January 2016 - St. Luke Elementary, Downeyville

ST. LUKE CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JANUARY 2016 NEWSLETTER
335 St. Luke’s Rd
Lindsay, ON K9V 4R5
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PRINCIPAL
Stephen O’Sullivan
PARISH PRIEST
Father Andrew
Broda
DIRECTOR
OF EDUCATION
Barbara
McMorrow
SUPERINTENDENT
Anne Marie
Duncan
TRUSTEE
Chairperson
Michelle Griepsma
CATHOLIC
SCHOOL
COUNCIL
CHAIRS
Amanda O’Neill
Carrie Connell
Board Office
1-800-461-8009
Imparting
the
Spirit
Through
Education
Happy New Year to All!
We are blessed with Christ’s Generosity.
The fruit of Generosity enables us to live and practice the art of giving; of ones time,
one’s energy , and one’s love.
Prayer of Generosity—Saint Ignatius Of Loyola
Eternal Word, only begotten Son of God,
Teach me true generosity.
Teach me serve you as you deserve.
To give without counting the cost,
To fight heedless of wounds,
To labour without seeking rest,
To sacrifice myself without thought of any reward
Save the knowledge that I have done your will.
Amen
Pope Francis Announces Jubilee Year of Mercy
“Dear
brothers and sisters, I have often thought of how the
Church may render more clear her mission to be a witness to
mercy; and we have to make this journey. It is a journey which begins with spiritual conversion. Therefore, I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God. It will be a Holy Year of Mercy. We want to live in the light of the
word of the Lord: “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful” (cf. Lk 6:36). And this especially applies to confessors! So much mercy!
This Holy Year will commence on the next Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception and
will conclude on Sunday, 20 November 2016, the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King
of the Universe and living face of the Father's mercy. I entrust the organization of this Jubilee to the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, in order that it may
come to life as a new step on the Church’s journey in her mission to bring the Gospel of
mercy to each person.
I am confident that the whole Church, which is in such need of mercy for we are sinners,
will be able to find in this Jubilee the joy of rediscovering and rendering fruitful God’s mercy, with which we are all called to give comfort to every man and every woman of our
time. Do not forget that God forgives all, and God forgives always. Let us never tire of asking forgiveness. our journey: our penitential journey, our year-long journey with an open
heart, to receive the indulgence of God, to receive the mercy of God.” Pope Francis
ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION
THROUGH LEARNING, LEADERSHIP, AND SERVICE.
Dates to
Remember
Next School
Council Meeting
January 21
6:30 p.m.
SCHOOL MASS
We will celebrate a school Advent Mass on Friday, January 8th, at 9:00 am in St. Luke’s
Church. Everyone is welcome!
Hot Lunch Days
Volleyball
Tournament
January 29
January 13th Grilled Cheese / Milk
January 20th Pizza / Milk
Basketball
April 18, 2016
January 23rd Chicken Wrap / Milk
Confirmation
April 20, 2016
Catholic School Council
January 19th @ 6:30 pm
First Communion
Sunday, May 1
Junior Soccer
June 9, 2016
St. Thomas parents night
January 21 7-8:30 pm
Track and Field
June 17, 2016
Merit Awards @ 9am
“ Sports Day”
January 29
Graduation
Thursday,
June 23, 2016
February:
Kindergarten Registrations February 8th—12th, 2016
PD day February 5th
TRANSPORTATION AND SCHOOL BUS
CANCELLATION INFORMATION.
All students and parents must know their bus route number. If you are unsure of the bus
number or bus company, call the office. Then keep it posted in a handy location. Our students
transportation is maintained by the Trillium Lakelands District School Board Transportation
department at 705-324-6776.
Bus Cancellation: In the event of school bus service
cancellations, the following stations should broadcast
notifications: BOB FM 91.9, CBC 98.7, Country 105 FM, EZ Rock
105.9 FM, The Wolf 101.5 FM.
Also check out the Trillium Bus Website at
www.mybustoschool.ca choose delays and cancellations top
Parents can subscribe to
receive late, delayed, and cancelled school bus information. Go
to mybustoschool.ca then : Delays and cancellations to register.
right of the page.
STC Bus Company 705-743-0166
582
586
584
587
585
588
CALL-A-CAB (Donnelly) 705-745-2424
484
485
Fruits Of The
Holy Spirit
September
Faithfulness
October
Charity
November
Peace
December
Patience
January
Generosity
February
Kindness
March
Self Control
Kawartha Lakes Bus Lines 705-324-8882
583
MERIT ASSEMBLIES
Celebration assemblies will be held each month throughout
the
year. These are opportunities for our school community to gather and recognize individual and group
accomplishments. Please check the monthly calendar, and join us if you are able. Our next merit assembly will be on Friday January 29th, 2016 @ 9am
ILLNESS
If your child is sick, please do not send him/her to school. Our expectation is that all children will be
outside for recess times, and if your child is unable to go outside, they should remain at home until they
have recovered sufficiently to enjoy the outdoors.
COLD WEATHER
With the days of decreasing sunlight come temperatures that require
extra clothing. Students will need to come to school prepared with warm
coats, hats, mitts and boots. Please ensure that they are dressed
appropriately for the conditions outside and please ensure younger
students clothing has their name on it.
April
Joy
May
Gentleness
June
Modesty
July
Chastity
August
Goodness
News from Student Council
We hope everyone enjoyed the many activities in our Christmas Spirit Week, from the
festive fashion, decorated doors and special treat deliveries from little elves.
SPORTS JERSEY DAY
Our spirit activities continue in the new year. On the day of the Merit Awards Assembly,
show your pride in your favourite sport or sports team by wearing their colours, hats,
shirts or team jersey! There may be more sports information on way as Mr. O’Sullivan
and some students organize some intramural activities in the upcoming weeks.
BOOK DRIVE
If you have donations of gently used books, please send them in this month. We will be
having a “Book sale: later in the term, with proceeds going to support Abush Michael,
who is our sponsored student in Africa. Unsold books will be donated to a local organization.
Mental Health Moment
Do you know the difference between your child’s stress behaviour and misbehaviour?
Stress behaviour happens when your child’s alarm system in their brain is activated.
Stress behaviour can look like: aggression, shouting, crankiness, argumentativeness, uncooperativeness or withdrawing. Often times,
we respond to these stress behaviours with punishment and consequences or shouting of our own. The science of self-regulation tells
us that what we really need to do when children are exhibiting stress
behaviour is to soothe before discipline. When we soothe by modeling calmness through our tone of voice and body language, we help
the child’s thinking brain and empath response come back online!
http://www.self-reg.ca/resources-and-services/parents-and-families/
Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace. Pope Francis
PARISH REFUGEE COMMITTEE UPDATE
In a few short weeks, St. Luke's Parish, school and community has
responded to the Pope's call for help for Syrian refugees in a
tremendous way. The St. Luke's Parish Refugee Committee is pleased
to announce we have collected over $29,000 to help bring a family to
Canada. Very soon, we will be welcoming Imad and Nerveen as well as
their two children Abdullah aged 11 and Siena aged 9 to our
community! Thank you for your support and response to the crisis in
Syria in such an overwhelming way! We are truly blessed to have the
support of such an amazing
community.
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
Anne Frank
Milk Bags
Currently St. Martins Catholic
Elementary School in Ennismore is collecting Milk bags to braid together and create
mats. These mats are then shipped to the
third world countries for people there to
sleep on.
We like to ask you ,to please send in your
milk bags so we can forward them to St.
Martins as they continue with this wonderMusic Notes from Ms. Sims:
Welcome to our New Year that will be filled with music at our
school. The Grade 2/3, 3/4 and 4/5 classes will be playing the recorder and the 6/7 and 7/8 classes will be playing the ukulele.
Our youngest students will continue to learn new songs and learn
about rhythm, beat, tempo and dynamics. Our
Choir welcomes 5 new students. It will be an exciting new year!
January 2016
St. Luke Catholic Elementary School
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Dec 27
Dec 28
Dec 29
Dec 30
Dec 31
1
Happy New
Year
2
3
4
Welcome
Back
To School
5
Rosary Apostol
6
7
8
School Mass
9:00 a.m.
9
10
11
12
13
Grilled Cheese
Hot Lunch
14
15
16
23
STA Visit Gr 8 @
10:30
Boys Volleyball
St. Dominic’s @
St. Luke’s
17 .
18
19
Catholic
School
Council 6:30
pm
20
Pizza Lunch
Boys Volleyball
St. Mary’s @
St. Luke’s
21
CSC Mtg.
St. Thomas
Parents night
7-8:30 pm
22
24
25
26
27
Chicken Wrap
28
29
30
“Sports Day
Merit awards
9am
Learning Visit
Volleyball @
St. Thomas—
pm
31
Feb 1
Alternate Volley
Ball date
Feb 2
Rosary Apostol
Staff Meeting
Groundhog Day
Feb 3
Feb 4
Board Volleyball
Feb 5
PD Day
Feb6
Bus Cancellation Radio Stations
BOB FM 91.9, CBC 98.7, Country 105 FM, EZ Rock 105.9 FM, The Wolf 101.5 FM.
Also check out the Trillium Bus Website at www.mybustoschool.ca
choose delays and cancellations top right of the page. Parents can subscribe to receive late, delayed, and cancelled school bus information. Go to mybustoschool.ca. Delays and cancellations to register.
For the newsletter, please check out our school website. www.stluke.pvnccdsb.on.ca
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