St. Patrick's Blog Week of February 23rd, 2015

St. Patrick's Blog

Week of February 23rd, 2015

We celebrated a beautiful Ash Wednesday observance this past week, acknowledging the beginning of our season of Lent.  Students and staff were challenged with the task of looking within to see what changes we need to make to improve relationships with our friends, families and wider community.  Peace on your journey.

Activity Day Reschedule

We were very disappointed having to cancel our activity day for the second week in a row.  Unfortunately the forecast for last Friday didn’t improve as the week unfolded, and despite waiting for a possible improvement at the last moment, there was no warm-up!  Given our schedule over the next week, we will be unable to reschedule the activity, and will have to wait until next winter to try again.  Staff will be processing refunds by Wednesday for students who had planned on the canal walk/hike.

Parent/Teacher Discussions

Thank you to all those in our St. Patrick’s School community who made it out for our parent-teacher discussions last week.  It is encouraging to see so many individuals invested in the success of our students.  We also appreciate those parents and guardians who purchased items from our Shamrock’s Fashion consignment store that evening.  We also had the opportunity to open our “Language Centre” where community facilitators (translators) are available for any parent or guardian to assist with the discussion time with teachers.  We also debuted our “Language Ambassadors” at our interviews, who are students representing 5 different languages, also available to assist with families.

“Women’s Day” Event

Attention Mothers:  Join us for  "Women’s Day, Inspire…Encourage...Engage!", to be held at the Albion-Heatherington Recreation Centre, 1560 Heatherington Road.  Come and learn about community resources and agencies which support families in your area.

Thursday, March 5, 2015 from 11:30 am – 2:00 pm.   

Free childcare on site and free lunch.  

RSVP: Euphrasie 613-737-5115 ext 2409

Grade 9 Parent Night

On February 25th from 6:30 to 7:30, parents and guardians of students in grade 8 are welcome to join the staff at St. Patrick’s High School for an informative session regarding what to expect as students transition to grade 9.  Students have been given a great deal of information regarding course selection and what to expect at the high school, however, this is an opportunity for parents to ask questions.  Hope to see many of you there!

Coming up . . .

March 3rd @ 7:00 pm - School Council meeting at St. Patrick’s Intermediate

Have a great week;

Sean Kelly