Corpus Christi Catholic Elementary School
January 2014 Newsletter
Visitor and Parent Sign In…..A Must
Corpus Christi
Catholic
Elementary School
4155 Elora Drive
Mississauga, Ontario
L5B 3N4
Tel: 905-897-7037
Fax: 905-566-4333
Principal
Mr. E. Filippozzi
Secretary
Mrs. A. Tognon
School Council Chair
Mr. S. Mavely
Superintendent
Mr. C. Blanchard
Ward 4 Trustee and Past
Chair of the Board
Mrs. A. Abbruscato
905-890-0708 x 24239
416-459-0126
Ward 6 Trustee and Past
Chair of the Board
Mr. P. Ferreira
416-805-7110
Parish Team
Rev. Carlos Macatangga
Cristo Rei Parish
905-270-1133
Epiphany Prayer
Lord Jesus,
As you led the Three Kings to You by
the light of the star, please draw us ever
closer to You by the light of the Faith.
Help us to desire You as ardently as
they did. Give us the grace to overcome
all obstacles that keep us far from You.
May we, like them, have something to
give You when we appear before You.
Mary, Our Mother, help us to know
Your Son.
Amen
Eco Conscientious School
Congratulations to the students and staff of
Corpus Christi on the incredible efforts put
forth to reduce waste during our WasteFree Challenge Week in October! As a
school we cut our waste almost 50%, with
some classes making a remarkable reduction of 90%! Our enthusiasm and embracement of this challenge is being recognized
by the Recycling Council of Ontario with a
$100 grant to support our environmental
projects here at Corpus Christi.
Please do not escort students directly to
class; rather, report to the main office.
It is important for the safety of all students
in the school that parents wear a visitor’s
sticker. Please always sign in at the office
and obtain your visitor’s sticker. It takes
only a minute to help keep your children
safe. Students and staff feel safer when a
visitor’s sticker is visible on unfamiliar faces
as well as familiar ones. Your cooperation
is appreciated.
Professional Activity Day
A reminder that Monday, January 20, 2014
is a Professional Activity Day. There will be
no classes for students.
Report Cards and Reporting Evening
Report Cards will be going home on Tuesday, February 4th, 2014.
Thursday, February 6, 2014 is scheduled
for Parent Student Teacher Conferences.
Kindergarten Registration 2014-2015
Kindergarten registration for the 2014-15
school year, will be held at all Dufferin-Peel
Catholic elementary schools on the following dates:
January 27* from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
January 29, 30, 31 from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
*Snow Date: January 28 - 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Dufferin-Peel will be offering the Full-Day
Kindergarten program in all 123 Catholic
Teaching for The Father Inspired by The Son Guided by The Holy Spirit
elementary schools in Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon,
Bolton and Orangeville. Registration materials will be
available for pick-up at the schools by January 13. Parents/guardians are to register their child in person at their
designated Catholic school. To find out which Catholic
school is in your area, please contact our Planning Department at 905-890-0708 ext. 24440.
The following documents are required for registration:
time.
Being consistently and continuously late interrupts
theclassroom during lessons, creates delays in the office
and sets a poor example for those who do arrive on time.
Please note that issues with lates and absenteeism will be
dealt with strictly, and may involve the school Administration, Child Youth Worker and Social Worker. Please help
us teach your children the value of promptness.
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proof of age of the child (birth certificate or passport)
Original Roman Catholic baptismal certificate (for child
and/or parent/guardian) or baptismal certificate from an
Eastern Church in full communion with the Holy See of
Rome. If the child has not been baptized, and the
parent/guardian is a baptized Roman Catholic or has been
baptized in an Eastern Church in full communion with the
Holy See of Rome, the parent/guardian must bring their
own baptismal certificate.
 updated immunization records (Immunization Card,
Peel Health Form or Letter of Exemption)
 proof of Canadian citizenship (Birth Certificate/Passport) or permanent resident status
 proof of home address (tax bill, utility bill, bank statement)
 emergency rural address numbers for identifying your
property, if applicable (residents of Caledon and Dufferin
County)
 proof of English Separate School Support (may be done
at the time of registration by completing an Application For
the Direction of School Support and/or a Separate School
Lease Agreement available at the school)
 education records, if available
Admissions are open to Catholic children and children of
Catholic parents. Kindergarten students must be at least 4
years of age by December 31, 2014.
Reporting Student Absences/ Signing Out/Lates
Emergency Contact
Please ensure the school has updated information with
regards to emergency contacts and phone numbers.
Have you moved?
If you have changed your phone number(s), address or
workplace it is im p erative that you notify the school
promptly. It is extremely important that our records be
current and up-to-date. In the event of an emergency, we
must be able to contact you immediately.
Minimizing Disruptions to Classes
We appreciate continued parental help and support in minimizing disruptions to classes, whenever possible. By trying our best not to disturb classes, except in very important
situations, we are reducing disruptions to quality teaching
and learning time. To this end, we ask the following:
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Please call to register an absence - 905-897
-7037, press 1 for the attendance. You can 
call 24hrs. An answering machine is
available to take information. Please provide your child’s name, grade and teach- 
er’s name. If an absence is not reported,
our policy is to call home to verify student absenteeism. A parent or guardian must sign out students who leave early. A reminder to parents and students
that an expectation set out from the beginning of the year
clearly states that all students must arrive to school on
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 with the office and the
teacher will call you back.
If your child is late please have him/her report to the
office. PLEASE DO NOT ESCORT YOUR CHILD TO
CLASS.
Send a note in advance, to your child’s teacher when
your child needs to be picked up early, then meet them
in the office and sign them out.
If delivering lunches to your child at school, write your
child’s and their teacher’s names on lunch bags and
leave them on the table in the front foyer. This would
be greatly appreciated.
Inclement Weather Procedures
In the event of snowstorms
which prevent safe travel, please
listen to the following radio stations for announcements about
bus transportation and school
closures, usually beginning
about 6:30 am.
CKFM 99.9
CHUM 1050
Q107
CFTR 680
CFNY 102.1
CISS 92.5
CJCL 590
CHFI 98.1
CHIN 100.7
1540 AM
640 AM
5.
Ensure school emergency contact information is updated and accurate
For student who do take the bus:
It is a fact that bad weather may cause delays for student
pick up at bus stops. Please sensure that your child has a
safe place to go if the bus is late or does nto arrive. If you
notice that a student is stranded at a bus stop, please
attempt to contact the child’s parent. It is NOT recommended that parents volunteer to drive another child to
school without the permission of the child’s parent.
If you decide to transport your child to school because buses have been cancelled, please ensure that you have made
arrangements for their return home at the end of the school
day.
Late Buses
These announcements may take one of three forms:
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
over local radio and television networks. As the weather
Buses that do not run in the morning do not run in the
worsens please take into consideration that buses may be
afternoon. If you drive your bus student to school on a day delayed in reaching their stops. We don’t wish to see stuwhen buses are cancelled, you are responsible for providdents stranded out in the elements so, on inclement days,
ing transportation home at the end of the day as well.
please:
• Listen to the radio for bus cancellations.
It can be hazardous for small children to walk in extreme
• Consult the GeoQuery website: www.stopr.ca
weather conditions when high winds and blowing snow
• If possible, arrange for car pooling.
obscure their vision and also prevent them from being
• Parent inquiries call Student Transportation 905- 890seen. Please remember, you are the ultimate authority in
6000 or 1-800-668-1140.
deciding what weather conditions are safe for your child,
whether the school is open or closed; it is better 'to err on
Wait no more than 15 minutes for a late bus. Contact the
the side of caution than to needlessly risk a child's safety.'
school or the above listed numbers if your bus has not ar• Some buses in some areas may be cancelled, but other
buses are running and schools remain open for students
who walk.
• Buses may be cancelled but the school will be open
• School may be cancelled entirely.
Emergency School Procedure
There may be days during the upcoming months when
inclement weather presents a potential safety hazard to our
students. It is essential that parents and children discuss
the procedures that they wish to follow for safe arrival at
home.
For students that do not take the bus please determine:
1. the best way to walk home;
2. With who the child should walk;
3. Where the child should go if there is no one at home;
4. How the child should seek help if wind and snow are
so strong that they cannot see the way home;
rived and wait for information regarding arrival.
Lost and Found
The “Lost and Found Boxes”, located in the school are a
good place to start looking for missing items. Periodically,
we remind students to check the box for any items they
may have lost. Please remind your child(ren) to check the
Lost and Found Boxes if anything is lost.
Dressing For Winter
While we have been blessed with moderate Fall weather,
we can expect this to change at any time. Please assist us in
encouraging the children to dress adequately for this
weather. When on yard supervision, teachers are checking,
not only on the activities/games children play, but also noting that they are wearing boots, hats, gloves and scarves
when necessary. Except when the weather is extremely
cold or wet, the students will be going outside during the
recess and lunch periods. The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School policy states that consideration should be given
for keeping students indoors during recesses when the
wind chill reaches –20C. At –25C students will be kept indoors. Playing outdoors is a pleasant & healthy activity
when students are wearing suitable clothing. For the
younger students, it would be helpful if parents were to
label items of clothing with their child’s name, so that each
person can more easily locate his/her own clothing from
the class coat rack area. Each term, items make their way to
the Lost and Found and are never claimed. Labelled items
can be returned more easily and mixed up items sorted out
more readily. If your child brings home an item by mistake,
please return it to the school so that this mix up may be
corrected the next day!
Indoor Shoes
Soon we will begin to
experience wet and
slushy weather.
In order to avoid tracking mud, water and
snow into the classroom, it will be necessary for each student to
have a pair of indoor
running shoes. Students will change into this additional
pair of shoes as soon as they come to their class. We are
also requesting that the shoes the students will wear indoors, have LIGHT coloured soles so that there will be no
black scuff marks on the floors .
We appreciate your assistance in this endeavor.
Student Illness—Staying in During Recess
Students who are ill should be kept
home where they are most comfortable and can get better, sooner. A
child who is too ill to go out for recess is too ill to be at school. Your
co-operation to keep your child
home when he/she is ill is appreciated.
Snow Stays on the Ground
As the winter weather begins, students
are reminded that “Snow Stays on the
Ground”. Every child in the school
will be made aware of the importance
of this rule in preventing injury to others. Students are encouraged to constructively use the snow that winter
brings to build snowmen, forts, snow
sculptures, etc. Please assist us by reviewing with your
child the dangers of throwing snowballs and the importance of preventing injury to other children. Together
we will continue to create a school yard which is safe for all
during winter.
Collecting of money for Pizza Days, School Trips, etc.
Please ensure that when you are
submitting money with your child
for trips, food orders, etc. to please
treat them separately and send in the
exact change. (We are not able to
provide change or tamper with money in envelopes). Please do not combine siblings or single child orders
together. This creates confusion for our Accounting Department. Your co-operation in this matter is appreciated.
Toonie Tuesday and Fabulous Fridays
Once again our school will be having Toonie Tuesdays and
Fabulous Fridays. All items being sold will be sold at $1
each. It’s called Toonie Tuesdays because generally speaking some students will purchase a Cookie from Terracotta
Cookies and Milk or juice for a total of $2. All funds raised
will go towards supporting school activities and events.
PARENTS CORNER
Anti-Bullying Presentation for Students
Friday, January 31st, 2014
Jamie Allison is a ten-year veteran of the NHL, who has
been in over two hundred fights on the ice (although he has
never been in one off the ice). Jamie impacts the kids in a
way no one else could and he commands instant respect
because of his past experiences. He powerfully and honest-
ly shares with the kids about his own journey, which practically demonstrates that all negative emotions can be effectively channeled in a positive direction by making smarter
choices. He will be visiting our students from Grades 1 to 8
and delivering his anti-bullying message on Friday, January 31st, 2014 at 9:15 am in the school gym. Parents are
welcome to attend.
FAITH AND PARISH CORNER
The Virtues
January Virtue of the Month is SELF CONTROL
PARENT ENGAGEMENT EVENING
SOCIAL MEDIA FITNESS
BE SURE TO MARK YOUR
CALENDARS FOR…..
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
19TH, 2014
6:30 P.M.
(SEE ATTACHED FLYER)
God has given us the ability to choose. We are able to control how we react to what happens around us. We’ve all
“lost it” at one time or another. We are never proud of
those moments. As soon as they happen we make a promise that they will not happen again. Through prayer and
concentration, we can get better at controlling our reactions. We can get better at showing self control. When we
all use self-control, we can be sure that our school will be a
safe, caring, and inclusive place to live and learn.
A person with Self-Control:
 Is patient
 Knows how to wait his/her turn
Family Literacy Program: talk.read.play.sing!
 Can calm him/herself down and think before reacting
to situations
Free workshops for families offered by the Region of Peel  Knows how to avoid physical aggression
at Corpus Christi Catholic Elementary School
 Can think things through and do what is best for
everyone
The Family Literacy Program is for families with children
As always, if you have any questions, or require further
aged 0-6 years. Families come together for story times,
clarification about the Virtues Program, we encourage you
snack, and activities. Come and join us! Research from the to contact us at the school.
University of Toronto has shown this program makes an
Our Parish Team and Parish Information
impact to a child’s Early Literacy skills along with their
family’s support.
Cristo Rei Parish
3495 Confederation Parkway
The program will be held in the library on Thursday
nights, from 6:30—8:00 p.m. for nine weeks, starting Janu- Mississauga, ON L5B 3G5
Telephone (905) 270-1133
ary 16th—March 27th. Please note there will be no program on February 6th due to parent teacher interviews; as Fax (905) 270-0904
Email: cristoreiparish@gmail.com
well as no program March 13th for March Break. Please
register by calling 905-791-1585 or visit website at
www.peelregion.ca and click on Child Care. We hope to
Pastor:
Rev. Carlos Macatangga
see you there.
Associate Pastor:
Rev. Michael Do
Priest in Residence:
Rev. Chacko Parekat
School Council
Deacon:
Mr. Inacio Rodrigues
Secretary:
Maria Fatima Ferreira
Our next Catholic School Council meeting is scheduled for
Wednesday, February 5th , 2014 at 6:30 p.m. in the Faculty
Lounge.