Family Handbook 2025-26

CO-CURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES

Havergal acknowledges that students have the desire to fundraise and get involved with supporting their community and organizations of interest to them. We encourage students and faculty to align with our Community Partnerships wherever possible. Where this is not possible, students and faculty are encouraged to work with members of the Forum for Change to build their capacity outside of Havergal’s direct, on-campus support. Celebration Day Celebration Day is our main fundraising event for our Wednesday, Standing and Emerging Community Partnerships. This dynamic and ever-evolving tradition takes place in September and is run by the Parent Relations Department. To avoid donation fatigue within our community, we have planned events throughout the year that provide ongoing support: ●​ Food drives in support of North York Food Bank (such as Harvest Festival in the Junior School and We Scare Hunger in the Upper School). ●​ Clothing drives in support of New Circles (such as Holiday Angels and Winter Clothing Drive). ●​ Fundraising in support of Youth Without Shelter (such as Drama and Art Department programming and Dance Show donations going to Youth Without Shelter and Beatstock). Global Learning Projects Havergal recognizes the educational value that experiential learning opportunities can provide students. We believe that when off-site experiences are well-planned and well-managed, the personal, social, emotional and academic development of students is enhanced. Experiential learning takes different forms in different grades, but broadly speaking, when experiential learning opportunities take students off Havergal’s 22-acre campus, they are considered highly valuable moments of community time that deepen academic learning and/or support our Forum for Change social innovation programming. Parents/guardians should direct any questions they have about planned excursions to the designated Lead Supervisor planning the outing. Students have the opportunity to travel internationally as part of our Global Learning Projects. Every year, the Forum for Change seeks to offer meaningful excursions to national and international destinations to provide unique global learning experiences that can focus on one or a combination of our global competencies. These Global Learning Projects are experiences that allow our students to know themselves in new ways, to better understand the lived experiences of others and to deepen their exploration of their role in the world. We are excited to be planning for community, co-curricular, academic and Forum for Change learning experiences for the 2024 to 2026 academic years. These learning experiences will be communicated through student announcements and the Heads of School weekly communication.

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