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Student vaccinations 

Dear UCC Families, 

It is essential for your child to be up to date with their vaccinations as required by the Immunization of School Pupil Act (ISPA), or to have a valid exemption. This includes measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis (whooping cough), varicella (chicken pox) and meningococcal.

Kindly remember it is your responsibility to upload your child’s immunizations to Toronto Public Health (TPH) via Immunization Connect Ontario (ICON). Family physician clinics do not routinely report vaccination records to TPH. 

• Stay informed with vaccinations:

  • Toronto is experiencing a rise in pertussis cases, similar to trends seen throughout Ontario and Canada. This communicable disease begins like a common cold, presenting with mild fever, runny nose, red, teary eyes and a cough. However, it can progress to severe coughing that can last up to weeks or months.

  • Vaccines are widely accessible through your primary care physician or through a TPH vaccination clinic. Appointments can be made at tphbookings.ca.

  • Students in grades 7 and 8 will have the opportunity to receive the hepatitis B, human papillomavirus (HPV) and meningococcal vaccines at school through TPH’s  School Immunization Program (SIP).

  • For students in grades 9 to 12 who may have missed these vaccines, they can still receive them for free at a TPH vaccination clinic.

If you have any questions or difficulties regarding vaccines and uploading your child’s documentation, you may connect with TPH at immunization@toronto.ca.

Additional Information:

TPH Student Vaccine Information

Vaccines Work

Thank you,

Health Centre Team

Light Up the Avenue 

The campus was a flurry of excitement on Friday, Nov. 1, as students from the Prep and Upper schools ended their day with hot chocolate and chai while enjoying the inaugural Light Up the Avenue. This celebration of lights kicks off the festive season on campus, made possible by UCC, the PPO and PO. 

Let the festive season begin!

Save the date | Festive Marketplace

Festive Marketplace is happening on Friday, Dec. 13, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the Hewitt Athletic Centre. Bring the entire family to this incredible UCC tradition, hosted by the Prep Parents’ and Parents’ Organizations. 

Make sure to visit and experience everything Festive Marketplace has to offer, including:

• Over 50 local artisan vendors for an incredible shopping experience

• Bake sale with delicious treats

• Snowball Grab with great prizes

• Student artwork

• Musical performances by UCC students

• And so much more!

Visit the Festive Marketplace website for more details. We look forward to seeing you there!

Register | Casey Fellows events 

The UCC Casey Fellows Program for Mental Health and Student Wellbeing brings experts in the field of wellbeing to UCC. We’re delighted to introduce Dr. Niobe Way as this year’s Casey Fellow. Dr. Way is an internationally recognized professor of developmental psychology, specializing in social and emotional development at New York University and the author and co-author of nearly a hundred journal articles and books.

Casey Fellows Community Reads Book Club

This fall, the PPO and PO are co-hosting our Community Reads Book Club, featuring one of Dr. Way’s books, Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection. In her book, Dr. Way delves into boys’ relationships with their friends and how these critical relationships can shift throughout childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.

Dr. Way will be with us at the Prep on Tuesday, Nov. 26 for a book signing, from 4:30 to 5 p.m., and an in-person discussion, from 5 to 6 p.m. Please click here to register.

Casey Fellows Speaker Series: The Science of Connection with Dr. Niobe Way

Join Dr. Niobe Way for a compelling talk grounded in discoveries from her book Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection. 

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with adolescents, Deep Secrets reveals the ways in which we have been telling ourselves a false story about boys, friendships, and human nature. Boys in fact do share their deepest secrets and feelings with their closest male friends — but as they become older, they can become distrustful, lose these friendships, and feel isolated and alone. 

Given what we know about links between friendships and health, this is an urgently relevant topic in the wellbeing sphere. Don't miss the chance to hear from Dr. Way, including her insights into fostering these critical relationships as well as fundamental human skills. 

Click here to learn more and register for Dr. Way's talk in Weston Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 26. 

Reception starts at 5:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 6:30 p.m.

2025–26 Financial Assistance application

Financial Assistance applications for the 2025–26 academic year will once again be processed by Financial Aid for Canadian Students (FACS). This third-party service provides an independent assessment of the application and makes confidential recommendations directly to the College’s Financial Assistance review committee. Awards are made to eligible families on the basis of assessed need and may vary from year to year. You can complete the application online at Apple Financial Services. The application fee is $137.50.

Current families must apply or reapply by the Nov. 15 deadline so the College can ensure that all returning student applications are assessed and decisions made prior to a re-registration decision is required early in 2025.

The College’s finance office has included current data in an at-a-glance table to help day families determine whether or not they may qualify, along with some frequently asked questions around the application process. There’s some very helpful guidance material on the FACS site as well.

Sincerely,

Colleen Papulkas