Monthly Archives: October 2021

Happy Halloween!!!

Bobcat Weekly Update – November 1-5

“I Can & I Will”

Bobcats have empathy!

Madame Fisk will be creating prayers and jokes of the day!!

Please continue to do the COVID screening each day, a paper sign off is not required.

Thank you for your awesome support of our Halloween Dance a Thon!

Monday, October 18 – Student Census starts for Grades 4-8

Bball @ St Augustine, VBall St Augustine visiting.  MADD presentation for Reale, Duque and Gillespie

Tuesday, October 19- Pita Day Catholic School Advisory Council Meeting #2 6pm-7pm. Please call/email office if you are  interested in attending. All are welcome

Wednesday, October 20- Pizza Day , Spirit Wear Day – Please wear blue, yellow or Bobcat spirit wear!! Wonderful Wednesday – We will be learning about Umbrella Project-Empathy Vball @ Holy Spirit, BBall @Holy Spirit

Thursday, October 21-Sub Day –Volleyball practice

Friday, October 29- Smoothie Day 

This week we were able to complete a Lockdown and Fire Drill.

The Fire Drill was completed today in an orderly fashion in 3 minutes 59 seconds! Thankfully, as it was a wee bit nippy today.

Tomorrow, we will be moving the Dance a Thon to the gym. There will be no more than 3 classes in the gym, each with their own separate area.

It is not too late to participate in this fundraiser through Cash Online.

Stay safe,

Mrs MacDonald

We are excited to join in the FUN of Halloween together as a school community once again this year on this coming Friday the 29th . Thank you, thank you and thank you to our many families that have donated to the Halloween Dance a Thon. There will be some random prizes through out the day! It is not too late to get your donation in on School Cash Online! Please help us help our school community.

Halloween takes place this year on Sunday, October 31st. The Catholic Register reminds us that Halloween actually derives from “All Hallows’ Eve,” which is another way of saying, “Holy Evening” to indicate the night before All Saints’ Day. “Hallow” is an old English word for “saint” and it is often used to describe something becoming holy. Therefore, Halloween is meant to be preparation for All Saints’ Day, which is a Holy Day of Obligation that takes place on the day after Halloween on November 1st. As well, in the Catholic Tradition, All Souls Day is on November 2nd so there are many opportunities with the context of our Catholic Faith Tradition to make links and connections to Halloween.

Students at Christ the King School are invited to wear costumes on Friday October 29th if families choose. Students are also welcomed to wear Halloween colours (orange and black) as this is a traditional way to participate also.

To ensure that all our students have a fun and safe day, and given all the new COVID related safety concerns, there are a few additional guidelines that I would like all parents/students to follow in addition to the ones already in place.

Halloween @ CTK Safety Reminders

• Covid-19 Safety Protocols – Screening happens at home to determine if it is safe to send our Gators to school that day … and ALL Waterloo Region Public Health COVID-19 Safety Protocols are in place and BIG THREE are KEY: 1. Physical Distancing, 2. Wearing Masks, and 3. Hand Hygiene
• COSTUMES – Costumes should be comfortable and not be such that they interfere with classroom activities – some great learning activities will happen throughout the day and students must be able to sit, walk, breathe, see, hear, and play outside at recesses … no inflatable costumes please
• Hand held Props and Full Costume Masks that go with Halloween Outfits – may NOT be worn for large periods of time re safety and learning being the priority – again, we will still need to wear our normal safety masks as per the Public Health COVID-19 Safety Protocols is a priority
• FOOD – Health and Anaphylaxis Guidelines – FOOD – Health and Anaphylaxis Guidelines – At ALL times, we are not permitted to serve food sent from home to students while at school. Board Health and Allergy Guidelines mandate this, as well as our parents wanting to know what their children are eating.
• Costumes Should be Tasteful for a School Setting – there are lots of great costumes (princesses, superheroes, movie characters, ghosts, etc.) and should not be too provocative (e.g., gratuitous violence, lots of blood) or employ questionable messages or props and must NOT be offensive or perpetuate a stereotype of someone’s culture, gender, gender identity, heritage, race, ethnicity, or religion and please NO Weapons – Fake Weapons of any kind are NOT permitted
• Our students, staff and families are #wcdsbawesome and our goal is simply to have a FUN and SAFE Day! We are a school with children from ages 3-14 and must recognize the well-being of all and understand our older students may wear more scary costumes when they are out with their peers on Halloween … again, we wish everyone a SAFE and “Happy Halloween” as we know the children, young and old, will be excited to head out on Sunday, October 31st.

Bobcat Weekly Update – October 25-29

“I Can & I Will”

Bobcats have an attitude of gratitude

Ms Sauve’s class will be creating prayers and jokes of the day!!

Please continue to do the COVID screening each day, a paper sign off is not required.

• Monday, October 18 – Happy Monday!! 

• Tuesday, October 19- Pita Day 

• 7 pm- Confirmation celebrated with Bishop Lobsinger at St Patrick’s Church please arrive between 6:30-6:45

• Wednesday, October 20- Pizza Day
  • Spirit Wear Day – Please wear blue, yellow or Bobcat spirit wear!!

• Thursday, October 21-Sub Day -4:15 PRDG @ CTK-unfortunately no spectators permitted

• Friday, October 29- Smoothie Day Halloween Dance A Thon!! Students are welcome to wear orange, black or an appropriate costume. Please remember we will be outside so dress warm.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the families who have donated to our fundraiser this year. Our goal is an average of $25 per student. We are well over a quarter of the way to this goal. Families may donate on Cash Online. Receipts may be given for donations of $25 or more. Please know that fundraising efforts may support many things such as offset the cost of any trips, guest speakers. 

From: Region of Waterloo Public Health

RE:  School Vaccine Program Update

Dear Parent/Legal Guardian:

·         Hepatitis B (2 dose series)

·         Meningococcal ACYW-135 (Menactra®)

·         Human Papillomavirus (HPV) (Gardasil®-9) (2 dose series)

Next Steps:

1. Ensure your students’ vaccination records are up to date:

• Before booking an appointment, ensure that all vaccinations received from your health care provider or other vaccination clinics have been reported to Public Health
• Parents/students can access immunization records and submit immunization information via ICON (https://bit.ly/3v9rwPT) or by calling 519-575-4400 5001 (Monday to Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm)
• Your student’s Health Card Number is needed to view their immunization record. If you do not have a health card, you can use the Ontario Immunization Identification (OIID) usually found on your child’s report card

2. Book your students’ vaccination appointment:

• Use this link to book an appointment online: https://rmow.vertoengage.com/engage/?key=digital-front-door OR
• Call 519-575-4400 to book an appointment over the phone

• You may decide for medical, religious or philosophical reasons not to immunize your child. In this case, your will need to provide a written vaccine exemption for the Meningococcal vaccine, one of the vaccines required for attendance at school
• For medical exemptions, a legal Statement of Medical Exemption must be forwarded to Public Health. Please call 519-575-4400  5001 if you wish to submit a Statement of Medical Exemption
• Public Health is not currently processing non-medical vaccine exemptions (statements of conscience). Additional information will be communicated to parents once the non-medical exemption process has been restarted

Dear Parent/Guardians;

If you haven’t already, please sign in to complete all MANDATORY start up forms as soon as possible.  We need all forms completed so that we can have the most up to date information for your child and so we have our school records up to date.

http://wcdsb.schoolcashonline.com/

How to Register: Parent Instructions to Register on SCO 2021

If you  have any questions please call the school at 510-621-6680

Thank you

Have a wonderful day!

Dear Families,

We are super excited that we will be working with Lunch box again this school year.

Please click on the link below for more information on Lunch Box orders.

All ordering calendars has been coordinated for the school community and can be found on School Cash online.

LBSCO Program Intro Letter – Christ the King CS Cambridge 2021-22

Christ the King School

Office

For those who ordered, today is the day!!!

There will be no day of orders or cancellations.

Thank you to our friends at Gino’s!