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New to Blue Sunday arrival

On Sunday, Sept. 3, 32 new boarders moved into Seaton’s and Wedd’s. Parents, siblings, guardians and the new students took part in a wide variety of activities to help smooth their transition to UCC. The UCC admission team worked closely with the Director of Residence, Ms. Emma Kanga, to create an introduction to UCC boarding that connected new boarding families to each other, connected new boarders to veteran boarders, and connected all new students and parents to the Senior House Advisers, the Centre for Learning, the Health Centre team, as well as the leaders driving the Athletics, Arts and Community Service areas of school life.

The first day ended with a wonderful dinner provided by the Aramark team, and inspirational speeches from Principal McKinney and Boarding Parent Organization reps, Ms. Olga (mother of Maxim ’24 and Andrei ’27) and Ms. Caroline (mother of Gavin ’26).

We look forward to welcoming as many boarding parents as possible back to campus soon for Association Day (A-Day) activities that will bring together many current and past members of the UCC community. 

Norval boarder orientation

On Monday morning, September 4, the entire boarding community departed on an overnight expedition to the Norval Outdoor School located 40 minutes northwest of the downtown campus. New and veteran students slept in tents with new roommates in a variety of areas around the 350-acre campus.

The Norval staff led by Mr. Brent Evans were well prepared to provide ample opportunities for the students to engage in wonderful trust-building activities that will smooth the way for all boarders to learn to work as a cohesive community throughout the coming school year. Having your whole house climb “the wall” required incredible teamwork; crushing the credit in inner tubes and taking part in high ropes activities required trust and commitment to detail as students worked together.

A big thank-you to the Norval team. Boarders will be back soon for more fun and team-building activities in the outdoors