Spring 2022 Red Blazer

Life at SCS Principal’s Perspective

Did you know? In 2013, Alice Munro became the first Canadian woman to win a Nobel Prize when she received the award for Literature, only the second Canadian to receive it in that category.

Our Place for the Future Martha Perry ’85

building; space that enhances and improves our Clementines’ learning including a larger Lassonde Library, a Design and Technology hub, a cafeteria, an art studio, science lab, classrooms, and collaborative spaces throughout. We know that these spaces will enhance and improve our students’ learning experiences while alsomaintaining the unique and important close-knit communitywhere students fromGrades 1-12 share facilities in order to learn and play under one roof. St. Clement’s School’s history is one premised on community. Our small but mighty school was founded in the basement of St. Clement’s Church to provide a different kind of education. The School now exists across the road on St. Clements Avenue. Like our facilities and learning itself, the community around it has evolved and developed over the 120 years of our existence. With thanks to strategic foresight fromour Board of Governors overmany years and strong relationshipswithour neighbours, St. Clement’s is proud to announce the expansion of ownershipof our space to include theplayground area and lodge to the south of our school, and the private lane to the east. Once leased from the Eglinton Loyal Orange Lodge, this property acquisitionwas seen as imperative to reaffirming not only our school’s campus but also our important place in the community. As you read this issue of Red Blazer filled with stories of learning, community, and connections, know that we have, beyond preparing our Clementines for the future, solidified their place for the future.

It is with tremendous pride and excitement that we share this issue of Red Blazer . Beyond the ever-increasing light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, what excites us even more is the result of our work to ensure the School’s ‘place for the future.’ Guided by our Strategic Plan 2025 , St. Clement’s School is evolving and redefining what it means to really learn and thrive in a worldwhere the only constant is change. We want our Clementines to see disruption as opportunity and possibility, to seize change with imagination and agility, and to tackle the complex world of tomorrowwith confidence and character. Beyond ‘how’ and ‘what’ we teach our Clementines, wemust ensure ‘where’ they are learning is exceptional too. This issue of Red Blazer includes exciting details of new space being added to our current

Like our facilities and learning itself, the community around it has evolved and developed over the120 years of our existence.

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