There are many athletic opportunities offered to our Intermediate (Grades 7&8) students throughout the school year!
Practice days and times can be found on our week at a glance memo that is sent home weekly.
Our Intermediate sports program operates with several important philosophies:
1) We want to have students active and teach students how to be active for life. We schedule our sports so that there is very little overlap in practice times and game days, and encourage all students to be multi-sport athletes. There is a mountain of research that shows multiple benefits for youth who are multi-sport athletes.
2) Everyone of every ability can participate. We don't make 'cuts' at the 7/8 level. We will add more practice slots, and more coaches if necessary. However, this does not mean that every athlete is entitled to participate in tournaments and games. Students need to practice consistently, and if they can't make it to practice then they need to communicate with their coaches. Students also need to receive their teachers' approval, based on their behaviour and effort in class.
Our athletics support our academics, and our academics support our athletics.