Thursday, April 30th, 2020 

Dear Parents,   

Catholic Education Week is on May 3rd to 8th. This year’s theme, “Igniting Hope” provides a wonderful opportunity as a Catholic community, to showcase and demonstrate the resilience and compassion that is borne out of our faith. Each day during Catholic Education Week, a new post will appear on the board website and shared via social media channels. This post will be an invitation for everyone to reach out to those around them with a message of hope. 

Monday - For the ones we love - send a message of hope to someone in your family.

Tuesday - For the ones who teach us - send a message of hope to your educator(s).

Wednesday - For leaders - send a message of hope to a leader in your community/world

(government leaders, school board leaders, your parish priest, Archbishop Prendergast, Pope Francis) 

Thursday - For those in need and those who care for them - send a message of hope to a nursing home, hospital, The Mission, Shepherds of Good Hope, frontline and healthcare workers.

Friday - For yourself - send yourself a message of hope - for today and the future.

Please join us in celebrating Catholic Education Week 2020. Everyone is invited to share photos and stories of how they are sharing, inspiring ... igniting hope around them by using the #ocsbHope hashtag on social media.

Useful resource from the Ministry of Education

Learn at Home Document from
the Ministry of Education

This resource has useful information and 
links for Math and Literacy.

https://www.ontario.ca/page/learn-at-home#section-1

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First Eucharist Candidates - A note from Father Scott

St Augustine Parish

Phone 613-225-7388   Website: www.staugustineparish.ca 

To ALL candidates and their families of “first” Eucharist…

Christians around the world this year experienced the unthinkable: Easter season without Eucharist. The most sacred of celebrations in the Christian calendar occurred right at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in Canada, and so our "Easter duty" this year was to stay at home.

For Catholics in particular, the Eucharist is our deepest means of encounter with the Risen One: the crucified Son of God whose final victory over death is the heart of the Easter message. The Eucharist is the food of our souls as well as our bodies. It is the source and summit of everything we are and hope to be as baptized Christians. And this Easter we must go without it.

How is this possible? How can we go on being a eucharistic people, indeed an Easter people, without the Lord's Supper?

When I look and gaze upon those little sheep on the side wall of our church; here at St. Augustine’s under the Good Shepherd.  I know there are many in the parish who have chosen a name and praying for that candidate for ‘first’ Eucharist.  

When will we know you can celebrate the “first” Eucharist; to have Jesus in your hands and say “Amen”.  I don’t know. Hopefully in next weeks we may know, perhaps in June or over the summer. If the authorities relax the guidelines for self-isolation there may be a chance in “small groupings’’ here at Church. “stay tuned”

Let us take this time of Easter til Pentecost, May 31 to pray for each other.  Let us continue to wait and pray some more, go over some of those great stories that you learnt about Jesus.   It is a blessing to know He does not leave us alone; He thinks of us all the time.

May God Bless you and hold you in the palm of His hand…

Fr Frank Scott

Rev. Francis P Scott, Pastor

April 19, 2020

Time to order your 2019-2020 

St.Rita Yearbook.

Cost: $18.50

Order and pay online only through

LIFETOUCH ybpay.lifetouch.ca 

St.Rita school code 4501120 

UPDATES FOR WEEK OF APRIL 13

Hello Parents,

I hope that you all had a wonderful Easter.

A few updates for this week:

• Our google chats will remain on Tuesdays at 10:30am each week. I have sent an invitation to your children. Some of them have already accepted the invitation, which is great! Looking forward to seeing all of the kids again tomorrow morning.

• Change in work for the week - I have sent your children an email explaining that a guideline for work of the week will be accessed through your childs Hapara account. Their Hapara account is found in their student portal (see the following icon).

Once they get into their HAPARA account, there is a folder named WORKSPACE and that is where they will find their work. Once their work is completed, they simply hit the SUBMIT button. I am hoping that this will make things easier!

Again, please feel free to email me if you have further questions.

Rosetta Vena :0)

Hello Parents,

I wanted to share a package with you that the children

could enjoy over the long weekend in their free time.

It includes Easter activities.

Feel free to print off anything of interest.

My Catholic Lent and Easter Activity Package

I would like to thank you for all of your patience

and support during this time. It was great

to see and chat with the students on our

google chat. We will continue to have a weekly

chat. However, the times may sometimes change.

I will send an invite to the kids each week to confirm

the day and time.

I would like to take this time to wish each of you

a Happy Easter and a wonderful long weekend.

Mrs. Vena :0)

SPIRIT WEEK...COMING UP NEXT WEEK!!

ST. RITA  SPIRIT WEEK

Hey St. Rita’s STINGERS,

Let’s come together to show  “St. Rita’s Spirit”!

Next week is our “ST. RITA’S SPIRIT WEEK”! Use your creativity, your imagination but most

importantly have FUN! 

Take pictures and send them to your teacher. 

We cannot wait!!!!

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
St. Rita School Colors Wear blue and yellow	Crazy Hair Day	Jersey Day

Hero Day

Word of the Day Make a poster, picture of a word of hope that you want to share with St. Rita. Send a picture!

Hello Parents,

I sent home the following note through your email (one email per family) on April 1st. I also sent a note to your child to their email. If you require your son or daughters username and password, please let me know. Thank you to those of you that responded. If you did not receive the following notes, please let me know at 

rosetta.vena@ocsb.ca . 

Thank you so much,

Mrs. Vena

Note to Parents:

Hello Parents,

I hope that you are all doing well. It was great to hear from you and to speak to some of you. I would like to continue to keep the lines of communication open during this time. In our next phase (beginning next week), we will be slowly introducing some academics, with a focus on Math and Language. At this point, I am not exactly sure how that will look. I will take it one week at a time. Also, I am aware that this is a difficult time for all of us. Please only do what you can, no pressure!!

As a first step, I would like to have a conference using Google Meet with all of the children, if possible. The children will have an opportunity to see and chat with one another. This will happen later next week. I will have to confirm a day and time in the near future.

As a first step, the children will have to learn how to log into their email accounts. Most of the students have memorized their logins, as they are used to logging into their chromebooks at school on a daily basis. If your child needs their logins, please email me and I will send you their computer username and passwords.  

Later this afternoon, I will send the children a message to their school email account. By responding to my email, I will know that the kids have accessed their email account. I am aware that some of you are in need of devices. The principal is aware of this and is awaiting details for next steps. Also, as a staff, we are going to book conferences at different days and times so that your children have more of a chance to access a device at home.

. My hopes are to send you a weekly email with overall expectations for the week and questions to guide the children. In time, if the children are able to effectively make use of their emails, we could explore further options. For now, we will take this one step at a time. Please continue to use available apps on our class Blog and various links sent, to review various concepts in Math and Language. 

Please feel free to contact me through email if you require further assistance,

Rosetta Vena :0)

Note to my students:

Hello grade 2's!

I miss you all soooo much. I hope that you are all doing well. I know that things are really different right now, but it's important that we stay home so that we all stay safe and healthy. 

I have been spending a lot of time with my family. I try to go outside everyday to get some fresh air. I am so happy that the snow is slowly melting.

I have been working hard to learn more about computer stuff so that we could see each other on a program called google meet. I hope that we could do that later next week.

So, now I want you to respond to my email and tell me what you have been doing. 

Feel free to write to me anytime!! 

Can't wait to hear from you all!!

Miss you all soooooooo much,

Mrs. Vena