San Lorenzo Ruiz Catholic School
100 Barondale Dr., Mississauga, Ontario L4Z 3R1
(905) 501-0400 Fax (905) 501-9275
http://www.dpcdsb.org/LRUIZ
A Prayer for Families
February
2016
God made us a family.
We need one another.
We respect one another.
We love one another.
Principal
M. Harrison
We forgive one another.
We work together.
We play together.
Vice-Principal
A. Sodhi
Secretaries
N. Hajdinjak
We worship together.
Together we use God's word.
Together we grow in Christ.
Together we love all people.
Together we serve our God.
Parish
St. Francis Xavier Parish
Pastor
Msgr. Edgardo Pan
(905) 890-5290
Trustee
T. Thomas
(905) 890-1221
Superintendent
L. Papaloni
School Council Chair
S. Rinaldi
Attendance
Verification Line
(905) 501-0400
Press #1
Together we hope for heaven.
These are our hopes and ideals.
Help us to attain them,
O God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
God has given us the virtues of friends and
companions to keep us company and to help
us out along the way.
Every person in our lives carries the Spirit of
God – and so every person is our brother or
sister through Jesus Christ.
As brothers and sisters who share one Holy
Spirit, we are all valuable to God. We all deserve to be shown courtesy, consideration,
sensitivity and thoughtfulness, which are
different ways of saying respect.
That respect should come first and foremost
from ourselves. We have to respect ourselves and then we will be able to respect
others. We should also be able to expect to
be treated with respect by everyone we
meet – our brothers and sisters in Jesus.
VIRTUES IN ACTION
The following students demonstrate the
Virtue of HOPE.
Klaus and Hannah in Ms. Kelly and Ms. Jane’s class.
Eugendus, Rae, Isabelle in Mrs. Shields-Ballantyne
and Ms. Frankovic’s class.
Catherine and Julia in Mrs. Chiavaroli’s class.
Joseph and Trenton in Mrs. Stolarski’s class
David S. and James A. in Mrs. Clarkson’s class.
Victoria T. and Wyzo G. in Mrs. Tanzi-Botta’s class.
Alessia and Christian in Mrs. Aurelio’s class.
Ethan and Matthew in Ms. Coccimiglio’s class.
Francesco and Sara in Mrs. Duliunas’ class.
Joseph and Nicolas S. in Mrs. Milek –Kalic’s class.
Clara and Theresa C. in Mrs. Mikail’s class.
Vivian and Michael in Mrs. DeBono’s class.
Ryan and Isabela in Mrs. Wilcock’s class.
Sabrina and Jonah in Mr. Powers’ class.
Layla, Emma, and Tristen in Ms. Fernandes’ class.
Zachary, Nash and Auguste in Ms. Iannicca’s class.
Kaya S. and Daniel L. in Mrs. Bahlis’ class.
Anson and Joy in Mr. Wos’ class.
Veronika and Nicole G. in Mrs. Tersigni’s class
Kevin and Matthew S. in Mrs. Szekeres’ class
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:
EXTENDED FRENCH
At the present time, our school is the designated centre for
our area. Applications can be picked up at the main office.
Applications will be accepted at San Lorenzo Ruiz until 3:00
p.m. February 16, 2016.
**If needed, lottery date will be on February 24th at 3:00 pm.
FRENCH IMMERSION
The French Immersion On-line Application System is now
open for submissions. The site will be open from January
11—February 14. All submissions, which meet eligibility
criteria, are accepted. In the event that the number of
applications is greater than the number of spaces available
at a French Immersion school, a centralized, computergenerated lottery will be held at a date yet to be determined.
REPORT CARDS
Term One Report Cards will be going home on:
Tuesday, February 2. Parent-Student-Teacher
Conference Forms have already gone home, requesting interview times with teachers . Interview Night is on
Thurs. Feb 4 from 3:00 pm—8:30 pm. Interview Day is on
Fri. Feb 5 from 9:00 am—12:00 pm **no school for students.
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.
WINTER FOOTWEAR
Parents are asked to ensure that students come to
school with footwear appropriate for the conditions. In
order to maintain student safety and cleanliness of the
building, all students must have indoor and outdoor
shoes.
Students are reminded that they must wear
proper indoor shoes for gym and appropriate gym
clothes. Jewelry must be removed when in gym class or
during sports activities. Students are not allowed to
wear their “outside” shoes in the gym.
STUDENT SUPERVISION
Please be advised that supervision in the school
yard begins at 8:00 am. Students are not to be
on school property prior to the 8:00 a.m. bell
because there is no supervision of students at
that time. Students can not be dropped off or
arriving on their own at school prior to 8:00
they wish to remain in Extended French, then they will
attend either Philip Pocock SS or St. Aloysius Gonzaga.
The school that they will attend depends on their ‘home’
school, that is, the school for which their home is within
those boundaries. For example, a student who lives in the
boundary for St. Jude would attend Philip Pocock
Secondary School for Extended French. A student
originally from St Gertrude would attend St. Aloysius
Gonzaga Secondary School. Please see the chart below. If
our graduates do not wish to continue in Extended
French, they must attend the Secondary School for their
‘home’ school. For example. A student who is within the
boundaries for St Pio, who does not wish to continue in
Extended French, must attend John Cabot Secondary
School. Please see the chart below. Please note that these
are the required destination schools for our grade 8
graduates. As a policy, the Dufferin-Peel Board does not
allow flexible boundary requests for Secondary School students
List of Destination Secondary Schools for Extended
French Grade 8 students at San Lorenzo Ruiz
‘Home’ School
Extended French
Secondary School
Mainstream
Secondary School
San Lorenzo Ruiz
Philip Pocock SS
St Francis Xavier SS
St Jude
Philip Pocock SS
St Francis Xavier SS
St Pio
Philip Pocock SS
John Cabot SS
St Hilary
St. Aloysius Gonzaga SS
St Francis Xavier SS
St Matthew
St. Aloysius Gonzaga SS
St Francis Xavier SS
St Gertrude
St. Aloysius Gonzaga SS
St Francis Xavier SS
St Valentine
St. Aloysius Gonzaga SS
St Joseph SS
St Veronica
St. Aloysius Gonzaga SS
St Marcellinus SS
STUDENT TRANSPORTATION
The STOPR website provides access
to up-to-date information regarding
delayed buses as well as bus
cancellations due to inclement weather. This website
also contains transportation
policies, procedures,
forms and frequently asked
questions. For more information, visit http://www.stopr.ca/. As you are aware,
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.
and will be announced on the board website, radio
stations and TV news.
Secondary School Registration for Grade 8’s
in Extended French
When Extended French students at San Lorenzo Ruiz
graduate from grade 8 they have to decide whether or not
to continue on in Extended French in Secondary School. If
EXTENDED FRENCH:
SWITCH OF STUDENTS’ TIMETABLES
As of Monday, February 1st, the Extended French
will be balancing their schedule to ensure French Language Instruction meets the Board expected number
of 1900 hours. This means that grade 5 and grade 8
EF students will now have English in the afternoon;
grade 6 and 7 EF students will have French in the
morning.
BIKE RACKS ARE NOW INSTALLED
Bike racks are located at the south—east
corner of the parking lot. When Spring
arrives, we invite students to start riding
their bikes to school and to secure them
safely to our new bike racks
LENTEN MASS
The Lenten Mass will be held on Friday February 26th
at St. Francis Xavier Church from 10 am—11am.
Busses will be return between 11:20 am—11:40 am.
We will have lunch at 12:10 pm —1:10 pm.
SOCIAL JUSTICE AT WORK
Youth Faith Ambassadors are starting their,
"Sock-Mania" Sock Drive to collect Socks
for shelters. Clean dry feet are one of the
most important things that homeless individuals need,
but are the least donated clothing item. We will be
collecting good wool/cotton blend socks until Holy
Thursday. Keep the homeless's feet warm and your
hearts' warmer. Thank you for your support.
Share Life: Youth Ambassadors will be selling candy
grams for Valentine's day to be delivered on February
12th. Cost is $2.00. All profits will go towards our
school's Share Life collection.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
February is Black History Month.
San Lorenzo Ruiz students will
be
celebrating this tradition during February in
a variety of morning announcements,, lessons and classroom activities. We have a presentation from SAIDAT on
February 2—highlighting respect, and celebrating
diversity.
CRAM-THE-CRUISER
SPIRIT WEAR on sale
From February 4th to February 22th students, parents and staff will have the opportunity to order
San Lorenzo Spirit Wear. Order forms will be going
home shortly. During interview night and day (Feb 45), sample sizing will be available in the front foyer.
Thursday February 11th (in the pm) we
will be having "Cram-two-Cruisers". Non-perishable food
items are to be brought in - donations made to Mississauga Food Bank.
GRADE 2 SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
We would like to congratulate our grade 2 students who
received the sacrament of Reconciliation on
Wednesday, January 27th. Students were prayerful and
reflective—showing a great appreciation for this very
sacred sacrament. Special thanks to our teachers and
parents for preparing our children.
22
Sub Day
29
Pizza Day
28
Family Day
15
Virtues Assembly at 9 am
8
Pita Day
Pizza Day
Spirit Wear
Orders go home
1
Monday
21
14
7
First
Communion
Prep Mass
at 12 pm
Sunday
23
16
Pizza Day
Deadline for EF applications
Spirit Wear Orders
Due
Shrove Tuesday
9
6:30 Social Media/Peel
Police Council Presentation
SAIDAT—presentation
MBC YFA Commissioning and Faith Rally
Report Cards go home
2
T u e s da y
24
Junior Girls BBall
Tournament at
SLR
17
10
Ash Wednesday
Liturgy at 10: 35
3
25
18
Meningitis Dose #2
Cram the Cruisers with
Peel Police 12:10
11
26
Lenten Mass at the church
10 am
19
Junior Science Olympics
12
Grade 8 Grad Photos 8:30
am
No School for Student
Parent-Teacher Interviews
5
4
Parent-Teacher Interview
Evening
Friday
Thursday
Virtue of Respect
W e d n e s da y
Fe b r u a r y 2 0 1 6 :
27
20
13
6
Saturday