St. Aloysius CES

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📢 2024/2025 Transportation information will be available on August 19 2024! 📢 Visit stswr.ca for more details, and how to view your students bus information in the Parent Portal in August! 🚌

Thank you @StAlStars for the opportunity to evaluate the unique creations of your Innovation Week. A tough job, indeed. Congratulations to all participants! #WCDSBAwesome!!💫

Thank you to all the staff volunteers who support the students! 🙏

Big congratulations to the incredible @St_Marys_Kitch family of schools Beacon of Hope award winners! 🌟 Your unwavering dedication and kindness are beacons of light in our world. Thank you for making such a positive difference in the lives of others. #WCDSBStrengthen

It's not every day that a school gets to track a teacher running the BOSTON MARATHON!!! We were so excited to cheer on Stephanie Spencer today! Setting a 5:47 pace per km, she crossed the finish line at 4:03:32! SO proud of you! #wcdsbawesome

Students from @StAlStars ventured to @KitchLibrary for a day of exploration and skill-building! 📚 They delved into digital storytelling by mastering @WeVideo and built #TransferableSkills. A library tour and new library cards ended the day. #wcdsbinnovates @waterloocdsb

WHY SOCKS? 🤔 Because chromosomes are shaped “like socks” and people with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome. Wear colorful, attractive, crazy socks TOMORROW to support World Down Syndrome Day 🧦❤💪

Tomorrow 👇👇!! Will you be rocking your socks? 🧦🧦

📢 DON'T FORGET! Next week is #MarchBreak! From March 11th to March 15th, schools will be on break and there will be no transportation services. Enjoy the week off and make the most of your well-deserved break! 🎉 #STSWR

Celebrating #PinkShirtDay2024

Staff bringing some NEXT LEVEL flavour and spirit! #TreatDay #WCDSBAwesome

Kindergarten Registration is OPEN! It’s Time to Sign Up for School!! Learn more: wcdsb.ca/wcdsb-kinderga… Register: wcdsb.ca/our-schools/re… #WCDSBStrengthen

Happy Birthday to our wonderful Pastor, Father Melvin! Wishing you many blessings on your Birthday!

Carole has been a teacher and Nutrition for Learning coordinator for 17 years! 👏❤️👏 Every teacher at @StAlStars sets their class up for success by filling a bin and cooler bag with nutritious food in the morning for their classroom. 🍎🥚🍊

Every day we flush toilets, brush our teeth, wash dishes. What about the water that goes down the drain? Where does it all go? Now you can follow wastewater's trip though one of our treatment plants. It's quite a journey! Watch the full video here: aroundtheregion.ca/take-a-look-in…

@spencerideas Thank you for addressing this in such an honest way! I completely agree with the points you raised! Hand made gifts, cards or notes are the MOST precious of all!

I saw a few videos on TikTok where a few teachers mocked certain "bad Christmas presents" like dollar store trinkets, cheap mugs, or hard candy. And I watched with a mix of sadness and anger as they carelessly unboxed their stashes of gifts. When a child thinks of you enough to bring you a gift -- no matter how inexpensive or common it may seem -- the gesture itself is a gift. That child is saying, "You matter in my life and I want to give you something." When a teacher mocks this gesture, they're not mocking a gift. They're mocking the gesture and the heart of their students. Fortunately, most teachers aren't like this. Most of them cherish all gifts they receive. When I left the middle school classroom after 12 years and moved into higher education, I finally got rid of my massive collection of dollar store trinkets and cheap mugs. I knew my students. I knew that these items weren't cheap given their parents salaries. I knew how big of a gesture it was that a supposedly jaded 8th grader would hand me a mug of generic hard candy and a thank you note. And although I eventually cleared out my classroom and threw away a few dollar store mugs, I kept all of those notes in a box as a reminder that I had made a difference even when I couldn't see it.

Tis the Season for some #readwriterest! #wcdsbawesome, #earlyyears

Learning is GLORIUS!!

Seasonal creativity at its best. SO many developmental milestones to explore at a time! #FDK, #wcdsbawesome