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Public Schools
1 Centennial Road
271 Centennial Rd: 416-396-6125
2 Charlottetown Junior Public School
85 Charlottetown Blvd: 416-396-6135
3 Joseph Howe
20 Winter Gardens Trail: 416-396-6405
4 Mowat Collegiate Institute
5400 Lawrence Ave: 416-396-6802
Separate
5 St. Brendan
186 Centennial Rd: 416-393-5359
Schools News
St
Brendan
Posted
Jan 2011
St.
Brendan Catholic School
Jesus
is the Reason for the Season
"To
love our neighbour in charity is to love God in the human person."
St.
Francis de Sales
The works of charity
continue to be performed here at St. Brendan Catholic School. Our Faith
Ambassadors have kicked off their annual Christmas Toy Drive for students
in Grades Kindergarten to Grade Eight. To date, we have collected hundreds
of unwrapped gifts for this special charitable event. Our community
continues to respond in the manner that Jesus taught us. The toys will be
picked up on Friday, December 17th by the CP24/CHUM CITY
Christmas Wish.
The
CP24/CHUM Christmas Wish has become one of the largest distributors of
toys to the needy families in the GTA, as well as providing financial
assistance to hundreds of agencies. With the increase in family hardships
in recent years, this Toy Drive has become a very thoughtful opportunity
for many to give a child a Christmas.
http://www.thewish.ca/wishCore.cfm
Our
intermediate students are once again creating Christmas Gift Baskets for
families in the West Hill Community that have been identified by St.
Joseph’s Church as needing some assistance this Christmas season. Our
students are working to fill the baskets based on the needs of these
families. The true Christmas Spirit is alive here at St. Brendan Catholic
School.
Sir Oliver Mowat
Posted Feb 2012
During December the Prefects led the school in our
annual fundraising effort. This year money was raised for the Sunshine
Foundation of Canada. This organization grants wishes to children living
with disabilities and long term illness. The prefects presented a large
cheque to the Sunshine foundation at our closing assembly. The assembly
also featured many talented Mowat students, and was a great way for the
school to end 2011.
On February 16th the student council will be hosting
our Semi Formal and it promises to be a night to remember. Students are
reminded to pick up their permission forms as they cannot purchase tickets
until those are signed.
In December Theatre Mowat presented Shakespeare’s A Mid
Summer Night’s Dream. It was, as far as anyone can remember, the first
time Shakespeare has been performed on the Mowat stage. Grade 5-8 students
from feeder schools, as well as grade ten students from Lester B. Pearson
Collegiate enjoyed a matinee performance of act One and a talk back with
the actors. Audiences for the four evening performances saw the full play.
The unconventional take on Shakespeare’s classic comedy was very well
received. Theatre Mowat is getting ready to tackle their next big project
which is the Sears Drama festival. Students will compete against other
schools in an adjudicated competition of one-act plays. Come see this
exciting event at Mowat on March 2nd at 7pm.
The school is looking for donations for DEAR material.
DEAR stands for Drop Everything and Read, and everyone Monday, Wednesday
and Friday Students are given twenty minutes to drop everything and read
anything that interests them. Subject specific material for classrooms
would be helpful, as would appropriate fiction and non-fiction books, and
appropriate magazines such as National Geographic or Sports Illustrated.
If you have any reading material to donate, please bring it to the office.
Mowat’s gay straight alliance, SASSY (Students against
Sexual Stereotyping, Yeah!) is a group that seeks to make Mowat a safer
more inclusive school for all students. They will be changing their
meeting times to Thursdays after school for the New Year. The group is
looking forward to hosting the second annual “Little Conference for Big
change” Last year we worked with students from Joseph Howe and taught them
about different types of bullying and came up with strategies for dealing
with each. This year the conference will take place in April and is going
to expand to include other high schools.
Mowat’s Library has just started a White Pine Reading
Club. Every year the Ontario Library Association presents The White Pine
Award to Canadian young adult books. The annual award winners are chosen
through the votes of students across Ontario. This year Mowat students who
read at least five of the ten nominated books will participate in the
vote. Lunch time book discussions will also be held for each of the
books. There is a display of the books at the front of the library.
Parent council meetings are held in the Resource Centre
at 7:00 pm, the next meeting will be taking place on Tuesday February
28th.
Joseph Howe Senior Public
School
No Report
Updated April 2011
Charlottetown is Reaching Out
HELPING
HAITI
On March
3, 2011 the students of Charlottetown school saw a very important
assembly. At this assembly which was hosted by Amber, who is from an
organization called, “Free the Children” we learned that many people
around the world do not have access to fresh, clean water. Could you
imagine having to drink dirty water every day or having to walk over a
kilometer carrying a 70 pound jug of it back to your house? You would be
tired and most likely sweating. You probably would not like to live life
like that and I know I wouldn’t either.
So the
students at our school decided that something had to be done to help out
these people. We decided that we could “Adopt a Village”. One of the
villages that really needed our help was in Haiti. After the earthquake
that devastated the tiny country on the 12th January, many
people have been in need of basic resources and some people have even
died. They need schools, food and even houses, but they need water the
most. The Haitian people have some available water to drink but it
carries a deadly disease called Cholera.
We as a
school are going to help out by building a well so that the people will be
able to access clean and fresh water every day. It is our goal to raise
$5000.00 over the course of the year. We have a poster in our school that
has 50 raindrops on it. Each raindrop symbolizes $100.00 towards our
goal. If we fill in all 50 drops we will have raised enough money!
On
Thursday, March 10th 2011 we had a Dance Party at school. The
students got a chance to dance in support of the people of Haiti and made
donations during the week leading up to it. Our class brought over $170
and can you believe we have already raised $1,100 as a school already!!!
If you
are interested in helping us with our fundraising project please come by
the school or visit our webpage for more information.
www.charlottetownJps.com
For more
information go to
www.freethechilldern.com
By Elizabeth, Madison, Abby,
Sahil and Mrs. Browne’s Grade Three class
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