Sep 14, 2025 | event
Friday, September 26 we’ll be hosting the annual Corn Roast at Senior Campus, 5-8pm, spilling into Loyola Park. Join us for corn and games!
Get your game on: tug-of-war, sack races, and enough corn to make you question your life choices by cob #37. Families are encouraged to bring a picnic, blankets, and chairs to round out the feast. We’ll provide cold water (but no cups — so pack those trusty water bottles).
To pull this off without collapsing into the corn husks, we need volunteers! Sign up to help with setup, shucking, cooking, or take-down. Think of it as a gym workout, but with better snacks.
Jun 17, 2025 | event, recap
A massive shoutout to everyone who came out for the Grand Finale—whether you were chasing kids through the laser tag arena, getting repeatedly dunked in the dunk tank, or helping us herd the chaos with a smile.
Special thanks to our legendary BBQing Dads and the incredible food fulfillment team who kept the hot dogs coming and the lines moving like a well-oiled machine.
We couldn’t have pulled off this wild, wonderful end-of-year celebration without our amazing volunteers and families. You’re the real MVPs (Most Valuable Parents)!
May 5, 2025 | event, recap
Thanks SO much to Willingdon School for your participation in our Food Drive.
A total of 595 food donations were collected! Thanks to all the volunteers who helped with the daily sorting and organizing.
We are happy to report that the food went to refill the pantry at Auberge Transition, to the women who Le Mouvement contre le viol et l’inceste help support and directly to some local families.
Thank you for your continued support Willingdon!
Apr 28, 2025 | event
We would like to invite you (the parents/guardians) with your children to the Willingdon Student Film Festival movie night on Thursday, May 1st, 6pm-8pm at the gym of Willingdon’s Senior Campus.
In order to better plan the event, please confirm your attendance via the registration form. The registration is mandatory as the places are limited.
Due to the limited space at the gym, the invitation is open to a recommended 4 people max per family (exception – families with more than two kids: kids + 2 parent/guardians).
This year the film festival night is also a fundraiser for the grad 2025. Our lovely grad parents are organizing the snack stand that will be open from 6-6.30pm in the gym, so please bring cash to support our graduating students! Admission to the film festival is by donation to cover the cost of Home&School supporting the film festival (suggested donation is 2$ per person).
Thanks so much and we are looking forward to seeing you there!
Ania
Mar 31, 2025 | event, volunteer
It’s nearly time to show that Willingdon community spirit again! Because when compassion and community connect, real change happens. So, let’s come together to donate non-perishables, to be collected and distributed by Carolyn’s Community.
What do I bring?
Here are some suggestions for items to donate. Please try to keep in mind that a wider variety of healthy items is always best.
- Canned goods (fish, fruits, vegetables, beans, soups, broths, etc.)
- Dry foods (pasta, rice, quinoa, couscous, flour, sugar and other baking ingredients, breakfast cereal, oatmeal, etc.)
- Pantry items (pasta sauce, tomato paste, vegetable oil, olive oil, vinegar, peanut butter, salt, pepper, spices, etc.)
- Peanut-free lunch snacks (crackers, granola bars, cookies, pudding, etc.)
- Baby food (cereals, crackers, pouched purées, etc.)
- Staples (tea, coffee, condiments like ketchup and mayo, etc.)
Why is this important?
The food drive is an excellent opportunity to teach our kids about food insecurity — and not just globally but right here in our own community. There will be visual trackers to measure how much we’ve collected around the school so that students can track our collective progress and to encourage them to get involved in giving back locally.
Before, during and after…
We need two volunteers at junior and one at senior to put up the posters and tracker on Monday March 31st. Also need that volunteer to update the posters on the boxes that are kept in home and school and in the science room.
The week of the Food Drive, we need 2 volunteers daily at junior campus, and one at senior campus (week of April 7th) to bring down the food from each floor into the cafeteria, count the cans, sort and store. Also update the chart with the amount of cans representing the number of food items collected. Volunteer would need to arrive at 9;30 so as to give the kids enough time to put their donations in the boxes and enough time to count, sort and put away before lunch time.
Monday April 14th, when the pick ups will be, we need two volunteers at junior at 9:00 to help divide up the stuff into groupings for pick up. One volunteer to pick up everything at senior that is stored and bring to junior at 10;00.
