Week at a Glance

Monday June 27th

Last lockdown practice for this year (afternoon)

Students are asked to begin bringing personal items home

Term 2 Reports Cards should be available by end of the day

Tuesday June 28th

WALK, BIKE, SCOOT Carpool, bus to school today 8:15 am - 8:45 am

Our ACTIVE SCHOOL TRAVEL TEAM WILL BE GREETING YOU

Wednesday June 29th

Last Day of School

O'Canada Day - wear Red & White and everything Canada

All student items home for the summer

Our Active School Travel Team is in full force this coming Tuesday, June 28th.

We are INVITING everyone to walk, ride, scoot, carpool, take their school bus to school on this day to get active, get out into the community and to help our environment.

JOIN US

8:15 am - 8:45 am

We will have

• music
• snacks
• stickers
• give aways (bike helmets)
• visiters (school nurse, BEA from City Hall,)
• Marty, Ms. Benyo's dog is coming
• dancing and fun
• ALL LOST and FOUND ITEMS will be OUTSIDE on a table Please CHECK (all remaining items will be donated at the end of the day to Charitable Organization)

We have a fair amount of lost and found items at the school. We will be putting these out on Tuesday Morning on a table during ACTIVE SCHOOL TRAVEL from 8:15 am - 8:45 am. Please come by and see if anything belongs to you.

After Wednesday all lost and found items not claimed will be donated to charity.

It is a great honor for me to let you know that we have purchased 30 Chromebooks for our school for the coming 2022-2023 school year to both increase, replace and replenish used and recycled chromebooks due wear over time and especially due to deployment duirng online learning.

Our Raffle Profits of $9,600 covered most of the approximate $13,000 cost of the chromebooks. The remaining money was taken from Christmas Card Fundraising Profits and any monies made from Food Days. All monies have been raised due to the support of our families, Catholic School Council efforts and student assistance.

We are grateful for the community for helping us with this huge endeavor and thankful to all our families for donating monies to the raffle, donating prizes, purchasing tickets and continuing to support school events such as our Christmas Cards and Food Days.

The staff of St. Alexander Catholic School Community thank you.

We want to take a moment to officially thank and extend our gratitude to Father Mitch for his service to St. Alexander Catholic Parish and St. Alexander Catholic School over the past 10 years. Father celebrated his 49th year of ordination on Friday, June 24th, the day before his birthday.

Congratulations Father on your retirement and 49 years of spiritual leadership. You will be missed. We honored Father Mitch at our grade 8 graduation on Friday night with our families, staff and graduates.

We Welcome Father Paul MacNeil to St. Alexander Parish and to our St. Alexander Catholic School Community. Father is coming to us from Our Lady of the Scapular Parish in Niagara Falls. We look forward to working with you Father Paul.

Class placements will not be available until August. At that time they will be available on the Parent Portal. For our year one Kindergarten Students starting with us, you will recieve communication from their classroom teacher at that time as well.

At this time I would like to acknowledge those teachers and staff who were with us this year and some for many year as they bid us a farewell at the end of this school year.

Thank you to Mrs. Vasas our school librarian who we have come to truly enjoy reading to us, supporting us and helping us connect to literature and learn ways to find engaging literature in our community, at local libraries and online. You are always available to help your colleauges. You will be missed. We wish you well on your retirment after many years of service to Niagara Catholic especially your years at St. Alexander Catholic, St. Anne Fenwick and Father Hennepin in Niagara Falls. You will be missed.

Thank you to Miss Dunbar our Educational Assistant who has served our community tirelessly over the last 10 years. You are a super star EA always willing to help out, support, get to know all the students and encouraging us to write and read poetry. Your work with our students has been outstanding and care for staff noteable.... your patience, positivity and flexibility with be missed.

Thank you to Mrs. Serravalle who has announced her retirement. Thank you for your years of committment to educaiton and for serving the students and staff of St. Alexander Catholic School for many years. We wish you well in your retirement. You will be missed.

Thank you to Miss Sirianni who returned to us if only for a year. When she comes she comes to work and dig into whole school endeavors. She led our VEX TEAM, Girls Soccer, Track and Field with Mr. Mari, helping with Volleyball and teaching other teachers about Coding & Vex Robotics on her own time. She has catalogued all our Chromebooks and assisted with restoration of them where she can. She has led Social Committee for our staff and has succeeded in engaging staff in gathering and bringing staff together as a village. We wish you luck at your next school - St. Mark Elementary Catholic. You will be missed.

Thank you to Mrs. Switzer our Primary Team Member who spends time with Mrs. Goodwin's class and Miss Savage's class. Thank you for helping our classes to engage in learning about rhyming and sounds. You have truly helped our Kindergarten's to learn about phonics and have also been a great advocate of active and playful living for them all. We wish you luck at your next school St. Theresa. You will be missed.

Thank you to Miss Muraco our Primary TEAM Memeber who teachers grades 1-3 Science, Physical Education and Health. Thank you for your love for our students, for planning fun lessons for them, building rapport with all of them. Thank you for running knitting club which has been such a hit and the children were so graetful to have knitting back in action. You will be missed.

Thank you to Mrs. Luongo our Early Years Educator who has worked along side Miss Savage this past year. Thank you for your endless care for our Kindergarten students, for the fun and engaging activities you have planned for them, for always caring for their safety and well-being. You will be missed.

Thank you to Mrs. Rey who filled in for the second half of our year at St. Alexander Catholic for Mrs. Serravalle. Thank you for planning fun and engaging lessons and activities for your students and showing consideration for their well-being. You will be missed.

Mrs. Carpino and Mrs. DeRuiter our school secretaries. This is no small job running our St. Alexander School office. Thank you for doing it with patience, kindness and an eagerness to serve. We are grateful to have had you at the helm making sure students are safe and communication with home is fluid. We thank you for your hard work and you will be missed.