While our commercial Christmas season speeds along, it is our intent at All Saints, to slow down our preparation for Christmas and find some meaning in our advent preparation. We have provided advent wreaths to each of our classrooms, and provided suggested prayers that challenge the secular messages of the season. We can easily find messages regarding the must have purchases for Christmas, and what other items will make us happy, however, we have to search a little deeper to find connections to the Advent themes of Hope, Peace, Love and Joy. We challenge our school community to do just that; connect our Christmas hamper and United Way fundraising as well as our own personal reflection, to the preparation before Christmas.
United Way Campaign - All Saints Staff
A big thank you to our All Saints staff who raised over $17,600 for the United Way Campaign this year. The large majority of the money raised was directly to the Catholic Education Foundation of Ottawa. This is a charity that benefits from united way donations, and provides support directly back to the students and parents in our Catholic school community.
More information about CEFO can be found at their website:
Best Buy Technology Specials for All Saints Parents and Students
At our “Meet the Staff” afternoon earlier in the year, I explained that All Saints was developing a partnership with Best Buy to provide technological devices (chromebooks , laptops, and other devices) at a discount to our school community. To be most effective in today’s learning environments, students benefit significantly from access to technology at school and home, as technology is a vital tool for their learning and productivity. The school board invests heavily to support access to technology for students and staff across our schools. Devices are made available to students in our school; however, we have received many requests from students and parents asking for advice on what device they should purchase if they wish to bring their own device to school.
We have established an optional purchase program with Best Buy for those who are interested in purchasing their own device. Parents and students may purchase any brand of device from any company as all devices will work on school network . Some of these devices are exclusive to our Best Buy partnership and not available to others through Best Buy.
The technologies listed on the Best Buy portal are only recommendations. Best Buy is offering discounts on protection plans and other supplies and peripherals but parents may choose to purchase from any vendor. As you will see on the Portal, we are recommending Chromebooks as a simple, safe, efficient and cost effective device. We also help equip these with Board purchased software through the student Google accounts and the use of the student portal. You can access the letter home describing the program in greater detail here.
You can access the information/instruction poster here. Please contact the school if you have any questions.
Communications:
Check out our blog – allsaintschs . blogspot . ca and our twitter @AllSaintsCHS (Mr. Kelly’s - @seankellyottawa) as well as our website ash. ocsb . ca for all that is happening at All Saints!
Coming Up:
December 12th: School Council Meeting
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