Category: Schools
Trampoline park will be part of Zida Academy grand opening on Sunday
(Photo: Zida’s Sheng Lan with his mother Hua (Jennifer) Lan and father Julian Ni. Photo by Devyn Barrie.) Zida Academy, the private school at the old Ottawa Waldorf School location…
UPDATE: Zida Academy plans wide ranging program from athletics to academics
(PHOTO: Zida’s Sheng Lan with his mother Hua (Jennifer) Lan and father Julian Ni. Photo by Devyn Barrie. After about a year of renovation and plenty of mystery, a new…
VIDEO: Lisa MacLeod presents high school petition at Queen’s Park
Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod presented a petition at Queen’s Park today calling for the Ministry of Education to approve funding for a new public high school in Stittsville.
Parents asked to sign new public high school petition this weekend
Jennifer Smith (left) and Jenny Guth along with other parents in the community have started a new petition calling for a public high school for Stittsville. A provincial politician has promised…
Kanata Academy breaks ground at 180 Huntmar
The Kanata Academy held a groundbreaking ceremony at their new location at 180 Huntmar Road on Wednesday evening. The school is currently located in the Beaverbrook Mall in Kanata and…
PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL: Catching up on homework
(PHOTO: Jennifer Smith (left) and Jenny Guth stand on one of the possible sites for the new school, at the south west corner of Robert Grant and Cope. The two parents have…
COMMENT: Public high school is about giving parents a real choice
A public high school for Stittsville has finally hit #1 on the public school board’s priority list. At tonight’s Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) meeting, parents, trustees, the local councillor…
LIVE: Tonight’s public school board meeting
UPDATE: Click here for a recap of the meeting… If technology co-operates, we’ll be sharing updates here from tonight’s public school board meeting where trustees will discuss their capital priority…
Parents persist in push for public high school
ABOVE: Jennifer Smith recorded a video urging parents to attend a public school board meeting on Tuesday to support a public high school in Stittsville. (press release & video via…
ALC honours former student with new Buddy Bench
(Photo: The Jude family, left to right: Steve, Mason (8), Colby (6) and Dev. They’re sitting on a Buddy Bench at A. Lorne Cassidy elementary school named in memory of…
PIECE OF CAKE: Best-of photos from school cakewalk fundraisers
It’s cake walk season! Several schools in our area have been holding their annual cakewalk fundraisers, where parents and students exercise their artistic cake-making skills. And the icing on the cake? The…
Five scholarships available from Stittsville Lions Club
(press release via the Stittsville Lions) Calling all high school students who are graduating this year and are going on to college or university in the fall! You could be…
Sacred Heart students present Canadian premiere of “Made in Dagenham”
(ABOVE: Shayna Douglas (left) plays Rita O’Grady and Aidan Saunders plays Eddie O’Grady in the Sacred Heart High School production of “Made in Dagenham”.) Sacred Heart High School students are…
WHERE’S WALDORF? Goulbourn Street school could find new life as music academy
Tucked away to the side of the Trans Canada Trail and currently unoccupied, it’s a school many residents may not even be aware ever existed.
COMMENT: French high school is a “bonne affaire” for Stittsville
ABOVE:The official ribbon cutting took place on Thursday and included students, staff and special guests. Photo via @EscPaulD The opening of Ecole Paul-Desmarais is a really big deal (“une bonne…