Urban academy news
September 13, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, Thank you to parents who were able to join us for Meet the Teacher Night this week. We appreciated providing you with the information you will need to help your child be successful. We are moving away from the class blog system we…
September 6, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, We have had a wonderful first week back with our students and classes are off to an excellent start. The Back to School Barbecue was a success at Hume Park and thank you to Ben Marsolais who organized a very efficient parent crew…
August 29, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, We are very much looking forward to welcoming you today and are putting this email out a day early before the last long weekend of the summer. Today please take some time to look around the building at our new teaching spaces after…
June 26, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, Thank you for a wonderful end to a very full year! The students’ work has been excellent and staff are very pleased with their achievement. Our Report Card ceremonies and Commencement went off very well. Thank you to our families for your messages…
June 21, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, It has been a wonderful week with a number of year end activities for students as well as final exams and projects due for our older students. Sports Day was a lot of fun for everyone and Hume Park is a very enjoyable…
June 14, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, We had an excellent week. The Grade 6 and 7 students have been at Strathcona Park Lodge camp since Tuesday and have enjoyed themselves. Strathcona is an excellent camp, especially for middle school students, in a beautiful part of our province. They will…
June 7, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, Congratulations to Kalima Ngobi who placed 8th in the Provincial Track finals at Kelowna last weekend! She did an amazing job in a number of events and was a very determined competitor. We are proud of her work and she represented us well.…
May 31, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, We are pleased to share good news with our school community regarding our Senior Drama Club performance at the VISTA competition last week. VISTA is a competition for one-act plays that is open to all ISABC schools and is hosted at St. George’s…
May 24, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, We have had a full week at school, as we start to undertake the year end events. Our graduates and their guests are celebrating this weekend with a dinner dance to acknowledge their time at Urban Academy and their final year. We have…
May 17, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, Thank you for joining us at the Spring Plays this week. They were a lot of fun for the students to share with you and you can see their maturing work. Our Music program is steadily growing and developing as is our Drama…
May 10, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers in our community. We very much enjoyed hosting our annual Mother’s Day Tea in our new school. We are adjusting the format of most activities to accommodate to our new space. The elementary students enjoy…
May 3, 2019 Dear Urban Academy Families, We hosted our first athletic event in our new gymnasium yesterday, a very exciting time for us. Our students played host to St. John’s School in badminton, another great first for our school! We have a number of points of information that we…
