Message from the Chair of the Board

With the ever-changing landscape and the challenges of the past two years, our community should feel proud of our resilience and what we have accomplished together. This past school year, we continued to follow health and safety protocols established by our federal/provincial governments and supported by Toronto Public Health. Our ReEntry Task Force, led by Governor, Alan Bowman, continued to work with School Management on these protocols throughout the year. Along with Derek Logan’s strong leadership, the KCS community benefited from the high caliber and unwavering commitment of our faculty and staff, and the flexibility of our students who adapted to these shifting protocols.

At the Junior School, despite the restrictions over the past two years, your generosity with your time as volunteers was remarkable. Parent Network (PN) volunteers enriched our school culture and students’ time at school in many ways, from Magoo lunches or running an on-line book program, to welcoming new families, and organizing staff appreciation events. It was delightful to hear how much our community enjoyed re-connecting throughout the spring at various events including parent social events, KCS Has Talent, Grade 8 Graduation, Closing Ceremonies, and at the end of year BBQ. Kate Fidani, Natalie Nudds and Aneta Gauthier co-chaired the Junior and Senior School PN this year and did a fantastic job. You have made the school a better place for our children - thank you!

During 2021-22, KCS brought our new branding, “expand possible”, to life with our first class of Grade 9 students. With construction of the new facility at 2183 Lake Shore Blvd. West having just begun, Head of Senior School, Andrea Fanjoy, and team delivered the Grade 9 ‘Bridge Year’, teaching from a temporary site in Bloor Street West. The dedication to providing these KCS families with this innovative, place-based experiential learning speaks volumes about the type of school KCS is and the people who make up this community. Thank

you all for the trust you put in our team of faculty and volunteers to deliver the first CAIS accredited high school in the west end of the city. Throughout the year I enjoyed hearing about what our Grade 9 students were doing and realized that they were paving the way for future senior students, including being the first to represent the high school in alpine skiing and swimming, leading a beach cleanup at Humber Bay Shores for our Grade 7 students, and choosing audacious Path projects, that include learning how to fly a plane!

The Join the Journey campaign that launched in 2020-21 continued this past year. To date, $4.2

million has been raised to support the construction and renovation at the KCS Senior School. This also includes the school’s first $1 million donation from an anonymous alumni family.

We are grateful to the Senior School Founders to date who have joined our journey in support of Phase 1 construction being completed this fall. Fundraising, and the opportunity to become a Senior School Founder continues, with construction of Phase 2 starting in the summer of 2023.

On behalf of the KCS Board of Governors, I do want to thank you for your ongoing support. It has been my great privilege to serve as the Chair of the Board of Governors. I am confident that the incoming Chair, Tiffany Jay, will continue to deliver on our slogan ‘expand possible’ here at KCS.

Lastly, I would like to thank all members of the KCS community for your ongoing commitment, passion, and the effort you all make every day to make this an exceptional school community that I am so proud to be a member.

BRONWEN EVANS

KCS Board Chair

To date, $4.2 million has been raised to support the construction and renovation at the KCS Senior School.