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Message from the PrincipalAs we begin the month of May, we focus on our Blessed Mother, Mary. We thought that the following prayer would be helpful for you to reflect upon during the month of May.

Mary, woman of charity, you were always responsive to God’s overshadowing of you. God’s Spirit chose you so that they Word made flesh might live among us. Pray for us Mary, that each of us may trust as you did; that God will also choose us to help hearts receive more fully the Word made flesh; and that He may live and love among us.

Mary, woman of charity, you went forth to help, and love flowed through you and gently touched the life of Elizabeth, and the child not yet born.

Pray for us, that we too may reach out to the old, the young, the helpless and the strong, so that through us they may experience God’s ever-faithful love.

Pray for us Mary that we may open our hearts each day to God’s empowering Spirit, ever living and loving with us.

Holy Cross School Mission Statement

Our mission at Holy Cross School is to provide quality education for the whole child; to be concerned with each child’s spiritual, intellectual,

emotional, physical and social growth in an atmosphere of faith in Jesus Christ. This growth is realized through the combined effort of the family,

the school and the church.

Catholic schools are Catholic communities. Catholic schools are faith communities. We - parents, students, teachers, administrative and support staff - walk and grow together in the faith which we received at our Baptism And it is the ‘together’ that we grow. Our growth is primarily a relationship with God, who at our Baptism, called us by name. But the response of each of us to that growth is both personal and communal. We grow in our faith in the nurturing atmosphere of our Catholic community be that of our local parish, our home, or our Catholic school community. This week we will celebrate with a school-wide prayer service and other activities in

the classrooms. This year’s theme is “Opening Doors of Mercy”.

There are five sub-themes, one for each day of Catholic Education Week:

Monday - MERCY THAT WELCOMES Tuesday - MERCY THAT LOVES Wednesday - MERCY THAT FORGIVES Thursday - MERCY THAT LIVES IN THE GOSPEL Friday - MERCY THAT REJOICES

May 2016

Catholic Education Week May 1-6, 2016

Safe Arrival Program

The safe arrival program number is 767-6811. Please remember to call this number every day that your child is absent or late for school. Notes must accompany all late students and those returning after absences. For your

convenience, there is an answering service that you may access night or day. Thank you for your cooperation.

JK REGISTRATION

Parents may now call Holy Cross School

to register their children for full time JK.

767-6811

FAIRSTART FOR JK

Any parents interested in having Fairstart screening for their child enrolled in JK for September 2016

please contact the school to set up an appointment.

Science Fair!

Jackson Andraka participated

in the 2016 Northwestern Ontario Regional Science Fair

at Lakehead University on

April 23. His project “Can Trees Glow in the Dark?” won

the Best in Beginner Award. There were 73 other beginner

participants from across the region.

Congratulations to Jackson for his win!

As a Holy Cross community we participated in Lights Out Canada!

We spent the day learning while conserving energy.

Congratulations to all Holy Cross Wrestlers

who did an amazing job competing at the

Lakehead University School Meet at the Fort

William Gardens on Wednesday, April

20th. The athletes have been diligently

practising for the last two months to prepare

for the meet. A special congratulations to

Olivia Carlos, Jaida Petersen-Brown, Mason

Mozell and Matthew Lewis for winning all

of their bouts. Special recognition goes to

Coaches Josh “CakeBoss” Calabrese and

Coach Anders, and the rest of the hard-

working wrestling team for their dedications

and efforts.

The team members are: Izzy Bruno, Katie

Fawcett, Kayelyn Kraft, Presley Morin,

Makenna Tattrie, Ariana Veneziano, Ean

Caland, Adam Carpino, Cohen Freitas,

Dante Guidolin, Mathhew Iachetta, Angelo

Marino, Lucas Petersen-Brown, Rayet

Raham, Odessa Petersen,

Maddy Petersen, Cassidy

Kennelly, Kaiden

Oikonen, Abbi

Pandeirada, Bella

Pandeurada, Roch

Chicoine, Mason

Chicoine and Mya

Williamson.

During the month of April, Holy

Cross raised $1162.00 for the

Cancer Society. Thank you to

all students and staff who

donated money.

Parachutes! Our grade 3 classes had fun learning about teamwork and cooperation while playing different games with parachutes.

What do you do when you

get a big pile of snow in

April? Have fun, of course!

We had some friends work

together to make huge

snowballs during recesses.

EQAO

Once again, our students will be taking part in the province wide EQAO assessment. The Junior EQAO assessment will take place during the week of May 25-31 and the Primary assessment will take place June 1-7. If possible, we would ask that you not plan any family excursions or schedule any appointments during this time. It is important that students be in attendance during this time.

YEAR END CELEBRATION

A number of parents have been calling concerning our Year End Celebration. Our Year End mass will take place on Friday, June 24, 2016. The school will celebrate Mass at St. Anthony’s Church at 10:00 a.m. Year End awards will also take place after the Mass. Students will return to school for lunch. Grade 6 students and family members may stay at the Church Hall for Lunch. More information will follow.

“…I also liked when you played In the field Stood a Birch Tree because I got to play the recorder. It was cool watching your conductor Jean-Michel Malouf move his hands. It was all very beautiful. Thank you. - Makenna T.

“…When  you  guys  play  together  it  sounds  like  feeling  is  coming  from  your  instruments.    Singing  with  the  orchestra  was  one  of  my  greatest  experiences.    I  hope  to  see  you  again.”  -­‐ Mason  C.  

“I loved when you played Come to Play. I appreciate you trying to impress us. You really made the orchestra ROCK! I like when you play together. It sounds harmonized.” - Brianna

Junior students attended a culminating activity at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium called, “Link Up”. This program, funded by Carnegie Hall, provided the students with a colourful resource and opportunity to perform with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. Below are some of the comments that students wrote to members of the TBSO about the experience.

Ms. Balka’s class had the opportunity to work with Pam Cain, an artist from CAHEP (Community Arts and Heritage Education Project). They used the Forest of Reading nominated book “In a Cloud of Dust” by Alma Fullerton as their inspiration to create their own bicycle in clouds of dust. Their artwork will be on display at the Baggage Building at Marina Park for the month of May.

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