Ode to Joy: The Celebration of Music is the English Montreal School Board’s special theme for the 2025 - 2026 Kindergarten Registration Campaign. Kindergarten Registration runs from February 3 to 7, 2025. For more details go to www.emsb.qc.ca.

À l’approche de la Semaine des inscriptions à la maternelle, la Commission scolaire English-Montréal (CSEM) donnera le coup d'envoi à l’Hymne à la joie – Une célébration de la musique. Les inscriptions au primaire auront lieu du 3 au 7 février. Visitez: emsb.qc.ca.

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The students from Carlyle International School, along with broadcaster Dan Laxer, produced their first podcast of the year. Listen to hear all about what happened this fall at Carlyle, from the students themselves! Thank you to the school's journalism club and to Dan Laxer!

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Join us on this episode as we celebrate the remarkable achievement of the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) in maintaining the highest graduation success rate in Quebec! According to the latest statistics from the Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec for the 2022-2023 academic year, the EMSB boasts an impressive 95.9 percent graduation rate, marking a significant increase from last year.

We’ll dive into the reasons behind this success with EMSB Chair Joe Ortona and get firsthand insights from two outstanding graduating students from Vincent Massey Collegiate, Benicio Cardoso and Audrey Baroso Toribio.

In this episode we explore the fond memories and bright futures of young students. Host Mark Bergman is joined by three remarkable 6th-grade students from Our Lady of Pompei: Corentino Corse Masone, Rebecca Guerrera, and Charlie Yarmush. Join us as they reminisce about their favorite moments in elementary school and share their dreams for high school.

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Rosemount High School recently launched its new Arts-études program, the first-of-its-kind amongst English high schools in Quebec. A total of 165 students across all grade levels (Secondary I to V) are taking part in the five-year program this academic year, with music now playing an integral part of the students’ daily class schedules.

“It is about giving a holistic study in music, theory and practice,” said Anthony Cooperwood, Director of Bands at Rosemount High School, who is in his seventh year at the school. “We start from the very beginning. You will learn what a scale or a whole note is, and what the different keys are. From there, we will teach you how to read those elements and how to perform them on the instrument that you have selected. Students sometimes come here with no musical experience. We teach you everything.”

While music instruction has long been a staple at Rosemount, the introduction of the much-anticipated Arts-Études program allows for music to be incorporated throughout the school day, as opposed to strictly after-school as a 75-minute extra-curricular course between 3 pm and 4:15 pm. Music classes are now interspersed throughout the day, with students having as many as three for-credit music courses in a single day.

“Under the Arts-études program, we are asking the government for permission to allot a certain number of minutes throughout the school year,” said Mr. Cooperwood. “Under a regular music program, you can see the students, but for very short amounts of time. The Arts-études program makes it all possible.”