Monthly Archives: March 2024

This survey will be available from

March 27th until April 14th, 2024.

We value your feedback as a parent / legal guardian of a student in our school. Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey and share your opinions with us. We want to learn about your child’s experiences at school so we can understand what is working well and how we might improve in order to contribute to a more positive school climate.

School Climate Survey for Families

The WCDSB conducts this School Climate survey with parents/guardians every two years as a key strategy to building a positive school climate and is also a requirement of the Education Act s.169.1(1)(a), (a.1), (a.2) and PPM 145. Specifically, this survey will invite parents/guardians to share their experiences so that your child’s school and the Board can:

· make informed planning decisions about programs to promote safe and inclusive schools,

· determine the effectiveness of programs on an ongoing basis, and

· build and sustain a positive school climate.

No personal information will be collected from any participant on the survey (e.g., email) and therefore responses from the survey cannot be connected with information already held by the Board in our student information system. All responses will be combined to create school-level and Board-level reports. No program, service or benefit may be withheld because a respondent does not participate,

or refuses to participate, in the school climate survey.

If you have questions about the school climate survey collection, please contact your school administrator, the WCDSB Research Team (research@wcdsb.ca) or the WCDSB Privacy Records and Information Management Officer (privacy@wcdsb.ca).

Dustin Rose

Principal

WCDSB is pleased to present a virtual parent and guardian information evening on Cyber safety, digital literacy, and esports gaming on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Matthew Johnson, the Director of Education from Media Smarts will speak about online safety and digital literacy as well as resources available to families from Media Smarts. Katina Papulkas is the Senior Education Strategist at Dell Technologies and will provide guidance on online gaming and how parents and guardians can support their children’s passions, explore career opportunities, and appreciate the engagement it provides.  Please note that the chat will not be open for the presentation.

If you would like to ask questions ahead of the event, please fill out this form.

Families are invited to watch virtually from home, and will need to register (click here) so a link can be emailed to you ahead of time.

Just a reminder that it is Easter this weekend! Our school will be closed Good Friday (March 29th) and Easter Monday (April 1st). We look forward to welcoming everyone back on Tuesday, April 2nd.

Dear Parents/Guardians of Blessed Sacrament,

Please view the link below regarding the newest Measles update from Public Health:

Parent Communication – Measles Update

Thank you!

Families interested in the program are encouraged to pre-register using the link below:

https://regionofwaterloo.onehsn.com/wcdsb/

Good afternoon families of Blessed Sacrament School,

Pizza can now be ordered for the rest of the year on School Cash Online. Pita Thursdays will be coming back for all of April and is also available on School Cash Online.

All orders need to be placed by Thursday March 28th!

Good morning Blessed Sacrament families,

Please see the link below about Summer Learning opportunities. Registration now open!

Summer Learning Poster – 2024-07

Good morning, Blessed Sacrament families:

Thursday, March 21, 2024, is World Down Syndrome Day.  See the https://www.worlddownsyndromeday.org/ for more information and details and to learn more about this year’s theme: “End the Stereotypes”.

World Down Syndrome Day, is a global awareness day that has been officially observed by the United Nations since 2012.  In support, our school community will be wearing colourful, eye catching socks for the “Lots of Socks Campaign (https://www.worlddownsyndromeday.org/lots-of-socks-campaign).

Our socks get the conversation started.  When people ask you about your socks you can tell them, “I’m wearing them to raise awareness for Down syndrome and to End the Stereotypes.”

This an opportunity to start the conversation at home and encourage your child to rock their socks this Thursday wearing, colourful, mismatched, stand out socks!

Thanks for joining in support of World Down Syndrome Day!

This Thursday (March 21st) all families are invited to Blessed Sacrament Parish for confession. They will take place at 7:00 pm! Several priests will be available to hear confessions.

Just a heads to families that we are experimenting with a new school broadcast system. Please remember to listen to the voicemail by clicking 1 on your phone. We just sent a message to everyone reminding them tomorrow is the beginning of March break!

Thank you!