Meeting Your Extracurricular Interests

Through the course of the year, a variety of extracurricular activities and clubs may be offered to students in all grades. Examples are ski trips, camping trips, out-of-province travel, and interest-based clubs.

There are currently three clubs at Banbury Crossroads School, including Baking, Programming, and Dungeons & Dragons (DnD) clubs. More will be added in the future. Students can join clubs by going to the teacher supervising them.

Clubs and extra-curricular activities will run outside of school hours, or through the lunch hours. Fees may be applied for materials and off-campus costs.

Citizenship, Leadership and Volunteering

Secondary students are encouraged to take part in leadership and volunteering opportunities with various community organizations at both municipal and provincial levels. These initiatives provide students with the chance to develop essential skills, gain valuable experience, and make meaningful contributions to their communities.

Engaging in such activities not only fosters a sense of civic responsibility and personal growth but also helps students build networks and enhance their resumes for future academic and career pursuits. By participating in these opportunities, students learn the importance of collaboration, leadership, and giving back to society.

Internship Program

Meaningful Community Connections and Hands-On Experiences

Banbury Crossroads School’s Internship Program is one of our most valued programs for our secondary students.

Our junior and senior high students go out into the community to work at a business or with a service industry related to their interests and as a way of exploring future career options. Students may spend one full day per week, two solid weeks, or another combination of days on their internships. Each internship is different as they are dependent on the schedule and capacity of the organizations hosting our student interns.

We organize internships with contacts through parents, staff, and previous community mentors. Our database of mentors grows each year.

There are many benefits of this Self-Directed Learning activity. Students love the opportunity to immerse themselves in a business atmosphere where they can pursue various interests, and their community mentors are happy to have the help, even with the amount of time and energy that goes into mentoring.

It's good for junior and senior high students to engage in more kinesthetic activities by getting off campus into urban or rural environments. Internships connects education with real-world experience, demonstrating to students that the knowledge they acquire in the classroom is applicable to the outside world and can be useful in their future careers. We’ve seen students show much more interest in their academic work after starting an internship. They find the experience motivating, illustrative, and engaging.

Internships provide students with the opportunity to build mentoring and trusting relationships with adults in their community. This is particularly helpful at a stage in their lives when they are perched on the threshold of becoming adults themselves and will soon need to be able to relate to other adults in a mutually respectful and productive way.

Internships give students an opportunity to contribute to their community. This develops their understanding of how altruism can work in their daily lives. And lastly, through these important explorations, students become familiar with a variety of career options before they make a life-altering choice for their post-secondary education.

Internships involve a time commitment of 75 hours to receive high school credit. Some examples of internship projects might include activities such as:

  • Assisting in an office and helping to design a new waiting room

  • Volunteering at the SPCA and making a photograph album of successful adoptions

  • Assisting mechanics in a garage and implementing new computer software

  • Working for a radio station

  • Doing carpentry work on a shed and helping install solar panels

All projects should contain the following elements:

  • Some research/investigation

  • Some application with curriculum outcomes

  • On-going documentation of learning

  • A cumulative exhibition of learning

Student Council

Banbury Crossroads is currently in the initial stages of planning for the establishment of a Student Council, which will be introduced at a later date.

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