ZONE 2 March 2018 Meteor Newsletter http://www.st-clair.net/sms St. Clair Catholic District School Board Walking together in Christ s light with parish and family, we arecalled to build a safe and inclusive Catholic learning community and to serve as partners in the formation of lifelong learners by: Living our faith Promoting educational achievement and innovation Fostering stewardship, leadership and social Director: D.Crawford Principal: M. Renaud Board Chair: J. Van Heck Superintendent: L. Demers Vice-Principal: T. Johnson Trustee: M. Parks and L. Ward School Secretaries: P. Goodall and J. MacDonald Focus On Faith March 2018 Praised be Jesus Christ! Principal s Message So we are off and running in the season of Lent. This year, Lent began with an apparent paradox. Ash Wednesday fell on the same day as Valentine s Day. Some may have thought that these two things Love and Lent are incompatible. Our school community, however, took another approach. I would like to share it with you. As we saw it, Lent and Love go hand in hand. You see Lent is a time when we turn our focus on ourselves to look for things in our lives that keep us from loving God, ourselves and others better. When we identify these things we then take concrete steps to remove them from our lives so that we can love God, ourselves and others as best we can. In a very real sense, then, Lent is all about Love it s about rededicating ourselves to the very hard work of becoming the best lovers we can be. So what do we do when we identify things in our lives limit our ability to love? Well, the Church has typically given three answers. First, we pray. It is in prayer that we receive the grace we need to become better lovers. Second, we fast. When we unite our prayer to personal sacrifice i.e. giving up food and drink - the grace of prayer is exponentially more abundant. And third, we give alms. We concretely practice love by providing for the needs of others. This year, our community would like to invite you to see Lent a little bit differently. See it in terms of its invitation to become the best lover you can be. Seen in these terms, we ourselves have found that Lent isn t so much a dark and gloomy time but an exciting and uplifting one. Praised be Jesus Christ! Joseph Palko Chaplaincy Leader St. Patrick s Catholic High School Mr.Wright s Gr. 6/7 class will leading us at mass on Tuesday March 6 at 9:30am at St. Benedict s Parish. All are welcome to attend. Mark Renaud Principal School News All newsletters will be processed through telecommunications through our Twitter feed @StMatthewCS, web site www.st-clair.net/sms, Facebook, through Mr. Renaud s Remind app (see end), and live Calendar Register with Mr. Renaud s Remind app. Messages are sent via an anonymous phone number and can only be received. To receive messages via text, text @2cf3d to 226-270-0697. It is our hope that many of our families will use this opportunity in the interest of saving paper and to ensure you receive our monthly newsletter. Most attachments (that cannot be directly added to the newsletter itself), will continue to be sent home with the youngest and only children in each family. Bus Cancellation Days Zone 2 - www.schoolbusinfo.com When buses are cancelled in the morning due to road conditions (ice, snow), they will not run at the end of the day. When buses are cancelled in the morning due to fog, they will run at the end of the day. In both cases, the school will be open. If bus students do not attend a phone call will not made. Students who are walkers and do not show up a phone call will be made.
Parish News kinderstart Kindergarten Registration for September 2018 Mass of the Lord s Day Saturday: 5 pm (St. Benedict s) & 5:30 pm (Our Lady of Mercy) Sunday: 9 am (Our Lady of Mercy), 10 am (St. Benedict s), 11 am (St. Joseph s) & 6:30 pm (St. Benedict s) http://www.givingtogethersarnia.ca/ Calling all Kids up to Grade 3, their siblings and adult caregivers...you're invited to our Cluster Parish Thank you to all of our families who participated in Kinderstart and to those who used the opportunity to register their child to start JK in September. Please note that it is not too late to register. New students are always welcomewe hope to see you then! March Break P.A. Day Kids Group We Meet, We Build in God's love Topic: St. Patrick When: St. Benedict Church Hall Date: Monday, February 12, 2018 Time: 10 am to 12:30 pm Cost: FREE! Lunch provided (Thanks to the Knights of Columbus) New to the Parish? Join in the fun! All are welcome! Pancake Monday Contact: marilyndeery@gmail.com Thank you to our school council and parent volunteers for making our last day of ordinary time at St. Mathew a special one through the generous offering of pancakes! We can now enter the season of lent with a renewed focus on growing in our commitment to Christ and the pursuit of holiness. Sports Senior Basketball Teams will be finishing their regular season at the end of the month. The girls are coached by Mr. Wright and Ms. Hammel. The boys are coached by Mr. Solinas and Mr. Donohue. The boys played in a semi-final game Feb 28 and defeated St. John Fisher. They play St. Francois in the Finals Wednesday March 7 @ 7:30pm at St. Patrick s.
Here is your Parent Advisory Council for 2017-2018: Chair Kevin Van Balen Vice-Chair Michelle Clark Secretary - Carrie Gauthier-Laakes St. Matthew Catholic Parent Advisory Council Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday March 28 from 6:00 8:00 p.m. Footsteps of Faith Catholic schools have been founded based on instilling gospel values and have long nurtured the academic, social, emotional and physical development of students through their spiritual well-being. Our Catholic Graduate Expectations embody these values. We shall be teaching the students the importance of these virtues by emphasizing that God has called us to model the respect shown by Christ. During the month of March, our Catholic Schools are celebrating the character virtue of Generosity. Students for the month of February that recognized for Love were: Class Type Teacher Student Student Student JK/SK Drouin/Rego Tayllum Sophia L Landon B JK/SK Worsley/Moscone Rafe C Tayson G Enya L 1 McElhone Zayden R Scarlett T Quinn B 1/2 Lamourea Jianna D Aniyah D Logan H 2 Hamilton Molly C Landon C n/a 2 Tremblay Addison C Jack P Lexey W 3 Corriveau McKenzie V Peyton S Emanuel D 3/4 Lambert/Gosselin Rayne B Sydney B n/a 4 Salisbury/Hammell Rowan S Haylie O Ryan K 4/5 Whitson Keisha S Hailey O Aiden D 5/6 Saunders Jayla S James V Calum B 6/7 Wright Osten V Ashley J Cayleh H 7/8 Watterworth Emily H n/a n/a 8 Turner Triniti B Jolie B Shelby S