2006- 2007 Perspective by The York School

THE YORK SCHOOL (an independent school)

1320 Yonge

Street Toronto, Ontario M4T 1X2

PERSPECTIVE 2006-2007

Well, another year has come and gone and what a year this has been in the life of The York School. The year has been captured so beautifully by this yearbook. The pages are full of memories and good friends. As you look through these pages, your activities and events will jump out at you. Who will forget our Terry Fox Run & Fun Fair, the Grade 6 Exhibition, the many trips to Camp Oochigeas, French plays, the Intergenerational Choir and so forth. I could go on and on but the wonderful part of having this yearbook is that the memories of the year are captured so beautifully in these pages.

I would like to thank all of the parents, staff and students that have made my first year at York so welcoming and inviting. I would especially like to thank Susan Charron and David Hamilton for everything that they have done to make my transition painless and rewarding. As well, I would like to thank the rest of the staff for everything that they do for you our students. Their dedication and sense of duty is simply AMAZING!!!

Finally, I would like to thank the Yearbook staff for such an outstanding achievement. I will treasure my copy forever. It is a wonderful memory.

Ezio Crescenzi Head of School

The pages of this year's Perspective capture many of the learning experiences and special events that marked the 2006 2007 school

year for the Lower School students. Looking through the yearbook will spark wonderful memo-

ries of those events for you.

From the early days of September to the final days in June, teachers and students were engaged in exciting inquiry as their classrooms became apple tasting kitchens, writers' workshops, recycling and reusing centres, mountain environments, energy labs, tower and bridge building sites, French cafes, artists' studios, electricity fairs and much more!

Beyond the walls of the classroom, students participated in Student Council, Primary and Junior Choir, ISMF, the Junior Development League, the Terry Fox Run, United Way Week, Health and Wellness Day, the Oochathon, the musical production of Into The Woods, the Book Fair and class trips to the theatre, the Science Centre, the ROM, art galleries, synagogues, temples and churches, Horseshoe Valley and Camp Oochigeas.

Thank you, Katherine Almeida and Anne Bell, for successfully depicting a very busy and productive Lower School within the pages of this year's Perspective.

Susan Charron Head of the Lower School

The York School

Katherine Almeida Primary French

Debbie Alvarez

Christine Appadurai

Ravi Appadurai

Accounting

Ginny Bates

The York Shop

Susan Caiger-Watson

C:ommunications

Reception

Security

Anne Bell

Judy Amsterdam

Administrative assistant

Maria Barnden

Glebe

Marilyn Andrews

Adffiissions

Matthew Barry

Grade 6B

Grade lB

Anuradha Bhattacharya

Jenny Briones

Coverage & Attendance Coordinator

C:afeteriaStaff

Lisa Carmody

Vanessa Colabawalla

Rick DeMarinis

Music

Glebe

Phys. Ed.

Facul

Sophie Doig

Glebe

AmyFaba Grade3F

Gordon Hefford Lunchroom & Maintenance

Pat Jerred Assistant Head of the Lower School

Dianne Dowman Academic Head of Technology

Vanessa Emer

Teaching Assistant

Sheryl Faith Grade SF

Gerald Feeney Director of Athletics

Grade SH

Gillian Hickman Phys. Ed.

I. T. Support

and Staff

Robert Emerson

Environment Coordinator

Sergiy Golovan I. T. Support

Patricia Indart

Library & York Shop Assistant

Director of Physical Facility

The York School

Katharine lurkovic Developmen Assistant

John Mazurek

Grade4M

Helen Pompilio

Glebe

Robin Kester

Director of Advancement

Julie Meskis

Grade 1M

Barb Prevedello

Grade2P

Merces Sliva

Afzal Shaikh

Cafeteria Staff

I. T. Support

Roger MacNeil Lunchroom & Maintenance

Sean Mitchell

Director of External Programming

Brian Schofield

Cafeteria Manager

Harriet Simand

Grade 6S

Geri Maynard

Communications

Mary Moffat Johansson

Glebe

Jeannette Seymour

Glebe

Karen Smith

Junior French

Facui

Megan Smith Grade 3S

Sara Spencer Junior Library

Dan Taylor Network Administrator

Allison Weaver Glebe

Robyn Smith Accounting

Chris Steele Maintenance

Bart Snow Art

Janet Stefanyk Grade2P

Michaela Tomiska Glebe

Ayumi Tsuji Daycare

Annette Whiteley Director of Finance

Jenny Wong Cafeteria Staff

and Staff

Joane Spadafora Glebe

Lesley Stewart Grade 4S

Sally Warren Administrative Assistant

Lisa Yorke Music

Staff at

Elyse Kishimoto Adniinistrative Assistant

Daniel and Nathan our GAP students

Pre-school

Alice Baker

Justin Jamal

Hayden Spindler

Thomas Bellamy

India Lawrence

Matias Arevalo

Jordan Corbett

Ryan Neal

Jack Fergusson

Iman Salahuddin

Evelyn Atkins

Rowan Bradt

RyanCho

Shane Easthope

Chloe Fergusson

Darius Jamal

Simon Peterson

Catherine Roddey

Katherine Rothwell

Tasia Thorsteinson

Elliott Vavitsas

Carl-Christian Wendt

Calaya Cornell

Abigail Nash

Summer Spindler

Estelle Alexander

Zoe Brenzel

ArifAulakh

Noah Chisamore

Sarah Beck

Gigi Noble

Kate Ricks

Alex Traynor 14

Landon Watchorn

Max Yakobson

James Bonellos

Michael Osborne

Glebe at Play .

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Glebe at Play

The Lower School

Grade 1B

William Bellamy

Rachel Black

Liam Briggs

Benjamin Broer

Ben Capstick

Ben Gray

Alex Hare

Sara Hodaie

Kidus Negatu-Makonnen

Harrison Solish

Rowan Willis

Aaron Nacawa

Mrs. Bell and class

Grade 1M

Isaac Baker

Bryann Davidson

Andi Mayer-Goodman

Arielle Silverberg l2

MariBell

James Flynn

Jaxon Perlumutter

Shane Thornsteinson

Andrew Boright

Coulter Jennings

Ethan Peterson

Daanyal Chaudry

William Lloyd

Matthew Pong

Grade 2P

Jacob Bell

Ian Hanson

Mattthew Mountford

Jared Bongard

Conrad Kim

NickMurman

Amanda Cash

Brenda MacDonald

Richard Nauman

Victoria Driesman

William Meyer

Isabelle Ostrowski

Grade 25

Henry Bowen

Jacob Kay

Gabrielle Sheiner

Truman Wood-Lockyer

Michael Duncan

Lauren Easthope

Bryn Harvey-Raymond

Alex Mercier

Julia Pei

Mattie Piccininni

Jeremy Stein

Elias Volonakis

Noah Yakobson

Robert Walker

Grade 3F

Aidan Aronoff

Danielle Barish

Arjun Bhabra

Liam Black

Sarah Craig

Jaqueline Davidson

Caitlin Duff-Brown

Kiana Karellas

Christopher Kousinioris

Adrian Marcuzzi

James Nash

Sally O'Keeffe

Grade 35

Adam Ali

Roslyn Brenzel

Emi-Lee Commisso

Allison Hoffman

Christopher Hoyes

Nikhil Kassum

Joseph Mason

Jasmine Nanji

Kai Brown

Emaan Chaudry

IzzyKamin

Laura Osborne

Absent: Michael Roddey Sofia Shetinina

Grade 4M

Zakariya Ali

John Boright

Evan Capstick

David Cash

David Francis

Quinn Halman

Kailey Kimsa

Sabrina Leon Landegger

Trevor O'Leary

Gabriella Piccininni

Lucas Sheiner

Kelly Whyte

Grade 45

Colin Brandt

Conrad Edwards

Aaron Lengyel

Jack Brown

Alistair Carscadden

Chloe Conacher

Sophie Fraser

Thomas Freund

David Grout

Grant Lillie

Matthew Lloyd

Orli Silverberg

Grade SF

Austin Broad

Lauren Clarfield

Elisabeth Feldstein

Alexandra Galperin

Jake Golvin

Tyler Grant

Gabriella Hammarstrom

Clare Harvey-Raymond

Stephanie He

Nicole Kay

Luka Kopunovic

Maya Murmann

James Osborne 36

Jamie Perlmutter

Benjamin Pitfield

Tareef Rahman

Courtney Rider

Dakota Seales

Aaron Shafton

Ms. Faith and class

Johann Von Tiesenhausen

Grade SH

Madeline Black

Annabel Colterjohn

Riley Hanson

Patrick Meredith-Karam 38

MaxBrenzel

Willis Daellenbach

Meggie Hodgson

Paula Murmann

Rebecca Brough

Madeleine Cavanagh

Robert Freund

Connor Guy

Lauren Hoffman

Christina Jewell

Brendan Neal

MaxSolish

Alexander Steinberg

Adrienne Van

Mitchell Wortsman

Mr. Hewgill and class

Grade 68

Annie Boright

Liam Caven

Vanice Cheung

Alex de Loos

John Feather

Helen Huband

Rachel Hung

Nurisha Ladak

Brooke McBurney

Fahim Mosharraf

Michelle Sprackman

Jake Stoddart

Michael Stramaglia

Shawn Vickar

Meghan Waitzer

Carolyn De Falco

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Wallace

Allie Wass

Mr. Barry and class

Grade 65

Nick Barrett

Lorraine Capone

Ross Freeman

Michael Gosnell

Talia Klein

Theo Landegger

Dillon Lawrence

Paige McBurney

Claire McCallum

Sarah Moor

Shaelyn Newmarch

John William Roddey

Hope Ruby

Olivia Segsworth

Evan Stein

Leandra Keren

ndrew Tureski

Looking back at Spring

Sports Day

Ooch-a-thon

Grandparent Tea

Making Challah

Student Appreciation Day

Grade 6 Exhibition

Earth Day o6'

Lower School Arts Night

Talent Show

Last Lower School Assembly

Closing Ceremonies

Fall

Terry Fox Run

Fun Fair

Halloween howls

Student council

The Environment Club

Ramadan Assembly

Diwali Assembly

Fort York

House Events

Music Assemblies

Twin Day

Jimmy and Ryan's Visit

Ryan's Well By Talia Klein 68 Ryan's Well was meaningful to me because even though Ryan, the founder of Ryan's Well, was only 6 years old, he helped build a well in Uganda, Mrica. I couldn't believe that his friend from the village, Jimmy, had to wake up at 12:00 a.m. to walk 5 km just to get dirty water. After Ryan built his well, Jimmy could wake up at 8: oo a.m. and still have time to get water before he went to school. It amazes me that every so seconds someone dies from a water related problem and every 8 seconds a child dies. After 10 years of Ryan raising money, Ryan has helped to build 245 wells. It amazes me that one person can do so much and make such a big difference. 79

Grade 5 Norval Trip

Grade 5 Kortright Trip

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Winter Begins

Christmas

Skating

Ski Day

Grade 6 Electricity Fair

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Grade 5 Trip To McMichael Museum

Valentine's Day

Grade 4 Assembly

Grade 4 French Cafe

Grade 6 at Ooch

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Beach Day

Chinese New Year

First 100 Days of School

Grade 2 Assembly

Health and Wellness Day

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Health and Wellness Day

Goodbye York! See you next year!