What's Heating Up at Holy Spirit
January 20-24
Important Dates
Monday, January 20
- Assembly at 12:15 pm - Parents are welcome to join us!
Tuesday January 21
- Regular Day
Wednesday, January 22
- HS Choir Practice Grades 1-4
- Sherwood Park Museum - Kindergarten AM and M/W
Thursday, January 23
- Sherwood Park Museum - Kindergarten T/T
- Salto - All Grade 1s
Friday, January 24
- Kindergarten M/W
- Hot Lunch - Culinary Delights
- Gymnastics - Grade 3P and 3Y
Upcoming Events
- January 29 - Capital Care - 4YH
- January 30 - Salto - All Grade 1s
- January 30 - Report Cards are live in PowerSchool at 4:00 pm
- January 31 - Gymnastics - Grade 3A and 3G
- February 5 - Early Out - Dismissal at 2:15 pm
- February 5 - Jump Rope for Heart Wrap up Assembly
- February 6 - No School - Teacher Convention
- February 7 - No School - Teacher Convention
Please see more Holy Spirit News and Information below!!!Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! -2 Corinthians 5:17 -
Our week in pictures
MakerSpaces Items needed
We are in need of some items for our MakerSpaces room:
Items needed:
Shoe boxes
Cereal boxes
Egg cartons
Paper rolls
Pipe cleaners
4 litre milk jugs
As always donations are always appreciated! Thank you!
Library Corner
if you are interested in helping Mrs Scoggins out in the library during lunch recess
(day of the week to be announced)
Please come by the library this week to sign up!
Blanket Exercise Update
Dear Parents and staff:
Parents and staff of EICS students are invited to take part in a Blanket Exercise to be held at Central Learning Services (310 Broadview Road) in Sherwood Park on Thursday, January 23, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Please note that this is the updated date after the original date was changed due to the extreme cold on the 15th.
The Blanket Exercise is an active participation learning activity based on the major themes and findings of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The goal is to build understanding about our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada by walking through pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. Everyone is actively involved as they step onto blankets that represent the land, and into the role of First Nations, Inuit and later Métis peoples. By engaging on an emotional and intellectual level, the Blanket Exercise effectively educates and increases empathy. For further information, please view this KAIROS Blanket Exercise video.
Participants are asked to bring a blanket that can be placed on the floor and stepped on for this activity.
Please RSVP by Monday, January 20 by filling out this linked Google Form: Blanket Exercise Rescheduled - January 23. If you can attend, please register using this link even if you had registered using the earlier link for January 15.
We will also have Eva Stang join us at this event. Eva, a Métis Culture and Knowledge Keeper, has been working with EICS this year, supporting the continued growth in staff and administrator knowledge of Indigenous perspectives.
Although there are versions of this activity that are appropriate for young children, the version we will be using is geared more toward older youth and adults.
If you have any questions, please email Crystal Cholin, Learning Services Consultant (crystalc@eics.ab.ca).
Kindergarten Registration
2020 / 2021 Kindergarten Registration opens February 1, 2020
PreK Registrations will open at a later date
On February 1, 2020, please log onto www.eics.ab.ca under parent information and create an account to fill out the online registration for your child. Please ensure that the birth certificate is attached as well as the baptism certificate to make it a complete registration.
Kindergarten students must turn 5 between January 1 - Dec 31, 2020
(any students born in 2015).
Please mark your calendar for our Orientation Night April 7th from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Bus Information
https://www.eics.ab.ca/transportation
If your student is a bus student make sure to sign up for the bus planner app to receive all the up to date busing information.
Accountability Suvey
Dear Elk Island Catholic School Families,
Alberta Education will be conducting the annual Accountability Pillar Survey in the new year. Parents of students in grade 4, 7 and 10 will receive a mailed survey from Alberta Education (if the school has fewer than 120 students, parents of students in grades 4-12 will receive the survey in the month of January)
As an annual check-up on the education system, the Accountability Pillar provides an opportunity for Alberta Education to ensure that we are equipping students for success
School Parent Council
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 6:30 pm (ECS)
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - 6:30 pm (Grade 2)
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 - 6:30 pm
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 -6:30 pm (PreK)
School Fees
School fees are due! If you wish to make payments, please send post dated checks to the office. Checks are payable to EICS.
Please check your PowerSchool parent portal regularly for updates to school fees
Please email Mrs. Posavec with any questions at brigittep@eics.ab.ca
OLPH Parish News
First Communion - Saturday May 23, 2020 at 5:00 pm
It is not to late for parents wishing to register children for Sacramental Preparation this year.
Registration & Parent Orientation Night for First Reconciliation, First Communion & Confirmation
Monday January 27 at 7:30 pm
Any questions call Natalie at OLPH Parish 780-467-5470
More details can be found at
https://www.facebook.com/events/592128168028773/
OLPH Bulletin
Sacrament Preparation Information