In keeping with this months virtue of Empathy, the St. Paul Catholic Elementary Students in Ms. Purawec’s 7/8 FI class collected money to purchase sandwich fixings and on Friday May 20th all the students worked together to prepare sandwiches and a small sweet to be delivered to the Elgin Street Mission. The students worked in an assembly line fashion as some buttered, some spread the mustard, some added the cheese and some added the meat. The last station was the group who added a small sweet and short message with each completed sandwich. We are very proud of our students and their generosity.

Catholic Education Week at St. Paul School ended with a tea party for the Mothers and Grandmothers of Mme. Gautheir’s SK FI class. The students entertained their guests,
shared treats together and each presented their Mother with an individually authored storybook and flower. As a special treat, the grade 8 core french class, under the guidance of Mme. Lavalle, made special hats during the week with the little ones and to conclude the tea party all modelled their hats and recited a poem en francaise.

At one pm on, May 2nd, the students and staff of St. Paul the Apostle School celebrated Music Monday by singing with hundreds of Canadian schools across the country. The school choir sang “All Things Bright and Beautiful” and the Catholic Education Week Theme song entitled “Celebrating the Spirit”. It was noted by several of the community entering the school to vote for the federal election “How wonderful to see and hear children singing at school.”