St. Denis Catholic School News

October 2016

Toronto Catholic District School Board Trustee 2016-2017

1. Joseph Martino 8. Gary Tanuan 2. Ann Andrachuk 9. Jo-Ann Davis 3. Sal Piccininni 10. Barbara Poplawski 4. Patrizia Bottoni 11. Angela Kennedy, Chair 5. Maria Rizzo 12. Nancy Crawford 6. Frank D’Amico, vice-Chair Karina Dubrovskaya, Student Trustee 7. Michael Del Grande, Rhea Carlisle, Student Trustee

Dear Families:

The Virtue for the month of October is GRATITUDE. Whenever we gather as a faith community to worship, we offer thanks to our God. The blessings of food, friends, family and freedom are all gifts from our Creator God. During the month of October, we were urged to take some time to remember our blessings and give thanks.

For Everything Give Thanks

H.I. Tupper

For all that God in mercy sends; For health and children, home and friends,

For comfort in the time of need, For every kindly word and deed,

For happy thoughts and holy talk, For guidance in our daily walk,

FOR EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS!

For beauty in this world of ours, For verdant grass and lovely flowers,

For song of birds, for hum of bees, For refreshing summer breeze,

For hill and plain, for streams and wood, For the great ocean's mighty flood,

FOR EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS!

For sweet sleep which comes with night, For the returning morning's light,

For the bright sun that shines on high, For the stars glittering in the sky, For these and everything we see, O Lord, our hearts we lift to thee.

FOR EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS!

We welcome to St. Denis: Ms. Perciasepe as our new Full Day Kindergarten teacher and Mr. De Lio as our new Health & Physical Education teacher and Ms. Baboulas as our new lunchtime supervisor. We are very happy to have these 3 wonderful staff join our St. Denis community.

Serving You In Catholic Education,

D. Comacchio

Principal

St. Denis Catholic School

67 Balsam Avenue Toronto, Ontario

M4E 3B8

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Principal: Mr. D. Comacchio

Secretary: Mrs. J. Mallia

Superintendent: Mr. J. Shanahan 416-222-8282

Angela Gauthier Director of Education

Website: www.tcdsb.org

Community Parish:

Corpus Christi Catholic Church

1810 Queen Street E., 416-694-0382

Enrolment: 294

Hours of Operation: 8:15 a.m.—3:15 p.m.

Lunch Hour: 11:15a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

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Catch the spirit!

school year.

SECONDARY SCHOOL OPEN HOUSES

All Toronto Catholic District School Board secondary schools welcome grade 8 stu-dents and their fami-lies to open houses each fall. This is an opportunity to meet some of the staff, check out school facilities and learn more about the various programs, services and activities as you prepare for Catholic secondary school education.

For a complete schedule, see: https://www.tcdsb.org/school/OpenHouses/Pages/default.aspx

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St. Denis is

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Please visit www.campaigns.mableslabels.com and search for St. Denis to place

your order and support our fundraiser.

Labels for the Stuff Kids Lose! Mabel’s Labels are dishwasher,

microwave and laundry safe personalized labels.

Are you a swimmer or former swimmer? The swim team is looking for a couple of coaches to assist with this years swim team. It's a fun and

fantastic way to interact with all the

Virtue of the Month

The Virtue of the Month Award is to recognize stu-

dents’ positive characteristics and actions towards other students, staff and parents in our school community. We would like to con-gratulate the following students who were chosen as recipients of the Virtue of the Month for Sep-tember. The virtue was HOSPI-TALITY.

Ms. Martins

Mrs. Semple Jed Mills Charlotte Huver

Ms. Power Isaac Weeks

Ms. Richea Naomi Hoang

Ms. Lo Esme Brean Gregory Jachymek

Ms. Pinsonneault Lucas Hadley Alli Chai Lauren Galbraith

Ms. Mohan Emma McLeod Caitlin Thornton

Mrs. Manzer Emily Armstrong Thomas Lauder Sarah Karasividis

Mr. Gordon Alexandra Grose Zachary Ciccanti Emma Rowland

Mrs. Sala Sean Donavan

Ms. Van Wyck Maria Peterson Charlotte MacDougall

Ms. Clarke Maggie Casey Mitchell Strassman

October’s virtue is Gratitude.

CSAC for 2016-2017

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our newly formed CSAC

Executive.

Co-Chairs: Sara Andino and David Toto Treasurer: Maureen McKee Secretary: Carol Chiu

Staff Representatives: Ms. Mohan – Grade 3/4 teacher

Thank you all for your attendance at our first CSAC meeting of the

kids and to be a part of a St Denis team and a long swimming tradition. We would love to have you join the team!

If interested please contact Paget Catania @ 416-451-1938 or paget@rogers.com.

DROPPING OFF AND PICKING UP STUDENTS

For the sake of safety, we ask that in the mornings you drop off your chil-dren in the appropriate sections of the school yard and leave them with our staff. Please make sure that your child is dropped off no earlier than 8:15 a.m. Supervision in our school yard begins at 8:15a.m. This will help the students develop routines and it will also help our staff ensure a safe school yard.

If you are picking up your child(ren) early from school, please come to the office and sign out the student. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Author Visit for our Intermediate Grades

Author, illustrator, and former sports broadcaster Kevin Sylvester was in the school on Friday October 28 and gave the grade 6,7,and 8 classes a great presentation about his books, what it is like to be an author, and illustrator, as well as some funny stories about his characters. Students from grade 3 and up were anxious to buy his books and get his autograph. We are looking forward to having him at the school again for a presentation for the junior grades in the new year.

Drop The Worry Ball – Dr. Alex Russell presentation.

On Thursday October 27, Dr. Alex Russell, author of Drop The Worry Ball, visited St. Denis to speak to par-ents. Dr. Russell is an enthusiastic and engaging speaker who touched on a number of key points related to chil-dren’s anxiety and building resiliency in our students. By all accounts, the parents in attendance found this to be a very informative information session and discussion. Copies of his book are available on loan from Mr. Comacchio. If you would like to purchase a copy

for yourself, it is available on Amazon. Thank you to all those who were able to attend. This presentation was made possible, partially through funds from the Parent Reaching Out Grant from the Ministry of Education.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Please be aware that your child’s Progress Report will be sent home on Tuesday November 15. Mrs. Mallia has sent out an email to all parents, invit-ing you to register. Online booking of your parent / teacher conferences will begin on Tuesday, November 1st at 10am. Conference will take place on:

Wednesday November 16

Thursday November 17

Please register your time(s) at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the office. Also, please note that Fri-day November 18 will be a P.A Day.

QSP

Should you wish to renew or receive a new subscription, please order online by going to www.qsp.ca and entering our group number 3718236. If you

have any additional questions, regard-ing QSP email

heidimcilmoyle@yahoo.ca

or QSP directly at 1-800-667-253.

We will be going paperless for this campaign. ONLY ONLINE ORDERING WILL BE AVAILABLE. There are no prizes for sellers. The campaign will remain open all year, giving you an op-portunity to order magazines when you need them or give our school number to your family and friends for their personal orders.

Thank you once again for your support!

Cross Country News:

We had an excellent season enjoying those early morning runs down at the boardwalk with the sun rising over Lake Ontario. Congratulations to a great effort by everyone at the divi-sional, regional, and then city races. Runners were led by a committed group of grade 8 students who set a strong pace as we ran against the stopwatch and then tried to beat our personal best. Thank you to the many teachers who supervised and encour-

aged our runners to run their best. See you all next fall down at the boardwalk!

WE DAY

On October 19, St. Denis attended We Day 2016. The show was a day-long experience, full of motivation. Throughout the day we learned im-portant lessons as well as inspiring stories. The speakers, such as Craig and Marc Kielburger (who founded the organization) talked about how they took ME and changed it to WE.

There were performances, speakers, announcers, music, and happiness during all of We Day. Fa-mous people such as Lilly Singh, Jordan Smith, Hedley, Macklemore, Jason Derulo, and Gord Downie per-formed. Some of the speakers were Penny Oleksiak, Spencer West, Ja-cob Tremblay, Paula Abdul, Marga-ret Trudeau, and Michael “Pinball” Clemons, they gave inspiring life stories and showed us that anyone can make a difference and change the world.

The time we had listening to the speakers was an experience un-like any other. We as a community celebrated for the work we’ve done and things we hope to do so WE can change the world. They drilled a few sayings into our brains so we always would remember. Some of the quotes were “WE are Canada”, “WE are Change”, and “Girl Love” (changing girl on girl hate), these had a big impacted because each had a big meaning.

We learned so much at We Day. As each person told talked to the audience about how they made a difference, or how the got back up on their feet even when it felt like the world just kept pushing them

down, you felt their pain, perse-verance, and passion. Each and everyone person in that stadium (of 20 000 people) has a some-thing to say, and wants to make the world a better place for all of us.

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