Catholic School News

December 2012 St. Nicholas Catholic School News

Parents are reminded that students should Dear Parents / Guardians, not be dropped off before 8:30 am as there is no appropriate supervision. As the days become darker, we begin the Advent season and light the first candle of our Advent wreath. Let us light the way in the darkness and make straight the path to God. St. Boniface Church We await the coming of our Saviour with hope. Parish God of light, bring us hope. 21 Markanna Drive, Help us find hope in this Advent season. Scarborough M1M 2H9 Help us to prepare Telephone: 416-261- For the coming Lord. 5983 What is HOPE? Pastor: Fr. Bernard Vellozo Hope lets us see God’s light ahead of us. Principal: M. E. Stubbings Hope opens our hearts to dream. Hope looks forward to promises and new possibilities. Superintendent: Hope is eternal and everlasting. G. Grant 416-222-8282 God of hope guide us in your way this Advent and always. Trustee: Let us put our trust in your gentle hands as we look forward to the birth of your Son, our Nancy Crawford 416- 512-3412 Saviour. We ask this in hope through Christ our Lord. School Enrollment: 270 Amen. Hours of Operation: 9:00 – 3:30

Lunch Hour: 12:00 – 1:00 Please join us: ______• December 5, 2012 at 10:45 am for our School Advent Mass. We will also be celebrating the Virtue of CHARITY.

Toiletry Drive for those in Need Thank you for participating in our Community Toiletry Drive from November 26 – December 6, 2012 we will be collecting all appropriate items and then donating them to St. Boniface Catholic Church, your help is appreciated!

Student Council News - November 2012 - December 2012 For the month of November, we planned a Dress down day on November 15th and an Autumn Day on November 30th. We would like to thank you for participating.

(Temporary Location) For the month of December, we will be having another dress down day and another spirit day. The dress down Day will be on December 6th, St. Nicholas Day, and 90 Balfour Ave., will be free to participate! From Monday, December 3rd to Tuesday, December 11th we Toronto, Ontario will be accepting orders for candy grams. The cost will be 50 cents per candy cane. All M4C 1T6 proceeds will be going towards technology for the school. All candy gram orders will be handed out on Thursday, December 20th. In honour of the Christmas season we will be Telephone: 416-393- having Red and Green day as well as a Christmas dance on Friday December 21st. 5308 We hope all goes well as it did for November so we can have another great month here at St. Nicholas.  every Grade One student a free Canadian children’s book. Yoga Over 500,000 free books are distributed annually. The St. Nicholas Health Action Team is pleased to announce This year, Grade One children nation-wide will take home that we will be offering a 6 week yoga clinic for primary, I’ve Lost My Cat, by Philippe Beha. This title is also junior and intermediate students every Thursday for the next available in French as J’ai Perdu Mon Chat. I’ve Lost 6 weeks. Yoga is beneficial in improving muscular strength, My Cat is a delightful story of a young boy who thinks he body awareness and mental relaxation. We look forward to has lost his cat and how his friends try to help him find it. seeing as many students participate as possible! Basketball It’s that time of year again for everyone to begin practicing their dribbling and shooting! The senior girls and boys basketball teams will begin practicing in the next few weeks to get ready for their tournaments in the New Year. Go The New School Cardinals go! We are expected back into our new school building after the “Ace on three! One, two, three Ace!” March Break. We are thrilled with this expectation and are planning accordingly for this change. Please know any On Monday, November 19th the Boy’s Intermediate alterations to the current routines will be told to parents and volleyball team competed in an invitational volleyball guardians well in advance. We hope that the move will be tournament at Blessed Cardinal Newman. We all played exciting for all those who are participating but if there are extremely well and tried our hardest. Our hard work paid off any concerns please call the school and speak to the school as we made it to the finals and placed 2nd out of four teams. Principal. We had tons of fun and really enjoyed this experience, as well as received 2nd place medals to show for our efforts. The next day on Tuesday, November 20th the team competed in the Divisional volleyball tournament at Cardinal Leger. We dominated the other teams with our serves, sets, and spikes until the very end where we played Cardinal Leger. We did our best and placed second. We all (Johnathan D., Peter A., Ralph C., Harris S., Henok On Friday, November 9th the intermediate students had the G., Luis R., Tyler M., Reinier M., Iain F., Ryan D and pleasure of having two guest speakers from The Memory Brandon R.) would like to thank Ms. Cole for training us, Project visit to share their experiences of living in London Ms. Stubbings for making this all possible and especially during World War II. We thank Ralph and Kitty Wintrob Mr. Morcos, our coach, for taking us to tournaments and for taking the time to visit with us and share so many training us at recess and after school. He made us a great interesting stories. team and took us so far. We may not have a trophy but we have this great experience and memory to share. “St. Nick’s on three! One, two, three St. Nick’s!” Rehearsals for this year’s school play, Madame White and By Iain F. the Six Dukes will be taking place soon for all interested students in grade 5-8; although I am sure a few of those grade 3 rabbits from last year will somehow sneak into this year’s show. More information will follow, but get ready for this crazy western on stage of our new school.

For the twelfth year in a row, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre is providing each Grade One student across Canada with a beautiful Canadian children’s picture book thanks to the generous sponsorship of the TD Bank Group. The goal of the CCBC is to help all Canadian children develop a love Mr. Miles would like to thank all of the members of this of reading and a passion for books. Since 2000, in year’s girls’ volleyball team. Although we did not get the cooperation with ministries of education, school boards and result we hoped for in the cross over game there were so library organizations across Canada — the CCBC has given many highlights this season: 2nd place at the Brian Bonser tournament, 2nd place at the Cardinal Newman Invitational and our best result, 2nd place at the Catholic Cup in Oakville. Thank you to all the parents and volunteers who allowed this year’s team to play in over 60 games. The 2012 Cardinals: Captains Milene and Wintana, Nikki, Eugenie, Lisset, Jeanine, Aline, Annie, Nubia, Irene, Laura, Andrea, Kristene, Diane, Maria, Brianne, Angel, Aaliyah, Shaneel and Alexia.