April 7, 2023 In this issue Principal’s Message Chaplain’s Message Let’s Talk Science PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE I hope that life returns to normal for all those members of our school community who have been affected by this week's storms. Please consider joining us next week for our School Council meeting. I will be hosting the Council in our Library on 13 April at 6:30pm. All are welcome. Canadian Astronaut Skills Ontario - Welding French Dept. News Student Services Quick Links St. Paul Website and Calendar Our Christian liturgical calendar has intersected with the major religious observances of our fellow Abrahamic faiths this year. On behalf of all the staff here at St Paul, allow me to say Chag Pesach sameach and Ramadan mubarak to our Jewish and Islamic families, as we also wish you all a very Blessed Easter. Let us all pray for one another, that God continues to watch over St Paul's and keeps us ever in His grace. Finley Mullally OCSB CSPA CHAPLAIN’S MESSAGE OSTA The Chaplain’s Angels have been busy helping out with decorating for Easter and assisting in our Holy Thursday liturgy. We are so grateful to Mr. Brennan and his Passion Play Players for their beautiful retelling of the Passion. The Angels also decorated both the Chapel and the Showcase at the front entrance of the school. Well done, everyone! Fatdog - Your Local High School Sports Authority!! Parish Links St. Martin de Porres 613-828-6720 St. John the Apostle 613-829-1760 Our Muslim students are planning to attend the final day of prayer for Ramadan on Friday, April 20. We are all looking forward to visiting the beautiful Jami Omar mosque again. Finally, a group of Angels will be off to Faith Mentorship Day with 7/8 students from all our other Catholic schools across the board. They will play, work and learn about helping others and finding their place in the world together. It looks like it will be a great day. I wish our entire community a very happy and blessed Easter season! Lindsay Moore-Chung Chaplain LET’S TALK SCIENCE STEM CELL SYMPOSIUM St. Paul Grade 12 Biology students participated in the Let's Talk Science Stem Cell Symposium at Ottawa University. The students learned about many medical applications for stem cells and were given a tour of a medical research lab to learn about careers in Stem Cell Biology. Board Trustee Eugene Milito Zone 6 - Ward 8 College, Ward 9 Knoxdale-Merivale Phone: 343-597-6496 Fax: 613-228-4158 Eugene.Milito@ocsb.ca CANADIAN ASTRONAUT PAH on Social Media Parents and students are In February of 2020 Jeremy Hansen,our Artemis astronaut,spoke to the students of St Paul about goal setting. He is now the mission specialist encouraged to keep up to date about upcoming graduation information/events/deadlines : Remind: To receive messages via text, text @stpgr to 613-702-7747. Or to receive messages via email, send an email to stpgr@mail.remind.com Grad Website: tinyurl.com/stpaulgrad Grad Twitter Feed: @stpaulgrad Please note: There are also links to the Grad Website and Twitter Feed on the STP Website (pah.ocsb.ca) Email: Paul.High@ocsb.ca Website: pah.ocsb.ca Twitter: StPaulCHS SKILLS ONTARIO Students from St.Paul attended an Ontario Skills competition in Kingston, at St.Lawrence College on Saturday April 1st. Kathleen Jagonos and Benjamin Shimwa competed in Film and Video. Izzy Wasilka competed at the Skills Ontario qualifier for welding in Kingston last weekend. It was an awesome day and a great learning experience. Izzy placed fifth out of ten welders from the region. This is a great result for her first year competing. A special thanks to @cwbgroupwelding and @cwb_foundation for all their support. It was a great challenge that the students all enjoyed and got an opportunity to learn in a competitive environment. STP Athletics: STPaulCHSsports FRENCH DEPARTMENT NEWS Nouvelles du département de français Concours d’art oratoire Congratulations to our seven(!) STP high school students who participated in the board-wide French public speaking contest on Thursday, March 30th. Some of our students participated in the “traditional” category in which they presented a topic they had selected and prepared in the form of a 3- 5 minute speech. Their names are: Hailey Clarke (Gr. 9), Elena Gomez (Gr. 10), Alexa Mirville (Gr. 10) and Léonie Christelle Lado Nguedam (Gr. 12). The following St. Paul students participated in the “impromptu” category whereby the candidates were given only 15 minutes to prepare a speech on a randomly-selected topic: Meaghan MacIntyre (Gr. 9), Anne-Victoria Lado (Gr. 11) and Adam Potera (Gr. 11). All of the students did us very proud! Bravo, les élèves! Special congratulations go out to Anne-Victoria Lado and Léonie Christelle Lado Nguedam who placed first in their respective categories! These two students will travel to Toronto in May to represent the OCSB at the provincial French Public Speaking competition. Félicitations, les filles!!! STUDENT SERVICES E-Learning Requirements Ontario students will be required to take two E-learning courses by grade 12 to help support the development of digital literacy and other important transferable skills. The Ministry of Education defines e-learning as online learning credit courses in grades 9-12 that are delivered entirely using the internet and do not require students to be physically present with one another or with their educator in the school. For all other information, including opting out, please refer to the following document. LINK TO E-LEARNING DOCUMENT: e-Learning FAQs.pdf *Please note: Students can only opt out in their grade 12 year. The opting out forms will only be available to grade 12 students second semester, starting in the 2023-2024 school year. Summer School Information Information for Summer School courses and programs with the Ottawa Catholic School Board and the Ottawa Carleton District School Board are now available. Please see the links below for more detail and the online registration forms. OCSB - Registration open now ocsb.ca/summerschool OCDSB - Registration opened April 3rd ocdsb.ca/continuing_education/summer_school_programs Grad Meeting On Tuesday, April 11th, starting at 9:30am, there will be an assembly for graduating students to review important information about upcoming graduation activities. Attendance is mandatory. Topics covered include: ● Prom ● Valedictorian ● Grad Retreat ● Grad Awards ● Graduation Ceremony Grad Awards Applications for 3 OCSB grad awards are coming due April 28th: ● Destination Employability Award ● Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Award ● Director of Education Graduate Award Applications and information can be found in the STP Grad Awards 2023 Workspace (which graduating students can access through their student portals). And there are MANY more external scholarships and bursaries students can find through websites such as scholartree.ca. St. Paul High School 2675 Draper Avenue Ottawa, ON K2H 7A1 Phone: 613-820-9705 Email: Paul.High@ocsb.ca Website: pah.ocsb.ca Twitter: StPaulCHS STP Athletics: STPaulCHSsports
