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West Point Grey Academy
Open Houses
Junior Kindergarten: October 3
Kindergarten–Grade 4: October 16
Grades 5–12: October 21
All sessions start at 9:30am
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Shaping Lives of Inquiry, Action and Joy
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has been a great success. Now, the school
is introducing a 5-Day Family Boarding
program, for students who live close
enough to go home on the weekends.
One of those students is Rory Macklin,
who lives on Gabriola Island. He decided
last summer that he would like to try a
new school, and started Grade 11 at
GNS
this September. He has been living just a
short walk from the school with another
student's family. "It's kind of like I'm part
of the family. I got inducted so fast," he
says. He is also enjoying the new style of
teaching offered by the IB program. "All
the topics are linked together, so there's
parts of chemistry in biology class and
even in English class. It gives you a broad
world view," he says.
The IB program, says Bruce-Lockhart,
is one of the school's 'centres of
excellence.' Another is its soccer program,
which ranks amongst the best in the
province, and its debate program, which
is amongst the best in the country. The
school's membership in the Round Square
gives students opportunities to participate
in conferences, exchanges and service
trips around the world.
Dwight School in Shawnigan Lake, 45
minutes north of Victoria, offers students
a small but diverse environment with a
large percentage of international students.
"As an International Baccalaureate World
school, we are trying to have our students
always look for a new perspective and
to try and see all the ways that we are
actually connected to one another, rather
than looking at how different we are,"
says principal Andrea Spinner. "That's
particularly interesting to do in a school
environment where you are bringing
together students from 15 different
countries."
Dwight School Canada was founded in
2009 by Jerry Salvador, head of school.
His goal was to create an opportunity
for Canadian students to be educated in
an intercultural setting. The school has
125 students from Grade 6 to 12, with
80 of them boarding, and has grown
significantly each year. The list of extra-
curricular activities includes the expected,
such as basketball and drama, and others
such as sewing, horseback riding, First
Nations art and a Japanese club.
