Extracurricular Activities
Students at TOS are able to exhibit leadership and stay involved through student-driven co-curricular activities. Activities for students include those that promote innovation, creativity, and healthy living. Our extra-curricular activities involve proposing, acting, and reflecting on community involvement and activities.
Activities will vary each term based on faculty and student interest and expertise.
Creativity
Creativity is interpreted broadly to include a wide range of arts activities as well as the creativity and critical thinking students demonstrate in designing and implementing service projects. Our senior students regularly take on many responsibilities during the school year to serve its student body, an example of one responsibility is presenting the Friday Tea session, designed to celebrate weekly accomplishments. Club days happen throughout the school year as well where creativity is encouraged. Students choose various activities to explore and engage their interests while utilizing critical thinking skills and extending themselves beyond their comfort zone. Some examples include:
School Plays (acting, technical crew, staging crew, music)
Drama
STEM initiatives
Choir
Theme days
Studio Arts
Band (Instrumental)
Creative Writing Club
Photography
Community Service & Outreach
The Oxford School believes that involvement in community service is an important way to inspire children to be a voice in the world. Many in-school projects are often focused on the local community partnerships where young students can readily make connections.
Global awareness is also important and becomes the goal to which our elementary students aspire. School initiatives include food and clothing drives, partnerships with a local remembrance day activities, the Terry Fox Run, and other charitable fundraising and community involvement.
Local Food drives
Earth Week
Spring Clean-Up
Peer Tutoring
Book Fair
Field Trips & Adventures
Some of our trips are educational/curriculum-based, and others are opportunity-based. It gives the chance for the students to learn respectful behaviour at other facilities, as well as engage in fun and exciting experiences. Having small class sizes makes it easier to have unique “out of class” experiences to enhance the students learning.
As a school we have toured to local theatre K2K and Woodstock Little Theatre to enjoy theatrical shows.
Field Trips will vary each term based on faculty and student interest and expertise.
EXAMPLES OF PAST Grade Specific Trips:
JK & SK
Police Officer Visit: Having a local police officer come talk and show the students “police gadgets”
Local Bakery: Learn step by step how to make pizza and cookies
Local Library: Visit and participate in programs
Woodstock Historical Museum
Woodstock Art Gallery
Grades 1 - 4
Doon Heritage Village: Celebrations and Traditions around the world program, located in Kitchener
Grades 5 & 6
Snyder's Family Farm
The Science Centre: Enhance various science units
The Toronto Zoo
Woodstock Curling club
Grades 7 & 8
Stratford Festival: Studying plays that are performed at the Stratford festival and being able to go to Stratford to watch the play live.
Canada's Wonderland: End of the year trip