Tag: Christmas

The final days before Winter Break are filled with traditions that bring us together as a SMUS community

The SMUS community gathers for the annual Carol Service to enjoy music and thoughtful student reflections

Our annual Christmas Carol Service brings the community together for a beautiful evening of music and student reflections

Students and staff gathered together to celebrate Christmas, sing some carols, have some laughs and enjoy the holiday season

The word “snow” has been whispered around campus in the last 24 hours, especially among our boarders. Our boarders come from 26 different countries, and...

As with any family, the holiday season just doesn't feel complete unless everyone gathers together for some fun and merriment. And at SMUS, that...

Originally I was planning on buying our Christmas tree at one of the many cut-your-own places around Victoria. However I managed to find one...

In what is probably the most adorable show of the Christmas season, our Junior School played host this week to two performances of the...

Against the backdrop of the majestic Christ Church Cathedral, our annual Christmas Carol Service is a wonderful way for our school community to assemble and get into...

Student leaders at our Junior School are busy like elves, collecting money and items as part of a variety of fundraising drives to make...

To cap off the holiday season, our Junior School hosted its annual Primary Christmas Concert this week, much to the delight of proud parents...

Every family has Christmas traditions. For the SMUS family, our tradition is a very large gathering (everyone from Kindergarten to Grade 12 comes together)...

A concert leading up to Christmas doesn't have to simply include traditional holiday music to make it a great show, and our Middle School band students...

Our annual Carol Service is a joyous opportunity for members of the SMUS community to gather and reflect on what the holiday season means to...

For today, this phrase is theoretical, although we did have a dusting last Saturday. The words actually come from one of the carols sung...

The sweet smell of fresh gingerbread cookie dough filled the hallways of our Senior School this week, as Grade 2 students rolled up their...

It wouldn't be the holidays at SMUS without the annual all-school assembly. From chipmunks to kings, the traditional student-led skewering of the faculty, a...

Our Junior School hosted their own very special Christmas concert this week. Students from Kindergarten to Grade 3 performed a few fun holiday pieces...

Our Carol Service encourages us all to connect with the spiritual side of this holiday season, whatever our faith or beliefs. Through music and...

By Nina Duffus, teacher Our Grade 2 students have continued their annual tradition of making and selling gingerbread. The 22 students have weighed, measured, rolled,...

The holiday season is always a busy one at SMUS, but every year we make time to come together for a fun-filled assembly, featuring...

Carols are a staple of Christmas celebration, and with a student body packed with amazing singers, it seems only natural that SMUS contributes a...

The SMUS community filled the historic Christ Church Cathedral for its first all-school carol service. There were 300 performers, three schools and a packed...

I have always thought of the coming season this way. Season of light: this is a phrase that for me sews together all the...

December is full of holiday celebration at SMUS. From the delicious shortbread cookies baked in Brown Hall to the pile of snow brought in...

Tis the season of giving and both the Middle and the Senior School embraced the holiday spirit by collecting toys and food for local...

Every year, the Senior, Middle and Junior Schools hold a carol service, a celebration of the season that also encourages us to reflect on...

Students in Kindergarten to Grade 3 performed at a special tea for the grandparents and other guests last week. It was a wonderful and...

At our carol services Reverend Fletcher always makes the observation that while our School has the tradition of celebrating Christmas, we are very conscious,...

The sound of students isn’t a gradual and controlled swell. It is an eruption. Once it erupts, it is constant, like one of those...

The Junior School has been very busy this month with many holiday events. This week, they held their own carol service, complete with a...

by Amita On December 2nd, the Middle School had its annual carol service. I sung in the Grade 8 choir. The two songs we sung...

Last night, my wife Joan spent a half hour sewing back together the stuffed gingerbread man that our son’s pug, Spencer, had just finished...

by Robyn, Grade 7 Last week, a number of students from the Middle School went to the Fairmont Empress Hotel to take part in the...

This is the season of light. We have had two Carol Services, and today is our whole-School Christmas assembly. This week is also the...

by Amalia, Grade 2 We are making delicious gingerbread in Grade 2! We got to mix the dry dough in our class and we did...

Just because classes are ending next Friday, that doesn’t mean that things will be slow at SMUS in December. Students from ages five to...