Safe Haven Sunday
This will take place this coming weekend. Safe Haven Sunday is a weekend set aside by the Archdiocese of Vancouver and parishes to directly address the harms of sexualized content and pornography in an appropriate way. Within the context of the Mass, parishes are able to provide teaching and resources that will support and protect individuals, marriages and families in making all homes a safe haven.
It is inspired by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ formal statement Create in Me a Clean Heart: A Pastoral Response to Pornography, where they explain, “The use of pornography by anyone in the home deprives the home of its role as a safe haven and has a negative effect throughout a family’s life and across generations.”
Kids today are growing up with technology
The internet brings many opportunities for education, entertainment, and communication. But there are also many dangers online – dangers children need to be prepared to handle.
The booklet distributed on Safe Have Sunday: Equipped: Smart Catholic Parenting in a Sexualized Culture uses the image of the home to guide parents in how to teach their children to say no to pornography while at the same time forming them with a broader understanding of:
Their God-given identity,
The importance of sexual integrity
How to understand sexual shame
How to engage media with discernment
“Equipped”
Your family will be receiving a copy of this booklet today. It will be sent home with the oldest child in each family. This booklet makes it possible to have engaged, healthy and informed conversations about online threats. The “Join by Text” code that is on cover of the Equipped booklet does not work within Canada. Parents can still sign up for the 7 day e-mail challenge by going to the following website: https://learn.covenanteyes.com/challenge-equipped/.
HOT FOODS
LAST CALL – Hot Foods ordering for Term 1 will close tonight, September 29th at 11:59pm. The first lunch will be served on Wednesday, October 6th.
PE UNIFORM ORDERING
LAST CALL for this school year – Order your PE uniform by Oct. 13th (through our school website) for distribution by January 2022. Grade 1 students will be required to start wearing PE Uniform starting in January.
MARIAN PROCESSION
Join us this Friday, October 1st at 6:30pm as we honour our Mother Mary. This ceremony begins with mass and is followed by a procession with our Grade 2’s students participating. The procession takes us through the rosary in many different languages.
CONSIGNMENT SALE
There will be a consignment sale on Wednesday, October 6th from 2:30 to 3:30 pm outside the gym.
WALKATHON
Congratulations to our lucky Wednesday winners from today and last week: Olympia, Clare A., Mackenzie M, Alina, Javier, David, Daniel D., Maksim, Jace, Airi, Malcolm C, Daniel M, Ante, Daniel C, Sharon, and Angeli. Also a big congratulations goes to Katerina L. for winning the T-Shirt design Contest. The final Winning Wednesday draw takes place next week!
Permission Forms – There are still a handful of families that have not submitted a permission form (purple). Please send in asap.
Goal – We have raised more than $16,000 so far! Thank you to all the families that have pledged already! If you haven’t yet sent in your pledge form, they are due by Friday, October 15th to be eligible for prizes. If we reach our goal of $20,000 all students will be rewarded with an ice cream treat!
STUDENT/PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES
Student/Parent/Teacher Conferences will take place on Thursday, Oct 21st via Zoom. Please complete the attached form with your preferred time slot for the conference. Forms are due back by Wednesday, October 6th. There are no regular classes on Thursday, Oct 21st for the Conferences.
IMMUNIZATIONS
Grade 6 and 7 students are scheduled to be immunized (regular school immunizations) on Wednesday, October 20th. Registration forms are being sent home today with your child. These forms are due back by Monday, October 4th.
PARKING LOT SAFETY
For the safety of our children, please pull into a parking spot before letting your children out of the vehicle. Also, please do not park in the Auction Reserved spots. There is one in the front lot and one in the back lot. These are reserved for the Auction winners only.
There is no school tomorrow for Truth and Reconciliation Day. It was nice to see so many orange shirts today in support of this campaign. We raised $317.50 today! If you would still like to donate, we are accepting donations until Monday.