JUNIOR HIGH PROGRAMS
Crestwood Junior High offers Academic Alternative and Gifted & Talented programming.
We have core programming that develops interdisciplinary connections through inquiry and project-based instruction designed to enhance and broaden curricular outcomes.
We offer French as a Second Language for all students in junior high. Students have a choice of Band, Art or Outdoor Education for their option course.
Each year there are three trimesters of options, where students choose from a variety of options. Options have included Active Living/Sports Performance, Drama, Sportfit, Leadership, Jazz, STEAM (Extra Science), Communication & Media. In addition, students will take a full-year option which have typically been Art, Band or Outdoor Education.
ACADEMIC ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM (GR 7-9) 2025/2026
The Academic Alternative Program is for junior high students who meet entrance criteria prior to entering the program in Grade 7.
Academic Alternative applications for Grade 7 will be available Friday, January 10, 2025 and are due Friday, January 31, 2025.
Crestwood School offers its Gifted and Talented (G&T) Program for students identified as "Gifted and Talented", as coded by their elementary school. Students coded G&T are eligible to apply to the Program.
The G&T Program presents the curriculum delivered at a challenging pace, allowing us greater instructional time for enrichment activities; enabling a focus on critical thinking, inquiry, and problem solving; presenting an environment where teachers encourage students' development of strategies, of a growth mindset, all within a “culture of learning” from mistakes; and the program presents a lively and productively busy room, where students engage in collaboration, in meaningful debate, in vibrant discussion, in authentic peer feedback, and in goal setting. There is active questioning by both teachers and by its students!
Interested families already with an EPSB school must express interest for program application through consultation with their current Grade 6 school. The school will need to SNAP (Special Needs Assisted Placement) your child to our program. You are not required to complete a portfolio. Schools can complete this process from February 3-10, 2025.
Visit our Gifted and Talented information website for further information.
