On Thursday, April 25th, our senior team competed in the ACSI tournament at Stouffville Christian School. Our students...
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Today’s ELC Chapel – April 26, 2024
The PK1 class led this morning's ELC chapel service. Ms. Donkor engaged the students in three energetic songs: "Let's...
Today’s Chapel Service – April 26, 2024
Today, the Grade 8 Worship Team led the elementary chapel service, starting with the pledges, The Lord's Prayer, O...
Glimpse Into A Classroom: Grade 5 – Descriptive Writing with Our Senses
In literacy, the grade 5’s learned different types of writing, with one example being descriptive writing. They learned how to be a descriptive writer using their 5 senses. As a class, we did an example together with popcorn, where we brainstormed a variety of...
ACSI Sr. Co-Ed Badminton Tournament 2024
On Thursday, April 25th, our senior team competed in the ACSI tournament at Stouffville Christian School. Our students played well all around, securing the following rankings which resulted in a strong third place finish overall: Boys Singles - Second Boys Doubles -...
Today’s ELC Chapel – April 26, 2024
The PK1 class led this morning's ELC chapel service. Ms. Donkor engaged the students in three energetic songs: "Let's Get a Little Crazy", "I Wanna Do Right", and "Jump into the Light". Mrs. Lau then followed with the Bible story about the Parable of the Lost Sheep....
Today’s Chapel Service – April 26, 2024
Today, the Grade 8 Worship Team led the elementary chapel service, starting with the pledges, The Lord's Prayer, O Canada and the Land Acknowledgement. Then, they led the students in singing three songs: "Another in the Fire", "Pharaoh, Pharaoh", and "The Battle...
Our Environment – One Student’s Initiative
At the beginning of the spring, one of our Grade 4A students came up with the idea to clean up the school yard. Once the snow left and the grass dried up, it was decided that Earth Day would be the perfect day to do this! In preparation for Earth Day, this student...
Glimpse Into A Classroom: Grade 3 French – Comics!
In grade 3, we finished our unit on the verb être and school vocabulary by writing comic strips in French! Students practiced their verb conjugations, wrote sentences about various locations around the school and creatively illustrated their work! Each class had an...
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Glimpse Into A Classroom: Grade 5 – Descriptive Writing with Our Senses
In literacy, the grade 5’s learned different types of writing, with one example being descriptive writing. They learned how to be a descriptive writer using their 5 senses. As a class, we did an example together with popcorn, where we brainstormed a variety of...
Glimpse Into A Classroom: Grade 3 French – Comics!
In grade 3, we finished our unit on the verb être and school vocabulary by writing comic strips in French! Students practiced their verb conjugations, wrote sentences about various locations around the school and creatively illustrated their work! Each class had an...
Glimpse Into A Classroom: Grade 8 Science – Cell Membranes
During the second term, our clever grade eight scientists were hard at work learning all about cells. In this unit, students learned about the parts of animal and plant cells, biotechnology, and how single cells are able to do all the same things that multicellular...
Glimpse Into A Classroom: Grade 7 Geography Debates
At the end of Term 2, to conclude their Geography curriculum, the grade 7s had four debates to sum up their learning. The four motions were: British Columbia should stop cutting old growth forests for lumber Commercial fishing should be banned in Canada Ontario...
Glimpse Into A Classroom: Toddler 1 – Easter
For the last two weeks, Toddler 1 has been learning about Palm Sunday and Easter. The children learned that Palm Sunday is about Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. Jesus was greeted by people waving palm branches. Some people laid tree branches and coats on the road to...
Glimpse Into A Classroom: Grade 8 Art – Jackson Pollock
The grade 8 students have been continuing their exploration of art history and recently looked at Abstract Expressionist art, focussing on the work of Jackson Pollock. Pollock was a New York City-based artist who produced work in the 1950s and 1960s that used a very...
Today’s ELC Chapel – April 26, 2024
The PK1 class led this morning's ELC chapel service. Ms. Donkor engaged the students in three energetic songs: "Let's Get a Little Crazy", "I Wanna Do Right", and "Jump into the Light". Mrs. Lau then followed with the Bible story about the Parable of the Lost Sheep....
Today’s Chapel Service – April 26, 2024
Today, the Grade 8 Worship Team led the elementary chapel service, starting with the pledges, The Lord's Prayer, O Canada and the Land Acknowledgement. Then, they led the students in singing three songs: "Another in the Fire", "Pharaoh, Pharaoh", and "The Battle...
Today’s ELC Chapel Service – April 19, 2024
In the ELC chapel service, the PK1 class led the pledges and the worship. Students sang and did the actions to three very familiar songs - "Power Shuffle", "Light of the World" and "10 000 Reasons". The speaker today was Miss Mary who shared a very energetic message...
Today’s Chapel Service – April 19, 2024
Our chapel team leaders opened this morning's worship with the pledges, the Lord's Prayer, O Canada and the Land Acknowledgement. The first Bible reading cam from Proverbs 3:3-6. Mr. Bailey then opened in prayer, thanking God for His goodness, which was also a great...
Today’s ELC Chapel Service – April 12, 2024
The Toddler 2 class led this morning's chapel service. After the pledges, Ms. Wu led the students in an energetic rendition of "One Way, Jesus!". This was followed by a slower praise song, "Alive Forevermore". The Bible story was recounted by Mrs. S but the entire...
Today’s Chapel Service – April 12, 2024
This morning, the chapel leaders led the pledges, "Notre Père" and O Canada. This was followed by the Land Acknowledgement. One of the leaders read the first Bible passage, taken from 1 John 3:17-18. Mr. Bailed then asked the audience to show their love for God by...
Our Environment – One Student’s Initiative
At the beginning of the spring, one of our Grade 4A students came up with the idea to clean up the school yard. Once the snow left and the grass dried up, it was decided that Earth Day would be the perfect day to do this! In preparation for Earth Day, this student...
Meet Wesley’s Grade 1 Competitive Go-Kart Racer!
All of our students at Wesley are special and talented in some way. God has blessed each of us with tremendous gifts and potential, each unique and designed to shine at designated moments in our lives. At times, we like to recognize and congratulate some of the...
Grade 3A – Dental Visit with Dr. Yeung
On Friday, March 22, WCA parent and periodontist, Dr. Amy Yeung, came to Wesley to talk to the Grade 3A students about dental health. Mrs. MacNeil took pictures and created these fun slides to capture moments from the creative, engaging and interactive session...
Pink Shirt Day – February 28, 2024
Today is national Pink Shirt Day in Canada. It is a day to raise awareness about the prevention of bullying and to promote kindness. Bullying can take place anywhere – home, online, work and at school….even at Wesley. By asking our community to wear pink shirts today,...
Grade 8 Trip to Ottawa
Leading up to the Ottawa trip, the grade eights were highly anticipating their grad trip, lovingly planned out by Mrs. Vant Erve. On the day of the trip, the students lined up with their three supervising teachers, unsure of what they should expect. After a few hours...
Valentine’s Day at Wesley
Today is Valentine's Day at Wesley! Students and staff were encouraged to wear red, white, pink or purple to celebrate the occasion. Some took the opportunity to wear a special outfit or accessories while others chose to do both! Hanging in our main hallway today were...
Grade 8 Trip to the Salvation Army Distribution Centre
Our two Grade 8 classes walked over on two separate days this week to the Salvation Army Distribution Centre to help unpack and sort Toy Mountain donations. It was a great opportunity for our Grade 8 students to see some of the back end processes that are in place to...
Grade 7 – Victims Services Christmas Hamper Shopping Trip
Last month, our grade 7 students spearheaded the November Care & Share event for a York Region Victims Services family. During the November 24th elementary chapel service, four of the students explained what Victims Services does and shared that Wesley would be...
Care & Share Update – The 105 Challenge for the 105 Gibson Food Bank
At the end of each month, one class or grade at Wesley leads the effort to raise funds or collect items to help a charity in our local or global community. This event is called “Care & Share Day”. Wesley students are allowed to wear “casual clothes” on Care &...