Teachers at St. Paul the Apostle School have included the use of technology into the new school year School Improvement Plan. Pictured are Ms. Dahlvik gr. 2/3 FI, Ms. Connelly board assistive technology teacher, Ms. Streitenberger gr. 2/3 regular, Mrs. Lavalee resource teacher and Mrs. Wilson gr3/4 teacher as they work together to create a plan for this new school year.

On September 28th, dressed in the school colours of red and white and many sporting Terry Fox hats or banners, the staff and students of St. Paul the Apostle School walked skipped or jumped in support of the Terry Fox Foundation. The students and staff raised $1218 for this very worthy cause. Pictured are Cassidy McLardie and Sydney Timony wearing their Terry Fox hats and holding a Terry Fox book.

In keeping with this months virtue of Empathy, the St. Paul Catholic Elementary Students in Ms. Purawec’s 7/8 FI class collected money to purchase sandwich fixings and on Friday May 20th all the students worked together to prepare sandwiches and a small sweet to be delivered to the Elgin Street Mission. The students worked in an assembly line fashion as some buttered, some spread the mustard, some added the cheese and some added the meat. The last station was the group who added a small sweet and short message with each completed sandwich. We are very proud of our students and their generosity.

Catholic Education Week at St. Paul School ended with a tea party for the Mothers and Grandmothers of Mme. Gautheir’s SK FI class. The students entertained their guests,
shared treats together and each presented their Mother with an individually authored storybook and flower. As a special treat, the grade 8 core french class, under the guidance of Mme. Lavalle, made special hats during the week with the little ones and to conclude the tea party all modelled their hats and recited a poem en francaise.

At one pm on, May 2nd, the students and staff of St. Paul the Apostle School celebrated Music Monday by singing with hundreds of Canadian schools across the country. The school choir sang “All Things Bright and Beautiful” and the Catholic Education Week Theme song entitled “Celebrating the Spirit”. It was noted by several of the community entering the school to vote for the federal election “How wonderful to see and hear children singing at school.”

Shrove Tuesday is the last day before Lent. In St. Paul tradition, parent and grandparent volunteers prepared a pancake lunch for all the students and staff. Everyone shared a blessing and then ate together at tables that were set up in the gym.

This past month, St. Paul the Apostle School hosted a junior math night for parents and their children in our junior grades. Krista Sarmatiuk and Connie Ubriaco from Academic Services joined our teachers to lead a very successful Math night. Students demonstrated the ir knowledge in solving math problems and parents got to learn about manipulatives, gallery walks and neat ways to solve multiplication problems. At the end of the evening parents were commenting on how much they enjoyed and appreciated seeing just what a math class now looks like.