The Toronto Danforth Pupil Accommodation Review Committee revealed its recommendations for East End secondary schools at a busy public meeting at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute on March 11. The provincial ministry initiated the review process when it requested information on all Toronto District School Board facilities that were operating at less than 65 per […]
A Beach Hill family is in Nicaragua this month to commemorate the 75th classroom built by their SchoolBOX charity. The Marvin Salazar School, just outside San Benito, Nicaragua, will service about 300 students from kindergarten to Grade 6, taught by five teachers. The two classrooms and supplies such as desks, chairs and a whiteboard will […]
A number of the Beach’s brightest young minds represented the area at the First Lego League provincial championships Jan. 16, showcasing socially-minded projects and robotic prowess alongside hundreds of other students. Glen Ames, Adam Beck, and two teams from Bowmore qualified for the competition that sees students aged nine to 14 compete in a series […]
Some nine year-old summer campers beat the Beach Metro News to an exclusive interview with Premier Kathleen Wynne last week. Kids in the day camp at Community Centre 55 got to ask Wynne several questions when the premier dropped in on Wednesday, a day when Wynne also visited the new Chest Centre at Toronto East […]
The garden seems to be thinking that spring is going to happen. The snowdrops are up and the crocuses starting, so perhaps it really is SPRING – but I am not taking my winter coat to the cleaners yet! The TDSB is beset with crises, some of our own making and many because the Ministry […]
For many families in East End Toronto, the idea is music to the ears. Starting in February, the non-profit East End Music Project will offer a suite of children’s music lessons every Tuesday at a church near Danforth and Woodbine Avenues. Four musicians, including drummer Jason Kenemy and opera singer Jessica Riley, will hold a […]
Proving yesterday’s news is more than today’s compost liner, last week Grade 1 students at St. Denis Catholic School were building furniture with nothing but tape and newspapers. “Boys and girls, that test was way too easy,” said Kathryn Allen, a Scientists in School presenter, just after balancing a pile of hardcover books on the […]
Walking the hall in the 20 year-old “port-a-pak” at Secord Public School, concerned parent Heather Tormey points to the peeling baseboards and strip of loose flooring that are new this school year. Never mind that the 14 connected portables where Secord students in Grades 2 to 5 go to class have dry air, or get […]
Remember the first season of Mad Men? I want both my girls (at the right age) to see it. Not because it’s so worthwhile for them to learn about the advertising trade. Instead, I want them have some inkling of what it was like to be a career woman in the 1950s. The humiliations, the […]
School has begun again and there is enthusiasm and excitement and an anticipation of learning. I am told by those who have had way more experience than I, that the desire to learn is imbedded in a child. They hunger to learn. While there are some who do an interesting job of disguising that longing, […]
