St. Patrick’s Blog Week of November 25th, 2013

St. Patrick’s Blog

Week of November 25th, 2013

Thank you to all of our students and staff who were involved in our Bullying Awareness activities this past week.  Students engaged our community in activities that included sitting with someone new at lunch, identifying positive decisions with our kindness chain, and signing an “anti-bullying” pledge.  We will continue our efforts to provide information and awareness to our students around this important topic.  

I wanted to highlight an important initiative that is happening among a class of English students at St. Patrick’s and a group of seniors at Billings Lodge in our community.  These students have made the trip to the lodge a number of times this term, and they take the opportunity to share stories with an individual senior at the home, while creating a “project” on what was learned.  This is a great way to partner with the community, and a very positive way of engaging individual perspectives from another generation.  Thank you to Mrs. Sweeney and Mrs. Kilbride for organizing this activity.

We are very happy to announce that our current weight room and fitness area near the gym will be undergoing a makeover in the coming weeks.  The board agreed to remove a wall and redo the area with new ventilation and a new floor to make it more accessible for students.  We are looking forward to additional room for physical fitness equipment and an area for aerobics.  We appreciate the board’s planning and efforts around keeping our learning areas up to date.

We will be having a dress down day this Friday for students who wish to donate $2 to our Christmas Hamper program.  Students who donate can dress in appropriate clothing other than their uniform, and will have a choice of either attending a dance or watching a movie Friday afternoon.  Snacks will be available for purchase, and proceeds will again go to support our Christmas Hamper initiative.  

Our thoughts and prayers remain with the people of the Philippines following the tragic events in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.  In addition to the information I shared from the Catholic Diocese of Ottawa, St. Patrick’s will run their fundraiser this week to help support relief efforts.  Students will be selling lollipops with all of the proceeds being given to a charity supporting Filipino need.
Congratulations to our Boy's Volleyball Team who beat out All Saints in straight sets this past week to win the 7&8 City Championship. Good job Coach McKinnon!

Have a great week!

Sean Kelly