St. Anthony Connects – the week of January 26 – 30

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EQAO Parent Forum

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The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) is pleased to invite parents and educators to a parent forum in Ottawa on March 7. The forum is composed of two sessions. During the first,  the School Support and Outreach Team will deliver information about EQAO’s province-wide assessment program. The following topics will be covered during the session:  an overview of EQAO elementary and secondary assessments, the process for developing and scoring the assessments and an explanation about how the results from these assessments contribute to student learning in Ontario’s schools.

Then, renowned educator and author, Dr. Lynda Colgan will discuss the differences- positive and negative- that parents can make in their child’s mathematics education. Using research and concrete examples throughout her session, Lynda will equip parents with effective strategies and resources to use as they carry out their important job as members of the math teaching team.

Date: Saturday, March 7, 2015

Location: Southway Hotel, 2431 Bank Street, Ottawa, K1V 8R9

Continental Breakfast : 9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

First Session: 9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Lunch: 11:45 a.m.— 12:30 p.m.

Second Session: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

EQAO will cover the following for each participant:

·        continental breakfast and lunch

·        mileage according to Government of Ontario guidelines and

·        accommodation, if required, according to Government of Ontario guidelines, for participants travelling more than 160 kilometres round trip.

Parents and educators wishing to attend are asked to register at ParentForum@eqao.com. Please provide the following information when registering: first and last name, board of education, school, and e-mail address. The deadline for registration is February 20, 2015.

Thank you for your continued support,

Margaret Fler

Principal, School Support and Outreach

Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)

Email: Margaret.Fler@eqao.com

website:  www.eqao.com

EQAO Parent Forum   Reimbursement Guidelines

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Tooth Injury: What should you do?

An avulsed tooth is one that has been completely knocked out of its place. This is a time dependant injury.

The best outcome requires quick action.

1) Find the tooth.

2) Pick up the tooth by the crown. It is the part that is used to chew

3) Gently rinse the tooth with distilled water or milk for a few seconds. Do not scrub the tooth. Only use chlorinated tap

water as a last choice, because it may damage the root. Adult teeth should be immediately replaced into its hole

whenever possible. Hold the tooth by the crown and put it back firmly into the hole, root first. The root will usually “click” into

place. Then ask the child to bite down gently on a gauze or cloth. Take the child to the dentist as soon as possible. If the

tooth cannot be replaced in its hole, it should be stored in cold milk or saliva until transferred to the dentist. Baby teeth should not be replanted as it could damage the adult tooth formation. The child should see the dentist as soon as possible.

If a child shows any sign of a head injury such as unconsciousness, nausea or headache, call 911.

Need more information? Talk to your dentist or dental hygienist or call the Ottawa Public Health Information Line at 613-580-6744.

ottawa.ca/health | ottawa.ca/sante 613-580-6744 | TTY/ATS: 613-580-9656

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Your drink is sweeter than you think!

 

Most of the sugar in your day comes from what you drink. We think about sugar in the food we eat but many popular drinks can also have a lot of sugar.

Why you should care:

• Filling up on sugary drinks makes you less hungry for healthier foods.

• Children’s small tummies can fill up on sugar fast.

• Sugary drinks can cause tooth decay.

When choosing a drink remember:

• Water and milk are the best choices.

• Most fruit drinks have no real fruit.

• Read labels and pick drinks with the least amount of sugar.

• If sugar is first in the ingredient list then it’s high in sugar.

• Kids are watching what you drink: your choice impacts theirs!

For more information contact EatRight Ontario at 1-877-510-5102, www.eatrightontario.ca or visit Ottawa

Public Health at www.ottawa.ca/health or 613-580-6744.

St. Anthony This Week

Monday, January 26

Tuesday, January 27

D-E-A-R DAY/Family Literacy Day:  

Monday January 26th is Family Literacy Day in Canada. The theme this year is

 

“15 Minutes of Family Fun”.  I have put up posters and there will be a reminder in the school blog and on Twitter.

 

 We, here at St. Anthony, will be marking the day by doing random announcements throughout the day to Drop Everything And Read! (DEAR)for 15 minutes.

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Cathlee O’Connell to read with Mrs.Rupnik’s class

Chess club

Dorothy reading with Mrs. Rupnik’s class

Our first Table Tennis class – 3:15 – 4:15

The instructor is Horatio Pintea.

During his time on the Canadian Table Tennis National team, Horatio Pintea has participated in all major competitions including the 1988 and 1996 Olympics as well as numerous World Championship and World Cups. He has represented Canada in 5 Pan American Games (1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999) and has managed to capture at least one medals in each of the Pan American Games.

He  is also the North American Champion, Canadian Champion.

 Now he is actively playing Racketlon.

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Wednesday, January 28

Y Kids Academy – 11:30 – 1:30PM Grade 5-6

Thursday, January 29

Time for our monthly assembly

  • girls Badminton
  • boys Badminton
  • environmental awards
  • Grade 6 Valentines Bake Sale

Young Rembrandts – 2nd session – 3:15 – 4:15

Friday, January 30

Pizza Day!

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Little Horn Theatre  * MUSIC WITH AUDREY   LEMIEUX

 Teacher notes for the week

Ms Myers Class Grade 1:

This week the “Wonderful Ones” will explore the needs of living things as we prepare for our trip to the Mill of Kintail Conservation Area, February 5th. In math we are investigating various ways whole numbers are composed – e.g. 5 is the same as 2+3, 4+1, 1+4, etc. Seeing the parts that make up the whole number helps your child develop flexibility with numbers and build important addition and subtraction computation strategies. Thank you for reminding your child to return their January homework this week as well as any permission forms for our upcoming field trip!

Mr Cook’s Class Grade 1/2

Math –> This week in math, we will start our data management lessons where the students will learn to gather data by conducting surveys, represent the data using graphs, and interpret the data from the graphs (“What do the results from our survey tell us?”). 

Language –> Our word wall words from this week will focus on short vowel sounds. The word wall words are : has, pet, live, stop, run. We will do various activities using these words and will add them to the word wall on Friday. This week, we will again write in our journals, and continue to work on writing sentences. We will begin to learn more about procedural writing.

Science –> We will learn more about the changes between the seasons and how it affects animals and humans.

Art –> We will finish our warm and cool color art project and discuss meaning behind our pieces of art.

Ms Rupnik’s Class

This upcoming week, we will focus on our new ‘thinkmark’ related to asking questions (for example: what, who, when, where, why, how). After reading a story, students will ask questions related to the text and record their questions. Please note the January homework calendar is due back on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Please ensure you are working with your child to complete the homework activities daily as part of your nightly routines. 

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M Girard:  Here are the FSL weekly snippets for the week of Jan 26th:

 2/3e: Pédagogie de l’enquête (inquiry)-recherche de réponses à nos 5 questions sur les conséquences des activités humaines sur l’environnement

4/5e: Études Sociales: coup d’oeil sur les problématiques environnementales de nos quatre régions physiques à l’étude

5/6e: Processus d’une élection-formation de quatre comités de promotion des candidats à l’élection de la mascotte de classe

4e Immersion: préparation et présentation des menus santé.

Dans la classe de Mr. Chartrand:

Grade 1/2

 In Social Studies, we are continuing to work on buildings in our neighbourhood and are also learning about community helpers.

We have been studying Canada’s customs and traditions. We will talk about Nunavut this week and then compare Canada and Mexico.

We will work on the “on/om” sound this week. We will practice to pronounce it, find it in words and study vocabulary with the sound.

In writing, we will do a winter scene and describe it with as much detail as possible.

 The words wall words for this week are:

  • travailler (to work), plus (more or add), moins (less or minus), qui (who)

* Please practice the words at home. I will be sending word wall work homework again. Please return it by the end of the week.

* Please have the Grade 2 students bring their Country projects to school to work on Thursday’s andFriday’s if its possible.

 

Grade 4 (Immersion)

 The last student will present his project this week.

We will continue to work on “Les roches et les minéraux”.

We will focus our study on the 3 different types of rocks (sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic) and how to identify them.

 Merci,

Monsieur

Ms Hubert’s Grade 5/6 class:  
In Language Arts we are looking at Procedural Writing and continuing with our

Fantasy novel book circles.
In Science we are working on the Respiratory System.
In Physical Education and Health we are attending our second Y-Kids Academy session.

 

St. Anthony Connects – the week of January 19 – 23

Our girls did extremely well at this week's badminton tournament at St. George School

Our girls did extremely well at this week’s badminton tournament at St. George School

 

Monday, January 19

Kindergarten Registration all week

Free Throw Forms due Gr 5 & 6

Milk: New Session to Apr. 10

Young Rembrandts Forms Due

Royal Winnipeg Ballet (Little Horn Theatre) with Jamie Vargas Juniors starting at 8:45 am – please bring your permission forms

Workshop 1 : 8:45 a.m.-9:15 a.m.
Workshop 2 : 9:20 a.m. – 9:50 a.m

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workshop 2: 5/6 (26)

EQAO planning – 9:00 am – Geraldine, Paul and Sabina

waste walkabout

Tuesday, January 20

Cathlee O’Connell to read with Mrs.Rupnik’s class (AM)

Pizza Orders Due – including staff

School-wide audit Day – In order to assess our waste, we need to gather garbage, recycling, and compost materials for a 24 period. We then weigh the clear plastic garbage bags. Fill in the worksheet and assess the data (all done visually). Finally we communicate our results and reduction strategies with the whole school community (ie bulletin board etc.)

Chess today at lunch

Dorothy reading with Mrs. Rupnik’s class (PM)

Wednesday, January 21

Little Horn Theatre  * MUSIC WITH AUDREY   LEMIEUX – this program will take place in the  library

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St. Anthony’s

JK/SK 8:30-9:00 (20)

JK/SK 9:00-9:30 (20)

9:45-10:00 recess

10:00-10:40 Grade 1 ( 12) +

Grade 1/2 (20)

10:40-11:15 Grade 2/3 (16)

*get ready for lunch upon

dismissal

11:15-12:15 LUNCH

12:30-1:10 Grade 4/5 (24)

1:30-1:45 LAST RECESS

2:00-2:40 Grade 5/6 (24)

Table Tennis Forms Due – 15 participants maximum – this is an after-school program

hip hop demonstration – 10:30 in the gym – Katie Gauthier  – sign up sheets will be handed out at the session – juniors only

Y Kids Academy – grade 5-6 – leaving for the Y at 11:30

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Maria and Teresa at OECTA meeting – 4:00 PM

Thursday, January 22

Young Rembrandts After School

Friday, January 23

Memorial mass 7:30 St. Anthony Church for John Colin Jeffrey Kelly and Johanna  KORVEMAKER – coffee and snacks back at school after mass – we need some bakers – I will pick up the coffee.

Little Horn Theatre  * MUSIC WITH AUDREY   LEMIEUX – same location and schedule as Wednesday

Guest Reader Session in Mrs. Rupnik’s class (AM)

Guest Reader Session in Mrs. Rupnik’s class (PM)

Finish the week with out new song ‘Happy’ starting not before 3:00PM

 

 

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Young Rembrandt registration is still open – please go to www.youngrembrandts.com/Ottawa or phone 613-889-8531.

Drawing classes start at St. Anthony January 22. Please sign up athttp://t.co/ZAeOiG26U9 or call 613-889-8531 Full subsidy available

Young Rembrandts – Educational art classes,…January 22 – Feb 19 3:10 – 4:10 PM
Teacher Notes for this week:
Ms Myers:This week in Grade 1….As an extension to our presentation by the National Gallery, we have been talking about famous

painters and the kind of work that inspired them. This week the “Wonderful Ones” will apply what they

have learned about primary colours and create a piece of work based on the famous Dutch artist Piet

Mondrian. In religion we will focus on the gifts of God’s creation and how we need to care for the earth.

At the end of the week we say good-bye to our wonderful co-op student, Yoshuna, from Lisgar High

School. We wish her all the best and will miss her a great deal!

M Girard:

FSL  program for the week of January 19th:
2/3e: Études Sociales-pédagogie de l’enquête (inquiry process) 1re utilisation des Chromebooks/comment utiliser Google translate
4/5e: Vocabulaire et structures pour parler pizza/rencontres individuelles pour évaluer les réflexes en conversation
5/6e: Études Sociales- 1re étape d’une élection: profil de trois candidats-mascottes (Charlie, Desneiges et Max)
4e Immersion: écoute, prononciation et intonation de quatre poèmes
Danse: 30 nouveaux mouvements(Ophea)

Ms Manzoli’s Class:

The grade 2/3 class continue to work on narrative stories, our word wall words this week focus on contractions. Continue to practice these high frequency words with your children, this will help in remembering them when using them in their writing. The grade three’s will be beginning to prep for eqao. Parents can help by visiting the web site www. Eqao.com.
In math, we will focus on reviewing time and move into temperature.
We begin our new unit in science on structures.
Reminder that homework is due on Tuesday’s.
Ms Rupnik’s Class:  We will focus on the popular book titled “The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats. Our lessons and tasks will include sequencing (first, next, then, last, finally), vocabulary, and retelling the story from memory.  The Retelling Journal arrives home on Friday. Be sure to sit with your child and listen to him/her retell the story, “The Snowy Day”.  Then write the retelling in the journal. Remind your child to return the Retelling Journal to school on Monday, January 26.
Family Literacy Day is January 26th  see more here at http://abclifeliteracy.ca/fld/15-minutes-of-fun
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Our girls Badminton team at St. George – they did really well this week!

Principal’s Report to School Council – Wednesday, January 14th

Principal’s Report – Wednesday, January 14, 2015

 

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1.  Programs:  Our winter/spring programming is about to begin.  Here is a breakdown of what we have scheduled:

 

  • Little Horn Theatre:  Audrey Lemieux will be starting a music program with all our students starting January 21st.  The music portion of Little Horn will continue on to February 27th.  Jamie Vargus – the principal trainer of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet will be here January 19th to offer workshops to the junior (grade 4-6) students.

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  • Y Kids Academy – This is a FREE 12 hour healthy living program designed specifically for grades five and six students.  Upon successful completion of the program, our grade six students will also receive a FREE, one year, no strings attached membership to the YMCAYWCA!      The program starts next week, but we are still looking for parent volunteers to help out.  Volunteers would simply help escort the students to and from the Y as we will be walking.
  • Table Tennis – Forms for this program will be handed out Thursday.  We will be offering this program after school (3:15-4:15)once a week for our students starting January 27 going to April 21.  The price of the 10-week program is $30.00. Subsidies available.

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  • Hip Hop Dancing – We  will also be offering a 10-week hip hop dance class (juniors only) on Wednesday at lunchtime.   Registration will take place on Wednesday, January 21.  The program will cost students $25.00 for the 10 weeks.  Subsidies available.
  • Young Rembrandts – The drawing program will begin again January 22 for 5 sessions.  Total cost:  $54.00 (full subsidy available)  Registration deadline is January 19th.

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2.  Pizza Days!  We will be running pizza days twice a month starting January 30th.  Forms for pizza have gone home and are due back January 20th.  This will be our school fundraiser for the year.  All profit will be going directly back into the classroom.

 

3.  Second session Milk Programbegins January 19th and goes to April 10th.  This program is intended as a fundraiser as well.  We will report on the proceeds from this year’s program to School Council in June.

 

4.  EQAO – we are starting to work on EQAO preparation now.  Teachers will be meeting over the next week to plan strategies to assist all students in preparation for the tests in May and June.  This school does extremely well in EQAO and we plan to continue our upward trend.  In reading and writing we continue to improve from grade 3 to grade 6.  In math, the trend is not as strong, but we have a team of teachers working on math instruction this year and this could have a positive impact on how are students do.  The most important thing is to start early to identify the students are risk in the areas of reading, writing and math.

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5.  First Term Report Cards – these will be coming out February 13th.  We will not hold a formal meeting night this round, but parents can schedule a meeting with their classroom teacher to discuss the term I results.  Teachers will also be contacting parents where there are areas of concern.

St. Anthony Connects The Week of January 12 – 16

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Kindergarten registration starts now – if you have a child ready to enter junior or senior

kindergarten please come in and complete your registration form!

 

St. Anthony This Week

 

Monday, January 12

waste walkabout

Tuesday, January 13

Pizza forms go out today Looking at Pictures Schedule for Tues., Jan., 13 Sharon MacLeod (National Gallery Volunteer) Rm. 28 (Literacy Room) chess at lunch

Wednesday, January 14

waste walkabout School Council 6:00 PM

Thursday, January 15

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Friday, January 16

PD Day school closed oph_hor_ef_clr     child-sleep Sleep is a basic need for everyone. Getting a good night’s sleep is vital for kids. It is needed to help them develop well and perform their best. School-age kids need 10-12 hours of sleep a night. Many kids are getting less than this. Signs that a child may not be getting enough sleep are:  Short attention span  Yawning  Drowsy  Hyper-active  Cranky Most kids will resist bedtime but parents should be firm. Here is what parents can do to help kids sleep longer and better:  Have dinner and after school activities early in the evening  No screens in the bedroom. This includes TV, computers, phones and games  Bedrooms should be cool (less than 24C)  House should be quiet  Have the same bedtime routine every night (bath, reading before bed or quiet time, lights out) Parents can be great role models and get a good night’s sleep too. For more information visit www.ottawa.ca/health or contact Ottawa Public Health at 613-580- 6744.   ottawa.ca/health | ottawa.ca/sante 613-580-6744 | TTY/ATS : 613-580-9656

Teacher Notes for this week 

 

Ms Myers: This week in Grade 1…. Happy New Year! The children have written some worthwhile “resolutions” to start off 2015! In math this week we will work on linear measurement and in language we will focus on rhyming word families. The “Wonderful Ones” have been asked to lead morning prayer on the announcements. If your child is involved in this, please practice with them the night before!

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 M Girard:

2/3e: la météo quotidienne-distinguer l’information pertinente dans les bulletins d’Environnement Canada
3/4e: Études Sociales-quatrième région physiographique à l’étude (les basses-terres du St-laurent)
5/6e: Musique-fingering for G-A-B-C-D on recorder and a four bars challenge
4e immersion: dictée janvier (verbes aller et -er)/Éducation Physique-badminton en équipe (services et limites du terrain)

 Ms Rupnik’s class:  While writing in our journals this week, we will revisit our writing goals we set early in September and make some adjustments if necessary.  We welcome Marisa Patterson, a student teacher, from the University of Nipissing to our class. She will work with us for 4 consecutive weeks.  In our Social Language program, we will role-play how to say thank-you. You may want to practise this skill at home too.

St. Anthony Connects the first week in January!

Faith and Fun January

Faith and Fun Jan 2

voice of the day

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. then suddenly the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

Mother Teresa

prayer of the day

God, thank you for giving us light in the darkness. Do not let us lose sight of this mysterious power. As we have been given hope in the midst of our suffering, may we too offer hope and light to those who only see darkness. Amen.

News from the Green Club December 2014

 

The Green Club has been busy at St. Anthony Catholic School. In

mid­ October we had our annual Cleaning the Capital event

where all staff and students picked up litter and compost leaves

around our school grounds. We made GOOS (Good On Other

Side) boxes for each classroom to save paper. Green Club

students are also running a Caught You Wasting Program and

continue to track individual class results. Classes that leave lights

and SMARTboard monitors on when not in use get a ‘caught you

wasting’ sign posted on their door. More recently, we conducted a

school­-wide Waste Audit, which included investigating waste

collected in the wastebaskets, compost bins, and black recycle

bins over the course of one school day. An action plan with one

targeted goal was devised. The results of this waste audit were

presented at a school assembly in a fun Ecojeopardy game

format. A second and third waste audit will be conducted in the

winter and spring. This will allow us to see if our targeted goal of

reducing contamination in our compost bins, wastebaskets, and

black recycle bins has been reached. To keep everyone sharp with

our guidelines of where waste items go (wastebaskets, compost

bins, and black recycle bins) spot audits will be conducted 3 times

weekly and the results posted on our individual class pocket

charts. Stay tuned for more exciting green news!

Teacher Newsletters for December

Ms Rupnik’s December newsletter

Ms Colaiacovo’s January Newsletter 

The Book Fair at St. Anthony

The total for the Book Fair was $1898.60.
After I purchased $218.00 in books from the Fair for our shelves, minus fees etc. our
profit was $664.85.
Very pleased and especially grateful to the Hopkins family for their purchase of
$351.50 and to all the families who supported our Book Fair.
From Ottawa Public Health
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Sleep

Sleep is a basic need for everyone. Getting a good night’s sleep is vital for kids. It is needed to

help them develop well and perform their best. School-age kids need 10-12 hours of sleep a

night. Many kids are getting less than this. Signs that a child may not be getting enough sleep

 Short attention span

 Yawning

 Drowsy

 Hyper-active

 Cranky

Most kids will resist bedtime but parents should be firm. Here is what parents can do to help kids

sleep longer and better:

 Have dinner and after school activities early in the evening

 No screens in the bedroom. This includes TV, computers, phones and games

 Bedrooms should be cool (less than 24C)

 House should be quiet

 Have the same bedtime routine every night (bath, reading before bed or quiet time, lights

out)

Parents can be great role models and get a good night’s sleep too.

For more information visit www.ottawa.ca/health or contact Ottawa Public Health at 613-580-6744.

St. Anthony This Week

 Monday, January 5

Waste Walkabout

Tuesday, January 6

Chess at lunch

Wednesday, January 7

Waste Walkabout

Rosary Program

Hip Hop – final session

Thursday, January 8

Épiphanie songs practice in gym gr.1-6 – 9:20

Friday, January 9

Epiphany Mass – 9:00 AM

Waste Walkabout

Coming up – more Little Horn Theatre, pizza days, a new table tennis program, a new session of Young Rembrandts and Squirmies and maybe a hip hop program.  More to come later.

Coming very soon…

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Table Tennis

 

St. Anthony School

Table Tennis Program

Date: Every Monday

Time: 11:35am —12:15pm

Registration: drop off your registraion
form by Jan 14  (Wednesday)

Fee: to be determined – subsidies available

Given Name:____________________

Last Name: _____________________

Grade:_________________________

Contact Email:

_______________________________

Table Tennis

Tennis de Table

Canada

_______________________________

Contact phone number:

Website: www.ttcan.ca

Address: 18 Louisa St.

Ottawa, Ontario

_______________________________

Parent Name:____________________

Signature:_______________________

K1R 6Y6

Phone: 1-613-733-6272