Community Service
Greenwood's community service program is very well respected and students are given opportunities on a daily basis to take part in new projects. Every Wednesday, classes start at 10:00 a.m.; this gives teachers an opportunity to have teacher development sessions, while students take part in community service. Students take part in Free the Children Clubs, Crafts for Sick Kid's Oochigeas Camp, and multiple reading buddy systems in Toronto's Regent Park. As well Greenwood is the only school in Ontario involved in the Hockey H.E.R.O.S. program, a nationally renowned program in which Greenwood students act as hockey instructors to children aged 8–12 years from Toronto's inner city communities.
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