Principal’s Message

  Be The Magic! Each year the CGS Staff embraces a theme for the duration of the school year. A few years ago, we decided to share our staff theme with the entire CGS community in the hopes that it would be of comfort and support, during our long COVID struggle. To our delight, everyone…

  I heard about a book called “Hanging Out. The Radical Power of Killing Time” while on our March Break holiday, doing nothing more than reading by a pool and walking on a beach. It made me think that I was hanging out without even realizing it, so of course when I got back home, I…

  I had a good mother. I still have her really, she’s just no longer on this earth. She’s in my heart forever. She’s in the way I live my life and the way I mother my own children. She will forever be my moral compass. My Mom and I had a special relationship that…

  I have had several conversations, with family, friends, and colleagues in recent weeks about the concept of adversity in life leading to character resilience. No one likes to face difficult times, (in fact nowadays it seems that most people don’t really want to even feel remotely uncomfortable, let alone deal with life challenges), but…

  February and Hearts always seem to naturally go hand-in-hand.  For so many reasons our thoughts always turn to affairs of the heart at this time of year.  What better character trait then to focus on, but “Kind-Hearted”? When a group of people were asked what kindness meant to them, there were many different responses:…

  As we are now about halfway through the first month of a new year, I am going to hazard a guess that many of those New Year’s resolutions we all made for January 1st, have already gone by the wayside. A new calendar year often triggers the need in people to make resolutions but…

  “Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.”  (Charles Dickens)   It is so true that we are more likely to go down memory lane during the holiday season. How many times have people retold horror stories about family feuds over the Christmas tree or a holiday gathering, that taint their view of the…

  A popular Canadian politician wrote a social media tribute to her child, on the occasion of their birthday. She wrote “You were 3 when you gave me the best advice ‘You have to play more Mama!’”.  Talk about out of the mouths of babes. It has stuck in my mind, months later, what a…

  At our kick off meeting of this school year, I introduced the CGS Staff to the story of The Coffee Bean. Each staff member received their own personal copy of the book as well as a coffee bean inside of a small container, to act as a reminder of an important lesson shared and…

  Inevitably at some point in the school year, parents reach out because they are concerned that their child isn’t loving school. My first question is always “Why do you think that?” and the answer is often the same: “When I ask them what they did in school today they always answer ‘nothing’”. Oh oh,…