Sacred Heart Elementary School
24 Kerwood Place, Brampton, ON, L6Z 1Y1
905-846-0802 Fax 905—846-9465
Principal: M. Boss
Superintendent: D. Finegan-Downey
Secretary: L. Maramieri
Trustee: D. D’Souza
Pastor: Fr. John Nosan
Farewell to Superintendent Denise Oude-Reimerink
Over the past year we have been blessed to have Superintendent Denise OudeReimerink as a partner in learning at Sacred Heart in the Brampton North-East
Family of Schools. She has been actively involved in the wonderful learning that
our students engage in. Recently Mrs. Oude-Reimerink, who has been a great
supporter of Catholic education for many years with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic
School Board, announced her retirement. We wish her all the best and God’s
blessing in this new phase of her life journey.
Welcome Deb Finegan-Downey, Superintendent of Brampton North East
As of February 1, 2016, we excitedly give a big welcome to our new Superintendent Deb Finegan-Downey. Ms. Finegan-Downey has left her position as Assistant Superintendent of Program at the board and has joined the Brampton
North East Family of Schools as Superintendent. Ms. Finegan-Downey will be
“coming home” to Brampton where she spent the majority of her teaching career and where her family has called “home” for generations. We look forward
to working with Superintendent Finegan-Downey.
February 3 - National Walk to School Day
Pope Francis’ latest Encyclical on the environment invites us to be ‘Stewards of
the Earth’. The National Walk to School Day on February 3 provides an
opportunity to reduce gas emissions and answer our Catholic call to care for
God’s Creation. Traffic congestion continues to be a concern in many of our
schools; health and safety of our students are paramount concerns in these
times. Dufferin-Peel has worked with a variety of community partners, such as
Peel Regional Police, Peel School Board, Peel Health and Bike Brampton, to promote walking and biking to school with continued momentum. The benefits of
walking and physical activity are positively linked to physical and mental health
as well as academic performance.
2015-16 School Year Calendar Additional Professional Activity Day: Monday,
April 11, 2016: 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.
In the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, the designated additional
Professional Activity Day has been scheduled for 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.
The Virtue for February is Respect
February 2016 Newsletter
Issue: 6
DO IT ANYWAY
People are often unreasonable,
illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind,
people may accuse you of selfish,
ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful,
you will win some false friends
and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness,
people may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got
anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them
anyway.
Mother Teresa
P. A. Day
Friday, February 5
Please visit our school website
www.dpcdsb.org/heart regularly
for information regarding school
and community events!
DATES TO REMEMBER
Feb 2 Term 1 Report Cards home
Feb 4 Parent/Teacher Interviews
Feb 5 PA Day
Feb 9 School Council Meeting 7PM
Feb 10 Ash Wednesday Liturgy 9AM
Feb 15 Family Day
Feb 19 Dairy Educator Visit
Feb 23 Lent Mass 1PM
Mar 2 Poetry Slam
Mar 8 School Council Meeting 7PM
Mar 14-18 Mid-Winter Break
Safety and Security in the School: The safety and security of all children in
our care is one of our prime concerns. In order to ensure this, we are asking all
visitors to the school, including parents, to come directly to the office when
you arrive. If a student arrives at school during morning announcements they
are late and must sign in at the office. Any student leaving the school during
the day must be signed out at the office. Please send a note in this regard to
your child’s teacher. Please remember that to other children you are a
stranger! Thank you for your cooperation.
Lent 2016 Wednesday, February 10th to Thursday March 24th
Lent is a period of forty days during the church’s liturgical year. It begins on
Ash Wednesday and ends during Holy Week. It is time for us to turn away from
sin – to have a change of heart – as we prepare for the joyous feast of Easter.
It is a time for prayer, penance, sacrifice and works of charity for others. As
new life comes to the world each spring, Lent offers renewal of life that comes
when we pray and try harder to follow Jesus. We will be distributing ashes to
the students after our Ash Wednesday celebration at the school – 9 am.
Mar 25 Good Friday
Mar 28 Easter Monday
Mar 31 Gr 4/5 & 5/6 Silvercreek Trip
Apr 4-6 Gr 8 Camp Muskoka Trip
Apr 11 PA Day
Apr 15 Confirmation Practice 10AM
April 19 Gr 7 & 8 Confirmation 7PM
May 2-6 Catholic Education Week
May 3 Welcome to Kindergarten
May 7 First Eucharist 10AM
May 10 School Council Meeting 7PM
May 11 Dental Screening JK/SK/2
May 13 PA Day
May 23 Victoria Day
May 25-Jun 8 EQAO
Jun 7 School Council Meeting 7PM
Jun 13 PA Day
Jun 22 Year End Mass
Jun 28 Term 2 Report Cards home
Jun 30 Last Day of School
Students should come to school ready to participate in all activities, including
outdoor recess. Please ensure that your children are dressed warmly: wearing
insulated boots, winter weight coats, mittens, hats, scarves, etc. Please label
all articles of clothing for easy identification. Students will have recesses outdoors with the following exceptions only. Outdoor recess time will be reduced
when the temperature is -20 degrees Celsius or colder, including wind chill,
and children will be kept indoors when the temperature is -25 degrees Celsius
or colder, including wind chill. As well, all students should have indoor footwear at school. This is very important in case of an emergency evacuation. Students will not have time to put on their boots.
MINIMIZING CLASS DISRUPTIONS
The instructional day begins promptly following morning announcements. To
not miss valuable instructional time, students should arrive at school before
8:45 and not be picked up until 3:15, if possible.
By trying not to disturb classes, except in very important situations, we reduce
disruptions to quality teaching and learning time. We understand that there
are times when disruptions will be unavoidable. Then, we ask the following;
 If you wish to discuss something with your child’s teacher, we ask that you
set up an appointment with the teacher. Approaching the teacher before,
during and/or after school makes it difficult for the teacher to focus on
her/his students. This also becomes a safety issue. Please leave a message
and the teacher will call you back.
 Send a note to the teacher when your child needs to be picked up early.
Identify who will pick them up and then meet them in the office to sign
them out.
 If delivering lunches to your child at school, write your child’s and the
teacher’s names on the lunch bags and leave them on the lunch table in
the front hall. Please ensure that lunch is there by 12:20pm.
We appreciate your continued support in minimizing disruptions to classes,
whenever possible.