Message from the school - Sept. 17, 2017

Hello Parents,

We hope you had a good weekend!
Please see below updates at St. Anthony Catholic School for this week and next week.

Sincerely,
Cindy Aldrich-Braddon
Principal
St. Anthony Catholic School

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SAN Staff Update

September 18th– 22nd

We had a great beginning to our year with our first School Council Meeting on
Wednesday evening. 17 parents attended with their children and babysitting
was provided. Parents elected our two Co-chairs, Natacha Ruiz Tardif and
Sarah Taylor. Also elected was our Council Secretary, Heather Reith. This
year, we are hoping to attract more parents by alternating our meeting times.
Our next School Council Meeting will take place on Thursday, October 12th at
3:10 – 4:10 pm in our Learning Commons. Babysitting and snacks will be
provided.

Thanks for Nora and her Grade 5/6 class who did the kickoff for our annual
Terry Fox fundraiser. Students have started contributing their toonies for
Cancer research. Our Terry Fox Run/Walk takes place on Tuesday, September
26th at 9:00 am.

I would like to extend a welcome to Ms Kathy McCord, who will be joining us in
all our math classes from JK to Grade 6 at St. Anthony this year. Ms McCord
will be our Math Partner teacher. She will work most Wednesdays with both
teachers and students, as we continue our focus on mathematics. I encourage
all of you to tweet out your math ideas on Wednesdays to our community. Let
me know if you are interested in having the St. Anthony twitter password and
I will send it to you. Or you may wish to use your own twitter account –
whatever works best for you.

As part of our Green initiatives this week, students in Grades 1 to 6 will be
participating in our City of Ottawa Fall Yard Cleanup this Thursday,
September 21st. As well, a group of Carleton University students have
volunteered to join us this Saturday, September 23rd to help further with our
yard and grounds cleanup.
As I mentioned at our first staff meeting, we will be adopting a school wide
anti-bullying program this year, entitled the WITS Program. Our kickoff
assembly for this program will be on Tuesday, October 3rd. In the meantime,
I’m going to ask some of our junior students to make posters to post around

the school. I encourage you to go to www.witsprogram.ca and read about this
program. We’ll be spending some time at our next staff meeting on this
program. If you would like to help launch and promote this around our school,
please come to a meeting this Wednesday, Sept. 20th at 7:45 am in the
Learning Commons.

Upcoming Events

Monday, September 20th 
 Karine away at board am – Wendy replacing
 Emergency Supply Plans due at office

Tuesday, September 21st
 Cindy out all day – at Elementary Principals Mtg

Wednesday, September 20th
 WITS meeting@7:45 am in Learning Commons All welcome!
 Girls Soccer Tournament
 Nahima from Rec Link visits students at Breakfast Club
 United Way Lunch by Vesna

Thursday, September 21st
 City of Ottawa Fall Cleanup (Ecoschools)
 Thursday Recycle Day

Friday, September 22nd
 Raindate for City of Ottawa Fall Cleanup (Ecoschools)

Saturday, September 23 @12:30 – 4:00 pm
 Carleton University students clean up our yard and grounds
(Carleton Serves)

Monday, September 25
 Photo Day for Students

Tuesday, September 26th
 Toonies for Terry Walk/Run

Wednesday, September 27th
 Boys Soccer Tournament

Tuesday, October 3rd @8:45 am in gym
 WITS kickoff Assembly
 Parents welcome!

Thursday, October 5th
 Thanksgiving Mass–St. Anthony Catholic Church@9:00 am
 Parents welcome!