Dufferin-Peel
CDSB
MERICI
MESSAGES
April 2016
April 2016
Principal:
S. Wilson
Vice Principal:
M. Vitale
O Risen Lord, the way, the truth
and the life, make us faithful
followers of the spirit of your
resurrection. Grant that we may
be inwardly renewed; dying to
ourselves in order that you may
live in us. May our lives serve
as signs of the transforming
power of your love. Use us as
your instruments for the
renewal of society, bring your
life and love to all and leading
them to your Church. This we
ask of you, Lord Jesus,
living and reigning with the
Father, in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, God forever.
Head Secretary: S. Di Bello
Assist. Secretary: M. Gallant
Trustee:
D. D’Souza
Superintendent:
S. Steer
(905) 890-0708
Parish: Guardian Angels
(905) 970-9175
Amen
www.guardianangelsparish.com
Pastor: Fr. Jan Gogolewski
guardianangels@bell.net
During the month of April, we celebrate
the Virtue of Love. Love can be seen in
the simplest acts of kindness, such as
sharing a book, playing a game or even
by saying, ―Thank you. Love is about
seeing the good in people. We remember
that Jesus’ most important message to
us is the message of love. God wants us
to serve and to see the goodness in
everyone we meet.
School Hours:
8:30
8:45
10:51
11:46
12:06
12:46
2:09
3:15
Supervision in Yard
Entry Bell
Morning Recess
Lunch
Lunch Recess
Afternoon Bell
Afternoon Recess
Dismissal
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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
EASTER MASS
Dear Parents,
Happy Easter Everyone! I hope each one of you have
enjoyed a very blessed Easter and had an opportunity to
come together in faith and prayer.
During Holy Week, our gym was transformed into a
prayerful and sacred space. Classrooms were invited to visit
the gym and pray the Stations of the Cross.
As we continue to celebrate the Easter season and spread the
Good News, we look forward to celebrating the Sacrament
of First Eucharist with our Grade 2 students and the
Sacrament of Confirmation with our Grade 7 & 8 students.
This year is a particularly exciting year, since our students
will be celebrating these blessed sacraments at Guardian
Angels Parish Hall.. Please remember these students in your
prayers as they continue to prepare for this joyful celebration
and time of spiritual growth and renewal. May God bless our
students as they continue to grow in their faith.
In celebration of the Easter season, I would like to invite all
of you to join us in song and prayer on Friday April 15th for
our Easter Mass at 9:30 am in the gym.
On behalf of all the staff at St. Angela Merici School, we
would like to wish all our families a safe, healthy, and
blessed Easter season!
S. Wilson
Principal
M. Vitale
Vice Principal
PARISH NEWS
GUARDIAN ANGELS PARISH
10630 Creditview Road, Brampton
Saturday evenings: 5:00 pm
Sunday mornings: 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m.
and 12 noon.
Weekdays: 7:30 am
Phone: (905)-970-9175
Fax: (905)-970-1054
guardianangels@bell.net
Our Pastor is Father Jan Gogolewski
Please join us as we celebrate our EASTER
MASS on Friday April 15 at 9:30 a.m. in the
gymnasium.
ST.
ANGELA
CATHOLIC
ST.
ANGELAMERICI
MERICI CATHOLIC
SCHOOLCOUNCIL
SCHOOL COUNCIL
Wednesday April 13, 2016
@ 6:30 pm in the Library
All meetings are open to community members.
Please join us.
TRAFFIC SAFETY
Safety First when dropping students off
at school
The safety of all children and staff must be
considered as paramount at all times when
dropping students off at school. The number of
serious incidents related to traffic circulation at
the front of the school and in the Kiss and Ride
area during morning arrival and afternoon
dismissal has risen. These incidents include
vehicles entering the site in the wrong direction,
parking and pulling out of no parking zones,
parking in bus lanes, to name a few. It is
imperative that all parents and guardians who
drive their children to school adhere to the traffic
circulation plan and comply with the traffic and
parking signage on the site. It is equally
imperative that all drivers follow the direction of
staff managing the traffic circulation on the
school site. Thank you for your consideration
and co-operation with this important matter.
SCHOOL YARD SUPERVISION
WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN NIGHT!
A reminder to both parents and students that yard
supervision does not begin until 8:30 a.m.
ARE YOU PLANNING TO MOVE?
We are in the process of planning for the staffing and
organization of classes for the 2016-2017 school year.
If you are planning to move out of the St. Angela Merici
School area please let the office know. This will be of
great assistance to us, as we make plans for the
coming school year. The office staff will be able to
provide you with student transfer forms upon request.
REMINDER: CLASS ORGANIZATION
FOR 2016-2017
St. Angela Merici staff will soon be involved in a series
of meetings to discuss the placement of your child for
September 2016. We discuss each child on the basis
of academic, social/emotional needs and decide on the
class placement which will best meet these needs.
Parents who wish to provide educational reasons to
assist staff in their decisions may submit their views in
writing to the principal no later than May 6th. Parents
are asked to include the strengths and needs of your
child along with a description of his/her learning style.
When the class lists are completed, the principal will
review them, making any changes if deemed
necessary, and then finalize these lists.
Placement requests made after this date will be
considered but may not be able to be accommodated.
No changes can be made after the end of June.
Our Welcome to Kindergarten session is
scheduled for Thursday April 21st from 6:007:30 p.m. This session is intended for parents /
guardians and their pre-kindergarten children
who will be attending junior kindergarten in
September 2016. This initiative will provide
preschool children and their families with the
resources and experiences to support early
learning and a smooth transition to formal
education. Please RSVP your attendance at
905-840-1505.
CATHOLIC EDUCATION WEEK
MAY 2-6, 2016
Each year, the Catholic community of Ontario
engages in a week-long celebration of the
unique identity and distinctive contributions of
Catholic education during Catholic Education
Week.
This year’s Catholic Education Week celebrates
our schools with the theme:
Catholic Education: Opening Doors Of
Mercy
***A school flyer will be sent home shortly
indicating St. Angela Merici’s 2016 plans for
Catholic Education Week.
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maintains and reviews the immunization records
of all students. Please look for notification in the
mail and respond to the request appropriately.
EQAO Primary and Junior Assessments
Each student in Grades 3 and 6 in Ontario will be
assessed in Reading, Writing and Math for a period of
3 days beginning M a y 2 5 t o J u n e 8 , 2 0 1 6.
Kindly avoid booking dental, doctor and other
appointments during this period. If you have a child in
either grade 3 or 6 you will receive specific
communication and information regarding the
Provincial Assessment just prior to the start of the
testing.
On Friday, April 8, 2016 our Youth Faith
Leaders along with Mrs. Riverso-Correia and
Mrs. Avellino, will be participating in the
Brampton Northwest Connects “Week of Pink –
Be Inclusive!” event at Cassie Campbell. Many
fun-filled events and activities have been planned
to celebrate the Day of Pink which includes the
themes of Diversity, Inclusivity and Respect.
Week of Pink – April 12h-15th, 2016
ECO-SCHOOL UPDATE
We have had a very busy month in March here at St.
Angela Merici School! On March 10th, students from
FDK to grade 8 participated in the Great Big Crunch
where each student and staff received an apple to
crunch in. On March 23rd our whole school community
also participated in “The Great Gulp”, by organizing a
school-wide, synchronized drink of tap water. The
event, along with additional tap water activities, creates
a memorable learning experience where students have
the opportunity to learn about tap water in Peel.
We celebrated Earth Hour on Wednesday, March 30th,
2016. Students and staff participated in a “lights out
campaign” where the challenge is to keep their
classroom lights off for an hour a day. On Friday, April
22nd we will also be celebrating Earth Day where we
will be promoting all students to bring in a “litter less”
lunch.
April 13th, 2016 marks the International Day of
Pink. It is a day where communities across the
country, and across the world, can unite in
celebrating diversity and raising awareness to
stop all forms of bullying.
We ask all staff and students to join in the
week’s events to promote inclusivity!
Below is a list of events that will be taking place
during the Week of Pink:
Monday, April
11h
Tuesday, April
12th
Wednesday,
April 13th
Region of Peel- Immunization
Reminder
The Region of Peel has mailed out letters regarding
outstanding immunizations. Peel Public Health
Thursday, April
14th
PD Day – No school
Wear two different shoes to
school to show what it means to
walk in “someone else’s
shoes”.
DAY OF PINK! Wear
everything you’ve got that is
pink and a crazy hair style to
promote individuality. The
school community will gather
on this day for a moment of
silence for all victims of
bullying near and far.
Wear your shirt backwards to
school! This will show that you
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Friday, April
15th
have someone’s back – you’re
never alone.
Wear your pajamas to school
today – so we can put bullying
to rest!
Remember, A Pink Shirt Doesn’t Stop Bullying –
You Do!
Come on Wildcats, let’s show the community that St.
Angela Merici students will not tolerate bullying!!
ICE HOCKEY NEWS
Congratulations to the Wildcats ice hockey team who
represented St. Angela Merici School well Friday,
April 1st at the Powerade Centre. They won the
Brampton Beast Hockey Tournament and a banner
for our school. A huge thank you to Mr. McPhee for
coaching and for your time and dedication to the
team. Way to go Wildcats!
Historical Understanding of Key
Issues Related to Catholic Education
On April 8th, all staff and students are asked to wear an
International t-shirt or jersey to support the different
cultures in our school.
TWITTER
Please follow Mme Turner-Daigle on Twitter at:
MmeDaigle@Merici@DaigleMme
CHOIR CORNER
On Friday April 1st, the St. Angela Merici Choir sang the
Canadian and American National Anthems at the Brampton
Beast Hockey game. Congratulations to all of the choir
members who worked so hard to make this event a success.
Go Choircats!! We would like to extend a big thank you to
all of the families who came out to support our school and
show their school spirit.
13. How did Catholic high schools survive?
Catholic parents and students paid tuition after grade
ten. Parental groups raised money from draws,
lotteries and school events. Parish priests contributed
money from their Sunday collections. Many separate
school boards, including Dufferin-Peel, opened
intermediate-division (i.e. grades seven-to-ten)
schools. With the vital assistance of religious
teaching Orders (which taught in and administered
grades eleven to thirteen for little or nothing), the
diocese continued to operate private Catholic high
schools and opened new ones. In fact, Philip Pocock,
the Archbishop of Toronto, decided in 1971 to open
one new Catholic high in the archdiocese every year
until the government approved tax and grant funding
for grades eleven to thirteen.
14. How was the Catholic high school issue
resolved?
In 1984, Premier William Davis, edified by the
commitment to Catholic high schools of the Catholic
community and convinced of the injustice of
truncated separate schools, announced that the
government would be completing the separate school
system to the end of high school. The Supreme Court
of Canada unanimously responded to a court
challenge against the ensuing legislation by asserting
that separate schools before Confederation were
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operating secondary school education with funding from
taxes and government grants and, therefore, section 92(1) of
the Canadian Constitution guaranteed the right of separate
school boards to administer from junior kindergarten to the
end of high school. After almost sixty years of financial
sacrifice by the Catholic community, Catholic high schools
once more became an equal partner in Ontario’s publicly
funded school system.
15. Catholic separate schools had a second obstacle to
their survival. How serious a problem for separate school
boards was the corporation tax issue?
This was very serious. As corporations like the Ford Motor
Co., Inco, the Royal Bank of Canada and thousands of others
came on the scene, and as public utilities like the Ontario
Hydro and the Canadian National Railway were created,
they could not pay separate school property taxes. Thus the
assessment of urban public school boards became wealthier
and wealthier, while separate school boards received taxes
from only Catholic home and property owners and from
fully or partially owned small businesses. By the 1920s
urban separate school boards were operating with about onequarter to one-fifth of the revenues of their urban public
schools boards. There were no compensatory government
grants.
16. How did separate school boards survive without
corporation tax revenues?
The separate school trustees controlled the boards’ budgets
with more pupils per classroom than in the public schools,
with much lower wages, with bare-bones programs, with
small playgrounds, and with minimum expenditures for the
erection of new schools. These methods still could not
balance their budgets. The main contribution for the
survival of separate schools came from the religious teaching
Orders. They supplied principals and teachers and worked
for salaries of $300 to $600 a year when public teachers
were earning $3,000 and up. There is no question that
Ontario’s Catholics owe today’s separate schools to the
religious Orders.
7th
Grade 7 & 8 Confirmation – 7:00 p.m.
@ Guardian Angels Parish Hall
8th
Heritage/Multicultural Jersey/T-shirt
Day
10th
Grade 2 First Communion – 3:00 p.m.
@ Guardian Angels Parish Hall
11th
PD Day – no classes for students
12th – 15th Week of Pink
13th
Day of Pink (Wear Pink)
13th
School Council Meeting @ 6:30 p.m.
15th
Easter Mass @ 9:30 a.m.
19th
Dance Team Event @ Rose Theatre
21st
Welcome to Kindergarten evening:
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
25th
Dental Screening: JK, SK, Grade 2
26th – 29th Grade 8 in Quebec
MAY
2nd – 6th
Catholic Education Week
6th
Crowning of Mary
18th
School Council Meeting @ 6:30
p.m.
25th
EQAO begins
APRIL
1st
1st
Hockey Tournament @ Powerade
Centre
Reconciliation – Grades 2, 7, 8 @ 9:30 a.m.
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