St. Marys DCVI - Grades 7-8

NEW DATE !!! April 25 @6:30pm Grade 8 Graduation Planning Meeting

There is a new date for the Grade 8 Graduation Planning Meeting.  On April 25 @6:30pm in the DCVI Library.

Ignite Parents

 

Ignite Parents will take place on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012, from 7-9pm at the Arden Park Hotel in Stratford. This is a free event with refreshments served. A cash bar will be available. We have a bare bones website for this event: www.igniteparents.ca but please check back over the next month.

DCVI is open and running as normal!

Friday February 17, 2012 DCVI Elementary and Secondary schools are up and running as normal.

Elementary Tree Decoration

Students in the school are encouraged to bring in new hats and mittens that can be put on the tree and at the end of the holiday season all of the hats and mittens will be given to charity for those who are preparing to face the cold winter without.

Christmas Wreath Fundraiser

The Christmas Wreath fundraiser orders that were placed at the end of October will be arriving this Sunday, December 4/11.  They will be available for pick-up between 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. in the barn located by the old teacher’s parking lot off Huron Street.  Keri Favacho and Sara Jewson will be here to assist with pick-up.

If you are unable to pick up the order, please arrange for a friend/family member to pick it up for you, or call the school to arrange a time for pick-up on Monday, December 5/11

Book Sale

Just a reminder of the Book Fair taking place November 28th and 29th in the DCVI Foyer from  9am - 3pm. 10% of proceeds will go to the library.

Vow of Silence

Wednesday November 30, join people around the world who are standing up for children’s rights.  Take the Vow of Silence and make a statement by saying nothing at all.  Help give a voice to children silenced by poverty, war and oppression.  Your silence will speak to the world!

Sign up in Student Services by Tuesday @ 3pm.  Pick up your particpant stickers on Wednesday morning to let everyone know that you are silent!

For more information, visit Free the Children

Blue Friday

 

Friday, November 18th is Blue Friday!   Wear blue as a sign of peace and safety today

Former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in establishing United Nations Peacekeepers, who wear blue as a symbol of peace as they perform their work around the world. 

This day will focus on the main message " Be the Change!". Mahatma Gandhi helped to lead India, now the world's largest democracy to independence, with very little violence. Gandhi said " be the change that you want to see in the world".

As part of the Anti Bullying Awareness week, Friday has been targeted as Wear Blue Day.  Staff and Students are encouraged to wear blue as their commitment to the pledge as "peacekeepers".

www.bullyingawarenessweek.org

Bullying Awareness Week - CyberBullying

 

"Everyone has the right to be respected and the responsibility to respect others, in person AND online!'

Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies to support
deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm
others.Cyberbullies can communicate their hurtful messages to a very wide audience with remarkable
speed. With the advent of mobile, wireless Internet access, communications have become more
ubiquitous. As a result, Cyberbullying can happen any time and any place and for many children,
home is no linger a refuge from negative peer pressure such as bullying.

                                                      (Bill Besley from www.bullying.org)

Prevention tips

  1. Never give out personal information numbers (PIN). This includes your name, address, names of family and friends,  phone number, school and/or team name, pictures of yourself and email address. 

  2. Don't believe everything you read.

  3. Use Nettiqute, be polite to others just as you would offline.

  4. Never send a message to others when you are angry.

  5. Never open a message from someone you don't know.

  6. If it doesn't look or feel right, it probably isn't.

  7. You don't have to be "always on", Turn off, disconnect or unplug, give yourself a break.

 

                              For More information about this Click Here

The Bully Project

 

via www.thebullyproject.com