St. Patrick's Blog Week of September 2nd, 2014

St. Patrick's Blog

Week of September 2nd, 2014

Welcome Back to School!

I would like to extend a very warm return to our grade 8 students and families, and an enthusiastic welcome to our grade 7 students and parents!  We are anxious to begin the learning process within our school community this year.  

On Tuesday, we will have a special schedule providing some additional time in homebase so that teachers can provide students with information about the school year, and distribute a number of forms that we are asking students to bring home to their parents/guardians.  Included in this package is a welcoming letter from the administration explaining these forms and a number of school initiatives for the year.  

Our staff met for a liturgy and to review directions for the school year last week, and I had the opportunity to share a number of thank you’s at that time.  I would also like to share with our parent community our appreciation of our custodial staff, led by Mr. Massey, as well as our office administrators Ms. Clarke and Ms. Foley for their extensive work preparing for the start of this year.  They have worked very hard to ensure that we will have a smooth start, and their work will continue to the end of the year.

Some of the information that our students will receive this week that we would ask you to return to the school after reviewing at home:

• Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation information: Please fill out, sign and return so we can continue to communicate with you electronically by email.
• Verification forms: Please review and correct any information on the sheet.  You are also encouraged to return the language support sheet attached to the form if you require some support in social situations such as our meet the staff or interview opportunities.
• Student Fee: Information is included on the Welcome Letter that describes how we use the student fee.  Please send this in with your child to their homebase teacher.

We are excited about beginning the social, academic and spiritual walk with our community this year.  One of our initiatives includes keeping students, parents and guardians up to date with school news through this blog.  There are other modes of communicating with the school found on the welcoming letter from the administration that your child will bring home on Tuesday.  Please review this and contact the school if we can help with anything.

Have a great week;

Sean Kelly