SCHOOL BUS STRIKE INFORMATION

Below is an email we received from our student transportation group.



Dear Principal:

I am pleased to advise you that your school will not  be affected by the potential strike by bus drivers for Stock Transportation.

Generally, the strike will only disrupt transportation for students in the North and East sections of the Board travelling on small buses, mini-vans and wheelchair access vehicles.

Regular bus service will operate normally for your students. You are encouraged to communicate this to your parent community.

Regards,

Kevin Hodgkinson

General Manager

Toronto Student Transportation Group

THIS IS GOOD NEWS!!!

 

May Read-A-Thon

Our May Read-A-Thon is almost here! Permission forms have been sent home, with information about the book recycling program, and a request for parent volunteers. The Read-A-Thon is an event used to promote literacy among young students and their families. Each Friday, we will have the reading buddies program which pairs up older and younger students to read together for 20 minutes. While there is a fund raising aspect to the Read-A-Thon, it is certainly not mandatory. All money raised is used to benefit our students and school in various ways. For further information, visit the St. Simon Read-A-Thon blog at
http://stsimonreadathon.blogspot.ca/

 

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall."

— Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION WEEK

April 21^st  – 27^th, 2013 is Volunteer Appreciation Week. This is a perfect way to express our gratitude for all the volunteers here at St. Simon Catholic School. Thank you so much for your generous gift of time and energy. Whether you are a CSAC member participating in our monthly business; a special event participant making sure our lunches, play day, Carnaval/ Carnevale and spiritual visits enhance our school day; a volunteer in our classrooms helping our students to get the most out of their lessons; a community member who works hard to link the broader community to the school; a library worker who helps keep our books in order; a volunteer driver who transports our students to various activities; we value all of you and all that you do. The following is an excerpt from an anonymous letter to volunteers, we couldn’t have said it better ourselves:

You can give me money for my cause. Sure. But I may pay that back to you. But how do we give back time? As a volunteer you give time. Time - the most precious resource in our lives.

Money can be printed. Time cannot. Once you give an hour of your time it is lost forever. That hour you just gave volunteering will never be replaced. Your time volunteering must be valued, but we can never put a value on that time. How can you value something that is priceless? As a volunteer you bring much to this school: skills, advice, experience, friendship, vision, leadership, inspiration, etc. These talents you bring, but time you give. In our time-poor world you bear the gift of time. You choose to donate the most precious commodity in the known universe. We may count your time in numbers. We may attempt to count your time in cash value.  Though such methods have their reasons, we will all be poorer if we don’t realize that the giving of your time is simply and utterly magnificent.

So today, we take a little time out to thank you for the amazing “time in” that you give.

As a symbol of our appreciation, our Student Council will be making a donation to The Angel Foundation for Learning in the name of St. Simon volunteers.

Witness to Faith Cross!

 

You are cordially invited to join us:

·        Friday, April 19, 2013 @ 10 am

·        Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9: 00 am

For

Witness to Faith Cross!

The 2011-2012 school year was the final year of the Toronto District School Board’s three-year pastoral plan focusing on Word, Worship and Witness.  The Board ushered a very special celebration to launch “The Year of Witness”.  As part of this celebration, the students of Neil McNeil Catholic Secondary School created a traveling cross.  This cross has been traveling from school to school across our school system throughout the year so that each school has an opportunity to spend a day with the cross.

St. Simon is thrilled to receive the cross on Friday, April 19, 2013.  Our celebrations will begin with a mass in the school gym which begins at 10:00 am.

On Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9: 00 am, St. Simon staff and students will be in a procession which will start at the school and proceed to St. Basil the Great High School to deliver the cross to that school.

Best Regards,

The Staff and Students

Of St. Simon Catholic School