Tag: health and wellness

Carole McMillan offers tips to help ensure your child's transition back to school is smooth

Students and teachers share tips to help you stay happy, healthy and well in times of change

Our personal counsellors provide parents with tips on talking with children about COVID-19

Teacher Tanya Lee highlights why Grade 8 students chose to focus their leadership conference on mental health

Carole McMillan, Director of Personal Counselling, highlights 5 ways to help you make and keep your New Year's Resolutions

Mr. Ritch Primrose writes about the phone policy at the Senior School that prioritizes student health and wellness

Imagine this: you’re launched into the future and neuroscientists tell you that physical activity is just as important for your brain as it is...

Personal Counsellor Ms. Allison Peace offers invaluable tips for parents to support their child's mental health

Heath and Wellness Week 2019 is in the books, and what a hive of activity it was! Students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 were...

Our Director of Health and Wellness provides an update on the smartphone policy and considers the next steps that could be taken in the near future

Middle School students learn the importance of finding balance in their lives to help set them up for academic success

Mr. Ritch Primrose, Director of Health and Wellness, writes about the new smartphone policy at the Senior School this school year

Mr. Ritch Primrose highlights the work of Dr. Greg Wells, the keynote speaker for our upcoming Health and Wellness Week

Our Director of Health and Wellness Mr. Ritch Primrose asks us to reflect on our goals of becoming our best selves.

Head Girl Aysha Emmerson spoke at WE Day Vancouver about acceptance, mental health and the power people have to support and inspire others

Check out the gallery of photos taken by Kindergarten to Grade 5 students during Health and Wellness Week at the Junior School

Director of Academics Ms. Denise Lamarche writes about technology and acceptable cellphone use at SMUS

Director of Health and Wellness Mr. Ritch Primrose highlights what's happening at SMUS as part of Health and Wellness Week (April 3-7)

Listen to Director of Learning Adrian French discuss what happens when we sleep and why it is so important to learning and development

Mr. Ritch Primrose, Director of Health and Wellness, writes about setting and achieving goals for the new year

Mr. Ritch Primrose writes about how eating healthy food impacts the brain, and the newest healthy food options available in the Tuck Shop

This week we are hosting the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) U15 Girls’ Soccer tournament. Starting yesterday, the fields have been full of teams...

September is a time full of energy on the SMUS campus. For teachers, students and parents, this time of year marks a fresh start....

Get to know Middle School counsellor Ms. Crystal Vaughan in this week's SMUS Teacher Feature

Head of Counselling Ms. Carole McMillan offers advice for starting high school on the right foot

One of my favourite roles at the school is coach of the Senior boys B basketball team. Basketball runs through the veins of SMUS,...

As a school that hangs its hat on preparing students for higher learning and for life, the ideas of balance and resilience are important....

Licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist Lynn Lyons returned (by popular demand!) to SMUS during Brain Awareness Week this week to talk about building...

Our annual Brain Awareness Week – now in its fourth year! – is a time for our community of students, parents and staff to...

Even before the sun rises, a large group of Junior School students is spending three mornings a week getting a fun fitness session in before classes...

I only know one Latin phrase, and sadly, this basic lexicon may never improve. Mens sana in corpore sano. The motto of the old...

  I am fond of “twins” in the SMUS lexicon. For instance: “passion and compassion”, “truth and goodness”: the term “twins” suggests the inseparability of...

The shift in health and wellness focus in recent decades has given more complex meaning to one of the School’s mottos, mens sana in...

Some ideas are like that grain of sand inside the oyster, nestled in a spot where it absorbs the elements that coat it. In...