Our Lady of Grace

NEWSLETTER

Principal: Mr. J. Rebelo 121 Brimwood Blvd Trustee: Mr. Garry Tanuan

Secretary: Mrs. D. Lea Scarborough, ON Superintendent: Mr. Nick D’avella

Head Caretaker: Mr. Treliving M1V 1E5

(416) 393-5372

Prince of Peace Church (416) 291-9422 NOVEMBER 2013

School Masses

“Family Advent Mass”

Tuesday, December 17th @ 7:00 pm at

Prince of Peace Church

(Reception to follow in the Church hall)

All parents are welcome to attend!

CSAC News

The last CSAC meeting was held on Tuesday,

September 24th. We thank all parents and staff

who attended!

Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday,

November 12th, at 6:45 p.m. Please plan on

joining us!

Babysitting is available for parents with small

children.

Cross-Country

On Thursday, October 17th, Our Lady of

Grace participated in the Cross Country

divisional meet at Morningside Park. Over

70 students practiced since September,

running at lunch on a daily basis. Cross-

country running is a demanding sport where

determination is needed to succeed. All of

our students who participated in the meet

received points for our school. Our school

received a total of 1349 points. Out of 7

schools we finished in 2nd place, wining the

finalist pennant. Congratulations to all our

runners.

A big thank you to all of our teachers who

helped train the students on a daily basis and

who took the time to go to Morningside Park.

Without all of our dedicated coaches we

would not be able to succeed so well!

Our team runners are:

8 yrs old

Sofia Pabon, Selene Pabon, Shawna Camilus,

Michelle Zhou, Nadeene Panaligan, Nanichi

Kalu-Obuba, Saniya De Grasse, Iniya Luck-

shman, Jonathan Manuel, Philip

Lacuata, Jacob Owsicki, Samuel Nuga,

Rishanth Rajakulam, Derek Fortuna, J.D.

Wyke and Luca Masci-Zuliani.

9 yrs old

Mary-Anna Asare, Soraya De Grasse,

Ma-Kayla Graham-Imbers, Elien Aghazarian,

Rebecca Li, Leilani Sabatin, Angelina Shaw,

Victoria Hibbett, Matteo Masci-Zuliani,

Samson Fong, Jaron Fernandes, Jalen Blight,

Gaeb Castro, Domenic de Vera, Howard Lee,

Jaiden Briggs.

10 yrs old

Amalia Pabon, Mariah Nigli, Valeree Danao,

Janessa Sarmiento, Angelli Escoto, Sarah

Fernandes, Anna Palconit, Santiago de Vera,

Miguel Quiban, Joey Ditta, Skyler Thomas,

Nithurshan Muralitharan, Viran Jay, Jaymarc

Sarmiento, Kyrie Akal.

11 yrs old

Nicole Owsicki, Anaeah Hewitt, Jasmine

Ayoub.

12 yrs old

Renee Chow, Christine Mabbayad, Sefrica

Fernando, Marisa Fiorino, Sharon Arul,

Cassandra Kee, Raphael Nuga, Patrick Nazari,

Tom Joseph, Sidney Chang, Mackenzy Miranda.

13 yrs old

Pauliana Forbes, Serena de Vera, Ahthia

Waugh, Mirabella Ditta, Madeline Nazari, E.J.

Prodigalidad, Julian Ransome-Adore, Shawn

Camilus, Guilian Suratram.

Cross-Country Update

On Oct. 23rd, 27 of our students went back to

Morningside Park for the Regional Cross-

Country meet. In each race, the students had to

compete against the fastest runners across

Scarborough. The following 7 students are go-

ing to the City CC meet at Earl Bales Park on

Tues., Oct. 29th.

8 year olds

Sofia Pabon - 1st place and won a medal

Selene Pabon - 3rd place and won a medal

Jacob Owsicki - 6th place

9 year olds

Mary Anna Asare - 9th place

10 year olds

Amalia Pabon - 2nd place and won a medal

11 year olds

Nicole Owsicki - 3rd place and won a medal

13 year olds

Pauliana Forbes - 15th place

Cross Country City Meet

On Tues., Oct. 29th our CC team competed in the

Cross-country meet at Earl Bales Park. In each

race the students had to compete against the best

90 runners in the whole of Toronto.

The results are:

8 year olds: Sofia Pabon - 2nd place - won a medal

Selene Pabon - 3rd place - won a medal

Jacob Owsicki - 21st place

9 year olds: Amalia Pabon - 2nd place - won a medal

10 year olds: Mary Anna Asare - 33rd place

11 year olds: Nicole Owsicki - 11th place

12 year olds: Pauliana Forbes - 83rd place

Out of 131 schools, Our Lady of Grace placed 19th

with 294 points. Thank you to Mrs. Hibbett for

the use of her blankets and to Mrs. Owsicki and

Mrs. Alvarez for driving to the meet and putting

up our tarp. A fantastic way to end our

Cross-country season!

We are all very proud of our whole team.

Way to go Grizzlies!!!!!

Virtue for the Month of October

- Gratitude

Congratulations to all students who were recognized in

the month of October for demonstrating the qualities of

Gratitude.

Melanie Bolis Lianne Camilleri

Varshan Muralitharan Jayla Briggs

Anna Palconit Jerone Joseph

Pirathipa Uthayakumar Joshua Yu

Derek Fortuna Ethan Alphonse

Joey Zhou Nicholas Pinheiro

Lana Lacuata Selene Pabon

Tom Joseph Christine Mabbayad

Virtue for the month of November is Peacemaking.

―If we have no peace, it is because we have

forgotten that we belong to each other‖.

- Blessed Mother Teresa

Sports News

The boys’ and girls’ volleyball

teams are in the midst of their sea-

son. Once again the sportsmanship

and behaviour of the student-athletes

continues to be exemplary. We at

Our Lady of Grace continue to be

proud of this fact. Many thanks to

all the students and their coaches. Our boys’

team will be competing on Novem-

ber 12th while our girls’ team will

have their competition on the 13th!

Thank you to our coaches:

Ms. LeBlanc, Mrs. Fracassi,

Mlle Bouffard and Mlle Wakim!

Terry Fox Walk

Our Lady of Grace community has once again

come together and collected $475.00 for the

Terry Fox Walk. Way to go OLG!

.

Boo! We Scared Hunger!

Our Lady of Grace was able to collect 548

pounds of food during our campaign in

October. A special congratulation goes to Mad-

am Barone’s class for collecting the most boxes

of food. We also collected $217.00 at

our ―We Scare Hunger‖ Halloween Dance.

Many thanks to the dedicated Me to We club

members for their hard work. Congratulations

and thanks to the students, parents, staff and

community for your generous support. All food

items and money went to the Agincourt

Community Services to help people in our local

area.

Me to We Club Members

Report Card Interviews

All public and Catholic Schools will only have one

formal parent-teacher interview scheduled for

this school year to take place on the evening of No-

vember 14th and the morning of November

15th. The other remaining four PD days in-

clude: December 20, 2013 (unpaid day), January

24, 2014 (Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting

Day for teachers), March 7, 2014 (unpaid day) and

June 6, 2014 (Assessment, Evaluation and Report-

ing Day for teachers). This was communicated to

schools when the school year calendar was final-

ized in May.

Despite having only one formal parent-teacher in-

terview, parents are encouraged to contact the

school at any time to address the needs of their

child(ren).

Growing Success states on page 53 the follow-

ing: ―Although there are three formal reporting

periods, communication with parents and students

about student achievement should be continuous

throughout the year, by means such as parent-

teacher or parent-student-teacher conferences, port-

folios of student work, student-led conferences,

interviews, phone calls, checklists, and informal

reports. Communication about student achieve-

ment should be designed to provide detailed infor-

mation that will encourage students to set goals for

learning, help teachers to establish plans for teach-

ing, and assist parents in supporting learning at

home.‖

Healthy School Survey

Ministry of Health

There is an on-line questionnaire for input on the

implementation of legislating menu labelling and

restricting the marketing of unhealthy food and

beverages to children. The survey will be open un-

til November 8th. Please visit the website below

English

www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/programs/

healthykids/survey.aspx

French

www.health.gov.on.ca/fr/public/programs/

healthykids/survey.aspx

Monthly Update from the Board

Today’s Special: Education and

Community Resources Fair

A Special Day in Support of Your Child:

Advice, support for parents of special needs

students

November 2, 2013

9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Catholic Education Centre

http://www.tcdsb.org/ProgramsServices/

SpecialEducation/Pages/Today’s-Special--

Education-and-Community-Resources-Fair-–-a

-Special-Day-in-Support-of-Your-Child.aspx

Introducing the Anchor of Hope

TCDSB is pleased to introduce a new project

specifically designed to celebrate our Year of

Hope, the second year of the Board’s Pastoral

Plan. Last year we saw the completion of the

two-year journey of our Witness to Faith

Cross. What an incredible journey it was for all

of us—what a beautiful testament to our shared

Faith. This year, TCDSB invites all schools to

participate in the ―Anchor of Hope‖, a tangible

way for us to share ideas about what hope

looks like in our local schools and offices.

The physical anchor will be designed and built

by students from our Catholic schools, and will

be given a place of honour in the atrium at the

Catholic Education Centre. The anchor will

showcase the many ideas, messages and visual

representations of hope throughout our school

system. The Board looks forward to seeing the

local interpretations of what hope looks like,

and how many of these ideas will come to frui-

tion next year as our Year of Hope transitions

into our Year of Charity, which will invite us

to put our Faith and Hope into action.

21st century learning at

Francis libermann h.s.

Join us @ Francis Libermann for a parent engagement night. WHO: All parents in our family of schools What: Engaging parents and educators on 21 century learn ing in the classroom WHERE: Francis Libermann SS 4640 Finch Ave east When: November 5th @ 6:30 Why: to gain better insight on how to engage our 21 century kids @ home and @ school

Francis Libermann 4640 Finch Ave East

Scarborough

Ontario