OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC
SCHOOL
25 Mount Royal Circle
Brampton, Ont. L6P 1W3
Newsletter #6
Phone (905) 913-1703
FAX (905) 913-2918
February 2012
Principal
Sonia Rotino
FATHER,
BLESS THE LOVE THAT BRINGS
PEOPLE TOGETHER
AND GROWS EVER STRONGER
IN OUR HEARTS.
MAY ALL THE MESSAGES
THAT CARRY THE NAME
OF YOUR HOLY BISHOP
VALENTINE, BE SENT IN GOOD
JOY AND RECEIVED IN
DELIGHT.
WE ASK THIS IN THE NAME OF
JESUS OUR LORD.
AMEN.
Prayer During Black History Month
Dear God,
You have done such a marvellous job
of creating us and the world around us.
You have placed this creation,
including all the people we meet, in our
care. We come to you now asking for
the grace and strength to be accepting
of others. We admit that we can never
fully know your plan for the people
around us. Grant us the strength to
admit that our role is to invite others to
participate in your saving plan and
then to accept the choices that they
make in their own lives!
We ask this in the name of Jesus, our
brother. Amen
God has given us the gifts of friends
and companions to keep us company
and to help us out along the way. Every
person in our lives carries the Spirit of
God—and so every person is our
brother or sister through Jesus Christ.
As brothers and sisters who share one
Holy Spirit, we are all valuable to God.
We all deserve to be shown courtesy,
consideration, sensitivity and
thoughtfulness, which are all different
ways of showing respect.
Respect should come first and foremost
from ourselves. We have to respect our
selves and then we will be able to
respect others. We should also be able
to expect to be treated with respect by
everyone we meet—our brothers and
sister in Jesus.
Goodbye and thank you to Miss Trentin
who leaves us on February 3 and
welcome to Mr. Rodda, a teacher from
Australia on exchange assignment who
will take her place.
Secretary
Mary Doria
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Superintendent
Alex Tucciarone
Trustee
Scott McLauchlan
Parish Priest
Father Papais
www.connect2ENDviolence.ca
http://www.dpcdsb.org/LOURD
We keep Ms. Rennick in our prayers and
thank Mrs. De berardinis for covering her
class until February 3.
OUR LADY OF LOURDES’
SCHOOL BLESSING
Our Lady of Lourdes’ official
school blessing will be held
Thursday, February 23, 2012
at 7:00 p.m. If you plan to
attend the blessing, please
respond to the school office by February
16, 2012. Seating is limited in the
gymnasium.
PARENT COUNCIL
MEETING
Thursday, March 8 at
7:00 p.m.
*Please note the
change of date*
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Sacrament of First Reconciliation
OUR LADY OF LOURDES
Our Grade 2 students will be celebrating
their First Reconciliation at the Service of
Light at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February
29, 2012 at St. Patrick’s Church.
LUNCH AND TREAT DAYS
Pizza days are on Wednesdays
February 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29.
Sacrament of First Holy Communion
First Holy Communion for the grade 2
students will be celebrated on Sunday, April 15, 2012
at 2:00 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Church. Families must be
registered at St. Patrick’s Church in order for their child
to receive their First Holy Communion.
Sacrament of Confirmation
All pizza lunches have been pre-ordered with the forms
provided at the beginning of this term.
Treat Days will be offered on Fridays and
we will be selling From Farm to Table
popcorn and Terra Cotta cookies for $1.00 each
The grade 8 students will be receiving the sacrament of
Confirmation on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at St. Patrick’s
Church starting at 7:00 p.m.
Lunch Lady days are on Mondays
February 6, 13, 20 and 27
UNDERSTANDING KEY ISSUES IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION
What sacrifices did Catholics have to make to send
their children to separate schools?
Because the United legislature of Canada East and
Canada West roughly had consisted of members
advocating non-denominational common schools and
half were in favour of them, separate school
legislation, for about fifteen years, contained four
obstacles to their existence:
Catholics could establish and support a separate
school, but had to continue paying common school
taxes. Thus, they paid tuition for their children in the
separate school.
The separate school had no permanence of existence.
If the local common school board hired a Catholic as
one if its teachers, then the separate school ceased to
exist. Separate schools kept opening and closing in
the early years.
In the cities the separate school board required the
permission of the common school board to open a
new or an additional separate school. Sometimes the
permission was not forthcoming.
The legislation required twelve Catholic families to be
resident within a city, town or township common
school section. The townships’ common school
sections were so small that often there were not
twelve resident Catholic families.
FRENCH IMMERSION
Senior Kindergarten parents/guardians, who wish to
enroll their child in a Grade 1 French Immersion class
for September, 2012 are reminded to submit their
applications at Our Lady of Providence by 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012.
REPORTING - INTERVIEWS
The Student-Parent-Teacher Interview is designed to
complement the Ontario Report Card by enabling
parents to communicate with teachers, to offer useful
information, and to ask relevant questions about their
child’s progress in order to support their child’s learning.
A formal written report was sent home on Tuesday,
January 31, 2012. Interviews will be held during the
evening on Thursday, February 2 and during the day of
Friday, February 3 or at other times by mutual
agreement.
JOIN OUR TEAM!
Ontario EcoSchools is an
environmental education program that
helps students develop both ecological
literacy and environmental practices to
become environmentally responsible
citizens.
We will be having Litterless Lunch Tuesdays this
month. A Litterless Lunch is one where there is no litter
created at the end. Students and staff are asked to
bring their lunch in reusable containers and any waste
should be taken home for reuse or recycling. Please
help us support this initiative.
EXTENDED FRENCH INFORMATION MEETING
Grade 4 parent(s)/guardian(s), who wish to enroll their
child in a Grade 5 Extended French class for
September, 2012 are reminded to submit their
applications to St. Jean Brébeuf, 63 Glenforest Road,
Brampton, L6S 1L8 by 3:00 p.m. Wednesday,
February 8, 2012.
Newsletter #6
FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION FOR
2012-2013
Registration for Full-Day Kindergarten for the 2012-13
school year will take place at Our Lady of Lourdes on
the following days:
Monday, February 6, 2012*
7:00-9:00 p.m.
*Snow Date: Tues., February 7, 2012 - 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Wed., Thurs. & Fri., February 8, 9 & 10, 2012
9:00-11:00 a.m. and 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Junior Kindergarten - Children must be 4 years old by
December 31, 2012
Senior Kindergarten - Children must be 5 years old by
December 31, 2012
For more information, contact the school office at
(905-913-1703) or visit our school website.
PENNY DRIVE
Bring in your pennies! We will be collecting pennies
during Lent (February 22 to April 5) to raise funds for the
statue in our Peace Garden. Lets see who can bring in
the most pennies, girls, boys or staff members!
Spirit Week is coming during the first week of March!
Stay tuned for the details!
Wear your Our Lady of Lourdes Spirit Wear
every Friday!
OUR LADY OF LOURDES
DANCE-A-THON
Our Lady of Lourdes will be
hosting a Dance-a-thon on
Tuesday, February 14,
2012. Each student
received a pledge form on
Friday, January 27, 2012.
Students are asked to find sponsors who are friends,
relative or neighbours whom they know. In order to
participate in the Dance-a-thon, a minimum $5.00
pledge is requested. Twenty gift cards, worth $25 each,
will be available for student prizes. Please return all
pledge forms no later than Friday, February 10, 2012.
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LIBRARY UPDATE
February is a busy month in the
library. Our students are involved
in the Forest of Reading program
which brings an excellent selection
of recent Canadian children’s books
to the attention of Ontario children.
Students from Kindergarten to grade 3 are reading the
Blue Spruce selections, grades 4 to 6 are reading
Silver Birch and grades 7 and 8 are reading selections
from Red Maple. The program rewards them by
making them the judges in a province wide event. In
late April, our groups will be participating with over
80,000 children across the province in voting for their
favourite book. Junior and Intermediate students have
been given the opportunity to join a lunchtime book
club.
P.A. DAY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Interviews will be held during the
evening of February 2nd and during the
day on February 3rd or at other times
by mutual agreement. Interviews for
grade 7 and 8 students were held on the evenings of
January 31 and February 1.
There will be no classes for students on this day.
MITTENS, SCARVES AND HATS
We will be collecting new mittens,
hats and scarves this month for
Regeneration Outreach.
Regeneration Outreach has been
called to bring healing, personal
growth and spiritual awareness to marginalized youth
and adults, all within a safe and caring environment.
Please send in new mittens, scarves and hats during the
month of January. Thank you in advance for your
generosity.
For further information, please see:
http://www.regenbrampton.com/#/contact-us
DROPPING OFF YOUR CHILD
Parents please remember that the front
driveway entrance by the office if NOT to
be used to drop off or pick up students.
Students are not to be entering the school
by the front door unless they are being
dropped off late. Please do not park your
car in the Kiss and Ride lane. Thank you
for following these steps to ensure the
safety and supervision of all our students.
February 2012
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1
2
3
4
Pizza Day
Groundhog Day
Parent-teacher
Interviews
Parent—teacher
Interview Evening
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Brampton Clean City
Waste Audit,
Pizza Day
Dental Screening,
Grade 2 students
Treat Day
Our Lady of
Lourdes Feast
Day
JK/SK Registration
7-9 pm
12
19
26
PA Day—no
school for students
Snow date for JK/SK
registration 7-9 pm
13
14
15
Lunch Lady
Dance-a-thon
CWL Public Speaking
Contest at St.
Patrick’s School
Pizza Day
20
21
22
Family Day,
No school for
students
Shrove Tuesday
Ash Wednesday,
Para liturgy in gym,
1:30 pm
27
28
Lunch Lady
29
Pizza Day
In school Speech
Competition
16
17
Quiznos lunch
23
24
School Blessing
Treat Day
25
Quiznos lunch
The Virtue for
Pizza Day
February is
RESPECT
April 6
March
18
Treat Day
Virtues Assembly 1:45,
Grade 2 Reconciliation
at St. Patrick, 7pm
Upcoming Events:
Quiznos lunch
Good Friday
9
Easter Monday
15
First Holy Communion, St. Patrick’s Church
11
P.A. Day
5—9
Spirit Week
8
Parent School Council Meeting, 7:00 pm
12—16
March Break
23
Victoria Day
22
Easter Food Drive begins
29
28
Lockdown Drill
Sacrament of Confirmation, St. Patrick’s
Church
May