St. Patrick’s Blog

Week of September 23^rd , 2013

            It was with heavy hearts that we discussed the Barrhaven bus accident with our students last week.  We prayed for the victims of the tragic accident during Friday morning prayer and hoped for strength for those family members left behind.  We continue to keep these individuals in our prayers and we lowered our flag to half-staff last week as a reminder.

I would like to thank our parents and guardians and other members of our St. Patrick’s community for joining us at our Meet the Teacher evening last week.  We were able to share some of the great things that are going on at the school to this point, and our Teachers were able to discuss their classroom approach with you.  We also raised over $600 for our Terry Fox donation through our silent auction.  Special thanks to Mrs. Corriveau who organized this event.  I would also like to thank the board sponsored translators that were with us to make communicating between our parents and teachers more convenient for some.

            We continue to encourage our community to sponsor St. Patrick’s Intermediate through our “Adopt a School” partnership with the Chapters/Indigo store on Rideau St. at the Rideau Centre downtown.  You can adopt the school at: http://adoptaschool.indigo.ca/eng/schools/314.  In addition, any donations made at the store until October 5^th go directly to our school to support the purchase of resources for our students. We are hoping to have some students involved in a musical presentation at the store on Saturday, October 28th.

            At our Meet the Teacher we spoke of the opportunity of offering after school literacy and numeracy classes for students.  Additional information will be communicated with you once we have established our course timelines.  The sessions would be free to students, although transportation would be the responsibility of the parent/guardian.

            I continue to encourage our parent community to keep up with the goings on at St. Patrick by following us through social media:

School webpage: spe.ocsb.ca

Email: Patrick.intermediate@ocsb.ca

Twitter: @stpatsint

This Blog: stpatsint@blogspot.ca

            Know that our webpage and this blog can be instantly translated into various languages by a push of a button. 

Have a great week.

Sean Kelly