UPPER SCHOOL
Report Cards – Thursday, April 13 at 4 PM
Report Cards will be ready for viewing on April 13 at 4pm. You can access the report cards from the parent portal. This link provides access instructions.
June Exam Schedule
The June exam schedule has been released to students and is linked here. All students are required to write their exams on time and come to school in uniform. Students will be given additional information about exams in May. Please do not book appointments during your daughter’s examination times. Exam review strategies will be given in class by their subject matter teachers and during our Wednesday morning advising programming.
Salon Opening – Monday, April 3 at 4PM
The Salon is a student-led art exhibition at Havergal. It was originally founded by Old Girls Rowaida Hussein and Lilly Li (Class of 2016); this year’s hosts are Lillian Wei and Natalie Huang .
The Salon is a reference to the Paris Art Salon of 1748-1890. However, unlike the highly exclusive nature of the Paris space, our exhibition is open to all students, faculty and staff. It also welcomes all forms of visual art, displaying different media such as paintings, crafts, collages, sculptures, photography and more. In short, The Salon is a place for everyone to display and share artwork made outside of Havergal.
The opening of the exhibition is Monday, April 3rd from 4pm to 6pm at the Bio Wall. The show will run until Thursday, April 13, 2023.
We welcome everyone to join us in celebrating the Visual Arts at Havergal!
Athletics
Spring athletics tryouts continue next week. A reminder that students are responsible to look up when and where tryouts take place and to email relevant coaches if they will be absent. The athletics schedule can be found on Veracross or families can save THIS GOOGLE DOC (tab #3).
Kyla Fox – Disordered Eating Expert – Student & Parent Presentations
This month we are excited to welcome guest speaker Kyla Fox, Founder and Clinical Therapist of The Kyla Fox Centre, a private eating disorder recovery centre in Toronto.
Kyla Fox has established herself as a visionary and innovator, when it comes to re-framing the way Canadians think about and treat eating disorders. As someone who struggled with an eating disorder, Fox identified care gaps and fundamental flaws in the treatment and recovery approach. Kyla brings deep and varied experiences to her work and will be helping our students to expand their knowledge base around disordered eating and one’s relationship with food, by challenging the language around eating disorders and providing awareness and prevention in a way that is beyond the “typical” eating disorder rhetoric.
Kyla will be speaking with students on the following dates during the Wednesday morning Form/Advisory time:
April 12 – Grades 9-12
April 26 – Grades 7 and 8
After each session, students will have the opportunity to take part in a 70 minute post-conversation discussion with Kyla in a smaller group setting. Interested students will be emailed the link to sign up.
Kyla Fox – Parent Presentation
With all of the unique challenges that face young people today, it can be easy to overlook the ways this can manifest in how our children see themselves and their bodies. Social media and media representation, academic competitiveness, family pressures, peer and social pressures, all contribute to the overall well-being of our children and their sense of self.
Kyla will host an honest and educational discussion with parents that invites them to share, engage and address head-on the challenges that face our kids and how this affects the way they view their bodies and impacts their self-esteem.
Kyla will share her personal story and examples from her 20+ years of work with kids and teens. She will provide parents with a comprehensive understanding of how we can start to change the narrative through openness and transparency around the root causes of eating disorders, disordered eating and negative body image.
Date: Tuesday April 25, 2023
Time: 7 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Havergal College, Brenda Robson Hall
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Wednesday Form Time
Next week in Form, the students will participate in an “identity” show and tell. This session was designed by our Wellbeing Prefect, Madison C. In this lesson, students and their teachers are asked to bring an item from home that tells their classmates about who they are. We encourage all Middle School students to participate.
Crescent Dance
On Friday, April 21, there will be a Middle School Dance at Crescent. There will be limited spaces available on a first come first served basis. The theme for this year’s dance is Beach Party, and the registration link will be available next Thursday, April 6. Interested students are encouraged to sign up.
TPH Vaccine Clinic
The second TPH grade 7 vaccine clinic will be held on Friday, May 26th in the Brenda Robson Hall. Please mark this date in your calendars. More details to follow in the coming weeks.
SENIOR SCHOOL
Wednesday Community Time
Next Wednesday offers several opportunities for students in different grades to bond with and learn from each other. Grade 9 and 11 students will have their second mentoring get-together; the first one occurred before March Break and was a big hit! Grade 10s will be taking part in games and activities run by the Student Grade 10 Reps. Our Grade 12s will be hosted by our Boarding Grads. During their tour of the boarding house they will be introduced to key skills like doing laundry and learning how to keep themselves organised when they are in residence next year.
Strive Dance Competition
Students from the Senior Dance Troupe will be travelling to Scarborough to participate in the Strive Dance Competition on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Parents are welcome to attend the event at 5183 Sheppard Avenue East, Scarborough, ON, M1B 5Z5. For more information please refer to the parent letter that was sent home with the participating students.
Grad Rind, Blazer & Hoodie Fittings Next Week – last chance to sign up!
If your daughter is currently in Grade 11 and wants to buy a new blazer and/or hoodie for next year, she needs to sign up for a fitting. If she is currently in Grade 11 and wishes to buy a Grad ring, she needs to sign up for a fitting. Blazers and hoodie fittings are on Tuesday, April 4; ring fittings are on Wednesday, April 5. Both take place in the Ellen Knox Library. The form to sign up for any fitting is HERE.
Duke of Edinburgh – Adventurous Journey
On July 5-8, 2023 we will be offering an opportunity to take 8-16 students on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition to Algonquin Park. Travellers will have the opportunity to see Canadian wildlife up close; to canoe on wilderness lakes, and tread on ancient quartzite mountain ranges. They will learn about sustainable travel practices, learn about the effects of climate change, and learn about Indigenous ways of seeing and knowing as it relates to this very storied landscape. This Journey will satisfy the Bronze and Silver levels of the award.
There will be a student/parent information session via Zoom on Friday, April 14 from 7- 8pm. The link for this meeting can be found HERE (you will need to sign into a google account for access to this meeting).
Round Square
There will be an information session for students for the Round Square International Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, October 2023. The information session will take place on campus, Tuesday, April 18th at 8AM, in the Ellen Knox library.
University News
US/UK University Information Night (Virtual) – Tuesday, April 4, 7PM – 8:30PM
On Tuesday, April 4 from 7 pm-8:30 pm Grade 10 and 11 students and parents are welcome to attend a Virtual Guidance information night for international university applicants. The US information session is from 7-7:45pm and the UK information session is 7:45- 8:30. Parents and students are invited to attend both or come to the session that is most applicable to them. The zoom link can be found here as well as on Veracross.
Spring Campus Tours
On Tuesday, March 28, Grade 11 students, accompanied by the Guidance Department, toured the campuses of McMaster, Waterloo and Guelph universities. Students participated in tours led by undergraduate students and had the opportunity to learn and ask questions about admissions, residences, meal plans, facilities, student life, academic support, extracurricular activities, campus housing, lectures, seminars and labs. This trip helped prepare students for future campus visits.
HCPA NEWS
Bid by Sunday, April 2 at 8 PM!
Don’t miss out on some AMAZING auction items in the Gator Gala Silent Auction.
Click HERE to see the items and be sure to bid before the auction closes on Sunday, April 2 at 8 pm. (Please note that the HCPA receives a portion of the winning bid for the Sealed Bid items and 100% of the winning bid for the donated items listed at the top of the list).
REMINDERS
Next Week at the Upper School
Mon Apr 3
Arts Week Assembly
The Salon Opening, 4 pm
Dress up as your favourite artist
Tues Apr 4
University Information Night, 7 – 8:30pm (virtual)
Dress in monochrome
Wed Apr 5
Dress down: wear your favourite band t-shirt
Thurs Apr 6
Easter Prayers, #1 Dress
Fri Apr 7
Good Friday, school closed
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