Madonna Catholic School News

Dear Madonna Families,

In the Gospel for Sunday, June 21 (Mark 4:35-41), we hear the powerful story of Jesus calming the storm at sea. When the disciples are overwhelmed by the wind and waves, Jesus awakens and simply says, "Quiet! Be still!" Immediately, the wind ceases, and a great calm falls over the water.

As we reflect on this past school year, there have undoubtedly been busy, whirlwind moments for all of us. Yet, through our shared faith, we are constantly reminded of the profound peace and steadfast guidance that Christ brings to our journey.

As the waters of this academic year begin to settle, we want to pause and express our deepest gratitude for the amazing support of our families over the past ten months. Your ongoing engagement and partnership are absolutely critical—not only in ensuring academic and personal success for all of our kids but also in sustaining the vibrant, loving community we cherish so deeply here at Madonna. We truly could not do this without you.

Transitions and Farewells

As with any journey, the end of the year brings seasons of change. We have some incredible staff members who will be seeking new adventures in other buildings for the upcoming school year. Next week, during our final school assembly, we will take the time to acknowledge not only our grade four students who are moving on to middle school but also these individuals who have so generously shared their gifts and talents with us. We will forever be grateful for their profound commitment to Catholic education at Madonna.

While it is difficult to say goodbye, this growth also means we will be welcoming some wonderful new faces to our expanding school community in the fall!

Looking Ahead: Welcome Back BBQ

Families will have the opportunity to meet all of our staff—both familiar and new—at our 2nd Annual Welcome Back BBQ and Open House coming up in August. It will be a fantastic way to kick off our next chapter together. Please see the image below for more details—we look forward to seeing you all then!

Wishing you a blessed, restful, and peaceful summer ahead,

Fiona Wimmer, Assistant Principal

Cathy Hinger, Principal

June 22 - Kindergarten Year End Celebration

June 22 - Grade 4 Bowling & Leadership Lunch

June 23 - Final Assembly & Grade 4 Farewell 9:00am

June 23 - Last day of school for students

Our grade 4 students have all been incredible leaders in our community this year. Each student was able to visit and help out in OLPH Parish' Clothing Nook at least once this year. Today was a trip for the whole crew and we brought along some winter boots we had stored in our school (they had been donated to us and we were not going through them fast enough) so we knew the right place to take them was to our Parish who literally help clothe those in need. Thank you to Mrs Lavigne and her team of volunteers who always welcome our students and give them time to learn and ask questions as they happily work to support others.

ABJ students and music director, Ms Nevado Moes came to Madonna on June 17 to record our most popular mass music. The plan is that when we gather in September as we traditionally do outdoors on the football field we have music to pipe through the PA system at Emerald Hills. Thank you to Ms Fortier for her leadership in this recording session.

This past week some of our Grade 4 classes had the opportunity to travel over Code Ninja's to apply some of their math and problem solving skills. They worked very hard with the staff and the parent volunteers to work on coding and game design skills. Later they also had a chance to work with Lego Robotics.

A long standing tradition at Madonna has been for our Gard 1 students to meet Sox and local farmer Mr Millar each fall as he inspires them to "learn to read" this year as his horses really love listening to books. Well, the past week our grade one classes have travelled over to his property to do just that! Thank you Parent Council for helping with the transportation cost in getting our kids to the farm. Also, a million thanks to all the parent and grandparent volunteers who supported the classes in these adventures.

These grade 3 students have been working very hard to perform a little french reader's theatre for the enjoyment of the grade 2 students. “”La Poule Maboulle” was their chosen piece. Thank you for being such a great audience!

Thank you to our Madonna Parent Council who helped us to bring in FitSet Ninja's Obstacle Course to our gym on a rainy Thursday. All of our classes from pre K to Grade 4 were able to find time to join in the fun.

OLPH (Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish)

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