Summer Mailing
Back-to-School 2025-26
Greetings From CDS!
August 2025 - Highlights of the Return to School 2025/26
Dear CDS Parents:
We trust that you and your family have been enjoying the summer months and are starting to prepare for Back to School in September.
Our campus has been a hive of activity this summer while students and faculty have been away. Among other things, we began a two-part summer rejuvenation of our Middle School hallways. We removed the worn carpet and replaced it with clean tile that matches the rest of the school and created a number of "nooks" in the main hallway that will provide mini-gathering spaces for our Middle School students. The hallway received new wall treatments as well as new lockers which will brighten and freshen up our Middle School immensely. Next summer, we will install skylights down the hallways which will provide significantly more natural light to the entire space.
As well, we have conducted minor renovations to create additional space for more counselors in the SSC, staffing in the Community Relations Office, finished our connection to city services (water and sewer) and have given the Robotics Lab a much-needed facelift. As is the case every year, our Facilities team has been massively busy preparing the school in every manner and fashion for your return.
With strong enrolment across all grades, the school’s population is set to surpass 820 students in the coming year. In addition to more than 130 new students arriving, we will welcome eight new faculty members across all three schools. A brief version of their bios is attached, as is important divisional information about Back to School.
I hope that the remainder of your summer is peaceful and safe. As is tradition, we invite your family to join the entire CDS community—current families, students, and faculty/staff—for our Welcome Back BBQ on the first day of school, Wednesday, September 3, at 2:30 pm on Hawksworth Field. We hope to see you there!
Warm regards,
John Liggett
Head of School
Important Downloads
Land Acknowledgment
The Country Day School wishes to recognize and acknowledge the land on which the school operates. Our nearest Indigenous Nations are now the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Chippewas of Georgina Island. The Dish with One Spoon Wampum covenant is often cited as an example of the shared responsibility for caring for these lands among the Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples who would call these their traditional territories. CDS respects the relationship with these lands and recognizes that our connection to this land can be strengthened by our continued relationship with all First Nations, by acknowledging our shared responsibility to respect and care for the land and waters for future generations.
School Information
Junior, Middle and Senior Schools
13415 Dufferin Street, King, Ontario L7B 1K5
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
13415 Dufferin Street, King, Ontario L7B 1K5
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
