Fostering Community and Teamwork

10/7/2015

Allan Hardy, Principal

At the start of the school year, we strongly encourage students new to Greenwood to get involved. Here are a few of the ways they can do that:

Join a sports team. Winter team tryouts begin early next month.
Try their hand at performing in the Junior Play or in one of our Coffee Houses.
While community service is mandatory for our Grade 7 and 8 students, we hope that students in Grade 9 will take part in our Wednesday morning community service program, which begins next week.

We also build community through student leadership and mentoring. Our student Executive Council, which is composed of the heads of each committee, has made “Building Community” their theme for the opening part of the year. During next week’s Community Time, the various committees will run activities that provide a break from classes and support relationship building.

We have also created a buddy system in each of our eight spirit houses, enabling older students to mentor younger students. Having the houses compete against one another, as they did last week in the Terry Fox Fundraiser/House Run, is another way to build house cohesion and school spirit.

As parents you can help us foster a sense of community by encouraging your children to get involved in all that Greenwood has to offer.

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Greenwood College School

443 Mount Pleasant Road
Toronto, ON M4S 2L8
Tel: 416 482 9811

We acknowledge with gratitude the Ancestral lands upon which our main campus is situated. These lands are the Ancestral territories of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Anishinabek and the Wendake. The shared responsibility of this land is honoured in the Dish with One Spoon Treaty and as settlers, we strive to care for the land, the waters, and all creatures in the spirit of peace. We are responsible for respecting and supporting the enduring presence of all First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. When away from this campus we vow to be respectful to the land by protecting and honouring it. We will create relationships with the people and the land we may visit by understanding the territories we enter and the nations who inhabit them.