Head's Welcome
Head of School's Welcome
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Welcome to Shawnigan! Our responsibility as staff here at Shawnigan is to support and inspire our students – with our values-based education at the heart of our teaching – so that they can achieve their potential and live fulfilling lives.
Shawnigan Lake School's mission and values are inseparable from the fact that we are first and foremost a co-educational boarding school; a welcoming community whose aim it is to prepare our young men and women equally for independent and inspiring futures through the means of a well-balanced, holistic education.
Five hundred students, representing over thirty nations, come together each year to live and study in this unparalleled setting on the edge of Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island. We encourage all students to develop an understanding of and commitment to the people, the place and the heritage of Canada, British Columbia and Shawnigan. At the same time, we challenge ourselves each year to be relevant, purposeful and of service in a changing and increasingly global world.
The conversations, connections, sense of community, and friendships forged through these shared experiences are, I believe, part of the magic of our School.
On this website, we will try to give you a sense of who we are and what we do – and we hope that your exploration of these pages will lead you to visit us in real time and to meet the people who together create this unique and remarkable community at Shawnigan.
I look forward to meeting you.
Richard D A Lamont
Head of School
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Head of School's 2025 Major Awards Ceremony Address
Read MoreHead’s Address – Major Awards Ceremony 2025This evening, we gather together in Chapel for one final time for the end-of-year-major awards – and simply to be together.This place has been our spiritual home, our rock, our soul during the course of this year – and it is very special that we are all here tonight.Tomorrow, our Grade 8s through to Grades 11 are returning home, with a special Closing Day planned for our Grade 12s on Saturday.I do want to mention – in front of the whole School – our gratitude to our leavers: the Class of 2025, and other students off for new adventures. Some of our wonderful German and Mexican students return home and we hope one day to welcome you back. We feel a combined sense of loss and happiness as you step beyond our world towards your own futures.I invite all of our departing staff to stand. We thank you for your contributions to Shawnigan.
We acknowledge with respect the Coast Salish Peoples on whose traditional lands and waterways we live, learn and play. We are grateful for the opportunity to share in this beautiful region, and we aspire to healthy and respectful relationships with those who have lived on and cared for these lands for millennia.
Shawnigan Lake School is an independent co-educational boarding school for ages 13 –18 on Canada’s beautiful Pacific Coast. Our diverse, interdisciplinary and innovative programming helps shape the next generation of global leaders.
