St. Patrick's Blog Week of Oct. 5-9

Opening Mass

A big thank you to Fr. Greg, Mr. Kozak, and our many student volunteers for participating in our first school mass of the year.  Fr. Greg spoke to the students about exercising discipline in order to avoid sinful situations. Mary Reilly led the singing and did a great job with the music.  We appreciate Fr. Greg taking the time to celebrate mass with us.

Terry Fox Run - Thursday, October 9th

We have been encouraging students to assist with fundraising for our Terry Fox run this coming Thursday.  In order to support our fundraising activities, we have put a number of incentives in place to get students to enlist help from friends and family.  Our goal this year is $5000. This is a great community building activity that goes to a very worthy cause.  

School Council Update

We had our first School Council meeting on Monday. I would like to congratulate all members of our School Council, being: Mr. Cees Artz (chair), Ms. Glynis Hughes (vice-chair), Mr. Dejan Roganovic (treasurer), Ms. Dayna Helmer (secretary), Ms. Sherisse Al Sabeh (CSPA rep), Ms. Sandra Cunningham (parent rep), Mr. Sam Al Sabeh (parent rep), Ms. Lisa Wilson (community rep), and Ms. Tilly Corriveau (School Rep). Our next meeting is Tuesday, October 27 at 7 p.m. in our Learning Commons.

A reminder that CSPA is putting on an event entitled The Gift of Reading with educator David Bouchard on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. at St. Pat's High School. Please access this link for more information:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByrlYMrTjslHVTl6NXRFazZZWS1hbWlMRXB3ODY0MTBEOUNZ

Professional Development Day on Friday

Just a reminder that this coming Friday there is no school for students as staff will be taking part in Christian Community Day at the Shaw Centre. This day is always productive as we learn of overall Board-wide goals and set direction to meet those goals.

In some ways, I cannot believe we are into October already. I'd like to thank our entire community for their ongoing support and wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving weekend.

Don Murphy

Principal