The Independent Schools Association of British Columbia (ISABC) welcomes 11,700 students annually at 23 member schools. ISABC has a long standing tradition of providing outstanding learning experiences for young people of British Columbia and beyond.
Shawnigan Lake School is pleased to host Dr. Judy Willis January 3 - 4, 2012.
Come and hear insights from a well-known author, neurologist, and middle school teacher. Brain-Friendly strategies you can use to ignite your child’s learning and increase school success.
Shawnigan Lake School is proud to congratulate seven students who were recently awarded the Dogwood District Scholarship presented by the BC Ministry of Education. ...
Shawnigan Lake School pulled off one of the biggest wins in the history of the prestigious Sanix World Rugby Youth Invitational Tournament in Japan when the team beat top-seeded Kelston Boys High School from New Zealand....
Mark your calendars for April 12th to 14th! There is much ado about this spring’s Upper School theatre presentation as cast and crew prepare for Mulgrave’s first ever Shakespeare production of Much Ado About Nothing.
Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Mulgrave’s production will take place in the stylish 19...
Mulgrave Grade 1 student, Daisy Li is off to New York City this coming Easter weekend to play the piano at Carnegie Hall. Daisy was selected from several competitors around the world as a Gold Medal winner of the American Association for Development of the Gifted and Talented. She was chosen as a Third Place Winner of the American Protégé Int...
Shawnigan is proud to congratulate Oliver N., Randall B., Chris M. and Guiseppe T., who were all selected to the Canadian U17 team headed to the 2012 International Rugby Festival at Wellington College in the UK from April 7 to 13, 2012....
<p>Dr. Neufeld is co-author of Hold On To Your Kids. Hold On to Your Kids was first released in Canada in 2004 and became a national bestseller within weeks. The book is now available in the United States and Europe and has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Portuguese, Korean, Italian, Swedish and Norwegian. This book is about the pivotal importance of children's relationships to those responsible for them and the devastating impact in today's society of competing attachments with peers. It is also a book about parenting with relationship in mind. This book restores parents to their natural intuition, confronting such relationship devastating devices as time-outs and using what children care about against them.</p>
Brentwood College School will be hosting Admissions Events in Whistler on March 5th, Bellingham on March 6th and Seattle on March 7th . Our Deputy Head of School, John Allpress, will host these events to feature the school, answer questions from prospective families, and connect with the Brentwood community in the area. All of these events will take place at the homes of current parents in the area. This is a great opportunity to meet with a member of our Admissions team in order to ask questions about the boarding school experience.
Queen Margaret's School's unique on-campus equestrian program and VetCamps were in the spotlight in this month's issue of Canadian Horse Journal-Pacific and Prairie Magazine.
To view the complete article, please click here: http://www.qms.bc.ca/assets/images/uploads/File/CHP%20Feb%202012.pdf ...
Brentwood College School will be hosting an Admissions Information Session in Nanaimo on Thursday, February 16th, at 6:30pm, at the Home of one of our Current Parents. Head of School, Andrea Pennells, will be in attendance to feature the school, answer questions from prospective families, and connect with the Brentwood community in the area. ...
Shawnigan's Johnny Brynelsen was awarded a 'Book Prize' for his skill and contribution in the Security Council at McGill University's Secondary Schools' United Nations Symposium (SSUNS)....
To: ISABC and MYP Schools, Lower Mainland & Vancouver Island
When: Saturday, January 21st 9.00am-4.00pm
Where: Mulgrave School, West Vancouver, BC
Learn what it takes to be a 21st century global citizen…...
Glenlyon Norfolk School’s (GNS) Senior Boys Soccer team shut out Burnaby’s Cariboo Hill Secondary at home in Burnaby, to win GNS’s third consecutive Provincial Championship and GNS’s first ‘AA’ Provincial Championship....
The Shawnigan Senior Girls Field Hockey squad wrote history over the mid-term break and it had nothing to do with class work. The 21 player squad is the first Shawnigan field hockey team to bring home the elusive “blue banner” as AA Provincial Champions.
“I’m really proud of our girls because they have worked really hard over the past 15 mo...
Aspengrove School Grade 4 student, Carson Reid, was a featured solo soprano guest at the Malaspina Choir’s performance of Fauré’s Requiem at the Port Theatre on Sunday, November 13th. Carson sang the ‘Pie Jesu’ movement during the performance which also featured Sam Marcaccini, an up and coming baritone from Victoria, B.C....
Mulgrave ZOOM Film Festival is in its 12th year and has one of the highest participation rates of any student film competition in the province of British Columbia.
Filmmakers have 48 hours to plan, shoot and produce a finished film. During the tension-packed 48 hours students will conceptualize, write, shoot, edit, post and drop-off their six-minut...
Aspengrove School is an authorized host to a local viewing party of the upcoming TEDxKids@BC webcast event on Saturday, September 17, 2011 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. This free event will provide a location and forum for students on Vancouver Island to connect with each other and the greater global TEDxKIDS community.
All students are encouraged ...
This US college fair is the first of its’ kind for Vancouver, and we are looking forward to making this an annual event.
Participating Vancouver independent schools include Collingwood School, Crofton House School, Fraser Academy, Glenlyon Norfolk School, Little Flower Academy, Meadowridge School, Mulgrave School, Shawnigan Lake School, Southp...
Queen Margaret's School offers Canada's only on-campus equestrian riding program. Earn high school graduation credits by riding in your school day! admissions@qms.bc.ca
Enjoy this two page spread on Queen Margaret's School celebrating 90 years of education which appeared in the June 2011 issue of Saddle Up Magazine....
This college fair is the first of its’ kind for Vancouver, British Columbia. We are looking forward to making this an annual event. Your interest and participation in this event is most welcome and greatly appreciated by the students and parents from Vancouver independent schools.
This spring, a postcard was mailed to various US colleges announcing the first annual Vancouver Area Independent Schools (VAIS) College Fair, scheduled for Wednesday, October 19, 2011.
The Province of BC recently announced through their SolarBC project that Shawnigan Lake School will receive a $20,000 grant to install Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Panals on campus...
For the second time in four years, Shawnigan students have won the Zone Championship Certificates for the Pascal, Cayley, and Fermat math contests. Moreover, Shawnigan students have captured the first-place standing 11 out of 15 times over the past five years (3 contests per year). ...
West Point Grey Academy students in grades 5, 11 and 12 participated in Student Vote on Friday, April 29, after having four Vancouver Quadra candidates from the Liberals, NDP, Conservatives and Green Party speak to students at our school over the past week. CTV was at the school on Friday to film our participation in Stu...
West Point Grey Academy is pleased to announce that grade 12 student, Erin Sachs, will be recognized today, Wednesday, April 6, by BC Ambulance Service for performing CPR to resuscitate Vancouverite, Susan Giffin, who had suffered from a near-fatal heart attack on a post-event bus ride during the Winter Olympics last year.
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Live from Down Under read the first installment of Juliette’s experiences at the World Individual School’s Debate and Public Speaking Competition in Brisbane, Australia.
Australia Trip – March 29th 2011...
We are currently planning our Lower Mainland BCAMT regional meeting, to be held Wednesday, April 13th, from 9:00 to 3:00 pm at West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver.
If you are planning on attending this meeting, could you please email cstroud@wpga.ca by FridayApril 7th? Also note that you can still come with a late RSVP, but if you come without one I might not order enough food for lunch!
On March 5, WPGA Athletic Director and Varsity Boys’ Basketball Coach, Mr. Bob Dodds, was honoured with the "Mike Potkonjak Coaching Excellence Award”, recognizing the Lower Mainland High School Basketball Coach of the Year. The BC Lower Mainland High School Basketball Association presented Mr. Dodds with thi...
Brentwood has been in the local news an awful lot this past week. First, we received a rave review for the opening of our spring musical, “The Phantom of the Opera” bit.ly/dEG01Z Then, Canada's most popular comedian, Rick Mercer, bit.ly/gQD7FY visited our campus to film a piece for CBC’s “The Mercer Report”....
Brentwood College School is proud to announce the launch of its new upgraded website - all written, designed and produced completely in-house! Not only does it have fresh content and a vibrant new look, but we also continue to stay at the forefront of the latest web technologies.
New features include:...
Teachers work hard everyday on behalf of their students. They know that when students are involved in quality classroom assessment, they become engaged and learn more.
This interactive and practical workshop will help as you get students:
Written by Mulgrave Student Reporter, Ellie B.
“Everyone is born with immense talent” said Sir Ken Robinson in his enlightening speech at Mulgrave School on December 1st. Sir Ken was knighted in 2003 for his immense contribution and his forward thinking in the area of education....
The aim of the annual Global Week is to develop understanding, empathy and engagement through a global theme. The student-generated global theme for the week is “Can technology save the world?”
Events of Global Week include a special Global Week Tuesday assembly, a Grade 7-9 Vow of Silence, a Non-Uniform “Global Threads”...
This past weekend at Beaver Lake, Victoria, the WPGA senior girls cross-country team made WPGA and BC High School Sports history by winning the 'AAA' championships. They are first WPGA team to win a provincial banner, and the first 'A' team to win the 'AAA' title in the sport's 40 year history. It was ...
