The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board
St. Simon Stock School
6440 Lisgar Drive Mississauga, Ontario L5N 6X3
Telephone: 905-785-7434
Principal
S. Wolf
Secretary
A. Mancini
Superintendent
Mississauga
North
Family of
Schools
T. Cruz
905-890-1221
Trustee Ward 9
E. O’Toole
905-812-5163
YMCA
905-824-3692
St. Josephine
Bakhita Parish
Pastor Rev. Mark
AchilliesVillanueva
3600 Forest Bluff Cres.
Miss. ,ON L5N 7W2
tel: (289) 997-2105
fax: (289) 997-2104
e-mail:
bakhita@rogers.com
website:
www.stjosephinebak
hita.org
All masses are held
at St. Joan of Arc
Secondary School
Sat. 5:00 pm.
Sun. 9:00,11:00 am
12:30 pm
Weekdays
Mon., Tues.,7:00 pm
Lenten
Reflection
Good and Gracious God,
You call your people to
You this Lent
May this sacred season
renew our desire
to live fully the promises
of our baptism
and to love You with a
whole heart.
Through more frequent
prayer,
acts of charity and
fasting,
may we remember that
loving You
and one another
is the most important
thing we can do.
In confidence, we ask
these things
through Jesus Christ
Our Risen Lord and
Savior.
Amen
Virtue of the Month – Respect
Lent is the 40 day period of fasting, penitence,
and sorrow, leading up to the feast of Easter,
recalling Jesus' 40-day fast in the wilderness.
Lent begins with Ash Wednesday.
Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the ritual of
shriving, when the faithful confessed their sins
to the local priest and received forgiveness
before the Lenten season began. As far back as
1000 AD, "to shrive" meant to hear confessions.
Historically, Shrove Tuesday also marked the
beginning of the 40-day Lenten fasting period
when the faithful were forbidden by the
church to consume meat, butter, eggs or milk.
However, if a family had a store of these foods
they all would go bad by the time the fast
ended on Easter Sunday. What to do? Solution:
use up the milk, butter and eggs no later than
Shrove Tuesday. And so, with the addition of a
little flour, the solution quickly presented itself
in... pancakes.
Reporting to Parents
Friday, February 5, 2016 is a Professional
Activity Day for teachers, therefore there will
be no school for students that day. Teachers
will be involved in interviews with parents and
reporting the progress of student achievement
throughout the day.
Statutory Holiday - Family Day
This statutory holiday has been
implemented by the Provincial
Government. There will be no school on
Monday, February 15, 2016. We hope
everyone enjoys this day with family!
Catholic School Council
Our next Catholic School Council meeting will
take place on Tuesday, February 9th at 6:30
p.m. All are welcome to attend!
Transportation Cancellations/School
Closures 2015/2016
During the winter months inclement weather
may cause disruption of bus transportation
and regular school operations. A decision to
cancel school transportation and/or to close
schools is usually made by 6:00 a.m.
Please listen for DUFFERIN-PEEL
CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
cancellations or closures.
Announcements are made on the following
radio and television stations:
CKFM – 99.9 FM
CHIN – 100.7 FM, 1540 AM
CHUM – 1050 AM
CJCL – 590 AM
CFTR - 680 AM
CHFI – 98.1 FM
JACKFM – 92.5 FM
CBC – 740 AM
CIAO – 530 AM
GLOBAL NEWS
CITYPULSE
CFNY – 102.1 FM
CFRB – 1010 AM
DC103FM
CHAY – 93 FM
Q107 – 107.1 FM
CJMR – 1250 AM
TALK640 – 640 AM
CHEZ ZP7.3
CJBC (Fr.) 86
CTV
CANADA AM
Please note that Dufferin-Peel bus cancellation
notices for Dufferin County do not apply to St.
Simon Stock School as we are located in the Region
of Peel.
First Reconciliation
The grade 2 students will be receiving the
sacrament of Reconciliation on Thursday,
February 25, 9:00 a.m., at Merciful Redeemer
Parish. All families are welcome to attend.
We continue to ask that students dress
appropriately for the weather so they are better
prepared to participate in outdoor activities
during recess. We often receive requests to
allow children to remain indoors when
students have a cold, flu, etc. Please note that
we cannot comply, as we neither have the
facilities or the staff to supervise the students.
Science Presentations
Every class at St. Simon Stock School will have
an opportunity to participate in a science
workshop through “Scientists in the School”.
These workshops will reinforce the science
curriculum through hands on presentations
and experiments. A special thank you to the
Catholic School Council who support this
initiative and help provide the funds to make it
happen.
Simon Stock School on Feb. 24th to celebrate
Pink Shirt Day. This year we have had
speakers in to speak to our intermediate
students on bullying as well as had the Peel
Police Youth Officer discuss bullying and
inclusion in all classrooms.
Each February, Canadians are invited to
participate in Black History Month. Festivities
and events honour the legacy of Canadians of
African and Caribbean descent, past and
present. St. Simon Stock School is proud to join
in the celebration. A few of our activities will
include:
 Black History Assembly
 book displays, novel studies, discussion
groups in class
 prayers read by our Youth
Ambassadors, focusing on social justice
and equality
On extremely cold days, when the wind chill
factor lowers temperature considerably we will
limit the amount of time that students spend
outdoors. The Dufferin Peel C.D.S.B. Policy uses
a wind chill factor of –25 C as the determining
temperature for having students remain inside. We
will monitor the weather conditions daily and
make decisions based on hourly updated
weather conditions.
Syrian Refugees
Bullying Prevention Initiatives
St. Simon Stock students continue to
participate in anti-bullying presentations and
activities this year. On January 28, 2016 we
hosted The Freeze out Bullying Presentation.
This presentation had freestyle soccer athletes
emphasizing the importance of speaking up,
being inclusive, demonstrating respect,
showing empathy and their experiences
involving cyber bullying and social media.
Members of the student leadership team,
under the direction of Mrs. La Croix, our Child
& Youth Worker, will be organizing an
assembly for the students of St.
Thank you to parents who participated in our
VIP seating contest during the Christmas
Concert. We donated $440.00 to CNEWA
Canada a papal agency for humanitarian and
pastoral support who are assisting the Syrian
Refugees here in Canada.
National Sweater Day
On Thursday, February 4, St. Simon Stock
School staff and students will be putting on a
sweater in honour of World Wildlife Fund’s
(WWF) National Sweater Day. Everyone is
encouraged to wear their favourite sweater.
Fitness Day
On February 22 students in FDK through grade
5 will participate in Circuit training sessions in
order to learn proper fitness techniques, realize
that an active lifestyle can be fun and provide
ideas to bring home for continued fitness.
Thank you to fit2touch fitness who will also be
hosting a family fitness night on April 4th in
our gym. More details will follow.
Dates to Remember
Feb. 2
Report Cards sent home
Feb. 3
Pizza Day
Feb. 4
Parent Teacher Interview Night
P.A. Day Reporting to Parents
Feb. 5
No school for students
Feb. 10
Ash Wednesday Liturgy 1:00 p.m.
Feb. 10
Sub Day
Feb. 12
Black History Presentation
Terms of the recent contract settlement
between the teacher federations and the
Ministry of Education included the provision
of an additional Professional Activity Day for
the 2015-2016 school year for both elementary
and secondary schools. Recently, boards were
directed to schedule this additional
Professional Development Day on or before
April 15, 2016.
Feb. 15
Family Day
Feb. 17
Pizza Day
Feb. 22
Fitness Day at Stock
Feb. 24
Pink Shirt Assembly
Feb. 24
Sub Day
Feb. 25
First Reconciliation
In the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School
Board, the designated additional Professional
Activity Day has been scheduled for Monday,
April 11, 2016.
Feb. 26
Virtue Assembly
2015-16 School Year Calendar
Additional Professional Activity Day:
Monday, April 11, 2016
Therefore, there will be no classes for either
elementary or secondary students on
Monday, April 11, 2016.
Thank you for your attention to this addition to
the 2015-16 School Year Calendar.
Mar. 14 - 18 March Break