THE YORK SCHOOL

(an independent school)

1320 Yonge Street

Toronto, Ontario M4T 1X2

PERSPECTIVE 2006-2007

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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 reward­

ing. 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

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The York School

Katherine Almeida Primary French

Christine Appadurai Accounting

Ginny Bates The York Shop

Susan Caiger-Watson 4 C:ommunications

Debbie Alvarez Reception

Ravi Appadurai Security

Anne Bell Grade lB

Lisa Carmody Music

Judy Amsterdam Administrative assistant

Maria Barnden Glebe

Anuradha Bhattacharya Coverage & Attendance Coordinator

Vanessa Colabawalla Glebe

Marilyn Andrews Adffiissions

Matthew Barry Grade 6B

Jenny Briones C:afeteriaStaff

Rick DeMarinis Phys. Ed.

Sophie Doig Glebe

AmyFaba Grade3F

Gordon Hefford Lunchroom & Maintenance

Pat Jerred Assistant Head of the Lower School

Dianne Dowman Academic Head of Technology

Sheryl Faith Grade SF

Grade SH

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Vanessa Emer Teaching Assistant

Gerald Feeney Director of Athletics

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 5

The York School

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Katharine lurkovic Developmen Assistant

John Mazurek Grade4M

Helen Pompilio Glebe

Merces Sliva Cafeteria Staff

Robin Kester Director of Advancement

Julie Meskis Grade 1M

Barb Prevedello Grade2P

Afzal Shaikh 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

Megan Smith Grade 3S

Sara Spencer

Junior Library

Dan Taylor Network Administrator

Allison Weaver

Glebe

Robyn Smith Accounting

Chris Steele Maintenance

Michaela Tomiska Glebe

Annette Whiteley Director of Finance

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Bart Snow Art

Janet Stefanyk Grade2P

Ayumi Tsuji Day care

Jenny Wong Cafeteria Staff

and Staff

Joane Spadafora Glebe

Lesley Stewart Grade 4S

Sally Warren Administrative Assistant

Lisa Yorke Music

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Staff at

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Elyse Kishimoto Adniinistrative Assistant

Daniel and Nathan our GAP students

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Pre-school

Alice Baker Thomas Bellamy Jordan Corbett Jack Fergusson

Justin Jamal India Lawrence Ryan Neal Iman Salahuddin

Hayden Spindler Matias Arevalo

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Evelyn Atkins Rowan Bradt RyanCho Calaya Cornell

Shane Easthope Chloe Fergusson Darius Jamal Abigail Nash

Simon Peterson Catherine Roddey Katherine Rothwell Summer Spindler

Tasia Thorsteinson Elliott Vavitsas Carl-Christian Wendt

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Estelle Alexander

Zoe Brenzel

Alex Traynor

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ArifAulakh

Noah Chisamore

Kate Ricks

Landon Watchorn

Sarah Beck James Bonellos

Gigi Noble Michael Osborne

Max Yakobson

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Glebe at Play

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Glebe at Play

The Lower School

The Lower School

Grade 1 B

William Bellamy Rachel Black Liam Briggs Benjamin Broer

Ben Capstick Ben Gray Alex Hare Sara Hodaie

Aaron Nacawa Kidus Negatu-Makonnen Harrison Solish Rowan Willis

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Mrs. Bell and class 21

Grade 1M

Isaac Baker

Bryann Davidson

Andi Mayer-Goodman

Arielle Silverberg

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MariBell

James Flynn

Jaxon Perlumutter

Shane Thornsteinson

Andrew Boright Daanyal Chaudry

Coulter Jennings William Lloyd

Ethan Peterson Matthew Pong

Grade 2P

Jacob Bell Jared Bongard Amanda Cash Victoria Driesman

Ian Hanson Conrad Kim Brenda MacDonald William Meyer

Mattthew Mountford NickMurman Richard Nauman Isabelle Ostrowski

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Grade 25

Henry Bowen

Jacob Kay

Gabrielle Sheiner

Truman Wood-Lockyer

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Michael Duncan

Alex Mercier

Jeremy Stein

Noah Yakobson

Lauren Easthope Bryn Harvey-Raymond

Julia Pei Mattie Piccininni

Elias Volonakis 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

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Grade 35

Adam Ali Roslyn Brenzel

Emi-Lee Commisso Allison Hoffman

Nikhil Kassum Joseph Mason

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Kai Brown

Christopher Hoyes

Jasmine Nanji

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

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Grade 45

Colin Brandt Jack Brown Alistair Carscadden Chloe Conacher

Conrad Edwards Sophie Fraser Thomas Freund David Grout

Aaron Lengyel Grant Lillie Matthew Lloyd Orli Silverberg

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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 Jamie Perlmutter Benjamin Pitfield Tareef Rahman

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Courtney Rider Dakota Seales Aaron Shafton Johann Von Tiesenhausen

Ms. Faith and class 37

Grade SH

Madeline Black MaxBrenzel Rebecca Brough Madeleine Cavanagh

Annabel Colterjohn Willis Daellenbach Robert Freund Connor Guy

Riley Hanson Meggie Hodgson Lauren Hoffman Christina Jewell

Patrick Meredith-Karam Paula Murmann Brendan Neal MaxSolish

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Alexander Steinberg Adrienne Van Mitchell Wortsman

Mr. Hewgill and class 39

Grade 68

Annie Boright

Carolyn De Falco

Nurisha Ladak

Jake Stoddart

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Liam Caven

John Feather

Brooke McBurney

Michael Stramaglia

Vanice Cheung Alex de Loos

Helen Huband Rachel Hung

Fahim Mosharraf Michelle Sprackman

Shawn Vickar Meghan Waitzer

~vin Wallace Allie Wass

Mr. Barry and class 41

Grade 65

Nick Barrett

Leandra Keren

Paige McBurney

John William Roddey

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Lorraine Capone

Talia Klein

Claire McCallum

Hope Ruby

Ross Freeman Michael Gosnell

Theo Landegger Dillon Lawrence

Sarah Moor Shaelyn Newmarch

Olivia Segsworth Evan Stein

ndrew Tureski

Looking back at Spring

Sports Day

Sports Day

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Ooch-a-thon

Ooch-a-thon

Grandparent Tea

Grandparent Tea

Making Challah

Student Appreciation Day

Grade 6 Exhibition

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Grade 6 Exhibition

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Earth Day o6'

Earth Day o6'

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Lower School Arts Night

Lower School Arts Night

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Talent Show

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Last Lower School Assembly

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Closing Ceremonies

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Fall

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Fall

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Terry Fox Run

Fun Fair

Halloween howls

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Student council

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The Environment Club

Ramadan Assembly

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Diwali Assembly

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Fort York

House Events

Music Assemblies

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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.

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Grade 5 Norval Trip

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Grade 5 Kortright Trip

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L~ arbre ungali

Fran~ois le fantome

Winter Begins

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Winter Begins

Christmas

Skating

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Ski Day

Grade 6 Electricity Fair

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Grade 5 Trip To McMichael Museum

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

Grade 4 Assembly

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Grade 4 French Cafe

Grade 6 at Ooch

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Beach Day

Chinese New Year

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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!