How does a Grade 4 student get over 600 followers in just two weeks? She does something important! With school closures and social isolation, Lila was trying to figure out a way to connect with others to celebrate Earth Day 2020, knowing she wouldn’t be able to spend that time with school and community celebrations. […]
Star Academy was proud to receive an acknowledgement for our Quality Daily Physical Education programme for the 2018-19 school year. Children from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8 participate in daily classes teaching them the value of healthy living as a lifestyle.
This past weekend was full of inspiration as Heather and I attended the Microsoft TransformEd Class of 2030 Summit. We were excited to meet so many innovative educators and sponsors, Microsoft, WE Foundation, Hacking Stem and Fair Chance Learning. The day was filled with learning relating to the values and pillars that are important at […]
Canadian poet, Doyali Islam, visited Star Academy last week and shared her passion with our staff and students. We were excited to play poetry games, create our own poetry, and hear Doyali read some of her work. Together we began a ‘poetry chain’ which will be displayed at our upcoming Art Crawl in May. Doyali’s next poetry collection, […]
We rang in 2019 at Star with guest speaker Mark Quattrocchi from ME to WE visiting our school. Mark is a motivational speaker, sharing with us ways to create change in the world by turning passions into action. Mark is inspirational and engaging when sharing his adventures. One day he got on his bicycle and […]
This week, Emma Fogel, a Clinical Social Worker with the Social Work Consulting Group and Manager of the MindCALM programme, visited Star and spoke to the Kinders and Primaries about emotions. During this workshop, students were able to make connections to the movie, Inside Out. Ms. Fogel referred to the Inside Out characters as friends […]
Communication with your child’s teacher is an important part of their education. As an administrator, I enjoy reading our weekly notes that teachers send out. They provide parents with a snapshot into their child’s week, pictures of some of the activities they enjoyed, and develop the relationship between parents and their child’s teacher. Parents look […]
Star’s Academy’s Leadership Club held a food drive the first week of October for the Compass Food Bank. We exceeded our goal of donations and were proud to be a part of helping our community. Students learned about the need for food banks in our community and the importance of helping others.
Star Academy students participated in the Terry Fox School Run on Friday, September 28th. Children aged 3 to 13 ran alongside teachers, wearing badges to show their support for Terry and others who have fought cancer. Students were encouraged to “Be Like Terry”, and united as a school, demonstrating a great sense of community and […]
How do you measure success for your child? Report cards? Friendships? Awards of merit? Happy? Yes, that’s right-happy! Ask yourself – are my kids happy? If the answer is ‘yes’ then well done. Because happy kids are successful kids, go-getters, and they spread happiness. What if when we were asked ‘How are you?’ we replied […]
