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435 Rutherford Rd North
Brampton, ON L6V 3V9
Telephone: 905.453.4472
Principal:
A. Alonzi-Peever
Vice-Principal
K. Barton
Head Secretary:
April Prayer
D. Brunetti
Secretary:
"Time for joy and time for giving
Time for remembering
Love while living.
Y. McCutcheon
Superintendent:
Take this message Easter Day
Show kindness, care
At home and play.
A. Tucciarone
Trustee:
It's in our very acts of giving
Easter's joy
Makes life worth living.
A. Da Silva
Pastor:
Fr. Damien
Children round the globe now hear
Keep Easter
In your heart all year.
Associate Pastor:
Fr. Kim
“The resurrection gives my
life meaning and direction
and the opportunity to start
over no matter what my circumstance.”
—Robert Flatt
May joy and love spread land to
land
Linked heart to heart
And hand to hand!"
Author Unknown
“Through A
Celebration Of
Our Faith All Who
Enter Our School
Virtue of the Month: Love
May Grow
Together As A
Christian
Community”
This month we celebrate the Virtue of
Love
A Loving Person:
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Wants the best for others
Is willing to make sacrifices for the good of others
Learns from the heroic lives of saints and holy people
Knows that we are all lovable
Prays for others
ST. JOACHIM WEBSITE
I will not bully others
I will not stand by while others are bullied
I will report bullying when I see it
Because I have the Power of One!
DANCEATHON
Thank you to all the families in the St. Joachim
community who helped make our Danceathon
so successful. We were able to profit just under $5000 for literacy room materials, gym
equipment and other materials to support the
school.
Thank you to our top winners from each division who won a Bramalea City Center gift certificate:
Primary
Junior
Intermediate
E. DeGrout
J. Kao
J. Nguyen
The following classes also got a free pizza
party for raising the most money in their division.
Primary
Ms. Rado
Junior
Ms. Procaccini
Intermediate
Mrs. Box Hodgins
Thank you to everyone for their support!
SCHOOL COUNCIL
The School Advisory Council will be meeting
on April 6th in the school library at 7:00 p.m.
All are invited to attend.
On April 4th to April 15, the parent council is
organizing a Read-a-thon to encourage our
students to read daily. Part of the proceeds
will be donated to support literacy in a school
in the far north in Canada. Information from
your parent council will be forthcoming.
Please visit our school website at
www.dpcdsb.org/JOACH We have listed upcoming events, school information, school
hours, newsletters and links to other websites
you may find helpful.
BRAMPTON SAFETY
St. Joachim recently was inspected by the
Brampton Safety Council. We were asked to
reinforce once again through the school newsletter some of our safety rules for students and
parents. Please go over the following with
your child:
 Parents and children must listen to the direction given to them by the teachers outside on duty, this is for the safety of everyone
 Please continue to use the crossing guard at
the intersection of Rutherford Road and
Winterfold Drive—do not cross at the
Beckers, this is very dangerous and students have narrowly missed being hit by a
car
 Cars should not be parked on Rutherford
Road when picking up or dropping off students—please use the Kiss and Ride access, or park on a neighbouring street and
walk with your child
 We encourage parents to drop their child
off at 8:45am to 8:50am in the morning as
the volume is much less. Most of the congestion occurs at 9:00am.
 Please do not PARK and leave your car in
the Kiss and Ride lanes.
 Do not park in our Fire Routes, especially
in front of the school. Do not use the Bus/
Fire Route as a Kiss and Ride.
Thank you to everyone for your patience and
understanding.
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concerned with cross-contamination which
may occur if a child eats, for example, peanuts
and then touches a book, chair, desk etc that
may be touched by the child with the allergy.
St. Joachim would appreciate the co-operation
of the entire school community in NOT sending any lunches or snacks that contain peanut,
nuts, shellfish or any other life threatening allergens which could potentially harm a child.
Instead of bringing in food for birthdays or
special occasions, we encourage parents to
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
bring in non-edible treats such as stickers,
Let us continue to pray, share, fast and forgive
erasers, pencils, and dollar store items. Studuring this Lenten season.
dents with anaphylactic allergies are encouraged to bring in their own treats for special oc1. Jesus is condemned to death
casions. We look forward to your understand2. Jesus accepts his cross
ing and co-operation in making our school safe
3. Jesus falls for the first time
for all students.
4. Jesus meets his sorrowful mother
5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry his
MOVING
cross
If you are moving between now and September
6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
2011 and your children are not returning to our
7. Jesus falls for the second time
8. Jesus meets and speaks to the women of school next year, we would appreciate knowing that information as soon as possible. The
Jerusalem
information is crucial in planning our classes
9. Jesus falls for the third time
for the next school year. Please contact the
10. Jesus is stripped of his garments
school secretary.
11. Jesus is nailed to the cross
12. Jesus dies on the cross
13. Jesus is taken from the cross
14. Jesus is placed in the tomb
ANAPHYLAXIS POLICY
REMINDER
The staff at St. Joachim has been inserviced
around the emergency procedures in dealing
with an anaphylactic reaction. There are a
number of students in our school who have
serious, and in some cases, life threatening allergies. Even the mere exposure to these products may cause severe allergic reactions, that
could potentially result in death. While these
students may not be in your child’s class, or
eat in the area your child eats, we are most
EQAO
EQAO for all grade three and grade six students will take place for this year during the
period starting Monday May 30th to Friday
June 10th. We kindly ask that parents refrain
from booking appointments or holidays during
this time. Parents may visit the EQAO website at www.eqao.com for many resources and
useful information regarding EQAO, including
sample tests from last year. French Immersion  Each school day a teacher presents new
grade 3 students will be writing the test in Engmaterial and builds on work given the prelish for reading and writing, and in French for
vious day. When students return from an
Math.
absence they must catch up which can be
Parents may visit the EQAO website at
difficult for students who are not strong
www.eqao.com for many resources and useindependent workers. Even strong students
ful information regarding EQAO, including
find it difficult to do their best when there
sample tests from last year.
are gaps in their knowledge
For French Immersion:
 Insist that the kids leave the house in time
to arrive at school at least five or ten minThere is a glossary of terms from the EQAO
site: http://www.eqao.com/pdf_e/10/
utes before the bell. The time spent in the
FrenchImmersionGlossary36ef_2010.pdf
school yard before school is a transition
And Math booklets and sample student retime that allows your child to reconnect
sponses: http://www.eqao.com/Educators/
with classmates and to refocus on school
Elementary/036/BookletsandGuides.aspx?
issues. Lining up to enter the school with
Lang=E&gr=036&yr=04
the rest of class allows your child to become part of the group and ease into the
Grade 4 and 5 students will be participating in
a questionnaire designed to give our teachers
routines of school.
useful data to improve instruction.
 Arriving to school on time makes a difference. Your children learn the importance
of punctuality from the example you set.
 The first few minutes in the classroom are
critical. During these minutes the teacher
deals with important messages, dates, and
opening lessons.
 As parents, you have many responsibilities
toward your child. One is the ensure your
child is in school every day, ready to learn.
In fact, it is the law. The Provincial EducaATTENDANCE AND LATES
tion Act states that every child between the
Why is it important for my child to be in
ages of 6 and 18 is required to attend.
school every day?
school every day from September to June
 The habit of non-attendance established in
 Parents and the school can work together
elementary school typically continues into
to keep kids in school. One of the most
secondary school. By the time your child
important first steps is for parents to beis in high school, he or she will have more
come aware of the dangers that school abindependence and you will have less influsenteeism poses to a child’s success in
ence. Begin now to set the standard that
school and later in life
every school day is compulsory, even on
 When students miss school, they fall bedays your child is not ready for a test, or is
hind. When your child comes home from
tired. Consider too, the messages you send
school after an absence and tells you they
about your own attitudes toward missing
didn’t miss anything, remember, they were
work or using sick days
away and can’t begin to know what they
 If you are thinking of taking your child out
missed during the hours the class was toof school for a week or more, reconsider.
gether.
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Most children cannot afford to miss a week They will also receive early learning and literor more of class work.
acy resources for their child to use at home.
All new Kindergartens and parents are invited
to attend.
MEDICATIONS AT SCHOOL
In order for the school to store and/or administer medications to students, your doctor must
complete a form provided by the school.
Students are not allowed to have medication of
any kind at school, unless it is stored in the office. This includes a puffer for asthma. Please
come to the office to pick up a form before
seeing your doctor.
PARKING ON SCHOOL PROPERTY
Recently, we have been experiencing an increased volume of cars that are parking after
hours in the school parking lot. We respectfully remind you that the school lots are private property and any cars who are parked in
the lot overnight or during the day, without the
DUFFERIN PEEL ADULT AND school’s permission, will receive a parking
CONTINUING EDUCATION CO-OP ticket and be towed. We thank all our
neighbours for your cooperation in this matter.
PROGRAMS
For more information please call us at:
905-891-3934 (Mississauga)
905-362-0701 (Malton) or
www.dpcdsb.org/coopcentre
Co-Op Office Skills Program
Co-op Foreign Trained Professionals
Program
 On-going adult registrations
 In class and field placement components
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Life Long Learning!
JK PARENT CHILD ORIENTATATION EVENING
New students and parents of Junior Kindergarten will be having a Parent/Child Orientation
evening on Thursday May 26th. It will take
place in the gymnasium from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.
During the evening parents will have the opportunity to learn useful strategies to help their
child prepare for entering Junior Kindergarten.
CLASS LISTS FOR SEPTEMBER
Staff will soon be meeting to organize class
lists for September 2011. If there are any special learning needs your child has that you feel
we should know when making up classes,
please do so in writing to Mrs.Alonzi-Peever
by May 6th. Letters that list a request for a
specific teacher will not be considered.
Please limit comments to specific learning
styles and environment preferred. All staff
work hard to balance class lists by abilities,
gender and learning style. Please bear in mind
that small primary classes (max 20) often result in combined classes throughout the school.
These are a fact of life that children will have
to experience from time to time.
Requests for students not to be placed in a
combined grade will not be considered.
BECKER’S STORE
Just a reminder to parents that it is our school
policy that students are not allowed to go to
Becker’s before school, at lunch time nor
after school. The students are not supervised
there, and many problems have occurred in
the past with other students at this time. Students should not be going to Becker’s unless
accompanied by their parent and under their
supervision. Thank you for supporting, and
taking the time to explain our school policy
with your child.
(1867) (now entitled either the Constitution
Act or the Canada Act), have on separate
schools?
2.
When the Fathers of Confederation came from
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Canada East, and
Canada West to meet in Charlottetown and Quebec, they quickly concluded, in the words of one
of the Fathers, Sir Charles Tupper, that “Without
this guarantee for the rights of minorities being
embodied in that new constitution, we should
have been unable to obtain any Confederation
whatever.”
CROSSING GUARD
Our crossing guard is located in front of our
school at the lights. Please remind your children to use the crossing guard to cross the
street. Students are not allowed to cross the
road elsewhere, especially in front of Beckers. Let’s work together to keep our students
safe.
2. What guarantee for separate schools does
the Canadian Constitution still contain?
In 1867 the Fathers of Confederation made section 93(1) part of the Constitution. It states:
Nothing in any such [provincial legislative] Law
shall prejudicially affect any Right or Privilege with
respect to Denominational Schools which any
CATHOLIC EDUCATION WEEK
Although every day is a celebration of Catho- Class of Persons [i.e. separate school supporters]
lic Education, our Catholic Education Week is have by Law in the Province at the Union.
May 2—6, 2011. Our theme this year is Celebrating the Spirt. Please join us if you can for 3. Exactly what separate school rights does
our Mother Mary Liturgy on May 2nd at 1:15 section 93(1) guarantee?
pm. Thank you for supporting Catholic EduSection 93(1) protects all the provisions of the last
cation.
Come Holy Spirit,
Fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them, the fire of your love.
Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created.
And you shall renew the face of the earth.
Holy Spirit, protect us and bless us this year as
we live in your love.
Amen.
OUR CATHOLIC SCHOOL
HERITAGE (SOME QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
FOR YOUR INFORMATION)
1. What effect did the Canadian Constitution,
create in the British North America Act
separate school legislation passed before Confederation, the Separate School (Scott) Act of 1863.
Among others, the Act provided the following
rights:
to form a separate school board with five or
more Catholic heads of family resident in
a public school jurisdiction;
to receive government grants equitable with
those of the public school system;
to receive equitable funding;
to have separate school boundaries enlarged;
to elect separate school trustees with all the
powers of public school trustees.
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4. Once section 93(1) was enacted, why did Ontario’s separate school supporters continue to
suffer financial hardship?
The Separate School (Scott) Act of 1863 did not
anticipate the creation and/or growth of corporations and public utilities in Ontario, or the creation
of public high schools. These two omissions
caused over 100 years of financial hardship and
inequity for separate school supporters.
5. Why did Catholic parents and students have
to pay tuition to attend a Catholic high school
after grade ten?
In 1871 the Ontario government passed an Act to
Improve the Common Schools and Grammar
Schools of Ontario. This Act abolished common
and grammar schools and created public schools
for grades one to ten and high schools for grades
nine to thirteen. The highest official with the Department of Education, Egerton Ryerson, commented that the 1871 Act did not affect separate
schools. The separate school boards operating
secondary school classes carried on, receiving
funding from grants and taxes. However, early in
the twentieth century the government passed legislation which forbade a separate school board from
offering education beyond grade ten if its boundaries fell partially or fully within the boundaries of a
high school district. Thus, all but one separate
school board (in Dublin) lost their ability to receive
tax or government grant financing beyond grade
ten. Furthermore, if a separate school board chose
to continue operating grades nine and ten, it received only elementary school grants for them.
April 2011
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1 Kick
off assembly for Read-athon
2
3
4 Read-a-thon
Begins
Dance lessons
begin
5 Grad photos grade 8
6 Parent
7
council meeting 7:00 pm
8
9
10
11
12
13
14 Fire Drill
15 Read-athon ends
16
19
20
21 Stations of
Cross Liturgy 1:30
Hep B/ HPV
22 Good
Friday (no school
for students)
23
29 Virtues Assembly 9:15
30
17 Palm Sun- 18 Holy Week
day
shots
24 Easter
Sunday
25 Easter Monday
26
27 Last day
for dance
(no school for students)
28
May 2011
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1Catholic
Education
Week
2 Mother
Mary Liturgy
1:15
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 Kinder
grad pictures
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12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25 Parent
26 Virtues Assem- 27
Council Meet- bly 9:15
Welcome to Kining 7:00 pm
dergarden Night
28
6:30-7:30 pm
29
30 EQAO
begins
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