Hello St.Patrick School Families,

Advent starts this Sunday. Advent is a four-week period that marks the beginning of the Christmas season. It is a time of spiritual preparation before the celebration of the birth of Christ. The period of Advent involves reflection about what it meant for the world before Christ came and preparing the church and hearts for the true meaning of Christmas.

Throughout Advent we will using adverbs to learn HOW God planned to save all people.We will meet as a school every week for an assembly and continue to learn more about the coming of our promised Savior through this Advent Season. Your child will be coming home with an Adverbs of Advent booklet so as a family you can follow along.

God Bless,

Mrs.Nanias

Mrs.Ellert

November

• Sunday 27th-Advent starts
• Monday 28th- Christmas Concert Tickets go on sale
• Monday 28th- Advent Assembly- 8:45am gym
• Monday 28th- Dec.5th- Book Fair

December

• Thursday 1st- Early Dismissal
• Monday 5th- PD Day- No school for students
• Monday 5th- Extra tickets for Christmas Concert go on sale
• Monday 12th- Christmas Concert- 1W,1S,2L,2K,3F,4C/W,4D- 7pm
• Tuesday 13th- Christmas Concert- 1B,2M,3G,3O,4R,4S- 7pm
• Friday 16th- Better Together School Assembly- all are invited
• Tuesday 20th- Tuesday/Thursday Kindergarten Christmas Concert
• Wednesday 21st- Monday/Wednesday Kindergarten /PREK Christmas Concert
• Wednesday 21st- PJ Day, Cookie Decorating and Spin the Wheel/Fruits of the Spirit

Each family can buy 4 tickets for the show that their children are in.

Cost: $7 each- Tickets can be purchased at the Lougheed Center.

Tickets go on SALE 9am November 28th- December 2nd WALK-UP only at the Performing Arts Center. The staff at the Lougheed have been given "family lists" where ticket sales can be tracked so all families have equal opportunity to see their children perform. Special consideration has also been made for blended family dynamics.

On Dec 5th, any tickets not purchased will be released. Each family may purchase an additional 2 tickets for the show. The extra tickets will available on first come first serve.

Children 18 months and younger are permitted to sit on Adult laps for performance.

If you cannot afford to purchase tickets, please speak directly to Mrs.Nanias and the school community will support your needs confidentially.

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

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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*****