Good afternoon you A-W-E-S-O-M-E Hurricanes!
We had a great week, certainly full of energy and excitement beginning on Monday with our Professor Jamz Dance-a-thon. We hope everyone had fun and we’re still tallying up our donations. So stay tuned for an update next week on that! Tuesday was Halloween as you know, and we were able to gather as a community and share in some games, laughter and a costume parade at our Pep Rally! Great job everyone. Towards the end of the week, our energy turned to a more solemn one, with the turning of the month and a focus on All SAINTS Day, All SOULS Day and soon, REMEMBRANCE DAY. Our teachers handed in their report cards and we will be sending them out soon, but we want to thank all of our educators and staff for the 2 months of hard work and energy they’ve put in to making Holy Trinity a fun, engaging and welcoming place to learn. And to our students, these are progress reports, but as we reminded them at our assembly, keep SHOWING UP with a positive attitude ready to go, DO YOUR WORK to the best of your ability, and BE RESPECTFUL – kindness and character are #1…These 3 ingredients will always give you success, in school AND in life…guaranteed!
Please find attached our Hurricane ‘WEEKLY’ Newsletter for November 6th – 10th, 2023 along with some attachments to some important events. And because there are several important items in our newsletter, we excluded the up-and-coming dates from that and listed them below here.
Up and Coming Dates!
Nov 7th – Picture Retake Day (9am)
Nov 8th – Gr. 7 & 8s @ River Run Presentation (10am)
Nov 8th – YOUR PATHWAY/YOUR CHOICE 6-8pm @ St. James
Nov 10th – Remembrance Day Liturgy @11:10am
Nov 14th – Gr.1-8 Progress Reports & FDK Initial Communication of Learning Go Home with Students
Nov 14th – Exhibition Volleyball Game vs St. Paul @4pm (at H.T.)
Nov 16th – Parent-Teacher Interviews (3:40-6:40pm)
Nov 18th – Holy Trinity WINTER MARKET (12-4pm)
Nov 20th – SPEAKER Michael Jacques “BELONGING” to our students (9:30am) in our Gymnasium
Nov 20th - SPEAKER Michael Jacques “BELONGING” to WCDSB Parents (6:30pm) in our Faith Ctr.
Nov 20th – KINDNESS MATTERS WEEK (Anti-Bullying)
Nov 21st – Staff Meeting (3:30pm)
Nov 21st – CSC Meeting (Cancelled – members invited to attend Nov 20th Presentation instead)
Nov 22nd – Catholic Parents Involvement Committee Meeting 6:45pm @ St. Michael
Nov 22nd – Ninja Fun Day for various classes (Gymnasium)
Nov 23rd – PINK DAY Spirit Day
Nov 23rd – School Mass @9:15am with Father Valentine
Nov 23rd – Exhibition Volleyball Game vs St. Patrick @4pm (at H.T.)
Nov 24th – WCDSB Spiritual Development Day (No School for Students)
Have a wonderful weekend Hurricanes. We invite you to practice the Umbrella Trait for November which is “empathy.” We all have opinions, judgments, inferences, beliefs, biases, and our own positionality and intersectionality in life. However, being “Christ for others” really requires the utmost form of selflessness, which is to try and understand the thoughts, feelings and challenges of another human being. If anything, GIVE WHAT YOU NEED! If you need understanding, give it first. If you need respect, give it first. If you need a second chance, give someone else a second chance. Empathy always works like a boomerang!
Take care of yourselves and each other Hurricanes!