Here are some Reminders:

Victoria Day : Monday, May 20 – No school/Board Holiday

Just a reminder that Monday is a board holiday and there is no school for staff and students. I wish you a safe and restful long weekend and enjoy this time with your family. We look forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday.

Playground Equipment/ Gaga Ball

The playground equipment and Gaga Ball pit will be open starting on Tuesday. The WCSB has conducted their spring inspections and we are ready to play!

Safe Footwear

With Spring weather upon us, we are noticing some children coming to school wearing crocs and slides. We want to remind everyone about the importance of safe footwear for all students. Both in the school and outside at recess, crocs, sandals, slides and flip-flops are not safe shoes for students to be wearing. For the safety of everyone, we need your support and assistance in ensuring that your child is coming to school with closed-toe and closed-heeled shoes.

Sun Safety

A reminder to ensure that students are wearing hats and applying sunscreen prior to their arrival at school. Warm weather also increases the importance of consuming plenty of water throughout the day. We suggest providing your child with a refillable water bottle at school each day.

Student Drop-off and Pick up Important Safety Message

Please read the following information and follow our school’s drop off and pick up procedures that have been developed to keep your children, our students, safe. Please reduce your speed when driving on the streets to our school. Our staff and students appreciate your attention to safety!

Vehicles are NOT PERMITTED to enter the parking lot or use the ring road during pick-up/drop off times.

We encourage students to walk to school. It is a great way to get in our steps, improves mental health and lessens our carbon footprint. Parents who choose to drive their children to school may use our Drive to Five option.

Please drop your child off a block or two away from the school (5 min. walk) on the side streets that lead up to Acorn Way. You will avoid contributing to the congestion on Acorn Way and the walk will do your child good – they will be much more alert to begin their day!

PLEASE DO NOT PULL INTO THE PARKING LOT AT THE BEGINNING/ END OF THE DAY. THIS IS A HUGE SAFETY CONCERN AS ALL STUDENTS ARE ENTERING/ EXCITING THE SCHOOL AT THIS TIME.

We can’t emphasize enough the importance of providing a safe place for children to walk when they are dismissed.  We have had a few near misses of students being hit by a vehicle. This is not acceptable, and we need your help to ensure that no one gets injured by complying to the safety regulations. PLEASE, park your vehicle on the street and walk to the arranged meeting place to gather your child.

CTK Food Drive for The Cambridge Food Bank

The Cambridge food bank is in need of food items. In particular, they need breakfast foods (i.e. Cereal, pancake mix, syrup), pasta sauce, canned meats, canned vegetables, and snacks for kids (i.e. fish crackers, granola bars). Please send in what you can so that we can help out those in need. We are collecting items until Friday June 14^th. Thanks in advance for your generosity.

Upcoming EQAO Assessment Dates: Mark your Calendar

EQAO Gr. 3 and 6: Just a reminder to families of the upcoming EQAO testing periods for our Grade 3 and 6 students. To best support our students, we strongly encourage families to avoid booking vacations, medical appointments and or sports/dance tournaments/competitions during this time. We understand that students may become ill and we will make every attempt to support our students to complete all testing within the outlined period as determined by the EQAO. Testing dates are as follows:

Christ the King Grade 6: May 27, 28, 29, 30

Christ the King Grade 3: June 3,4,6,7

EQAO: Spring / Summer for Students in Grades 3 and 6 EQAO continues to host a series of webinars and provide learning modules to support educators, and parents and guardians.
EQAO Webinar for Parents and Guardians of Elementary School Students Register for this free live webinar and learn about EQAO’s primary- and junior-division Assessments of Reading, Writing and Mathematics. Participants will learn about the purpose of Ontario’s large-scale assessments. EQAO staff will explain the assessment format, highlight resources to support students and answer questions from participants.
Registration

Volunteer Social!

Have you been on that trip this year?  Driven to a sports events?  Read with students, volunteered at council or helped with pancakes for Shrove Tuesday?  All volunteers are welcome to attend our volunteers social on Friday May 24th at 8:15 am in the school library.  Please rsvp at the office.

June Spirit Days:

June Spirit Days – Fun Fridays for Students leading up to the end of the year!

Kindergarten 2024-2025 School Year Registration is NOW OPEN

Christ the King School is welcoming Kindergarten registrations for children born in 2019 or 2020.   It is important to register your child early.  To register your child, Parents or legal guardians of the child(ren) are asked to click on this link: https://www.wcdsb.ca/ to register your child(ren) for Kindergarten. Look for the tab at the top of your screen that says, “Register”.

1. Next, scroll down and select “Kindergarten Registration”. You will start by completing our online registration.
2. Then, school will then call you to schedule a time to complete the registration process.
   1. The following documents will be required:
      1. a birth certificate or other legal proof of your child’s age,
      2. proof of home address
      3. a Catholic Baptismal Certificate of either parent or child.

If you do not have internet access, we invite you to call our school and we will help.

Children with special needs, (e.g., speech and language, vision, hearing, intellectual), should register at the school in their home area. If you are a non-Catholic, but wish to explore a Catholic education for your child(ren), please review the WCDSB Admissions to Catholic Elementary Schools Policy found here: Admissions to Elementary Catholic Schools – APA001 (wcdsb.ca) found or give us a call to learn more.

We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you into Christ the King community. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

YEARBOOK

 It’s Time to Order the 2023-2024 CTK Yearbook!

Unlocking the Yearbook Vault: Where every page is a passport to the past and every photo a piece of our unforgettable story!

Order your yearbook today right here on School Cash online for $25!

All orders are due May 20th, and NO LATE orders will be accepted.

Do not be disappointed! Order your yearbook today!

https://www.schoolcashonline.com/

Jump Rope for Heart – June 13^th.

Please see the link below for more information regarding Jump Rope for Heart.

Jump Rope for Heart Parent and Guardian Letter.pdf

Mission Day – June 14^th

Please see the link below for more information regarding Mission Day 2024

Mission Day – Local Food Bank.pdf

WCDSB Updates

• The WCDSB 2024-2025 School Year Calendar : Ontario School Year Calendar 2024-2025 (wcdsb.ca)

Spirit Wear Day – wear our school colours blue and gold or spirit wear every Thursday!

May 20 – Victoria Day – no school

May 24, 27, 28, 29, 30 – Grade 6 EQAO Testing

May 29 – 30 – Grade 8 Retreat Days at Brebeuf

May 31 – PA Day

June 3, 5, 6, 7 – Grade 3 EQAO

June 7 – 0’Canada Day – Show your love for Canada! Wear red and/or white, t-shirts or clothing from places you have visited in Canada or wear your favourite Canadian brands or sports teams

June 13- Jump Rope for Heart

June 14- Vacation Mode Day –  Dress like you’re going on your dream vacation: lounging on the beach, hiking through the mountains, going on a safari or kicking back in nature camping

June 14 – Mission Day from 12:30 – 2:30 pm.

June 21 – Be Bold Be Bright Be YOU-  Dress in bright neon colours, bold patterns, tie-dye or simply your favourite colour!

June 24 – Grade 8 Class of 2024 Graduation 5:00-7:15 PM at St. Benedict’s

June 25- Term 2 Report Cards go home

June 27 – Last Day of School for students

June 27 – Pajama Day/ Comfy Clothing Day – Wear your jammies or your comfiest of clothes!

June 28 – PA Day – no school for students

Mission Day 2024 and Donations
On Friday June 14th our school will be hosting our annual Mission Day from 12:30 – 2:30.
Our school and staff will present various games and activities in the hope of raising
money to support our local food bank. To make these activities possible we will need
donations for the following activities:
-Freezies
-Mini ducks
-Lollipops
-Bubbles
-Temporary tattoos
-Snacks – snack size chips, fruit roll ups, rice krispies, fruit snacks, jammers, juice boxes,
etc.
-Dollarama gift cards – small amounts to purchase small prize items for games
We ask that all donations are brought to the front office by Friday June 7th, 2024.
Your help in making this day a great success is very appreciated!
CTK Staff

The Cambridge food bank is in need of food items. In particular, they need breakfast foods (i.e. Cereal, pancake mix, syrup), pasta sauce, canned meats, canned vegetables, and snacks for kids (i.e. fish crackers, granola bars).

Please send in what you can so that we can help out those in need. We are collecting items until Friday June 14^th.

Thanks in advance for your generosity.

Yearbook Time!

It’s Time To Order the 2023-2024 CTK Yearbook!

Unlocking the Yearbook Vault: Where every page is a passport to the past and every photo a piece of our unforgettable story!

Order your yearbook today right here on School Cash online for $25!

All orders are due May 20th and NO LATE orders will be accepted.

Do not be disappointed! Order your yearbook today!

We are excited to have Track and Field today for our Grade 4-8 students. Just a reminder to dress for the weather as stated previously we are going RAIN or SHINE…hopefully it’s more ‘shine’. The weather app looks like the weather may hold out long enough for us to get some events in.

We want to wish all of our Bobcat Athletes best of luck!

Here are some Reminders:

“The Loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother” – St. Therese of Lisieux

Wishing all of the mothers/ guardians a blessed Mother’s Day!

We had quite an amazing week at Christ the King School. This week was Catholic Education week and was filled with celebrations and opportunities to celebrate our faith and our community together. Bobcats engaged in activities in their classrooms along with the Crowning of Mary Liturgy with Father Joe, our Drama Presentation, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, was a huge success, we also had Chris Bray Perform in concert and Welcome to Kindergarten night for our up and coming Bobcats!  We are truly blessed in Ontario to have an education system that focuses on educating the soul as well as the mind.

Beacon of Hope Award Winner: As in past years, our school board recognizes a student for each school for the Beacon of Hope Award. This awards a student who is an “unsung hero”, a quiet leader, who goes throughout their day being a positive role model in the school. It is our privilege to announce this year’s award winner:  Kyrah- Grade 7.  This is a well-deserved award and thank you Kyrah for all that you do to make our school community a better place through your quiet leadership and positive role modelling.

JOSEPH and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat

There is quite a buzz in the air today – What an amazing show that we were all able to see this week!  We had family and friends in the audience, student actors on stage, students behind the scenes, and a whole bunch of teacher support throughout the week!  We were able to have a show for the students in the school, invite two other schools and then of course, the two feature presentations in the evening along with some afternoon shows.  What an awesome experience for all involved!

Many Mrs. Kroetch who was involved directly in the set-up and execution of the production and many others were involved in supporting her in various ways.  Many parents were instrumental in the costumes, backstage, and making the CTK ‘Community Theatre’ come to life!  It really was a “whole-school community” event, and we are so proud to be a part of THIS school community!

We want to take a moment this morning to express how thankful we are for sending us your children each and every day.  This performance reminded us how courageous they are – to step on stage in front of large audience of people at a time and sing is absolutely amazing!  To take the chance, many months ago, of saying “Yes, I’ll try that!”, is so inspiring!  The time and energy that it took to practice and perform can not be understated, and once again, the staff and students of Christ the King Catholic Elementary School stepped up and did a wonderful job!

Today is a wonderful day to be proud of your child’s school and the efforts of so many to continue to make wonderful experiences for them. It was just AMAZING…just like Joseph’s coat. ????

Track and Field Meet: MONDAY: Rain or Shine

Student Drop-off and Pick up Important Safety Message

Please read the following information and follow our school’s drop off and pick up procedures that have been developed to keep your children, our students, safe. Please reduce your speed when driving on the streets to our school. Our staff and students appreciate your attention to safety!

Vehicles are NOT PERMITTED to enter the parking lot or use the ring road during pick-up/drop off times.

We encourage students to walk to school. It is a great way to get in our steps, improves mental health and lessens our carbon footprint. Parents who choose to drive their children to school may use our Drive to Five option.

Please drop your child off a block or two away from the school (5 min. walk) on the side streets that lead up to Acorn Way. You will avoid contributing to the congestion on Acorn Way and the walk will do your child good – they will be much more alert to begin their day!

PLEASE DO NOT PULL INTO THE PARKING LOT AT THE BEGINNING/ END OF THE DAY. THIS IS A HUGE SAFETY CONCERN AS ALL STUDENTS ARE ENTERING/ EXCITING THE SCHOOL AT THIS TIME.

We can’t emphasize enough the importance of providing a safe place for children to walk when they are dismissed.  We have had a few near misses of students being hit by a vehicle. This is not acceptable, and we need your help to ensure that no one gets injured by complying to the safety regulations. PLEASE, park your vehicle on the street and walk to the arranged meeting place to gather your child.

CTK Food Drive for The Cambridge Food Bank

The Cambridge food bank is in need of food items. In particular, they need breakfast foods (i.e. Cereal, pancake mix, syrup), pasta sauce, canned meats, canned vegetables, and snacks for kids (i.e. fish crackers, granola bars). Please send in what you can so that we can help out those in need. We are collecting items until Friday June 14^th. Thanks in advance for your generosity.

Upcoming EQAO Assessment Dates: Mark your Calendar

EQAO Gr. 3 and 6: Just a reminder to families of the upcoming EQAO testing periods for our Grade 3 and 6 students. To best support our students, we strongly encourage families to avoid booking vacations, medical appointments and or sports/dance tournaments/competitions during this time. We understand that students may become ill and we will make every attempt to support our students to complete all testing within the outlined period as determined by the EQAO. Testing dates are as follows:

Christ the King Grade 6: May 27, 28, 29, 30

Christ the King Grade 3: June 3,4,6,7

EQAO: Spring / Summer for Students in Grades 3 and 6 EQAO continues to host a series of webinars and provide learning modules to support educators, and parents and guardians.
EQAO Webinar for Parents and Guardians of Elementary School Students Register for this free live webinar and learn about EQAO’s primary- and junior-division Assessments of Reading, Writing and Mathematics. Participants will learn about the purpose of Ontario’s large-scale assessments. EQAO staff will explain the assessment format, highlight resources to support students and answer questions from participants.
Registration

May 14, 2024: Provincial Day of Action on Litter

Ontario is gearing up for the fifth annual Provincial Day of Action on Litter, taking place on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. This is a day for everyone across the province to unite under the common cause of creating a greener, cleaner and more sustainable environment for ourselves and for future generations. Christ the King School is going to support the 2024 Day of Action as teachers are going to engage in activities provided by the board.

Volunteer Social!

Have you been on that trip this year?  Driven to a sports events?  Read with students, volunteered at council or helped with pancakes for Shrove Tuesday?  All volunteers are welcome to attend our volunteers social on Friday May 24th at 8:15 am in the school library.  Please rsvp at the office.

Kindergarten 2024-2025 School Year Registration is NOW OPEN

Christ the King School is welcoming Kindergarten registrations for children born in 2019 or 2020.   It is important to register your child early.  To register your child, Parents or legal guardians of the child(ren) are asked to click on this link: https://www.wcdsb.ca/ to register your child(ren) for Kindergarten. Look for the tab at the top of your screen that says, “Register”.

1. Next, scroll down and select “Kindergarten Registration”. You will start by completing our online registration.
2. Then, school will then call you to schedule a time to complete the registration process.
   1. The following documents will be required:
      1. a birth certificate or other legal proof of your child’s age,
      2. proof of home address

• a Catholic Baptismal Certificate of either parent or child.

If you do not have internet access, we invite you to call our school and we will help.

Children with special needs, (e.g., speech and language, vision, hearing, intellectual), should register at the school in their home area. If you are a non-Catholic, but wish to explore a Catholic education for your child(ren), please review the WCDSB Admissions to Catholic Elementary Schools Policy found here: Admissions to Elementary Catholic Schools – APA001 (wcdsb.ca) found or give us a call to learn more.

We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you into Christ the King community. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

WCDSB Updates

• The WCDSB 2024-2025 School Year Calendar : Ontario School Year Calendar 2024-2025 (wcdsb.ca)

Spirit Wear Day – wear our school colours blue and gold or spirit wear every Thursday!

May 13 – Track & Field (Grades 4-8) @ St. Benedict: Rain or Shine

May 16 – Public Health: Grade 7 Immunization

May 20 – Victoria Day – no school

May 24, 27, 28, 29, 30 – Grade 6 EQAO Testing

May 29 – 30 – Grade 8 Retreat Days at Brebeuf

May 31 – PA Day

June 3, 5, 6, 7 – Grade 3 EQAO

June 24 – Grade 8 Class of 2024 Graduation 5:00-7:15 PM at St. Benedict’s

June 25- Term 2 Report Cards

June 27 – Last Day of School for students

June 28 – PA Day – no school for students

Orders for June are due Monday May 27th

Dominos Pizza

Pizza day is every Wednesday!!

Parents may select the number of slices that are available below and please ensure that you are selecting the type of pizza you would like to order

The options available are:

Pepperoni $2.00
Cheese Pizza $1.75

NO LATE orders will be accepted and NO REFUNDS for absentee students

Pizza orders will be collected by month and must be completed by the due date in the previous month so that we can place orders in advance!

Pizza will arrive for lunch hour at 11:15 am and delivered to each classroom.

Thank you

Have a great day!

CTK Office

The Cambridge food bank is in need of food items. In particular, they need breakfast foods (i.e. Cereal, pancake mix, syrup), pasta sauce, canned meats, canned vegetables, and snacks for kids (i.e. fish crackers, granola bars).

Please send in what you can so that we can help out those in need. We are collecting items until Friday June 14^th.

Thanks in advance for your generosity.

Yearbook Time!

It’s Time To Order the 2023-2024 CTK Yearbook!

Unlocking the Yearbook Vault: Where every page is a passport to the past and every photo a piece of our unforgettable story!

Order your yearbook today right here on School Cash online for $25!

All orders are due May 20th and NO LATE orders will be accepted.

Do not be disappointed! Order your yearbook today!

Please see the corrected flyer below, information has been changed from the original.