We’re looking for volunteers to help create delicious treats for our Holiday Market Bake Sale. Your homemade goodies will make this event extra special and support a great cause!
You can drop off a Junior Campus on Friday 22nd Nov, 2-4pm, or Saturday 23rd Nov 11am-12pm.
Get ready to jingle all the way to our 1st annual Holiday Market, where holiday cheer meets community spirit! This enchanting event, hosted by the Home & School Family Support Fund, promises a delightful array of handmade crafts, delicious treats, and unique gifts that will make your season bright.
Stroll through our charming market stalls, sip on hot cocoa, and enjoy live music that will get you in the holiday spirit. All proceeds generated by the event supports our Family Support Fund, making this not just a shopping spree, but a chance to give back.
Capture the Magic of the Holidays! Join us at the market and you can have a chance to take a holiday family picture in return for a donation towards the Family Support Fund. Get your holiday portraits and support a great cause — all while making unforgettablememories.
Bring your family and friends, and let’s celebrate the joy of giving together! Mark your calendars — this is a holiday experience you won’t want to miss!
What you can look forward to:
Your FSF co-chairs
Kristin and Nicholas
Home and School is excited to announce our upcoming Community Book Fair, where students will have the chance to shop for gently used books at amazing prices—just a buck or two! The event will take place at the school, and all proceeds will go directly to Willingdon Home and School.
There will be separate book fairs at each campus.The Junior book fair will run 9am – 3pm, the Senior book fair will be 1:30 – 3:30pm.
Books and puzzles will be priced between $1 – $5. The Grad Committee will also be running their bake sale fundraiser at each fair.
To make this event a success, we need your help! Please consider donating gently-used books, as well as complete puzzles or games. Your donations will give our kids an opportunity to find new reading treasures while supporting our school. This new format also aligns with our commitment to Green initiatives, by encouraging reuse and reducing waste.
Sale set for Nov 14th, but we need you now!
What we need:
Gently-used books, puzzles, and games (complete sets only please!)
Where to drop them off:
Donations will be accepted at the Royal side office
When:
Donations are accepted starting today!
Your co-chairs
Kristy and Daniela
Thank you to everyone who brought in their pumpkin for Halloween, we had a record 57 entries!
A small prize will be awarded in the next week.
1st: Number 54
Annie K
Joint 2nd: number 10
Maddy
Joint 2nd: number 39
Nicholas
3rd: number 57
Jace N
Location: 5870 Rue de Terrebonne
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After a slow start, we reached the top of the trackers, which is amazing. The lunchtime dance parties are being organized!!!
We had triple the amount of donations come in Friday than the previous 4 days together, for a total of 586 items.
Junior Campus – as tall as Mr Dave
Senior Campus – as tall as Mrs Vivien
Previous Food Drive Total
Get ready for a gourd-geous time at Willingdon’s spooktacular Pumpkin Parade this Halloween!
Everyone’s invited to carve or paint a pumpkin and bring it in on Halloween day. Students will have a blast checking out all the boo-tiful designs and voting for their top pumpkin picks. It’s a fang-tastic celebration of creativity and Halloween spirit—let’s make this a pumpkin party to remember!
Thursday 31st October.
Drop-off at the Royal side cafeteria during morning BASE, or between 8.55-9.05am.
Please LABEL them with the kids name/family name and a contact phone number.
If you’d like to take them home at the end of the day, please come in and pick them up.
Hello Willingdon Families!
A big THANK-YOU to our Pizza Day volunteers for making this year’s first pizza day a great success using our new vendor Pizza Welat and a new distribution system – both appreciated by students and volunteers alike! General feedback we received from the students is that Pizza Welat is much tastier (and less spicy) and the bingo stamp was a little thrill.
We have a few things to tweak to knock next pizza day out of the park, but most importantly, Kristy and I appreciated the flexibility and general awesomeness of our parent volunteers. In no particular order: Kristin Taylor, Pam Bernstein, Andrea Taylor, Leetal Cuperman, Ghazel, Lisa Robicheau, Sophia Otoni, Amanda Scullion, Angela Yu, Amelia Pang, Alison N, Sandy Sidhu, Carolyn Bouchard, Margo Stewart, Anna Calvert, Roxanne Ross.
As we did last year, we will re-open the Pizza and Froyo ordering in January for families still wishing to participate!
– Daniela & Kristy
Commitment: Just 5 1/2 hours spread over 3 days:
Your participation will make this event unforgettable!
Don’t miss out on the chance to be part of something thrilling.
We need your creative talents to bring our Halloween haunted house to life! If you have artistic flair, we’d love your help in designing cardboard props and signs. Additionally, we are looking for volunteers to set up on the day of the event.
Volunteer Opportunities:
An initial volunteer introduction zoom call will take place on Monday, October 21st at 7pm.
It takes a village to create the magic our kids look forward to every year. Any time you can offer will make a difference!
Please share your ideas and join us in making this Halloween a memorable one!
Before we know it, Grad will be here…and there are also LOTS of pieces that need planning, coordinating and implementing. And that means as many parents contributing some time and talents as possible to help make 2025 a year for the books!
First off, I am looking for a Co-Chair (or two) to join me, Andrea, in pulling everything off. If you want to help lead the Grad Committee’s activities this year, please send me an email.
And if you have a talent for design and have some inspiration for the official 2025 logo or the yearbook, please let me know ASAP at the same email!
Is there another area that you’re interested in coordinating? Not sure where to start, but want to contribute in some way? Just looking to learn more?
Looking forward to working with all of you!
Andrea Archibald
(Hayden H.’s mom)
Advance polls for the election for School Commissioners of the English Montreal School Board will take place on Sunday October 27th (noon – 8pm) at Willingdon Senior Campus (4850 Avenue Coronation).
Election day is Sunday November 3 (10am – 8pm), at St. Monica’s School (6440 Rue de Terrebonne).
You will have the opportunity to vote for two different positions. One ballot is for the Commissioner in Ward 5. The other ballot is for the Chair.
As a parent with a child in a EMSB school, you are already registered to vote. You will receive a registration notice in the mail in the coming weeks, confirming dates, times and polling stations.
School boards are the last body of governance that belongs to the English community. Together, we must ensure that they remain vibrant and representative for the benefit of the next generation of English-speaking Quebecers. The school system faces significant challenges both inside and outside the classroom, and this is an opportunity for the community to make its voice heard and help define priorities.
Our Ward 5 commissioner was instrumental in helping to secure the $6,729,000 investment needed for the Willingdon Junior Campus Renovations, which took place over the last 2 years (school yard, floor replacement, electrical and next summer’s interior paining).
In recent years, the EMSB has played a prominent role in legal battles against the Legault government on issues ranging from a ban on religious symbols for new teachers to regulations on the language that board officials are allowed to use in communication. The EMSB has been one of the only entities standing up to protect our rights, by fighting against Law 21, and Bills 40 and 96!
French School Boards have already been dismantled, and we’re fighting to maintain the English School Boards.
To check if you are registered to vote, use the EMSB tool:
You do not have to currently have a child at school in order to vote. Anyone can vote, so long as you are registered and fulfill the elegibility criteria on the elections website.
‘A Bit of History’, courtesy of the QFSHA Fall ’24 newsletter, pg 7.
We couldn’t have buttered ourselves up with better weather for this year’s Corn Roast! With the help of a small but ear-nest army of volunteers, (who we cannot thank enough) we shucked, boiled, and served a corn-tastic 1,000 ears of corn. Families enjoyed a fun-filled evening with classic games like the Corn-Sack races and a tug-of-war that really pulled the crowd in, while parents got the chance to meet new faces and reconnect with old friends.
A special thank you goes out to:
It’s events like these that truly kernel our community spirit and create lasting memories for our kids. Keep your eyes peeled for more community-building events — after all, it takes all of us to make these moments a-maize-ing!
We’re delighted to have Dave Handelman, a Willingdon parent, capture our memories. During school events that Home and School supports, such as Halloween, Dave photographs children whose parents signed media release form. For Home and School events outside regular school hours, Dave freely photographs. However, if you would like to have a photo of your child/family removed from the website, please contact Home and School and we’ll be happy to oblige.
(click photo to see slideshow)
We would like to warmly invite you to stop by and see us in the Draper side cafeteria after dropping your child off for their first morning. We will have croissants, fruit, coffee, tea and tissues!
Come have a chat with parents reaching the same milestone tomorrow, commiserate or celebrate, whatever you are feeling. Some Home and School volunteers will be on hand to answer your questions and let you know about upcoming events.
