Bulletin de l’École

Immaculée

Conception School Newsletter

BRUCE GREY CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD – VISION STATEMENT

Committed to a vibrant Catholic education, we ensure quality learning experiences through community partner-

ships that nurture each student in mind, body and spirit and embrace the teachings of Christ, giving witness to

Gospel values.

Friday, March 27th, 2015

Principal/Diretrice: Christine Pfeffer Board Administration—-Administration du conseil Office Administrator/Administratice du bureau: Lynn Hahn Director of Education/Directeur d’éducation: Priest/Prêtre: Father Stephen Lacroix Catherine Montreuil School Council———Conseil de l’école Superintendent/Surintendante: Francine Pilon Co-Chairpersons/Co-Présidents: Trustee/Commissionaire: Bev Eckensweiler Amber Metcalfe and Susan Dietz

Our next newsletter will be sent home the week of May 4th Notre prochain bulletin sera la semaine du 4 mai 2015

201 Conc 12 Box 73 Formosa, ON

School Science Fair: On March 4th our students presented their projects to our

judges in the gym here at ICS. Our students impressed the many judges that were here. It

was not an easy job for them to pick the winners.

Junior Division:

Third place: Karina Hahn for her project, Est-ce que le Gombo peut remplacer la Gomme du

guar

Second place: Colin Myatt for his project, N’y voir que du feu

First Place: Jacob Girdler for his project, Est-ce que les Modules d’Empreeintes sont Héritées

Intermediate Division:

Third place: Darren Rich and Isaac Mulvey for their project, Solar Light

Second place: Dawson Fahrer for his project, Comment apprends-tu?

First place: Mason Stroeder for his project, Bio-gas

Honourable mentions were given to:

Tyson Dietz: Rare ou Pas

Emma Lorentz: Comment les Plantes Pousse

Emma Bezeau: Quelle Marque Bruit le Meilleur

Denise Fischer Edney: The McCulloch Effect

Meredith Legace: Pitch Perfect

Madison Begon: Cranked on Music

Dawson Urbanek: Which Wood is Hardest?

CONGRATULATIONS to all of our students for representing ICS with

enthusiasm, politeness and patience. WELL DONE! Good Luck to the students who will be

going to Owen Sound for the Bluewater Regional Competition on April 1st and 8th.

“We are a Catholic Faith Community committed to developing and maintaining a love of life long learning, nurturing self-esteem and respect for all creation.”

Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board “Proclaiming the Work of Your Love”

Our old playground equipment will be sold as is on Gov Deals

for anyone interested.

School Easter

Mass

April 9th 11:00AM

Immaculate

Conception Church.

All are welcome.

Mark Your calendars:

Grade 8 Graduation will be on

Tuesday, June 23rd.

Grade 4 Bible

Distribution

As part of our grade 4

religion program, the students receive

their very own bible. The CWL

Formosa has graciously donated a new

version bible to each of our grade 4

students. The students will be pre-

sented with their bible at our March

assembly.

Happy Birthday to the following students who are celebrating their

birthday in APRIL:

Coleson Fischer Cameron Diemert Briar Legace Cassidy Pfeffer Sara Fortney Paige Weiler Jayce Busby Colin Myatt Layne Grubb Hannah Metcalfe Spencer Teeple Peyton Wells Tyler Rhodes Simon Field Paige Reinhart William Stroeder Claire Dietz Deron Bushey Jesse Zettel Owen Ernewein Avery Haight Keanna Waller-Valadares Lexis Weber Vanessa Hubbs Iris Russell Sophia Beninger

Let us remember in prayer

Denis Quish and Sheila Clarke

Grandpa to Keegan Quish and Aunt to Mrs. Weiler

“Gracious God, loving

Creator, Welcome Denis and Sheila into

paradise.

In your love, lead them into the unending

joys of your presence

where every tear will be wiped away,

and there will be no more sorrow.

Amen.”

“Were not our hearts burning within us while He was talking to us on the road?”

(Luke 24:32)

Catholic Education Week 2015 will be celebrated from May 3 - May 8.

We invite you to join the Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board for our 10th annual Catholic Education Week Dinner, as we celebrate Exploring Paths of Joy.

We are very pleased to welcome Bishop Douglas Crosby as our guest speaker for the evening.

When: Tuesday May 5

Where: Walkerton Knights of Columbus Hall

Hwy 9, between Walkerton and Mildmay

Roast Turkey Buffet: 6:30 p.m.

Keynote Address: 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Tickets: $18.00

Tickets are available from the office of your local school, or from Sarah Borth at the Catholic Education Centre, Hanover - 519-364-5820 X236

We encourage you to join us for this event which is sure to affirm, challenge, and inspire everyone. Donations for local food banks will be accepted at the door.

Our previous DrumFit fitness based presentation that was cancelled back in No-

vember has been rescheduled to Thursday May 7th. More info to follow closer

the date.

SAFE ARRIVAL / DISMISSAL Voice Mail 367-5283 Call anytime, day or night, and leave your message.

Immaculate Conception School— Formosa

Boys Basketball: Congratulations to our boys basketball team who placed second to Notre Dame at the Board Tournament on March 10th at SHHS. They played with a lot of heart and determination throughout the day and their efforts paid off. They lost 11-9 in the finals. Well Done! Thank you to Mlle Turcotte for taking the time to teach these boys the skills necessary to be champions! Team members: Keagan Grubb, Mason Stroeder, Matthew Donnelly, Dawson

Fahrer, Darren Rich, Keifer Teeple, Jayce Busby, Tanner Stuempfle, Dominic

Borho, Blake Wideman, Justin Rogers, Mitchell Dirven, Coleson Fischer, Baxter

Legace.

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Congratulations to the girls basketball team for winning

the tournament. The girls won every game and played great basketball. All team

members contributed to their success. Great day girls! Thank you to Mr. Blair for

coaching the girls! Team members included: Sidney Reinhart, Sarah Nichols,

Denise Fischer-Edney, Madison Begon, Meadow Bester, Billie Martin, Cara

Zettler, Meredith Legace, Hannah McArthur, Pilar Dietrich, Shannon Wagner, Jose

McGlynn and Alexa Schlosser

Congratulations to the following students who were

recognized for their effort in demonstrating the following virtues:

Compassion

Logan Chamberlain Keegan Quish

Jacob Girdler Keith Robertson

Teo Remers Turner Mckenzie

Izak Hergert Joel Montag

Samiah Haase

Chloe Fischer Abby Folmer

Peyton Grubb Sage Martin

Nevin Schumacher Nick Bohnert

Rachel Nichols Aryssa Fischer

Makayla Messerschmidt Layla Hadwen

Understanding

Pilar Deitrich Colin Myatt

Sophia Herchmer Adelyn Haase

Alexie Reid Denika Kennie

Cameron Ernewein Cadence Stanislow

Dawson Urbanek Hannah Metcalfe

Billie Martin Aubrey Wall

Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board “Proclaiming the Work of Your Love”

And be kind to one another,

tender-hearted, forgiving one another,

as God in Christ has forgiven you.

(Ephesians 4.32)

April Virtues: Forgiveness and Kindness

Turn off the Screens Week

May 4th to May 10th, 2015

Families are encouraged to turn off their televisions, video

games & computers for 7 days (except for use with homework)

to participate in the tenth annual Turn Off the Screens Week.

Tips to decrease your family’s screen time Move the TV to a less visible location. Hide the remote control. Plan your TV viewing. Turn on the TV when your favourite show starts. Turn it off

when it ends. Use physical activity as a reward, rather than screen time as a reward. Don’t worry if your child says “I’m bored”. Boredom often leads to creativity & physi-

cally active play. Try to break your TV watching patterns. If you usually watch TV after the dishes are done, go for a walk. Make sure your caregiver or sitter follows your screen time rules. Start young. Develop good screen habits before your child starts school. Set a good example! You are the most important role model in your child’s life. Limit your own screen time use and carefully select the programs you watch. Log Sheets will be coming home soon with chances for all participating students to win great prizes.

Let’s get involved Immaculate Conception!

Student Council Clothing Drive

Student Council is raising money for their social

justice project. If you have any clothing, shoes,

boots, purses, belts, etc that you would like to be

rid of, we will take them. The Kidney Foundation

will be at ICS on Wednesday, April 22nd in the

morning to pick up the clothing. We receive

money for every pound of clothing we collect.

A good time to start your spring cleaning.

Merci!

Mark your calendars: EQAO dates will be May 25th to June 4th. Please avoid booking appointments during

this time.

Immaculate Conception School— Formosa

SAFE ARRIVAL / DISMISSAL Voice Mail 367-5283 Call anytime, day or night, and leave your message.

Elmira Poultry Class Fundraiser: All classes have an

opportunity to sell Elmira Poultry to help offset class costs for

trips. Orders are due to the school on Tuesday, April 7th. Pick up

will be on Wednesday, April 22nd from 3:15-4:15PM.

Grade 6/7/8 only will be selling Green’s Meat. If you wish to pur-

chase Green’s Meat please call the office or get in touch with a

student from grade 6/7/8.

PLEASE NOTE: Church Council has brought to our

attention that cars are travelling through the

church parking lot at high speeds. We ask that you

do not use the church parking as a shortcut to the

school. Please use the municipal road.

APRIL VIRTUE ASSEMBLY

Please join us for our school assembly on

Thursday, April 30th at 2:25PM

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Grad Photos

SK’s

Senior

Science fair

Owen Sound

2

Last day for

the food drive.

3

Good Friday

4

5

6

Easter Monday

7

Pita Day

8

Junior Science

Fair, OS

9

Easter Mass

11:00

10

Roots Of

Bruce Gr 5

11

12

Forgiveness

13 14

Junior Basketball

at Notre Dame

Mac and Cheese

Grad Photos Gr 8

15

Early Dismissal

SVCA Flood

Water Presen-

tations

16 17 18

19

Kindness

20

Dental Screen-

ing JK/SK and

Gr. 2’s

21

Spaghetti

22

Clothing Drive

pick up

23 24

1st Commun-

ion Retreat

25

26 27 28

Taco Day

29 30

Virtue Assembly

Forgiveness is

giving myself

or someone

else another

chance.