This Week at École OLPH School
Summer Break
Our Mission Statements
We are a Catholic community committed to developing educational opportunities int he context of Gospel values, where students' gifts and talents are celebrated and nurtured through lifelong spiritual and personal experiences.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School
Our Lady of Perpetual Help school is committed to quality education in both official languages fostering in our students respect for life and learning as Christ taught us.
Admin Message
Dear Parents,
We would like to take the opportunity to thank all members of the École Our Lady of Perpetual Help school community - our students, parents, staff, and district office staff. Congratulations to all of our students on a successful / exceptional year and wish you a restful / fun-filled summer vacation!
June always brings us farewells. École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School would like to say a very well-deserved thank-you and best wishes to M. St. Jean, Mr. Hynek, Mr. MacKay, M. Prévost and Mrs. Colbert who will be leaving us at the end of June.
School for students will begin again on Tuesday the 1st of September 2020
On behalf of all of our staff, it has been a pleasure to work with all of you this school year and we look forward to seeing you at École OLPH School next year.
May God bless you with a peaceful summer.
God Bless.
M. Morin & M. St. Jean
Principal - Assistant Principal
École OLPH
Let Us Pray
Let Us Pray:
God of all creation,
we are blessed to have one another
in this time and place.
We are excited to start our break,
yet we may feel sad as we
think about friends
we may not see for a while.
In these time of change,
help us to stay
connected with you, Lord,
for you desire happiness and peace
for all your brothers and sisters.
We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
Weekly Events at École OLPH
Monday, June 22, 2020 to Monday, August 31, 2020
- Summer Vacation
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
- First Day of School after Summer Break
École OLPH ~ Made the National News!!!
Click on the link below to see École OLPH on the National News regarding our Grade 8 Farewell!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U-pv1IxJ2SsXLkGFU-b_1OoMb4BTX6I9/view
God Bless
Panago ~ Wye Road
What a wonderful way to finish our school year by having a local business provide us with a staff lunch on the last day of school.
Thank you to the Panago location on Wye Road in Sherwood Park!!!
God Bless
Misplaced Textbook & Library Book Fees
All misplaced textbook and library book fees have now been added to PowerSchool.
In September should the book be located, this fee will be deleted and your reimbursement will be applied to your PowerSchool account.
Please log on to PowerSchool and pay any outstanding fees. To avoid the division collections process, please make arrangements to have all fees paid directly.
Mme Winland will be back in the school on Thursday, August 13th, to answer any questions or concerns, that you may have.
God Bless
The Enhanced Staples School Tools Program ~ 2020-2021 School Supply Lists
Attached below are the School Supply Lists from the Enhanced Staples School Tools Program for the 2020-2021 school year!
Please make sure to read the Staples letter for important information on how you can order your child's school supplies without have to go to the store!
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École OLPH Connection Video
A message from the staff at École OLPH to our students that we miss so much...
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École OLPH - Option Selections
Dear Parents:
Please take a moment to review the attached document with your child that describes the École OLPH options that will be offered for the 2020-2021 school year.
École OLPH Option selections will be available starting Monday, June 15, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. All Option Selections are required to be completed by Friday, June 26, 2020. After this date, your child will be placed into an option class where there is availability due to classes already being full.
Instructions on How to Select your Option Selections
- Sign in to PowerSchool
- Click on your child’s name
- Click – Course Request Management
- Complete each Track. To know if a Track has been completed you will have a green check mark beside the box. A red exclamation mark means you are required to complete this Track.
- Submit (Will only allow you to submit if you have all green check marks)
- You must complete these steps for each student that attends École OLPH.
We are pleased to offer exciting options that will enhance our students’ education at École OLPH Catholic School through sports-related, technology, foods, construction, or creative courses.
All of the descriptions for the option courses for grades five, six, seven and eight students at École OLPH Catholic School during the 2020-2021 school year are attached below, as well as, located on the school website at olph.eics.ab.ca under the Programs tab.
It is important to register as these courses fill up quickly. The PowerSchool program has almost always been able to provide students with their top two choices for options. However, when completing course requests you will also be asked to pick two alternate options. This selection may be scheduled if timetabling conflicts prevent your top two preferences from being met.
Please ensure that you have a green checkmark beside each track in Powerschool before continuing.
The cost of each option is listed in the document below. These fees will become available for payment through PowerSchool at the beginning of the 2020/2021 school year.
If you require further information, please feel free to contact us at the school at 780-467-5631.
Sincerely,
M. Alyre Morin
Directeur/Principal
M. Marc St.Jean
Directeur-adjoint/Assistant Principal
OLPH Parish Bulletin - Week of June 28, 2020
Please click on the link below for the OLPH Parish Bulletin for Sunday, June 28, 2020.
Since churches have been re-opened to limited gatherings, all parishioners must register to attend a mass. All families need to go to the OLPH Website to register.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904054caea62ca2f85-mass1
Please enjoy this wonderful new video from Father Jim and Tricia Murphy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=992FhuPa2A8&feature=youtu.be
God Bless
School Fees in PowerSchool
Dear Parents,
All outstanding School Fees are now due.
Elk Island Catholic School District has started the collection process. To prevent further action on your account, please make arrangements for payment before the end of the school year.
God Bless
Student Report Cards
All student report cards will go live in PowerSchool at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, June 26, 2020.
God Bless
EICS Transportation Fees Flexible Payment Plan Options ~ Spring 2020
We realize that it may seem confusing as to why we are sending out invoices about next September when so many things in our province are not finalized during this pandemic.
In order to start planning routes and schedules moving forward - EICS Transportation needs to have concrete numbers of students and addresses to start planning the routes and pick up/drop off stops for our EICS bus riders.
With respect to specific concerns about transportation fees and the payment plan, EICS has provided two options:
- Option 1: June 15 to December 15 or
- Option 2: September 15 to March 15
As well, if you have school fees that have been credited for programming and other options for this school year that you would like applied to EICS transportation fees, you can request this by contacting the school directly. The school will confirm that all resources have been returned prior to granting the request.
Below, we have included some easy steps that parents can take to access transportation fees and specifically the payment plan. If you have any questions regarding this, please do not hesitate to contact EICS transportation at T ransportation@eics.ab.ca or by calling (780) 449-6480.
We want to thank you for continued patience and understanding as we move through this together.
God Bless
School Council Corner
Dear parents,
We wanted to take a moment to thank all the parents who have volunteered this year through the school council and school association. Your participation in attending meetings, organizing and running fundraisers, helping at special events, grade 8 fundraising, hot lunch and all of the other volunteering around the school has been invaluable. We are so appreciative of the time and talents that our amazing parent community provided to the school.
This has been an unusual year to say the least but there have been some amazing moments as well. We put together a slideshow to reflect on all the great work our volunteers have done this past year. We wouldn't be able to run hot lunch or any of our special events or fundraise without your time and commitment and we definitely had a lot of fun along the way.
I would like to say a special thank you to the Executive Committee of Charles Ward, Julie Correia, Andrea Medvescek, Heidi Jones, Barb Crowley and Leslie Gushnowski and to all of the class reps who attended council meetings. I also appreciate the hard work of our grade 8 fundraising chair, Krista Taylor and her team for all of their hard work this year and special note to Pam Manegre and Shaness Benoit for running the hot lunch program.
We are still waiting to hear more about what the fall will look like but we will hope to support those changes the best way we can.
Thank you and have a great summer!
Natalie Wallace
Chair, OLPH School Council
École OLPH School News
Please enjoy our daily École OLPH School News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHDHW4Hz3KI&feature=youtu.be
God Bless
Newcomer Connector
EICS App
The EICS App has many wonderful features includes many wonderful features including immediate access to your PowerSchool account, as well as, the SchoolMessager App.
Please take a moment to download the EICS App.
God Bless