March

• 16th- School Council Meeting- 7pm
• 17th- St.Patrick Day Mass and pancake lunch by the K of C- 1pm at St. Francis Xavier Church- WEAR GREEN!
• 19th- School Choir singing at mass- 11am
• 20th- PD Day- no school for students
• 21st- Student- Led Conferences- Celebration of Learning-4-7:30
• 21st- Invisible World of Science Show- Grade 3 and grade 4
• 23rd- Student- Led Conferences-Celebration of Learning-4-7:30
• 27th- 31st- Spring Break

April

• 7th- Good Friday- No school
• 10th- Easter Monday- No school
• 18th- Easter Liturgy of the Word at school

This term your child and you will participate in conferences in a unique way: student- led conferences. A student- led conference is a time for you to come and listen to your child share their learning. The conferences will be facilitated by the teacher, but led by the student. This is an extremely valuable opportunity for your child to share their strengths and acknowledge areas in need of growth. Conference time slots will be 30 minutes long. You will be able to sign up through the link below.

Please note:

• there may be three student-led conferences going on in the classroom at the same time.

• stations will also be set up in the gym for students to take their parents through

  
  

  CODE TO SIGN UP: 49bf6

St. Pat’s staff and students have been learning about and engaging with traditional Indigenous Medicine Wheel teachings this term.

Medicine wheels represent the alignment and continuous interaction of the four quadrants: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual realities. The circle shape represents the interconnectivity of all aspects of one’s being, including the connection with the natural world. Everything in the wheel has a relationship with each other; thus, there has to be balance amongst each of the four quadrants to achieve harmony.

Each classroom has a Medicine Wheel displayed and every month we focus on learning about a new quadrant. For the month of March we are learning about mental well being and how we can be kind to our mind. Ideas that St. Pat’s students came up with included reading and colouring. As a result, students have been able to work on fulfilling this quadrant by listening to beautiful read-aloud stories by Indigenous authors and participating in mindful colouring pages created by Indigenous artists to work on calming our minds and slowing down our brains throughout our busy days.

Miss Suddaby

Indigenous Ed Lead

As you have no doubt been watching and experiencing, Alberta has been suffering from high rates of RSV, Influenza and COVID-19. We want to thank you for making the right choice to keep your children home when they are experiencing symptoms. In order to help us have the best possible data and communicate with Alberta Health Services if required, we would ask that you report any flu or cold like symptom under the FLU heading in the School Messenger App. Please report absences to the office or through the School Messenger App.

Using Safe Arrival, parents can report:

• FLU - Illness due to flu and cold like symptoms

• ILL - Other illness or injury.

• EXC - Parent Excused (i.e taking your child on a holiday)

Thanks for your attention to this matter, as always, we are working hard to ensure that all students and staff remain safe.

If calling during lunch time (12:00 - 12:30) please leave a message and Ms. Miller will return your call as soon as she can.

Remember to phone and book an appointment if you need to come into the school @ 780-672-2177.

Parent Volunteers

Parents wanting to volunteer at the school or for field trips need to have a Criminal Record Check, Child Intervention Check and sign a Volunteer Confidentiality Undertaking form.

Request forms for these can be picked up at the school office. If you are unsure if you have these documents already completed you can call the office and we can check. These checks can take a while to process so if you are wanting to volunteer please get these done ASAP.

End of day phone messages to students

If you have a message to pass onto your child for end of day arrangements please call the school office no later than 2:45 pm.

It is very difficult to find a child once they have left the classroom at the end of the school day.

Parent/visitor access

All visitors to the school must sign in at the office.

Student absences

Please report student absences to the office or through school messanger.

Twitter-@StPatrickSch2

School Facebook Page(new)- St. Patrick Catholic School Camrose

Facebook School Council Page- St.Pat's School Council

****PLEASE STAY CLEAR FROM BUS LANES AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR DAY AND AT THE END OF OUR DAY. PLEASE STAY CLEAR OF THE STAFF PARKING LOT AT THE START AND END OF THE DAY*****