Guardian Angels Catholic Elementary School
62 Heatherdale Dr., Brampton, Ontario L7A 2H4
Tel.: 905-595-0909 Fax.: 905-846-6932
Newsletter #7
April 2013
Principal: T. Waters
Vice Principal: T. Owens
Secretary: B. Waud
Asst. Secretary: G. Odoardi
School Website: http://w3.dpcdsb.org/GANGL
Parish: Guardian Angels (905) 970-9175
Pastor: Father J. Gogolewski
Trustee: L. Zanella
School Council Chair: K. Italiano
Superintendent: C. Pitoscia
Superintendent: A. Tucciarone (905) 890-1221
GUARDIAN ANGELS PARISH
Rev. Fr. Jan Gogolewski
Rectory: 46 Elsinore Street, Brampton, ON L7A 1Z7
Phone: 905-970-9175
Fax:
905-970-1054
E mail: guardianangels@rogers.com
Masses are held at St. Edmund Campion Secondary School,
275 Brisdale Drive, Brampton, ON L7A 3C7.
Masses will be held on:
Saturday:
5:00 pm
Sunday:
9:00 am, 10:30 am and 12:00 pm
Weekdays:
7:30 am
Attendance
A friendly reminder that if your child is going to be away
from school, that you need to call the office to let us
know. Please call 905-595-0909 and then select the
line for attendance which is line 1. Your co-operation
helps us ensure our safe arrival program works in a
timely manner.
Congratulations:
MRS. WAUD
The staff and students would like to congratulate
Mrs. Waud for accepting the position of Head Secretary
at St. Jean Marie Vianney School.
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Mrs.Waud’s last day will be April 12 but she will
continue to work out of Guardian Angles School until
the end of June.
We would like to welcome Mrs. S. McGee who will take
over the Head Secretary duties at Guardian Angels on
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April 15 .
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Welcome to Kindergarten
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Catholic Education Week is May 5th—May 12th.
Each year the Catholic community of Ontario
engages in a week-long celebration of the unique
identity and distinctive contributions of Catholic
education during Catholic Education Week. This
year’s celebration entitles, ―Catholic Education:
Growing Together in Faith‖ is scheduled for the week
of May 5—May 12, 2013. We are celebrating the
Year of Faith along with the rest of the church. We
remember that we are called to ―grow in faith‖, to
bloom where we are planted and that we are rooted
in Christ. The scriptural passage that guides our
theme is: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded
in love.” - Ephesians 3:17
Stay tuned for upcoming news on our schedule
during Catholic Education Week!
BICYCLES
With the change in weather, many students are
beginning to ride their bicycles to school. Please take
the time to discuss proper bicycle safety with your
child/ren to ensure their safety.
Of note students riding their bikes to and from school
are expected to follow these directions:
1. Bikes are to be walked across the school property;
2. Bikes are to be left in the bike rack area. Students
are not to play in this area;
3. Bikes are to be locked
Are you moving?
We are in the process of planning classes and
staffing for the 2013/2014 school year. If you are
planning to move anytime between now and
September 2013, please inform the school so that
we can prepare the necessary transfer forms. Please
remember that if you change your address please
notify the office so that we can update our records.
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Stay
Please note that Wednesday, May 15 from 6:30p.m.
until 8:00p.m. We will have our Welcome to
Kindergarten session. This session has been designed
for the new JK child and a parent. We ask that you do
not bring siblings to this session.
ARRIVAL AND DISMISSAL OF
STUDENTS—PARKING LOT
For the safety of all children and to avoid congestion,
please drop your child/ren in the ―Kiss and Ride‖ area
at the front of the building. We ask that parents do
not park and/or leave their cars in the front
driveway at any time. If you need to park, please find
an open spot in the general parking lot or else-where in
the neighbourhood. All students will be dismissed by
their teachers and exit according to their assigned
door. Please wait for your child/ren at the sidewalks or
outskirts of the school board property.
A supervised dismissal will ensure student safety, and
please note, our school visitor policies remain in effect
until all students have been fully dismissed. Please do
not direct your child/ren to meet you at the front door
unless they are being dismissed early for an
appointment. If your child/ren must leave for an
appointment during the school day, please come to the
office to ―sign out‖ and ―sign in‖, we ask that you please
ensure that you have notified the appropriate teachers
of the same through the agenda or a note. Thank you
for your cooperation.
LUNCH: STUDENTS LEAVING SCHOOL
PROPERTY
In order for students to leave school property at lunch,
they require a written letter or permission from their
parents. Due to the nature of the number of students in
our school, we will not be able to accommodate phone
calls home on a regular basis. Thank you for your
cooperation.
Guardian Angels Harlem Shake
Video Debut
The Guardian Angels Harlem Shake video has finally
been posted to the D.P.C.D.S.B. Youtube channel.
You can find it by going to Youtube.com and searching
“DPCDSBVideos” to find the board youtube channel or
you can type the following address directly into your
address bar:
http://youtube/iClaqNDFP9Y
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Love
In April –we celebrate the virtue of Love
God wants us to serve and to see
goodness in everyone we meet.
A loving person…
 wants the best for others
 is willing to make sacrifices for the good of
others
 knows that we are all lovable
 prays for others
God has given us many people in our lives to show us
examples of LOVE. Our families, teachers, and friends
show us their love everyday. Love can be seen in the
simplest acts of kindness, such as sharing a pencil,
playing a game, or even by saying ―thank you‖. We
should always show our love for others because love is
about seeing the good in people even when they make
us angry. Sometimes the great-est acts of love happen
when we are angry, such as not hitting our sibling back or
not screaming at our friends. Jesus is always with us and
we should always try to remember His most important
lesson, the lesson of love, because love is not about us –
it is about looking out for the good of others.
Athletics
The last three months of the school year will be very busy
at Guardian Angels. Currently, the girls' and boys' Junior
Basketball Teams are hard at work preparing for their
tournaments at the end of April.
Other Athletic Activities remaining this year include:
Lunch Intramurals
Intermediate Co-ed Flag Football
Junior Soccer Tournaments
Intermediate Boys/Girls Baseball Tournaments
Junior/ Intermediate Track and Field Meet
Primary Play Day
Junior Boys Basketball
T. Bell and M. Labuda
The junior boys have been working extremely hard in
preparation for the upcoming basketball season. The
boys will be participating in the First Annual Cardinal
Ambrozic Tournament on Thursday, April 11. This is an
after school tournament scheduled to begin at 2:30pm,
and ending approximately at 8:30pm.
Guardian Angels will be hosting the Brampton West
Family Mini Tournament on Wednesday, April 24, 2013.
Should the boys win this tournament, they would move
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on to the family finals to be held the week of April 29 ,
date to be confirmed.
On Friday March 22, Guardian Angels hosted the annual
BW chess tournament. There were 20 teams competing
in three divisions (Primary, Junior, and Intermediate.)
Over 100 students were playing chess. The teams
competing were St. J Bakhita, St .A Merici, Guardian
Angels, Bishop Francis Allen, St. Rita, St. Aiden, and Our
Lady of Fatima. There were also volunteers throughout
the school that did a great job helping out. Some
volunteers were timekeepers, judges, referees, and lunch
supervisors.
Our school worked really hard and all the hard work
payed off. We won all 3 divisions. Well done Guardian
Angels!!! Our school qualified for the Dufferin Peel
Catholic School Board chess finals in all 3 divisions. We
will be playing against the best teams in Mississauga,
Brampton, and Orangeville for the chess championship.
The school board finals will be held at St. MarcelIinus on
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April 26 . Go Angels!!!
Guardian Angels Dance Team
Our Guardian Angels Dance Team will compete at the
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Rose Theatre on Tuesday May 1 . If you are interested
in watching, tickets are available for $15.00 person. You
can purchase them online at myrosetheatre.ca, by phone
(905) 874-2800 or in person at the theatre.
Thank you to Mrs. Sousa, Mrs. Daniel’s, Mrs. Alimurung
and Mrs. Stoker for coaching our team. This is the
second year we have entered a team into this
competition. Good luck to all involved.
Lates-School Start at 9:00 AM
Please ensure your child is on time for school. When a
child is late, she/he misses valuable learning time and
causes disruptions to the lessons being started in the
class. Developing excellent work habits and time
management skills can maximize a child’s learning
potential. Also note that students who show up after
9:10 a.m. usually get stuck in the office and have to wait
until the morning announcements are completed and are
not often getting into class until 9:30 a.m. Math and
language are usually taught first thing in the morning and
students who are chronically late are missing critical
instructional time.
The Duty of a Parent states that parents/guardians are
expected to get their children to school on time with the
necessary tools required to learn. This also means a
healthy lunch and snack. If these basic needs are not
being provided it is considered Parental Neglect and
must be addressed by the Principal and the School
Social Worker. It is also considered neglect when
parents do not pick up their children on time at the end of
the day.
The 2013 Junior Boys Basketball team consist of:
Jordan, Teshawn, Christopher,To
Autrey,
Matthew,
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Bryan, Lucas, Kalim, Tavion, Nathan, and Gabriel.
EQAO After School Tutoring
Catholic School Council
Our Grade 3 and 6 after school program is in full
swing until the middle of May. We have 75
students participating every Monday and
Wednesday from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. The purpose
of the tutoring is to provide students with extra
support in the areas of Math and Language.
EQAO testing this year begins on May 27
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and continues to June 6 .
The next Catholic School Council Meeting will be held
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on Tuesday, May14 , 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Staff
Room. As always, ALL parents are welcome to attend
the meeting.
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EARTH DAY
April 22nd is when the world celebrates Earth
Day and people get involved in helping the
environment. Earth Day began when people
realized that it was time to start taking better care
of the planet. It is a special day when everyone
can help to make the planet a cleaner and better
place to live. The first Earth Day was celebrated
on April 22nd in 1970. In 1990 Canada joined the
rest of the world to celebrate our special Earth
that God has given to us to take care of.
What will you do for the planet this Earth
Day?
Bullying Prevention and Wellness
Symposium 2013 for Parents and
Guardians
The Dufferin-Peel CDSB is pleased to announce
we will be hosting a system-wide Bullying
Prevention and Wellness symposium on June
1st, 2013 for parents and guardians.
This event will be open to parents and guardians
in the system and will enable our parents to hear
from experts in the field on ways to assist their
children with these difficult challenges. ―Let it
begin with me......Empowering Community,
Raising Awareness and Building Partnerships‖
will be the focus for the day.
More details will be coming soon!! Stay tuned….
April is an exciting month at Guardian Angels School
Library with lots going on! There will be displays at the
library celebrating Earth Day (April 22), April is Poetry
month and many other exciting topics.
Forest of Reading voting will take place this month. All
students in grades 1, 2 and 3 will vote for their
favourite Blue Spruce book in April. The students
participating in the Forest of Reading clubs: Silver
Birch Express (grades 3 & 4), Silver Birch Fiction &
Non Fiction (grades 4 to 6), and Red Maple (grades 7
& 8) are looking forward to casting their votes for their
favourite books. Stay tuned for the results. This is an
Ontario wide reading program with thousands of
Ontario students participating. Ontario results will be
announced in May.
Kindergarten students are encouraged to sign out two
library books now. One of the books will be a "levelled"
book to help with their own reading and a second book
of free choice. Kindergarten library day is Monday.
Please ensure that both library books are returned on
Mondays in order for two new books to be signed out.
Students are reminded on a regular basis if they have
an Overdue library book. Please return library books
on time so that other students may enjoy them. It is
expected that lost books are to be paid for.
Many students are working on Wikis either through the
Forest of Reading clubs or in Inquiry/Research. The
students have been very excited about working in this
safe, online format. They are able to post online to
their classmates making this an excellent collaborative
opportunity.
Looking forward...June will bring both a Book Fair and
a Book Swap to Guardian Angels School Library.
Stay tuned and keep on reading.
Mrs. McCannel, Teacher-Librarian
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Dates to Remember
April 10
Guardian Angels Skills Canada Team Competition at St. Augustine S.S.
April 16
Pizza Day
April 17
Grade 3 Country Heritage Park
April 18
1st Reconciliation (9:30 a.m.)
April 18
Confessions Grade 8 (10:30 a.m.)
April 19
Resurrection Mass (9:15 a.m.)
April 22
Earth Day Assembly (2:30 p.m.
April 23
Grade 5 ROM Trip
April 23
BW Junior Girls Basketball at St. F.X. Elementary
April 23
Grade 8 Retreat at St. Roch S.S.
April 24
BW Junior Boys Basketball at GA
April 26
Board Chess Finals at St. Marcellinus S.S.
April 28
1st Communion @ OLF Parish
April 29
Grade 6 Trip to Crawford Lake
April 30
Pizza Day
April 30
BW Junior Boys Basketball Finals @ St. Mary’s Elementary
April 30
Grade 8 retreat at St Roch S.S.
May 01
Junior/Intermediate Dance Team Competition at the Rose Theatre
May 02
FDK Scientist in the School
May 2
BW Junior Girls Bball finals
May 3
Jump Rope Kick Off in gym (1:15 p.m.)
May 6
Home Alone Program (June 3)
May 10
Crowning of Mary 9:15 (a.m.)
May 11
Confirmation @ St. Edmund Campion S.S. (5:00 Mass)
May 12
Mothers Day
May 13
PA DAY
May 14
Pizza Day
May 14
Parent Council (Final for year)
May15
Engineering workshop at George Brown (20 students)
May 15
Jigga Jump ( FDK-2 1:15 p.m.)
May 16
Resource Trip to Wonderland
May 17
Jump Rope for Heart at Guardian Angels
May 19
Pentecost
May 20
Victoria Day
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