG family on school was small, the children were 30 14 was happening at BVG and still prosper All members of our school community 3:00 P.M. Handbook Due September 3rd 1985 but if my 13 year old unfriendly, the teachers were harsh and academically and socially. were involved in some way in the self had a choice, I would have returned the homework was impossible... but then Lower School 17 US Assembly As a parent, I see how busy and engaged completion of the Internal Evaluation to the familiar confines of my previous something changed. 7 LS & PS Welcome Back Assemblies US BVG University Fair 4:45 P.M. - my children are at BVG and at times Report. Each standard had its own Chair 17 school despite all of its detrimental and Vice Chair and team of faculty 6:30 P.M. As fall turned to winter and winter into my children also wonder how can they 10 BG2-SK Curriculum Night 5:15 P.M. influences. I joined BVG as one of the first and staff to address indicators of 17 US Last Day for Course Changes spring, the size of the school began to manage all this? I tell them “it was the 12 Grade 1-5 Curriculum Night 5:15 P.M. 3 classes at the Duncan Mill Campus. BVG effective practice, guiding questions, matter less, the children became more same in my day.” My children question my documentation and standard summary. 12 Grade 3-5 Photo Day 17 US Grade 12 Parent Night 5:30 P.M. had about 50% of the third floor at the welcoming, and the teachers appeared sanity and say “Dad, you don’t know! It’s JK-Grade 2 Photo Day 20 US Assembly current Lower School . We had everything to be friendlier. As middle school turned We are now eagerly awaiting the visit from 13 different now!” I wonder how different rd th 60 students needed for school, except a to high school, I discovered how much I is it? Honestly, it is different! The school CAIS on Sunday, September 23 to the 26 LS & PS Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur 24 US Assembly when a team of educators and staff from 14 gym, a cafeteria or a playground. Roger, adored the uniqueness of BVG and how is no longer small and the teachers are Assemblies across Canada will arrive at our school to 24 US DECA Fall Symposium Michele and Ernie shuttled us back and 21 Grade 5 Breakfast 7:30 A.M. much I loathed the memories of my clearly nicer, but the process is still the begin the process.