Growing Together @ STL

God bless the 13 students in grades 5-8 and 2 staff who worked together this week to build the safety rules for recess sledding at St. Luke! With a commitment to the highest safety standards, students reviewed the rules of 10 other schools around the province as reference points to springboard from. Together they co-constructed the STL rules and processes for safe recess sledding at St. Luke! So proud of this excellent leadership and collaboration. Thank you for giving up your recess and lunch to keep everyone safe while having loads of fun! Stay tuned for more sledding news!

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It is evident that we are truly a family when we capture many moments when big kids and little kids play together at recess. When they purposely choose to connect, mentor and play! It warms the heart to see these positive relationships and joy!

Space is running out! Register Friday night to attend Saturday's conference!

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Our students are amazing! Each week they amaze us, and this week in no exception! Thank you to these two young fellows who offered to spend their recess cleaning and organizing the gym storage room. It can get a little chaotic in there, and thanks to these two, it is sparkling again! Thank you for your generosity and service!

Each year we collaboratively build a plan to follow for the year, linked to our four pillars. St. Luke's Assurance Plan is on our school website linked here for your convenience. It highlights what we are planning to do this year based on collaboration from last year.

Our weekly newsletter is organized by the four pillars of our Assurance plan, and serves as weekly evidence of the work we are doing to support and engage students, staff and our community.

Sunday, January 26

• Deadline for hot lunch orders

Monday, Jan 27

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Tuesday, Jan 28

• Nature Infused Pre Kindergarten & Kindergarten in class
• GIFT Assembly - All families Welcome!
• DINO Dogs Hot Lunch for those who ordered
• Grade 5&6 Girls Group with Mrs. McCann
• Grade 4-8 Intramurals with Mr. Mak
• Girls Basketball HOME Game @ 4:30pm - GO MUSTANGS!!
• Grade 1/2 Book Buzz @ 9:30
• Father Mario Visits Grade 4 and 7/8

Wednesday, Jan 29

• PD Day - No School

Thursday, Jan 30

• Nature Infused Prekindergarten & Kindergarten day
• Choir Practice with Mrs. Marple
• Grade 4 Girls Group with Mrs. McCann
• Mrs. McCann @ STL
• Saffron Presentations - All day - All Classes

Friday, Jan 31

• Red for Ed Friday
• Reports Cards available for viewing!!

Listening to our St. Luke Catholic School Community, we are excited to lean into some exciting new learning opportunities for our students!

The 2025-2026 year will bring exciting and new opportunities for our awesome STL students for optimal learning....opportunities such as (and aren't limited to....):

• Nature Infused programming beyond Kindergarten
• Community Partnerships for diverse opportunities in middle school grades

Spread the word! St. Luke is where it's at!

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New for the 2025-2026 School Year:

~ *NEW* Nature Prekindergarten & Kindergarten Extension ~

• This Nature Early Learning Extension will run on alternate days of Nature Infused Programming (meaning on the days Nature Infused programs aren't in class)
• Nature Prekinder & Kinder Extension can be coupled with Nature Infused programs for Full-Time, Full-Day Programming at St. Luke (5 days a week)
• Majority of a student's day will be exploring, learning and growing outdoors through play
• Stay tuned for more details, or call us at the school!

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We will continue to offer:

• Nature Infused Prekindergarten ($125/month)
• Nature Infused Kindergarten (no monthly fee)

As a way to help fundraise for the Grade 4 Overnight Field Trip to Drumheller this year, your Grade 4 Parents will be running a once a month Hot Dog Lunch.

Ordering is open now on the hot lunch website stlukeschool.hotlunches.net

The first hot dog lunch is scheduled for January 28th and ordering will remain open until the Sunday prior to each scheduled lunch.

Combos are $6.00 and include a hot dog, juice box and a snack of your choice. Single hot dogs are $3.00.

If you have any questions, please contact Amy Williamson amy.williamson@eics.ab.ca or hotlunchstluke@gmail.com.

Thank-you for your support!

Our tournament was a huge success with our girls bringing home a WIN in the tournament!!!

At the end of January, your child's report card will be available for viewing on your PowerSchool Parent Portal.

This report card is a checkpoint in your child's learning at this point in the year. It outlines where your child's learning achievement is at in comparison to the content, skills and process explored so far this year.

If you haven't logged onto your Powerschool parent portal in a while, we suggest you get logged in soon. In order to see your child's progress reports, you will need to log onto your Powerschool parent portal.

Please feel free to contact Mrs. Bilyk in the office for help if you're struggling to login. Thank you for doing so before the end of January so she can help ahead of progress reports.

School fees are also viewable and payable on your Powerschool Parent Portal.

If you pick up your child at the end of the day, have you noticed that buses are leaving a little later than usual? Yup, it's true.

To ensure children have adequate time after the dismissal to get dressed and head to the buses, buses will be leaving at 2:47pm (1:47pm on early dismissal days). This means an increase in learning time and children have the standard-across-the-division 7 minutes to load the bus.

If you have any questions, thank you for connecting with Mme Gravelle.

Student and staff safety is our #1 priority at STL. This includes all types of safety:

• Physical
• Emotional
• Social
• Psychological
• Spiritual

When keeping children physically safe, we practice safety practices to support staff and students in knowing what to do in an emergency. We are required by law to complete six fire safety practices (we've done three already), two lockdown practices (first one will be Friday) and one Shelter in Place (completed already). Staff talk through each procedure to best support students and navigate any questions. For more information about the emergency response supports in place, you're invited to click here.

Have your voice heard!

It is an opportunity for you to share your voice with regards to St. Luke's strengths, successes, areas for growth and future directions. The data collected from these surveys will begin to define our 2025-2026 priorities and directions. We will be exploring this more together at the St. Luke School Council meeting on January 13. We hope to see you there!

There are 4 pillars that drive our school's direction:

Faith Formation

Learners and Learning

Wellness

Community Engagement

These are the same four pillars that organize our "Growing Together @ STL" weekly newsletters. Throughout the year, you can see evidence of initiatives, events, activities, opportunities, learning and extra curricular experiences in each of these categories!

GrACE's mision is to inspire, invigorate and embolden the spirit of Catholic education in order to unite, engage, educate and communicate with one voice. They are calling on our community to have one or two representatives to join GrACE and be a conduit between that committee and our amazing school. It's a great way to know what's happening with Catholic Education in EICS, Alberta and beyond, connect with other Faith-filled parents and advocate for meaningful opportunities for our precious children.

Please reach out to Mme Gravelle at the school or to your school council at stlukeparentcouncileics@gmail.com

All meeting begin at 6:00PM

February 10

March 10

April 7

May 12

June 9

Receipt Collection - Friday, January 31st

In case you didn't know, you can help fundraise for St. Luke by simply grocery shopping at Save On Foods!

All you have to do is submit your original Save On Foods receipts (Wye Road location only) to the school.

Place your receipts in the little library box outside of the school's front doors and they will be picked up on Friday, January 31st. Please refrain from submitting receipts with lottery, prescriptions, gift cards or tobacco products on them.

Save On Foods will send 5% of all receipt totals as a donation to the school.

FACEBOOK -Join Us!

If you haven’t already, please join our School Council and Parent Association Facebook page! We are excited to offer this official space to share news and updates about events, fundraising, and more!

Questions or Want to Volunteer?

If you are interested in getting involved in events or have questions for St. Luke's School Council, please email stlukeparentassociation@gmail.com

The Sherwood Park Crusaders hockey team is hosting a Jersey Design Contest and invited EICS students to participate. Deadline to submit a design is Feb. 28, and the winner will be recognized during the March 30 home game.

Topics of discussion may include:

• cultural similarities and differences in parenting

• programs and supports for children and families (recreation, education, health care)

• tips for raising children in a multi-cultural environment while maintaining home language and culture

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If you know of any immigrant parents who are interested in connecting with other parents and learning about resources and tips for raising children in Canada, please share the attached postcard with them.

The program will be facilitated in English, so participants need to feel comfortable communicating in English. Any parent who is not originally from Canada is considered an immigrant parent no matter how long they have been in Canada. Priority is given to Strathcona County residents.

Immigrant parents who are interested can call 780-416-6730 or email FamilyResourceNetwork@strathcona.ca. Schools can make a referral by reaching out directly to the program facilitators, German Villegas (german.villegas@strathcona.ca) and Linh Nguyen (linh.nguyen@strathcona.ca). We will need the parent's name, email, and phone number.

Check out the Glenrose Community Connections Newsletter for:

• Sensory Friendly Santa locations
• AHS’ downloadable Rehabilitation Partnership Guide
• Glow Without Limits information
• New Glenrose groups for your youth
• Recovery Alberta’s Caregiver Education calendar
• 2 study survey links through which you can provide feedback on Living with Life-Limiting Illness and another on Quality Indicators Transition to Adult Healthcare

January - Happy New Year!

• Wednesday, January 29 - No School for students - Staff have a Professional Learning Day
• 31 - Report Cards available on PowerSchool

February

10 - Education Assurance Closes - Have your say before it does! Check your email inbox.

6&7 - Teachers Convention - No School for Students

Masses at OLPH will be livestreamed. Please join using this link. https://www.facebook.com/olphsherwoodpark/videos/

Visit OLPH Website for more information about the parish and in regards to sacramental preparation.

Visit www.facebook.com/olphsherwoodpark

St. Francis of Assisi Parish is administered by Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sherwood Park. Please contact the parish for confession times and more information.

Clergy: Reverend Jim Corrigan, Pastor

Mass Time: Sunday 11:00

Email Address: StFrancisAssisi.Tofield@caedm.ca

5523 - 50 Street Tofield, AB T0B 4J0

See map: Google Maps

Phone: 780-467-5470

Mme Pamela Gravelle

Principal

Email: stl@eics.ab.ca
Website: stl.eics.ab.ca
Location: 22139 South Cooking Lake Road, Sherwood Park, AB, Canada
Phone: 780-922-5920
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stlukeeics
Twitter: @stlcs_EICS