Tag: Christmas
GALLERY: Countdown to Winter Holiday
Check out photos from this past week, as our school community celebrated the final days before Winter Holiday with fun celebrations
Senior School Christmas Celebration
Watch the Senior School Christmas Celebration, with performances by our band, choir and strings students, as well as our Senior School Christmas Assembly
Junior School December Concerts
Enjoy our Primary and Intermediate concerts, featuring great music from our Junior School students
Middle School Carol Service and Holiday Concerts
Join us for three holiday shows from our Middle School community: a Carol Service, a band concert and a strings concert
A Christmas Message
Mark Turner shares a holiday message with the SMUS community and reflects on 2020
Ringing in the Winter Break as a Community
The final days before Winter Break are filled with traditions that bring us together as a SMUS community
Carol Service: Traditions and Rituals Connecting a Community
The SMUS community gathers for the annual Carol Service to enjoy music and thoughtful student reflections
Putting the “Service” in Christmas Carol Service
Our annual Christmas Carol Service brings the community together for a beautiful evening of music and student reflections
GALLERY: SMUS Community Comes Together for Christmas
Students and staff gathered together to celebrate Christmas, sing some carols, have some laughs and enjoy the holiday season
Snow
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...
SMUS Community Gathers for Fun Christmas Celebration
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...
Christmas tree
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...
Primary Students Spread Christmas Cheer at Concert
In what is probably the most adorable show of the Christmas season, our Junior School played host this week to two performances of the...
Music, Reflections Bring Christmas Carol Service to Life
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...
‘Tis the Season for Service Learning at the Junior School
Student leaders at our Junior School are busy like elves, collecting money and items as part of a variety of fundraising drives to make...
Primary Students Jingle All The Way Onstage
To cap off the holiday season, our Junior School hosted its annual Primary Christmas Concert this week, much to the delight of proud parents...
The Best Way to Spread Christmas Cheer is Singing Loud for All to Hear
Every family has Christmas traditions. For the SMUS family, our tradition is a very large gathering (everyone from Kindergarten to Grade 12 comes together)...
Middle School Band Students Exude Christmas Cheer
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...
Carol Service Brings Reflections on the Holiday Season
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...
Snow on snow
For today, this phrase is theoretical, although we did have a dusting last Saturday. The words actually come from one of the carols sung...
A Lesson in Baking, Math and Altruism
The sweet smell of fresh gingerbread cookie dough filled the hallways of our Senior School this week, as Grade 2 students rolled up their...
All We Want for Christmas is SMUS
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...
Tiny Voices Perform Holiday Tunes
Our Junior School hosted their own very special Christmas concert this week. Students from Kindergarten to Grade 3 performed a few fun holiday pieces...
Find Meaning in the Season
Our Carol Service encourages us all to connect with the spiritual side of this holiday season, whatever our faith or beliefs. Through music and...
Baking For A Brighter Holiday
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,...
A Celebration for All Ages
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...
Holiday Songs Brighten Winter Season
Carols are a staple of Christmas celebration, and with a student body packed with amazing singers, it seems only natural that SMUS contributes a...
Songs and Stories for the Season
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...
Season of Light
I have always thought of the coming season this way. Season of light: this is a phrase that for me sews together all the...
A SMUS Holiday Montage!
December is full of holiday celebration at SMUS. From the delicious shortbread cookies baked in Brown Hall to the pile of snow brought in...
SMUS Hands Out Christmas Hampers
Tis the season of giving and both the Middle and the Senior School embraced the holiday spirit by collecting toys and food for local...
Carol Service Brings Holiday Spirit
Every year, the Senior, Middle and Junior Schools hold a carol service, a celebration of the season that also encourages us to reflect on...
Primary Students Give Holiday Show
Students in Kindergarten to Grade 3 performed at a special tea for the grandparents and other guests last week. It was a wonderful and...
Myrrh
At our carol services Reverend Fletcher always makes the observation that while our School has the tradition of celebrating Christmas, we are very conscious,...
Peace
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...
Junior School Celebrates The Season
The Junior School has been very busy this month with many holiday events. This week, they held their own carol service, complete with a...
Middle School Carol Service
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...
Gingerbread
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...
Middle School Adds to the Festival of Trees
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...
The Feast of Stephen
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...
Grade 2 Bakers Whip Up Some Gingerbread
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...
Holiday Activities for All
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...
