Pictures
Back From Haiti
St. Michael Students Forge a
Special Bond
The proof of the good things
our schools are doing to help the people of Haiti can be found at a
Haitian orphanage and all of the St. Michael Flames T-shirts that
are proudly worn there. Above, children at Coram Deo Orphanage
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti are wearing T-shirts from St. Michael
Catholic School in London at the facility's gates. The
school community sent some shirts to Haiti with a parent of a young
boy from the school who was adopted through this
orphanage.
As a school community, St. Michael decided to focus fundraising
efforts to support this facility and the woman who runs the
orphanage who is from London. All money collected was directed to
“Coram Deo," a missionary group supported by Mission of Tears, a
charitable organization out of Toronto. The local connection is
through Karen Bultjen, a Londoner who heads Coram Deo which is
supplying medical assistance, food, shelter and support for those in
need. The Coram Deo residence is located in the heart of
Port-au-Prince (capital city of Haiti), one of the heaviest hit
areas in the country.
St. Michael raised more than 14-hundred dollars for the
orphanage through a program they call "Helping Hands for
Haiti." Over a period of two weeks, the
Student Parliament sold symbolic “hands”for a dollar each
to support the relief effort. The goal was to post enough hands in
the gymnasium to reach around the gym from Canada to
Haiti. Principal Sean Gregory calls it a good news story indeed
and one that has shown the students how they can help.
Spartans Rule the Rink!
Mother Teresa Are
City Champs in Senior Boys Hockey
The Mother Teresa Senior
Boys Hockey Team are city champs, after a thrilling, two-game sweep
of the CCH Crusaders. It was the Spartans' 5th straight finals
appearance and their 2nd TVRAA title in the past 4 years. For
more, click on
the Sports Pages.
On
February 1 the new Keeping Our Kids Safe at School Act (Bill
157) came into force. This legislation supports the London District
Catholic School Board's belief that all members of our school
community - staff, students, parents, and community agencies - have
a role to play in making our schools a safe place in which to learn.
Find out what's being done to keep our kids
safe and what parents should know. Click on the Bulletin Board
on the LDCSB front page.
Schools across the LDCSB
have been busy collecting money to help the earthquake victims in
Haiti. To date they have raised more than 60-thousand dollars
and the total continues to climb. If you want to help,
donations are being
collected by a number of relief agencies, including the Red Cross
and the Catholic charities:
Development
and Peace and Free
the Children
The Deadline is
Approaching Fast!
Celebrating Those
Who Have Made a Difference!
Consider nominating a colleague or a friend or someone you admire -
someone who HAS made a positive difference.
This will be the seventh year of an
initiative to profile London District Catholic School Board
Graduates who live the Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectations. Those
selected must be secondary school graduates of the London District
Catholic School Board or its predecessor Boards.
THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE BOARD EMPLOYEES, PAST OR PRESENT.
They must
demonstrate impact in professional and/or personal life in the
following areas: spiritual, academic, aesthetic, social, or
physical; demonstrate fulfillment of the Ontario Catholic Graduate
Expectations; and demonstrate stewardship in Catholic Education.
Nominators must complete a nomination form, signed by the nominee
and submitted to John Boles at the Catholic Education Centre by March
15th, 2010. (Printable nominations forms are available HERE).
There is a limit of one nomination per
nominator. A Selection Committee will review all nominations and
make a final decision based on the criteria. The graduate (s) will
be profiled in Spotlight, on the Board Website and during Education
Week. This is your opportunity to publicly honour someone you know
who has made a difference in the world around them!
Our
Mission
To serve the
Catholic student in a community that nurtures a living faith and provides a
quality Catholic education that enables the individual to
become a contributing member of the Church and
Society.
For feedback,
submissions, suggestions and input, please contact:
or contact:
John Boles, Manager of Communications, 519-663-2088, ext
40015
Spotlight
is produced weekly by the Communications Department of
the LDCSB.
Spotlight is a BRAVO
Award winner for demonstrated excellence, recognized by the
Canadian Association of Communicators in Education and a
winner of the Glorya Nanne Award from the Ontario
Association of Parents in Catholic Education for making a
substantial contribution to fostering better understanding of
Catholic Education.
On
February 1 the new Keeping Our Kids Safe at School Act (Bill
157) came into force. This legislation supports the London District
Catholic School Board's belief that all members of our school
community - staff, students, parents, and community agencies - have
a role to play in making our schools a safe place in which to learn.
Schools across the LDCSB
have been busy collecting money to help the earthquake victims in
Haiti. To date they have raised more than 60-thousand dollars
and the total continues to climb. If you want to help,
donations are being
collected by a number of relief agencies, including the Red Cross
and the Catholic charities: 
