Boarding school recruiter to visit SKN - Sun St.Kitts/Nevis

[Anguillan newsboy]

The director of admissions of the world acclaimed Upper Canada College (UCC) International Baccalaureate Private All-Boys Boarding and Day School will be in the Federation of St. Kitts/Nevis from 26-30 May to have face-to-face meetings with potential students, and their families.

Chantal Kenny, the UCC director of admissions, plans to meet boys and families from St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Martin, Anguilla and Montserrat.

UCC Old Boy, Educational Consultant Andrew Forson, has been told families with boys aged 12 to 17 can be enrolled in the school for September 2008 (these are boys entering grade eight/form two equivalent or higher) and beyond.



Kenny will, however, be interviewing boys aged 11 and older for consideration for admissions in this and future years.

Forson is an alumnus of UCC. He was admitted to the school at 12 and graduated in 1994.

“The facilities, friendships and connections made, academic quality, and breadth of opportunity offered by the school are second to none,” he said.

The boarding facilities offer the boys a safe engaging residential experience. UCC’s boarding programme has been in place in the heart of Toronto, Canada since the college’s founding in 1829.

Each of the two houses has a senior house adviser – a faculty member who lives with his family on campus and several residential ***istants who help supervise study sessions weekdays and organise weekend activities.

Advisers provide daily supervision and counselling and communicate with parents regularly.

“The cl*** sizes are small and the school is not only known for its academic excellence as it is routinely ranked as the top school in Canada. The school focusses on the development of the whole child and has activities like football, soccer, cricket, swimming, skiing, theatre, rugby, debating, bands – you name it.

“The campus has its own tennis courts, several indoor basketball courts, an indoor semi-olympic sized pool, cricket pitches, football fields, a hockey arena, and an outdoor wilderness school in the Canadian woods.

“Every year, school teams from hockey, to cricket, to rugby, to debating travel to the US, the UK, and Australia, to compete against other world-cl*** private schools.

“There are also exchange programmes to Australia, Nepal, and Kenya and everyone is expected to learn a second language – mine was French!”

UCC attracts the sons of outstanding businessmen, professionals, politicians, diplomats, and Judges.

During Forson’s time, there were several students from the Bahamas, Antigua, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Bermuda, and St. Lucia.

The school boasts a 100 per cent acceptance rate to top universities in the world with many graduates gaining acceptance to Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, McGill, and more.

Kenny will conduct informational sessions and interviews for potential students in Nevis at the Four Seasons Resort on 26 from 1 to 5 p.m., and in St. Kitts at the Marriot Resort on 28 May from 1 to 5 p.m. UCC and Kenny can be contacted directly through Tricia Rankin, the admissions co-ordinator at TRankin@UCC.on.ca or 416-488-1125 x 2221.

Interested boys and families can also contact UCC Alumn and Educational Consultant Andrew Forson in Nevis at (869) 664-0191 or by email at Forson@BCPMInternational.com for further details. Interested individuals are asked to respond by 23 May.