Holy Trinity visit to St. Anthony – our kids have a wonderful time!
Principal Report to school community
Our regularly scheduled school council meeting was cancelled due to weather this week, so I will give a brief report here for your information.
i. Programs at school: Right now, we have the chess club running – it is certainly the most popular club in our school thanks to Mr. Wayne NG, who runs the program every week. Squirmies and Young Rembrandts are taking a break for Christmas right now but I hope to run both programs again in the new year.
Little Horn Theatre continues at our school. We have one more session with our hip hop artist Katie Gauthier and i would like to find a way to offer a lunch-time hip hop class in the new year.
We are still working on getting a table tennis program going, but we have yet to acquire tables.
Aviva Campaign: Unfortunately, we were not successful in our bid to get into the finals. We estimate we missed by around 100 votes – good, but not good enough. We will now pursue other options including the City of Ottawa (for trees) depave.ca – a volunteer organization that helps to depave yards like ours, TD Friends of the Environment and Evergreen Canada. We certainly haven’t given up. We support all of you who voted for us every day during this long campaign!
Maker Spaces: This is becoming a great activity for our kids. Students are coming to our learning commons to make things with electronic kits like Makey Makey and littleBits. We are also using lego, and other building kits. We will be adding calligraphy and knitting to the collection of activities that will be available soon. The maker space is a great way for kids to be innovative and creative. Last week, our teachers received some training on these creative spaces from Maker Junior, a terrific group here in Ottawa that specializes in offering workshops on making for children across the city. We have more ideas for the new year!
Holy Trinity Visit: We had a great visit from Holy Trinity this week! The kids love this and look forward to the visit all year. The Trinity students did activities in the classes before lunch then played all recess with the kids. The finished off with a great show involving all the kids in the gym after lunch. The Trinity students also brought loads of Christmas baskets which we will be distributing this week to families in need.
Marian Small – 6:00PM February 11th – all parents and teachers invited – this is an important presentation open to all parents. Marian Small is a local expert on the teaching of math and she will be presenting to parents and interested teachers in February. This will take the place of the usual school council meeting for February. This event is sponsored and organized by school council and we really encourage all parents to attend this important session. We will be sending out a formal invitation in January so we will have a better idea on numbers for this session.
Christmas baskets: The Christmas baskets will be distributed on Wednesday of this week. We would like to thanks the students and staff of Sacred Heart and Holy trinity Catholic High Schools for assembling these baskets for us!
Finally, I would like to wish all of you a happy Christmas and some good quality time together with your families. St. Anthony Connects will return in the new year.
Mr. McGuire
St. Anthony This week
Monday, December 15
waste walkabout
FDK1 Ms. Greenwood’s class is having a Christmas lunch tomorrow with turkey and all the fixings 🙂
Advent in the gym – 2:00 PM
Tuesday, December 16
Cathlee O’Connell to read with Mrs.Rupnik’s class
chess at lunch
waste walkabout
Dorothy reading with Mrs. Rupnik’s class
Nativity Play Rehearsal-Gym
Wednesday, December 17
Visit to St. Vincent – 1:30 PM
Christmas baskets going out all day today
Thursday, December 18
Monthly Assembly
Friday, December 19
waste walkabout
PJ Day, popcorn and movies all grades
Teacher Notes for the week
Ms. Rupnik’s class: This week in the Primary Language Class, we will continue to work on vocabulary related to Advent and Christmas in oral and written form. We will make personalized Christmas ornaments to take home and finish our cards for the people of St. Vincent Hospital. Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and much joy during the holidays! Classes resume again on Monday, January 5, 2015.
Ms. Myers Grade 1:
It will be a busy week of “returns!” Please ensure your child returns his/her library book, home reading book, and December homework. We are looking forward to sharing any graphs that were completed at home as part of our data management studies – these graphs can be sent in any time this week. The children are looking forward to participating in a short Nativity Play as part of our Third Week of Advent
Liturgy, Monday at 2:00 p.m. Join us if you can!
Ms. Manzoli’s grade 2/3 class: On Tuesday afternoon, I will be having a craft day. We are making gingerbread houses and Christmas Craft.
