Nº4 DEC 2016 OFFICIAL NEWS @BAYVIEWGLEN Happy Holidays Chapters Night Returns! See page 6 Age 2 to University Entrance | Coeducational | Multicultural | Multi-Denominational | bayviewglen.ca message from the What’s Inside... Head of BOARD MESSAGE 4 BETTER BEGINNINGS 5 Check your email to uncover School VIEWPOINT MAGAZINE 5 a new gift idea SNOW DAY PROCEDURES 6 each day. 9 2 11 5 By now you will EVENT LISTINGS 7 The Parent Association Presents the all have received ROBOTICS 8 a copy of our new HOLIDAY CONCERTS 10 CAMP NEWS 12 school magazine, Viewpoint. DEMYSTIFYING INQUIRY 13 12 Days of This publication has been ATHLETICS 14 a goal for Bayview Glen for DECA 19 some time. It has a long Christmas SKI DAYS 20 shelf life and will make a SKATING PROGRAMME 21 great coffee table book. We YOUNG ROUND SQUARE 22 at the Shops hope that it generates many PREP SCHOOL STUDENT LIFE COMMITTEE 24 Starting December 1, find a new gift idea every day. interesting conversations over POST-SECONDARY 12 the holidays with family and PLANNING 25 friends. I hope you share it ROUND SQUARE 26 RECIPE 27 with pride. BEAVER COMPUTING he holiday season is At home, families are preparing CHALLENGE 27 upon us and we are for the many and varied cultural DUKE OF EDINBURGh eagerly awaiting all the and religious celebrations that 28 celebrations this season occur in December. TECHNOCUP 28 Tbrings. Starting with Chapters 4 8 10 Night, the 12 Days of Christmas in We all share a sense of warmth, UPPER SCHHOOL SEC 29 the BVG Shops, a visit from Santa, harmony, optimism, and hope for the Holiday Gift Sale, Hanukkah a world filled with peace and joy. ADVANCEMENT NEWS 30 Assemblies and of course our Mini Market Holiday Concerts. From all of us at Bayview Glen, ALUMNI NEWS 31 December 19 have a safe and happy holiday! 8-10 am & 3-6pm Sounds of choirs and bands spill PARENT ASSOCIATION 32 into the hallways. For all of us, Stop by the Moatfield Shop music is a highlight of this festive for coffee and baked goods. time of year. Eileen Daunt Pick up any last minute gifts at our mini holiday market! 7 6 3 bayviewglen.ca/association-events Cover: Chapters Night 2016 Fast Facts message from the 15 The number of years Board Chair Bayview Glen has partnered with Adventure Place – Better Beginnings 1,450 Making To date the number of hampers packed for Time families Contact us at 75 to Take [email protected] Families supported each year Time Out $52,500 Approximate amount of t has been a busy year, not just for my wife, There has been so many changes in the world over the gift cards donated over Lianne and I, but for our girls, Sydney and Lexy. past 12 months, changes that will continue to impact all 15 years Can you believe that it’s December? Already? of us, regardless of our personal or political ideologies. Every year without fail, as the holiday season I for one plan to devote this time to reflect in a really heart : felt Iapproaches, I find myself wondering where the year went. intentional way, about what these changes can mean It feels like it was only yesterday that we were ringing in for me individually, for my family, my community and the New Year, but before we knew it, March Break was the global community. Intentional reflection can be a For more information on upon us, only to slide very quickly into the summer break, powerful way to ground oneself, especially when the Celebrating 15 years of partnership Better Beginnings, contact which in turn quickly gave way to the start of another world around you feels turbulent and the road ahead, dark Ms. Leah Kanary by email at school year, and in what really felt like the blink of an eye, and dangerous. This is precisely the time to breathe in and with Better Beginnings [email protected] the calendar year is about to end. The year has just flown deliberately look for the beauty that is around us, because by and so much has changed. But it isn’t the change that it is there. We just have to be quiet and give ourselves not Bayview Glen began its partnership with at Bayview Glen fill a hamper for a selected I’m thinking about; it’s the pace. I feel it acutely, as the only the time, but the permission to do that. So I invite Adventure Place Better Beginnings as it was just family. The students are given details about father of two very active and growing girls. Watching my you to join me and take some time out of our fast-paced launching its Holiday Hamper Programme in their designated family, including the ages of daughters scatter, with their equally busy schedules, I days and just slow down. 2001. The charitable organization works with the children and their interests. marvel at how much we can cram into our days, whizzing young, vulnerable families to ensure healthy from one activity to another; how we often let ‘the work’ As 2016 draws to a close, have faith that each one of us development of children up to six years of Kick off assemblies were held at both campuses consume our waking hours and end up running the risk of can positively influence the world around us. We are in age. These families may be new to the country where one mother spoke warmly about the missing the everyday miracles that surround us. That’s the possession of everything we need to collectively shape and having difficulty learning a new language, impact the donations made to their lives. Our price we pay. But it doesn’t have to be that way. our tomorrow into a safer place and happier time for finding work, coping with a restricted budget, community benefits from working together and everyone. We have the time to do so; therefore let us use or having difficulty accessing community giving back to others in our neighbourhood over It starts with recognizing that we should be doing more that time wisely, being more self-reflective and living with services. Each Homeroom and Mentor Group the holiday season. about doing less. The less I’m referring to is not about a spirit of gratitude. caring and nurturing less, but about lessening the number be found as a flipbook on our website. of tasks, fillers and placeholders that we usually add to On behalf of the Board, I wish you and your families a Inaugural The first ever school-wide magazine has shore up our day. The more of that stuff we have swirling peace-filled holiday and a happy New Year. been years in the making. A committee around us, the less likely it is that we can truly connect magazine delights comprised of staff and faculty worked with what really matters in our lives. We should be making hard to shape the look, feel and content time to take time out of our busy days, days that we have its readers of the publication. The inaugural deliberately planned to be full. Instead, we should use edition highlights stories from the that newly found time to ‘just be’. It is important that we ith stunning photography, past and also celebrates the impressive begin to do this now; now more than ever. Nick Caduc W powerful storytelling and creative accomplishments of our alumni. Our art design, our new magazine was contributors consist of faculty members, extremely well received by the greater alumni, past parents and more. Viewpoint Visit our new website Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook community. Viewpoint was mailed to is an annual magazine and work has Connect bayviewglen.ca @bayviewglen facebook.com/bayviewglen hundreds of homes last month and can already begun on the 2017 edition. 4 December 2016 bayviewglen.ca Staff & Faculty News December 2016 Events Whole School New Appointment Chapters 1 Shops 12 Days of Christmas Begins Night Rochelle Hayward, Database Coordinator 14 Announcement of New PA Executive November 16 Shops 12 Days of Christmas Ends 17, 2016 Welcome to the world, 19 Shops Closed for the Holidays 21 LS, PS & US Report Cards Mailed Future Alumni 22 Holiday Break Begins / Half-Day 24 Hanukkah Begins Julian James 24 Christmas Eve Christmas Proud Parents: 25 Emanuele and 26 Boxing Day Fiona Fenili 31 New Year’s Eve Big Sister: Georgia Born October 27 Lower School Weighing 8 pounds 2 LS Ski Safety Assembly 13 BG2-Grade 1 Holiday Party 16 LS Hanukkah Assembly Snow Day 21 LS Holiday Concert 7:00 p.m. Procedures 22 LS Christmas Assembly Prep School In the event of a heavy snow storm the school 2 PS Ski Safety Assembly may need to close. Please ensure that the 6 PS & US Career Breakfast 7:30 a.m. school can reach you by updating all contact 15 PS Holiday Concert 7:00 p.m. information with the Admissions Office at See more photos online at www.bayviewglen.ca/chapters-night 16 PS Hanukkah & Christmas Assembly 416.386.6658. You may find information about 22 PS Spirit Day school closures in the following ways: Upper School Grade 11 Outdoor Adventure & Leadership 1 Information Session 5:15 p.m. 6 PS & US Career Breakfast 7:30 a.m. US Holiday Concert 7:00 p.m. Go to the Bayview Glen Website 8 (Dress Rehearsal 1:00 p.m.) (bayviewglen.ca) – 1 16 US Civvies Day If the school is closed, a message will be 19 US Christmas Assembly posted on the homepage.