CDS Students Awarded Impressive Scholarships
Over the past few weeks, two of our GY students received exciting news that they have been awarded significant scholarship awards based on their academic accomplishments, combined with a strong commitment to student life demonstrated through community leadership, volunteer service, and a passion for the arts or athletics.
Nevis Hunt ’21 will be attending Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick in September where he plans to pursue a Bachelor of Commerce and Commercial Aviation degree. After initially hearing that he was a recipient of a Bell Family Achievement Award scholarship, the University informed him this week that he is now a recipient of the full Marjorie Young Bell Scholarship valued at $56,000 over four years. According to their website, Mount Allison's Bell Scholarships are among the largest undergraduate awards in Canada.
Nevis attributes his ‘Education with Balance’ and extra-curricular commitment to a wide spectrum of activities for helping him qualify for this scholarship. As a CDS Lifer (having started CDS in JK) and strong student, Nevis’s high school involvement has spanned from playing in the Concert and Jazz Bands and playing the “Last Post” in music, to being a three-term athlete involved in Cross Country, Track and Basketball. He has also been a School Ambassador, an Intramural Coordinator, a Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Awards recipient, and is currently on the Student Council. Nevis is also very involved in his community through his summer employment and as a Ski Instructor.
He hopes to participate on the Cross Country team next year, which will allow him the opportunity to keep training for the World Championships for Duathlon which was postponed due to COVID-19. He also hopes to continue his involvement in music.
Nevis is the fourth member of the Hunt family to attend CDS. His sister McKinley ’15 and brothers Logan ’17 and Bridger ’18 are all CDS Lifers as well.
Rachel Millar ’21 will be attending Huron at Western University next year. According to Rachel, this has been her first choice her entire life making her the third generation in her family to attend Huron. She will be studying BMOS (Bachelor of Management and Organizational Studies) for the first two years and then study at the Ivey Business School for her final two years. Rachel recently learned that she is a recipient of the competitive Huron at Western's Hellmuth Scholarship. This scholarship is a four-year scholarship for full tuition and fees assuming that she maintains an 80% average at Huron and continues to be involved in leadership roles.
She believes it was her extensive extra-curricular involvement during her six years at CDS that put her in good stead for this award. She has been a three-term athlete since Grade 7 (except during COVID). She feels that her role on both the Girls’ Soccer and Hockey teams were of particular significance and highlighted her experience of joining the Girls’ Hockey team her Grade 9 year having never played before, but wanted to help them have enough girls to field a team. Rachel feels that that experience really taught her how to step out of her comfort zone.
But Rachel feels that the biggest differentiator that helped her application be noticed was her role in helping to start the beehives at CDS. For her Grade 9 Green Industries course, Rachel decided to bring one of her projects to life, and with the help of her father Ian Millar and some enthusiastic teachers, she installed beehives on the CDS property so that the Outdoor Education program could benefit from this unique learning experience. She also went on to start a Bee Club and believes strongly that this mix of initiatives were huge contributors to her receiving this scholarship and taught her so much in the process!
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
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.
(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.
