St Mary-St Cecilia

On Monday, June 24th staff will be providing a bbq'd hotdog (one per student) and a bag of chips to each student.
Students are reminded to bring a refillable water bottle and snacks for the day as per usual.
If your child would not like a hotdog for lunch please ensure you have sent a lunch with them.
Through a very kind generous donation to our House of Lazarus fundraiser, each student will also receive a free freezie on Monday, June 24th!!! Thank you!

A reminder that we have a water refill station at school so students are encouraged to always bring a reusable water bottle 🙂 on these hot days, they’re also allowed to bring them outside.

Coffee Shop 54 also known as Mr.B’s 4/5 class took one of their well deserved trips to Docksyde Ice Cream to spend their earnings from their yearlong financial literacy project. Thank you to all the teachers, customers, and bakers who supported Coffee Shop 54!

Freezies and popcorn will be sold this week while supplies last!
Large freezies are $1. Small freezies are 50 cents. Papa Jack popcorn is $1.50 per bag.

A special weather statement has been issued for all regions within the CDSBEO jurisdiction regarding a heat event beginning Monday, June 17th. Please visit https://bit.ly/4b50I6w to view an important message from Eastern Ontario Health Unit.

Lost and found! If something looks familiar, reach out to the school

We wrapped up our STEM activities this morning! Everyone seemed to have so much fun. The staff was impressed by everyone’s engagement and listening.

SPRING CONCERT! Gr. 4/5, Gr. 5/6, Gr. 6/7, Gr. 7/8A and Gr. 7/8B will be presenting a spring concert on Friday, June 14th at 1:30 p.m. in our school gym. Hope to see you there.

Papa Jack popcorn will be on sale tomorrow for $1.50 per bag.

Our STEM event started this afternoon!! Students had a chance to visit 4 stations with their House groups. They’ll get a chance to visit the other 3 tomorrow morning!

We went. We froze. We competed. We had a great day. Congratulations to all of our Grade 7/8 track and field athletes who competed at St. Joseph's Catholic High School yesterday. There were many firsts for some and many ribbons for others. All of your coaches are proud of you!

Splash pad/park permission forms both sides completed and signed are due tomorrow to your child's teacher.

We’ll be partaking in STEM days tomorrow and Wednesday! We’ll be doing these in our houses, so students are encouraged to wear their house colours!

Freezie Sale! Monday/Tuesday and Wednesdays in June!!!
Jumbo Freezies will be $1.00 each and Primary size freezies will be $ .50 each. Students will be limited to one freezie per day.
All proceeds will go to the House of Lazarus who are a great support to our school!

A reminder to the 7/8 track team that the meet will take place on Monday, June 10 at St Joes. Athletes must be there by 8:30.

This morning, we held our Knights in Action assembly for May. May’s theme was “Realistic Optimism.” Congrats to all of our winners 🎉 🥳

The faces of winners!!!! A HUGE congratulations to our science team for winning the Samsung Canada competition 🎉 Liam, Owen, Payshence, Evelyn, Tessa, Georgia, Emily, and William worked so hard on this project. You should all be so proud of yourselves. Congrats to Mrs. Ferg and Mr. Fitz for leading this great group to victory!

Grade 1/2 learned so much at the Municipality yesterday. So many parts and pieces to making our Municipality work so well. Thank you to all of the presenters and especially the drivers of the trucks for letting us take a seat in the vehicle and honk the horns. Municipality of South Dundas

Tomorrow is our Jump Rope for Heart event! A big thank you for all the donations so far. We are reminding students to come to school with a hat, a reusable water bottle, and sunscreen, as we'll be spending quite a bit of time outside tomorrow for the event.

Yesterday, some of our classes got to participate in a drumming workshop with Jody Marsolais from the Rhythm Room. A big thank you to Jody for the great sessions!! Students and staff had lots of fun!

Ryan Hreljac and Ryan's Well Foundation
Grade 1/2 had a very special visitor. What an amazing human being. At the age of 6, Ryan started raising money to put in a well in Uganda. He accomplished that goal. To date, his foundation has completed 1767 water projects across the world.
Ryan came to tell us his story.
If you would like more information on Ryan's Well Foundation, please follow the link below. https://www.ryanswell.ca/

Our Grade 7/8 students did their Confirmation yesterday. Congratulations to all!

We’ve got lots of lost and found items. If anything looks familiar, please reach out to the school.

Confirmation for our grade 7&8 students will take place on Sunday, June 2nd at St. Mary’s church. Everyone is invited to attend.

Please note, there will be no movie night tonight. Thanks!

Another mini adventure. Thank you to Ms. Eileen and Post Master Liz at Canada Post Morrisburg. Mrs. MacPherson's class had a great time today. We learned so much. We hope our special recipients like their positive messages coming soon.

A reminder that Friday, May 31 is a PD Day. No school for students!

Kinder B has been over the last few weeks watching the process of the lifecycle of a Painted Lady Butterfly. We received them as caterpillars and got to watch them eat until they were ready to enter the chrysalis stage. We watched them in their chrysalis stage for about 10-12 days and then got to witness them emerge into beautiful butterflies. Friday was our day to release them to fly and go free. We had one little butterfly who after many times of trying to set him free would fly back and land on some friends. He eventually found a flower and has now flown off to be with the others.