Junior School:Grades 1-6.
The Junior School academic program highlights collaboration, problem solving, and inquiry. It is enhanced by a full complement of co-curricular activities.
The students are mentored and inspired by the older students they encounter in the building daily, as well as by their peers in the Junior School. Grade 6s take on leadership roles within the Junior School.
Junior SchoolAcademics & Curriculum
The academic program at the Junior School provides a strong foundation of skills and knowledge.
Students in their Junior School years are naturally inquisitive, and this energy is focused through the use of problem-based learning. By focusing study on big ideas and allowing students to direct their learning, our students discover that learning is connected, relevant, and that it can have an impact on the world around them.
The Junior School is home to multi-disciplinary, skills-based learning in real-life contexts, supported by subject specialists.
Students have the opportunity to collaborate, problem solve, think critically, and persist through challenges.
Subjects
The Arts: Drama activities, Music, Visual Arts
French
Health and Physical Education
Language Arts: Reading, Writing, Oral Language and Media Studies
Mathematics
Library and Research
Public Speaking
LINCWell Programming
Science
Social Studies
Technology
Co-Curricular Programs
At St. Clement’s School, we are passionate about learning – and that learning extends far beyond the curriculum.
Our co-curricular and community programming is just as key to the SCS experience as the classes we offer. Spanning Grades 1-12 and catering to a wide range of interests and identities as unique as our community itself, the
co-curricular programming plays a key role in helping us all to truly “get excited” about life at SCS!
Students in Grades 1-6 have their own co-curricular schedule, with programming falling before and after school. As a school, we have worked hard to include programs to meet different needs and interests.
Everyone in the St. Clement’s community – Grades 1 to 12 students and staff – is assigned to a House: Stuart, Tudor, York, or Windsor.
LINCWell
LINCWell is a full school, Grades 1-12 approach designed to craft a school experience for each of our students that is characterized by Learning, Individualization, Nurturing, Creativity, and Wellbeing.
LINCWell’s overarching goal is to provide each one of our students with key resources, or tools, as well as the ability to know when to use each tool according to their individual needs and preferences.
Having a “toolbox” of key resources to pull from contributes to each student’s wellbeing. As our students develop these tools, they are enabled to learn well, lead well, and live well; empowering them to be able to successfully navigate the opportunities and challenges they will experience at SCS, and beyond.
Beyond the Classroom
To develop lifelong learners and girls who will impact the world after their time at St. Clement's, learning doesn't stop at the classroom door.
Experiential learning at SCS immerses students in authentic and dynamic experiences. Students of all ages are encouraged to think creatively, problem solve, collaborate with others, and consider varied perspectives. Regardless of the experience itself, the goal of our experiential learning programming is to allow students to come away with a deep and real understanding of what they have learned.
Student Leadership
At SCS, leadership isn’t just modeled by one group of students. Our Leadership Program spans every grade level, and is closely aligned with our stated goal of developing and equipping courageous and adaptable learners who are empowered to make impactful contributions in their local, national, and global communities.
SCS students progressing along their personal journeys of leadership development are learning and understanding the core dimensions of effective leadership, including communication, collaboration, values alignment, and the need for reflection. In practice, leadership shows up in varied ways; there is no “typical” leader or leadership style at our School.
As students discover the type of leader they strive to be, practical leadership skill development is built into the curriculum with programming for all grades. There are grade wide opportunities for leading as well; in the Junior School that includes the Grade 4 class working with visiting kindergarten students from St. Clement’s Early Learning and Grade 6-led Halloween activities for the full Junior School.
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The Asian Student Affinity Group (ASAG) ran a Mid-Autumn Festival activity for the Junior School during their community time this week! Led by senior students, the meaning and importance of the festival across numerous countries was explained before students in Grades 1-6 were taught how to make decorative paper lanterns. Next week, the Junior School will share their creative work with the whole school community during a lantern parade when we gather at assembly.
The PA hosts two Used Uniform Sales a year for current and incoming SCS families and the fall sales are coming up on October 21st and 22nd. If you have used uniform pieces you would like to donate, please ensure they are clean and in good repair.
Baskets are available in the Front Foyer.
Following the Unlocking Your Creativity literary event held here at SCS, Principal Perry reflects on the collective creativity that can be unleashed by such a collaborative gathering.
Our annual Thanksgiving Service at St. Clement’s Church is a meaningful time for our community to come together to give thanks for each other and the world around us. ❤️
As part of her reflection, Reverend Pamela Rayment spoke about the importance of getting outside and embracing the natural world around us. She asked our students what they love most about being outside and reminisced about the importance a pine grove held for her, her siblings, and her cousins when she was growing up.
Reverend Rayment invited us to take a walk, notice the beauty of nature, appreciate the people in our lives who bring us joy, and share our thanks with one another.
It’s fall harvest time in our Side Yard – our garden has yielded some beautiful fresh vegetables and flowers this year! Thanks to the green thumbs of the SCS Community Garden Club, the garden successfully grew kale, peas, a pumpkin, and – in recent root vegetable news – carrots!
Clementines experienced food sustainability in action and have overseen the project from start to finish: building the garden boxes, planting the seeds, tending to them, and now reaping the results. It’s been pure gardening joy!
Once picked and harvested, the produce from our garden has been incorporated into various meals served in our Joannah Lawson ’82 Cafeteria for all Clementines to enjoy.
Clementines from several Phys. Ed. classes (in Grades 7, 11, and 12) came together to hone their Cricket skills! Presenters from the OSCA (Ontario Schools Cricket Association) taught students how to bowl, bat, and defend an oval playing field. Many runs were scored, and it was a fun learning experience for all.
This past weekend, we were thrilled to host Unlocking Your Creativity – our first-ever collaborative literary event! Attendees came to SCS on Saturday with a shared love of reading and writing and an eagerness to learn from a variety of guest experts in different literary fields and genres.
The day featured a dynamic range of workshops presented by both alums and friends of SCS, whose expertise and enthusiasm made for a truly inspiring day. Thank you to Karen Grose ’85, Jane Mason ’84, Ruth Ohi, Ashleigh Rains ’00, Amy Stuart, and Patricia Westerhof for being part of this literary celebration.
We were also excited to welcome two award-winning authors, Sheila Heti ’95 and Anne Michaels, who joined Principal Martha Perry ’85 on the Powell Hall stage for thoughtful and enriching conversations.
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for this storybook day at SCS!
Today was Windsor House Day! It is safe to say there was a lot of purple and out of this "ClemWorld" attire! 😉💜
What’s it like to be part of the SCS community? Our Admissions team is looking forward to hosting the Community Voices virtual panel discussion this evening from 6:30-7:30 p.m. to answer that question! It’s not too late to join us and hear more about the SCS experience from current students, faculty members, and parents. Register here: http://bit.ly/48j4LP9
Last Friday, to continue the education surrounding the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, guest speaker Karen Chaboyer attended our full school assembly and shared personal stories from the nine years she spent attending a residential school as a child.
Karen is an Ojibwe mother and grandmother from Rainy River First Nation in northwestern Ontario, and a Survivor of St. Margaret`s Indian Residential School. She is also a second-generation residential school Survivor.
Her goal is to educate people about the impact that residential schools have had on individuals, families, communities, and entire cultures to this day. She recounted her experiences, having been separated from her siblings and mistreated during her time at St. Margaret`s Indian Residential School. After years of being silenced as a child, Karen’s openness in discussing what happened to her and her family helped all students and staff gain a better understanding of the realities of residential schools.
Our community deeply appreciated Karen’s visit to SCS.
