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The Vancouver Model United Nations is the largest high school event of its kind in North America. This year, 350 delegates used their knowledge of history, international relations, diplomacy, foreign policy and UN procedures to debate and ultimately resolve two vexing problems: nuclear non-proliferation and piracy in Somalia. Ian M emerged as...

Last week Kevin K, Alex B, and Evan M went for medical school interviews at Dundee, Aberdeen and St Andrews in Scotland, and St George's in London. The University Counselling team managed to arrange the interviews on consecutive days so that students would only have to fly to the UK once. By the third interview, the boys felt very much at ease...

Every student in our school has been writing end of term exams from last Saturday morning until this afternoon. Designed to measure the students' progress since September, exams are written for every academic subject as well as Art 2-D and Computer Science. Learning how to prepare for exams and become highly proficient examinees is a fundamental...

Virtually every Canadian university will be represented here on campus tomorrow, with admissions officers ready to meet with students and their parents. This is an ideal opportunity for our school to learn more about individual universities and ask the burning questions that will guide the intricate admissions process during the upcoming months....

Twenty years ago this week, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This charter laid out the civil, cultural, economic, political, and social rights for children. The promises it made for protecting children and the hope it represented for their future have not been realized. The youth-oriented charity...

There will be a presentation in the lecture theater given by Reyna Jenkins tomorrow at 7:30 pm. Reyna is a graduate student from the University of Victoria's Earth and Ocean Sciences Department. The lecture is entitled "Surfing an Ocean of Data" and relates to the NEPTUNE project which monitors the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of...

On Saturday, November 14th, Eric D (Grade 11) and Aron Z (Grade 12) changed out of their wetsuits after a morning of kayak surfing at Jordan River and dressed in their Number One uniforms to attend the Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award Ceremony in Victoria. The Duke of Edinburgh program acknowledges youth who partake in an active lifestyle and who...

by Savannah S

On Thursday, November 19th Brentwood is pleased to welcome Dr. Alexandra Branzan Albu and Paul Reimer from the University of Victoria. Dr. Albu is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering whose research interests include computer vision, medical imaging, virtual reality, modelling and simulation. She is also...

Our Director of Admissions, Clayton Johnston, will be travelling for most of November, meeting with prospective parents and students. First stop will be Bangkok, Thailand where he will be attending The Asia Boarding School (TABS) Fair at the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok on Sunday, November 8th from 7-9 pm (