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St. Mary of the Angels
Catholic School
St. Mary of the Angels Catholic School 1477 Dufferin St.
Toronto, ON Tel: 416-393-5228
Principal M. Colleen Pontello
416-393-5228
Superintendent John Wujek
416-222-8282 Ext. 5371
Trustee/Vice Chair Frank D’Amico
416-512-3406
Parish St. Mary of the Angels
Father L. Garcia 416-532-4779
Mass Times Saturday 6:00 p.m. Portuguese
Sunday 8:00 a.m. English 9:15 a.m. Italian
10:30 a.m. English 12:00 p.m. Portuguese
CSPC Chair Paul Matos
Phone: 416-222-8282 x 88228 Email: [email protected]
Enrolment 231
School Hours 8:30 a.m.– 3:30 p.m.
Lunch Hour 11:15 a.m.—12:15 p.m.
Next CSPC Meeting Wednesday, November 22,
2017 6:15 p.m.
All Parents Welcome
We are an International Language School
Portuguese
November Newsletter
The Virtue for the month of November is Peace.
There are many exciting things and much learning going
on at our school. I would like to take a moment to high-
light a few things.
October was the month of Gratitude and we have much to be thank-
ful for. Thank you for your generosity with the food drive and for supporting our Hal-
loween Dance. Our students did extremely well at Cross Country with three of our
students making it to the City Finals! We also started our Intermediate Volleyball
Teams thanks to the efforts of all of our teacher coaches and students. We have had
Fire Drills and Lock Down practices, our students and staff have done very well. We
have changed our lunches and though it has taken some fine tuning, we are already
reaping the benefits of the changes. We have a very active Parent Council and that
was reflected in the At Home Alone Workshop for parents and students led by Toron-
to Public Health Nurse Stephanie Forestell saw 50 people gathered in our Library on
October 26th learning about safety and being confident when our students are at
home alone. 100% of the people attending said that they learned valuable infor-
mation and got a lot out of the experience. Our Halloween Dance Party and Costume
Day was also a huge success, thank you students and families for the interesting and
spooky costumes. October also saw many leadership opportunities through our Lead-
ership Team and their WE initiatives and our office, school yard and ECO helpers.
As for November, we have already started things off well with the Gr.7/8 trip to
Loretto College to learn about high school life by experiencing a full day of secondary
school. Our students had a great time and learned a lot along with Ms. Machado Dias
and Ms. Silva. We also had our All Saints Day Mass with Fr. Garcia and our Seminarian
Joao and led by the beautiful music of Dr. Bianchi and the excellent readings of our
students led by the preparations of Mrs. Tamburro. Our last excitement on the 1st of
November came in the form of the beautiful, gracious and talented Portuguese au-
thor Isabel Zambujal (pictured below) who had her stories performed by our Gr. 6
and 6/7 classes and who read her exciting
and fun stories to our Gr. 1, 2/3 and ELP
classes. Thanks goes out to Senhora Silva
for organizing such a special event.
The excitement, fun and learning continue,
please encourage your child to get involved
in all of the activities.
Colleen Pontello
Principal
Monthly Virtues
The Virtue of the Month of November is the virtue of Peace. The following students are our winners for the Virtue of Gratitude
from November. Congratulations to them for all of their efforts.
Grade Winner Winner
ELP 1 Mila Morgan Cynthia Chen
ELP 2 Julia Henriques Iara Ferreira
Demitri Raposo Medeiros
1/2 Khloe Postico Bruno Lopes
2 Kevin Csoka Manuel Magalhaes
3 Angelina Ferreira Dallas Stella-Munroe
4 Jorja DaRosa-Pereira Tiago De Lacerda Abreu Arruda
5 Brianna Charles Lucas Coelho
6 Dennise Lorenzini Robin Russell
6/7 Isadora Fonseca
7/8 Nicholas Babiak
FSL Eva Barbosa Da Costa Ana Pereira
At Home
Alone
Work-
shop
Thursday,
October
26th 6:30-8:30 pm
Thank you to Stephanie Forestell our Toronto
Public Health Nurse who led us through a ter-
rific program so that our students feel confi-
dent about staying home alone (and so do
their parents). A chance to work through sce-
narios and problems so that when they hap-
pen, you know what to do. Thank you to our
Parent Council for organizing the event, it
was a great success!
Please stay tuned for information on our
upcoming session in April,
How to Help Kids Handle Stress.
No Christmas Concert this Year
There will be no Christmas Concert
this year, instead we will be having a
Spring Concert in March or April.
Please watch for more information.
Leadership Team—WE make a
Difference
The leadership team sold Terra Cotta Cook-
ie Co. chocolate chip cookies as a kick start-
er to our fundraising efforts this year for
our sister community in Tanzania. Altogeth-
er we raised $250 – a quarter of our goal
for the entire school year! Everyone should
be so proud of this amazing start. Our
school’s efforts have helped improve
healthcare in a very needy community, and
this is just the start! The leadership team is
really excited to continue this great success
and will share information about our next
initiative, rafiki sales, in the coming weeks!
Melanie Silva
PAINTING St. Mary of the Angels has had a face lift, or
at least a tightening. :)
Our washrooms and hallways have
been freshened up to enhance the
learning experience for our stu-
dents. Thank you to Night Custodian
Mauro Ruberto for spearheading
this exciting and at times exhausting
endeavor. Thank you to the board
and to our students and teachers
who have been supportive and pa-
tient during this process. Let’s take
good care of our improvements!
Drop Off in the Morning
* Thank you for your continued efforts to
keep our students safe. Please drop off
your child in the space provided and then
drive off to make room for the next fami-
ly. When we work together, all students
and staff are safe.
Grade 8 Science
Projects
Animal Cells
Well Done!
Did you know that school lunches are a ma-jor source of waste in Ontario? In fact, the average student’s lunch generates a total of 30 kilograms of waste per school year! That is an alarming amount of waste! In an effort to engage students in small environmental initiatives that can make a big impact, St. Mary of the Angels school has adopted a waste-free lunch program. This October, the entire school participated in the week-long
Waste-Free Lunch Challenge, a province-wide initiative run by the Recycling Council of Ontario. This was a great opportunity to re-mind students of the correct use of the green and blue bins, and to showcase the many stu-
dents who consistently bring litter-less lunches to school. We dramatically reduced the waste in our blue bins and made better use of the green bins in all lunchrooms! The event was a great success! We will continue this initiative all year, so please con-tinue to pack those healthy, waste-free lunches!
A Spooky Tale
Imagine an old man whose eyes are deformed. One eye is normal, while the
other looks like a glass ball. Would you be scared? The grade 6/7 class was!
In our class, we read The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, a horror story
of a madman who’s afraid of an old man’s eye. What does he do in his mad-
ness? You’ll have to read the chilling tale to find out! Don’t be afraid if you
hear screams coming from the grade 6/7 class, we’re just acting out this
spoooooky tale! Happy Halloween!
Francesca Pullano
ESL
Pumpkin
Design-
ing and
Carving
with Ms.
Marques
Portuguese Author Isabel Zambujal Comes to St. Mary of the Angels
Senhora Silva organized a beautiful visit with famous Portuguese Author Isabel Zam-
bujal. The students in Grades 6 and 6/7 prepared skits and readings while students in
Grades 1 and 2/3 enjoyed the excitement. Ms. Zambujal then went to visit our ELP
classes to read her children’s books to the very excited students. It was a lovely visit
that everyone truly enjoyed. Thank you Senhora Silva for organizing the
event.