Blessings to every parent who joined the STL School Council on Monday night for this year's first ever School Council meeting! It was a full night, rich with great discussions, ideas, and contributions. Thank you! Thank you to Erin Crawley and the entire 2023-2024 School Council for their fantastic leadership and service. Thank you to everyone who is stepping into new roles! Connecting with each parent continues to reinforce how beautiful this community is, and how invested everyone is in the success of all students, staff and families. Thank you!

Today I am celebrating the grade 4 student above who demonstrated exceptional compassion, patience and love when one of his peers was having a heavy day and needed some extra TLC. This young man offered help, kind words, a warm hug and walked with his friend through the heaviness in Chill Ville. Well done!

On Monday while on supervision, the three girls below and I reconnected and talked about weekend fun. They were excited to share stories and just be heard. Connections & relationships matter!

Laughing together as family brings us together! On Wednesday, I shared this joke from a grade 6 student and I laughed hard!

Imagine you're in a room with no doors and no windows. How do you get out?

Stop Imagining!

Many Blessings to you this weekend and all week,

With gratitude,

Mme Gravelle

Principal

School Fees are now ACTIVE on all PowerSchool accounts. The approved "Fee Schedule" is linked below. If there are any questions regarding certain fees please reach out to Mrs. Bilyk in the office.

https://stl.eics.ab.ca/parents/school-finances

YEARBOOKS ARE HERE!! If you have ordered a yearbook but did not receive one or would like get one now (we have leftovers!) Please give us a call and we will send one home with your child.

Sunday, Sept. 29 - Hot lunch ordering closes for this week's orders

Sacrament of CONFIRMATION Classes begin this week: Click here to register

Monday, September 30

• NO SCHOOL - Truth and Reconciliation Day

Tuesday October 1

• Nature Infused Pre-Kinder & Kinder in class
• Girls Volleyball Practice 2:45pm - 4:00pm
• Mrs. McCann @ STL
• Girls Group 12:15PM

Wednesday, October 2

• Early Day! 1:40 Dismissal
• School Spirit Day - Teacher Swap Day (students dress like teachers, teachers dress like students)
• Mrs. McCann @ STL
• RED for ED Days - Wear RED for education!!

• Nature Infused Pre-Kinder & Kinder in Class
• Mrs. McCann @ STL
• GIFT (Growing in Faith Together) Assembly in Library @ 9:00am - All families welcome!
• Girls Volleyball Game 4:00pm - 5pm - Go Mustangs!
• Grade 4-8 Boys Intramurals
• Hot Lunch for those who ordered
• K-8 Bus Evacuation Practice @ 8:15
• RED for ED Days - Wear RED for education!!

Friday, October 4

• PD Day - No school for students

Classes begin this week.

Click here or on the button below to register. Classes begin this week with lots of flexibility to accommodate families. Additional dates are listed for Semester two as well! Register in advance and reserve your place to celebrate this beautiful sacrament.

This joke is brought to us by two grade 4 students...

My phone wasn't "looking" right, so I went to Specsavers and bought an "I" (eye) phone!!

A friendly game of Chess to reset and step back into the day.

• If you are parked in the parking lot out front of the school, please wait for the buses to leave before you back out of the stall and leave the parking lot. Buses start to leave at approximately 2:45pm, just 5 minutes after the bell. If you need to leave before that, please use the gravel parking lot.
• Thank you for ensuring that children are not walking through the parking lot on their own. Please walk with your child.
• Thank you for walking around the buses, and not in between the buses.
• If you are parking on the road, in the front or gravel parking lot, please come and get your children and walk them to your vehicle.

Thanks to Mr. Mak we are launching our Grade 4-8 Intramurals program. Multiple sports will be played on a rotation basis, with a focus first on learning the sport and their specific skills, and then moving into a modified tournament of play. Sports such as Basketball, Volleyball, Broom Ball, Lacrosse, Floor Hockey may be explored and played.

Boys will have the option to pick the intramural sports they would like to play and are expected to commit to that sport for the duration of the theme.

More information will be shared with students next week! If you have any questions, please contact us at the school.

Thank you to the many students (we are at approximately 30!) who are interested in joining Choir and leading us in praise and worship! Thank you to Mrs. Marple and Miss Baldo for leading this great extra curricular club!

Thank you to all of our volunteers for making the Terry Fox Run/Walk this past week a huge success! Thank you also to one of our Grade 4 students who voluntarily made a poster for the school to honour Terry Fox!

You can still bring in your toonies all week!

This past week a few of our students won an Indigenous art contest with Strathcona County and will have their art displayed at the Community Center Agora on September 30th during the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event with the County. Big congratulations to our talented St. Luke students!!

All 127 of the school’s students painted rocks orange and wrote messages related to truth and reconciliation on them. The students have placed these rocks in our indoor planters as well as outdoors near our beautiful Indigenous rock circle. It was the perfect day of sunshine and smiling faces to honor Orange Shirt Day

Thank you to all parents who attended the Parent Council AGM on Monday. It was wonderful to see some new faces as we shared ideas for the 2024-2025 school year, and voted in a new Board of Directors.

We would like to introduce and welcome our incoming Board of Directors for the School Council and Parent Association:

Shelby Mistecki - Chair

Meghan Ferguson - Vice-Chair/Communications Officer

Amy Williamson - Secretary

Melissa Orr-Langner - Treasurer

Brenda Watmough - Director at Large

Erin Crawley - Past Chair

Next Meeting: October 8th, 5:30pm

The winners of the four draws that the School Council offered to parents attending the Back to School BBQ and the AGM for $50.00 toward 2024/2025 school fees are:

Melissa Orr-Langner

Lisa DeJong

Shelby Mistecki

Carrie Knysh

The annual Halloween Howler will be on Friday, October 25th. More details to come soon!

If your child is sick or there is not enough notice to cancel, you can let the team know via hotlunchstluke@gmail.com or via FB messenger if you'd like to have the hot lunch sent home with a sibling, or given to another student at school.

If you have any questions or require support setting up your account or ordering, please do not hesitate to contact Shelby Mistecki at hotlunchstluke@gmail.com.

FACEBOOK -Join Us!

If you haven’t already, please join our School Council and Parent Association Facebook page! We are excited to offer this official space to share news and updates about events, fundraising, and more!

Questions or Want to Volunteer?

If you are interested in getting involved in events or have questions for St. Luke's School Council, please email stlukeparentassociation@gmail.com

Connect with other parents and caregivers, learn new skills, and support your child’s healthy development.

• Drop-in parented programs for kids 0 to 6 years old
• Registered programs for kids in grades 1 to 3 and grades 4 to 6
• Registered parenting skill-building sessions for a variety of age groups
• Special events for families and children of all ages

Check out the Fall FRN schedule here: https://bit.ly/3ySjZeo

Register for programs and learn more about Strathcona County's Family Resource Network at https://bit.ly/3RVAltj

October

• 7 - Start of Read-In Week (If you'd like to come and read to students, please email stl@eics.ab.ca)
• 8 - 5:30pm - School Council Meeting (Setting the Budget)
• 14 - No School - Thanksgiving Monday
• 18 - Prairie Gardens Field Trip K-3
• 20 - Catholic Education Sunday & Beginning of Catholic Education Week
• 20 - St. Luke hosts St. Francis of Assisi Church mass in Tofield at 11:00am
• 21 - Grade 1/2 & Grade 4 Zoo School Begins
• 25 - Halloween Howler Family Dance
• 28 - Evidence of Learning Comes Home this week

Mark Your Calendars:

• November 5&6 - Three-Way Conferences
• December 12 - Advent Concert

Masses at OLPH will be livestreamed. Please join using this link. https://www.facebook.com/olphsherwoodpark/videos/

Visit OLPH Website for more information about the parish and in regards to sacramental preparation.

Visit www.facebook.com/olphsherwoodpark

St. Francis of Assisi Parish is administered by Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sherwood Park. Please contact the parish for confession times and more information.

Clergy: Reverend Jim Corrigan, Pastor

Mass Time: Sunday 11:00

Email Address: StFrancisAssisi.Tofield(at)caedm.ca

5523 - 50 Street Tofield, AB T0B 4J0

See map: Google Maps

Principal

Email: Stl@eics.ab.ca
Website: stl.eics.ab.ca
Location: 22139 South Cooking Lake Road, Sherwood Park, AB, Canada
Phone: 780-922-5920
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stlukeeics
Twitter: @stlcs_EICS