May 2016
Sun
1
Catholic
Education
Week
Opening
Doors of
Mon
2
Tue
3
Catholic
Catholic
Education Week
Peel Police—
Community Safety Presentation
Education Week
Mr. Sub
Wed
4
Catholic
Education Week
Jump Rope for
Heart—Kick off
Assembly
Mercy
8
9
10
School Council
Meeting at
6:30PM
Grade 7/8 Confirmation at
7:00PM at
d’Youville Parish
11 HEP B /
HPV Vaccinations
Mr. Sub
15
ST. JOHN BOSCO
SCHOOL
Thu
Fri
5
6
Catholic
Catholic
Education
Week
Education Week
Sat
May Celebration—Rosary
Apostolate
Family Fun
Night—6:308:30PM
Pizza Day
FDK—Mother’s
Day Tea
12
13
Welcome
to Kindergarten
P.D. Day
14
A May Blessing,
in Honour of Mary
16
17
18
19
20
Intermediate
Quebec Trip
Intermediate Quebec
Trip
Intermediate
Quebec Trip
Intermediate Quebec
Trip
Intermediate
Quebec Trip
21
And guided us on our journey.
In song and prayer this month.
We turn to you for protection,
Holy Mother of God.
23
24
25
26
27
Victoria
Day—No
School
EQAO
EQAO
EQAO
EQAO
Pizza Day
Jump Rope
for Heart
30
31
EQAO
EQAO
Mr. Sub
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Mr. Sub
Upcoming Events
May 13
May 23
May 25-June 8
June 1
June 2
June 13
June 22
Lord God, you have given us
life
Be with us as we honour Mary
Mr. Sub
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The Virtue of the Month
Pizza Day
Begins
PD Day—no school
Victoria Day—no school
EQAO
Year End Mass at 10:00AM
Year End BBQ 5:30-7:30PM
PD Day
Grade 8 Graduation
Phone ((905) 792-0890
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Pizza Day
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Brampton, Ontario
1025 North Park Drive
The Virtue for May is
Acceptance
Listen to our prayers
And help us in our needs.
Save us from every danger,
Glorious and Blessed Virgin.
Amen
The virtue of Acceptance
means we accept ourselves
and others just the way we are.
God created all of us in His image, and God does not make
mistakes. Being a part of
God’s family means that we
love and welcome everyone
just the way Jesus did. Sometimes we find ourselves in situations where it is easier to follow the crowd than to stand up
for what we know is right.
However, Jesus wants us to
accept everyone even when it
is hard.
FAX (905) 792-1299
May 2016
Principal
C. Young
Secretary
M. Barbe
~
Superintendent
D. Finegan-Downey
(905) 890-1221
Trustee
S. Xaviour
Parish Priest
Fr. Robert Mignella
(905) 792-7497
Visit our School Website:
www.dpcdsb.org/BOSCO
www.connect2ENDviolence.ca
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Permission to Leave School
Newsletter #8
In order to ensure the safety of
all students, we need to know
their whereabouts at all times.
Students who stay for lunch are
not permitted to leave the property unless they have a dated,
signed note, informing their
teacher that they have
parent/guardian permission to
leave the property. Students
must be signed out if they are
leaving the school for any reason
and receive an admit slip upon
their arrival/return to school. It
is important to continue to remind students about traffic
safety and safe crossing practices. To ensure their safety, we
encourage our students to cross
the street using the Crossing
Guards, and/or at stop signed or
stop light corners. Helping to
keep our children safe is a priority at St. John Bosco Catholic
Elementary School.
Grade Eight Graduation
The grade 8 graduation ceremonies will
take place on
Wednesday, June
22nd at 7:00 p.m. at
St. John Bosco
School. The Graduation Mass will
take place the same day at 10:00 AM
at St. Marguerite d’Youville Parish
followed by a luncheon and dance.
Further details will be provided to
the Grade 8 parents in the near future
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Secondary Summer School
Grades 9 to 12
July 4 - July 29, 2016
Walk-in Registration 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
July 4
Full Courses and Credit Recovery Alternative Summer
Program
Bussing provided from pick-up points in Bolton and
Orangeville
Deadline for applications: May 30, 2016
8 Locations
Father Michael Goetz St. Joseph Secondary
Loyola
St. Marcellinus
St. Edmund Campion
St. Marguerite d’Youville
St. Joan of Arc
St. Thomas Aquinas
http://www.dpcdsb.org/CEC/Programs/Summer
+Learning/Secondary+Summer+School.htm
Contact Adult and Continuing Education for more details: 905-891-9263
Summer Literacy Camp
Grades SK to 6
Remedial Literacy Program
July 11 - July 29, 2016
3 week program
Fee-for-service
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Students recommended by the Principal
No transportation provided.
Deadline for applications: May 27, 2016
BOLTON
St. Nicholas
vaux
BRAMPTON
Siena
Lester B. Pearson
St. Angela Merici
St. Jean-Marie Vianney
Venerable Michael J. McGivney
MISSISSAUGA
Father Daniel Zanon
St. Bernard ClairSt. Catherine of
St. Gregory
St. John of the Cross
St. Louis
St. Pio of Pietrelcina
Contact Adult and Continuing Education for more details: 905891-9263
Elementary Summer School
Grade 7 and 8 students
Remedial literacy and numeracy
July 4 – July 22, 2016
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Students recommended by the Principal
Busing provided at home school pick up points
Deadline for applications: May 27, 2016
Over exposure to the sun can cause skin
damage. Please remind your children to take
precautions to protect their skin during outdoor activities on Spring and Summer days.
The following are some suggestions to help
protect the skin:
Wear protective clothing to cover the skin.
Wear a hat to protect both eyes and skin.
When possible, stay out of direct sunlight,
especially during the mid-day hours.
BOLTON / CALEDON
St. Cornelius
St. John the Baptist
St. Peter
BRAMPTON
Father C.W. Sullivan
Good Shepherd
St. Ursula
MISSISSAUGA
Holy Cross
St. Faustina
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Gertrude
St. Philip
Contact Adult and Continuing Education for more details: 905-891-9263
ADULT PROGRAMS
ESL
CITIZENSHIP
FSL
ADULT CO-OP
COMPUTER CLASSES
COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNTING
http://www.dpcdsb.org/CEC/Programs/Adult+Education/
ESL Non-Credit
Open to ESL DPCDSB High School Students only
Grades 9 to 12
Contact Brunella Trinca for additional information
905-891-9263 ext. 37988
brunella.trinca@dpcdsb.org
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Keep Our School Safe & Secure
We ask that our parents and visitors to the school enter through
the front door ONLY and receive
a visitor pass from the office. All
exterior doors are kept locked
during school hours for the safety of our students. Please do not
ask students or staff to open
doors from other locations in the
building to drop lunches, visit
classrooms, etc. We thank you in
advance for following this important school safety rule.
In May, the Ontario Education Quality and
Accountability Office (EQAO) will conduct
its annual province-wide testing of
knowledge and skills in reading, writing and
mathematics of grade 3 and 6 students
throughout the publicly funded school systems. The tests for Grade 3 students and
for Grade 6 students will take place between May 25th and June 8th. Parents and
guardians are encouraged to avoid scheduling any doctor’s appointments or any other
appointments that would take your child
out of school during the testing dates.
P.D. Days—May 13, 2016
and June 13 , 2016
Please mark May 13th and
June 13th, 2016 in your calendar as a P.A. day. There is
no school for your child(ren)
on these days.
GRADE 3 and 6 Writing Dates
May 26, 2016
Grade 6
May 30, 2016
Grade 3 and 6
May 31, 2016
Grade 3 and 6
June 2, 2016
Grade 3
There may be the need to do some changes of writing days in some classes. These
changes will be indicated by the individual
classroom teachers.
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LOST AND FOUND
Many items have been placed
in the lost and found bins.
If your child has misplaced an
item, please remind them to
check the lost and found bins.
Any Lost and Found items remaining
at school at the end of June will be
donated to a local charity.
Year End
Mass
June 1, 2016 at 10:00
All parents are welcome to
attend.
Dress Code
Family Fun:
Getting Active
Together
Join us for a fun night of activities and
games in the gym. Challenge your
kids! Try to beat your parents!
Thursday, May 5 from 6:30 - 8:00 pm
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With the warm weather approaching, we
would again like to take this opportunity to
review the dress code expectations at St.
John Bosco.
As a Catholic school, we believe that there
must be a commitment to high standards of
modesty, neatness, cleanliness and good
taste. Therefore, while halter-tops, short
shorts, muscle shirts, and similar clothing
may be acceptable for beach wear, they are
not appropriate for classroom instruction.
Shirts should be of appropriate length. No
midriffs or belly buttons should be showing.
Shorts and skirts should be the appropriate
length for school (e.g., longer than the length
of your arm and hand when held at the side
of your body). Suggestive or inappropriate
language or violent symbols are not permitted
on any clothing or personal belongings. Sunglasses, hats, (including bandanas worn as
head covering) are not to be worn inside the
school. Non-marking running shoes are to be
worn during physical education classes.
Summer Literacy Camp
Summer Literacy Camp is a THREE WEEK program.
Begins the second week of July and runs from July
11th‐29th
Half‐day program – 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday to Friday
The registration fee is $300 per child
For SK to Grade 6 students
Principal recommendation is required for students to
be invited to register.
The program is best suited to serve the needs of students who meet the following criteria:
Student performance is at Level 1 or 2 of the Provincial
Curriculum in Reading and Writing
Instructional level is not more than one year below age
appropriate grade level
Report Cards are Legal
Documents
Often times, parents are
asked to share a legal document verifying information
about their child’s attendance in school for the purposes of immigration, child
tax credits, citizenship, etc. Parents are
reminded that your child’s Report Cards
are legal documents which can be used
for these purposes. Please remember to
keep your child’s report cards as you may
require them for the future.
If ELL, the student performs at ELL Stage 2 or higher
Please see additional information included in the newsletter.
Students Moving Schools and Transfer
Slips
8:30a.m.—12:30p.m.
Students who are moving to another
school will require a Transfer Slip. Parents
will be asked to provide the name of the
new school if known and the Transfer slip
will go home with the student when
ready.
Students recommended by Principal
Advance Notice Please...
Buses provided at home school points
The processing of Transfer Slips, reports
and copies of other documents may take
a few days and we ask that parents take
this into consideration and provide advance notice when requesting any documents from the
office. We thank
you in advance
for your cooperation.
Grade 7/8 Summer School
Remedial Literacy and Numeracy
July 4th– July 22nd, 2016
Deadline for Applications: May 27, 2016
Site for St. John Bosco is Good Shepherd
Elementary School
Contact Adult and Continuing Ed. for
more details 905 891– 9263
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ARE YOU TICKED?
Make Sure Your
School
Support Des.
ignation is English
Separate (Catholic)
It’s a powerful message in support of Catholic education
When you designate yourself as
an English Separate school supporter, you help foster a strong
political voice, through your elected representative (Trustee), in
ensuring your rights to a Catholic
education for the young people in
our province.
To verify that you are registered
as an English Separate school
supporter:
Check the assessment section of
your Tax Bill or Property Assessment Notice.
We can help you register or
change your direction of school
support. Contact the Admissions
Department at 905-890-0708 ext.
24512. For more information, visit
www.dpcdsb.org
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Extra Clothing at School
With the rainy season upon us,
there are puddles and
mud in the schoolyard
where children can
get wet socks and
clothing. Our school
approach is to contact
parents to bring dry
clothing when needed. This is often
inconvenient for parents. Therefore
may we suggest that you place an
extra pair of socks and track pants
in your child’s backpack in the event
that a change of clothing is necessary.
SAFETY NOTICE SEWER
DANGERS
Parents and guardians are reminded to educate their children of the dangers of playing
near access covers, inlets and/or outlets, including the following points:
- water flows in storm sewers and watercourses are unpredictable and may change
quickly;
- toxic gases may be present;
- tragic falls could take place;
- access is restricted, and therefore, rescue
attempts are difficult.
For more information, please contact the City
of Brampton Works & Transportation Department at 905-874-2503.
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ARE YOU PLANNING TO MOVE OR
CHANGE YOUR CONTACT PHONE
NUMBERS?
If you are planning to move out of
the St. John Bosco Catholic School
area, or changing addresses within
our area, please let the office know
as soon as possible. Also, it is imperative that
you keep us informed about
changes to your
place of work
and emergency
contact phone
numbers. In the
event of an
emergency, our
records need to
be up-to-date
so that we are able to contact you.
VICTORIA
DAY
Monday May
23rd, 2016
There will be
no school for
students.
On-Line Reporting Tool
The Dufferin‐Peel Catholic District School board has developed
a new way to help nurture a safe,
caring and inclusive school
environment. The Online Reporting Tool is intended for students in grades 3 – 8 who become aware of bullying incidents
and negative behaviours. The
student can simply ‘click’ on the
link found on our school’s website to fill out the report. The
report will then be directly
emailed to the principal to be
dealt with accordingly. It is important to recognize that the
Online Reporting Tool is an alternate reporting option. It is best
practice to speak directly with a
responsible adult at home and/or
in the school.
MOVING
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YEAR END BBQ
June 2,
2016
5:30-7:30PM
The Catholic School
Council of St. John Bosco
School is pleased to invite
you to join us for our
YEAR END BBQ in celebration of a wonderful
school year.
More information and order forms will be sent
home shortly.
The Rosary Apostolate
at
.
St. John Bosco Catholic
Elementary
School
Invites you to
our…
MAY
CELEBRATION!
Friday May 6, 2016
We will be presenting the story of
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
followed by prayer and a special
Coronation of Our Lady!
JK- Grade 3: 9:00 a.m.
Grades 4-8: 10:30 a.m.
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MEDICATION &
EPI PENS
If a child is required to bring
.
medication to
school, procedures
relative to the administration of
medication shall only be adopted:
when requested by the parents/guardians;
when authorized by a physician;
and when medication must be provided during school
If medication is required at school,
signed request / authorization forms
from the parents/guardians and the
supervising physician is initiated.
These forms are available through
the school office. The required authorization forms and the medication
shall be delivered to the principal or
designated person by the parents/guardians or other responsible
person. All medication with the exception of EPI-pens will be housed in
a safe location. Medication must NOT
be kept in the child’s possession (i.e.
pocket, backpack, etc.) or in the
classroom.
WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN
EVENING - May 12th at 6:30 PM
On the evening of May 12th at 6:30
p.m., all parents whose children are
entering Junior Kindergarten are welcome to come out and experience kindergarten routines, instructional techniques, pre-school ideas. Our kindergarten team welcomes you and your
JK child out to a night of family learning!!!!
Volunteers
Volunteers working in the school and supervising any school trips MUST have a valid Criminal Background Check. The original must be brought to the main office for
verification and photocopying by office
staff. A copy will be kept on file at the
school and the original returned to you.
Application forms for Criminal Background
Checks can be obtained through the school
office. Volunteers must complete the application and take to the police station for
processing.