Category: Our Principal’s Notes

On Saturday morning I was reading by Ian Brown in The Globe and Mail that, while it primarily reviews a series of books by Karl Ove Knausgaard,

On Wednesday evening, The Arts Department at St. Clement’s held its annual Sights and Sounds of Spring. This evening is an opportunity to showcase our music, dance and visual arts.

I have been reading a very thought-provoking book entitled It’s Complicated: The social lives of networked teens by Danah Boyd. It has challenged me to consider the tendency to blame technology for issues that may,

At the end of February, I received an email from our two Charity Heads requesting a meeting with me.

I love when our girls take initiative and I especially enjoy getting the opportunity to meet with them to discuss their ideas.

This morning in assembly I shared with our community a letter written by Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States. This letter was written for a book I read while traveling over the break entitled Letters from Leaders: Personal Advice for Tomorrow’s Leaders from the World’s Most Influential People.

As our Clementines returned to SCS to commence their third term, I found myself halfway across the world with three of our girls as they settled in to their new exchange at the Vidya Devi  Jindal School (VDJS) in Hisar,

Sometimes it takes me a while to find a topic about which to write for my weekly blog. At other times it’s as if the topic hits me in the face.

On Saturday morning I attended the funeral of a parent I had known when I was working at Pickering College. This remarkable woman had been fighting a battle with cancer and,

There are a few things that have occurred of late that remind me of the importance of living in the present. I have realised that to really relax and learn I need to ensure that I am enjoying the present as opposed to worrying about what has passed or what will come along.

Last Saturday morning I was at St. Clement’s to welcome our many Junior School applicants and their parents for our assessment morning. I urged families to ensure that they do their research carefully and go to the source when they hear things about the Schools to which they are applying.