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Tony Healy is one of our many multifaceted teachers here at Brentwood who teaches in academics classes and coaches in the athletics department. Currently, Mr. Healy is in Moscow Russia, where he is coaching for the under 20 team in the World Junior Trophy Championships. Last Tuesday they won their first game against Zimbabwe 22-6 and this Saturday...

Grade 9 students interested in the Advanced Placement Programme attended a DNA Analysis and Bioinformatics Lab at the UBC Laboratory at UBC Michael Smith Labs. This Lab provided the students with an “authentic research experience in the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratories.” Students got a chance to “carry out a DNA isolation experiment...

On Saturday, seven members of the debate and public speaking class attended “The Westerns”, an annual public speaking competition at York House School in Vancouver. Yasyf M was at his extemporaneous best, taking first place in the impromptu category while Katie R placed third in the after-dinner division with her mock-serious protestation about...

Brentwood Alumni (2006) Nicholas Chesterley, of Comox, BC, has been awarded a Clarendon Scholarship for a two year Master of Philosophy degree, a postgraduate research program, in economics. Prior to this, Nicholas received the Chancellor's Scholarship,a major admission award, to attend Queen's University, where he obtained his Bachelor of...

This morning in the T. Gil Bunch Centre for Performing Arts, students and staff will be hearing from Gwynne Dyer, a London-based writer on international politics, on the geopolitic challenges...

Mr. Trevor Williams visited our creative science classes to talk about spacecraft design. Trevor has worked in the aerospace industry for many years as a design engineer, including managing a team of scientists working on the design and launch of Canada's RadarSat 2 satellite. Trevor's presentation outlines the way complex operations such as ...