Under One Sun ornaments have been delivered!

Thank you so much to school council volunteer Meghan Goddard for organizing the Under One Sun fundraiser this year.

Sales of these beautiful ornaments have raised for St. Philip school the amount $913.00.
The Haitian artists have also benefited from our purchases.


Thank you to all the school community who supported this wonderful new fundraising initiative.

Thanks for your support of Gift of Reading!

Thank you to the parent community for your generous support of the Gift of Reading.
We have raised $1225.00 to go towards purchases in the learning commons (library) this year.
Thank you especially to school council volunteer Susan Gonsalves for leading this years initiative.

Christmas Social cancelled.

Due to Board regulations, bylaws and strict parameters this year, the Christmas Social cannot proceed as it has in the past with fireworks and fire pits. Given the time constraints to plan an appropriate event for all to enjoy, regrettably a decision has been made to cancel this event this year.

Reading volunteers needed!

Hello parents, 
The St. Philip reading program is looking for volunteers.  This is a weekly program where volunteers read with children on a regular basis.  Great for grandparents!  This volunteer position requires that a volunteer package be on file with the school.  With even an hour commitment, three children can have one on one reading time which is so beneficial.  

Please contact colleen.bailey@ocsb.ca for additional information and to volunteer.

Meeting Minutes from November School Council Meeting available

Please find the Meeting Minutes from the November School Council Meeting held Monday November 19, 2018 posted to the online folder. (located at right of this page)

Under One Sun School Council fundraiser

Dear St. Phillip Community-
On behalf of our school council I am thrilled to announce our first fundraising initiative, just in
time for the holidays! We will be selling ornaments and decorative signs from “Under one Sun” which is a socially responsible company working in part with Haitian artisans. A portion of the funds raised are given to those artisans and a portion is given to our school to fund a variety of school council supported activities or items.

Please shop the link and share with your family and friends!  Orders are due by November 19th

https://u1sornaments.ca/products/st-philip-school-richmond

Orders will be ready for pick up at the Christmas social. For any questions or concerns, please
connect with Meghan Goddard meghangoddard@yahoo.ca

Cancelled: October School Council Meeting

We have cancelled our October School Council Meeting which had been rescheduled to Monday October 29th.

Our next School Council Meeting will occur as scheduled on Monday November 19th at 6:30PM in the Learning Commons.

Meeting Minutes School Council Meeting #1 & New Executive

Please find the Meeting Minutes from the September School Council Meeting held Monday Oct. 01, 2018 posted to the online folder. (located at right of this page)

Thank you to all of our School Council members new and old for stepping up for the 2018-2019 school year.  All executive positions were filled as follows:

Co-Chair	Erica Leveque
Co-Chair	Dana Kean
Co-Treasurer	Suzanne Easton
Co-Treasurer	Lori O'Brien
Secretary	Fiona Bassett Cram
Parish Rep	Heidi Pierunek
CSPA	Shondra McLean
Community Rep	Jodi Eady

Next meeting will be held Monday October 29th at 6:30PM in the Learning Commons. (delayed one week due to elections)

Agenda for School Council Meeting #1 Monday October 1st

Please click the link below to see the Agenda for the first School Council Meeting

School Council Agenda #1 October 1st

First School Council meeting Rescheduled to Monday Oct. 1st

Due to the power outage and school closure on Monday September 24th, the first St. Philip School Council Meeting is rescheduled to Monday October 1st at 6:30PM in the Learning Commons.

Wanted: a CSPA School Council Rep for St.Philip!

We are actively looking for a CSPA rep for the 2018-2019 year. Please contact danakean@gmail.com if you think you might be interested! See below for more information! WANTED: CSPA School Council Reps

School councils, please remember to elect a CSPA Rep during your School Council elections this fall!  Do you want to make a difference in the lives of our students? Do you believe in every child deserves to be successful? Do you have a child attending an OCSB school? Do you want to connect to other parents and guardians just like you across the Ottawa region? If you answered yes to each of these questions, the CSPA needs you! Please join us by becoming a CSPA Rep on your School Council. New volunteers are always welcome! CSPA meets several times throughout the school year. For more information, please visit www.ottawacspa.com!

St. Philip's Parish turns 200 years old this year!

Check out this week's parish bulletin to find out more about this special year being celebrated at St. Philip Church.

http://www.stphilips-church.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/September-9-2018-Bulletin.pdf

Welcome to a new school year at St. Philip School!

Please mark your calendars for the very first St. Philip Catholic School Council meeting of the year!

Monday September 24th at 6:30PM 
(in the Learning Commons)

All interested parents are invited to attend. At this meeting we will elect a new St. Philip Catholic School Council for the 2018-2019 school year.

Each Catholic School Council functions as an advisory body to the School Principal

and the Board and can make recommendations to the Principal or the Board on any matter.  

All Elected Catholic School Council members will:

●   participate in C.S.C. meetings, vote on issues as required

●   be committed to the improvement of the school

●   act as a link between the C.S.C. and the community

●   encourage the participation of parents from all groups and of other people

within the school community

All parents are welcome to attend meetings throughout the school year.

Only elected members of a school council have voting privileges.

Please see the 2018 self nomination form located on the right hand side of this page
under "Important Forms" for more details. Forms can be submitted electronically to danakean@gmail.com or printed out and handed in at the meeting.

Last chance to order tickets online THURSDAY JUNE 21!!!

The BIG DRAW is this FRIDAY JUNE 22 @6:30PM!!!!!

Last chance to order online tickets is this Thursday June 21.
You can order WESTJET tickets electronically by sending an e-transfer to the following email address: St_philip_lunches@bell.net


Essential if you chose to order electronically:
You must provide your full name, email address and phone# in the message section of the e-transfers.
An email with the security question answer must follow the e-transfer immediately & contain all the above information as well.
A photo of your ticket(s) will be sent to you via email and will be your official ticket stub. $20/ticket

Last chance to buy tickets in person is this Friday June 22nd from 4-6 PM in the school lobby!!!

Good luck to all who entered and thank you for supporting this St. Philip School council fundraiser.

Reminder: No cash value. Restrictions such as blackout dates and other restrictions apply.

Get your tickets for the WESTJET raffle!!! Draw date is June 22nd!

Westjet Raffle - tickets still available

Announced at our June 1 Fun Fair event, Westjet has donated a voucher for 1 round trip ticket for 2 guests on any regularly scheduled flight.

There are only 400 tickets available for this raffle. If you have not had a chance to get one see below on how you can!

Tickets will be sold in the lobby of the school during the following dates and times:
June 12 – 4-6pm
June 14 – 7-8:45am
June 14 – 4-6pm
June 22 – 4-6pm

Alternatively you can order them electronically by sending an e-transfer to the following email address:
St_philip_lunches@bell.net

Essential if you chose to order electronically:
You must provide your full name, email address and phone# in the message section of the e-transfers.
An email with the security question answer must follow the e-transfer immediately & contain all the above information as well.
A photo of your ticket(s) will be sent to you via email and will be your official ticket stub. $20/ticket

The Draw is scheduled for June 22 at 6:30pm

Thank you for your support!!  Proceeds from this draw will go towards the school council outdoor classroom project.

THANK YOU to ALL who made our 2018 St. Philip Family Fun Fair a fantastic night!

Just a few shout outs to the individuals who helped to make our 2018 Fun Fair a fabulous success.

- Amy Anderson for leading the Fun Fair Team
- Pam Budge-Carvish for leading the Talent Show Team
- Tina Sul for organizing the cake auction and silent auction
- Cara McNulty for organizing the teen volunteers and games.
- Sylvain Sauve for bringing WOSC, tennis, and the Redblacks mascots in.
- the Knights of Columbus for taking care of the BBQ
- all the many volunteers who donated cakes to the cake auction
- all the volunteers who donated 30 minutes of their time to work a volunteer shift

Thank you also to the businesses who supported the Fun Fair with cash or merchandise donations for the silent auction!

WESTJET Gift of Flight Voucher Raffle!! Winner to be drawn June 22, 2018

Fun Fair is a week away!

The Fun Fair is next Friday and we still need YOUR help to make it a success.

Sign up for a 30 minute volunteer shift here: https://www.volunteersignup.org/HKB4W
Sign up to bake a cake or sweet treat for auction here: https://www.volunteersignup.org/QLABE

Pre-purchase your BBQ tickets through the online hot lunch program here: www.stphilip.hotlunches.net DEADLINE IS MAY 28

Fun Fair Cake Auction looking for bakers!

Looking for any type of cake, cupcake, big cookie or any other creative dessert you can think of for this years ‘Cake’ auction. It can be homemade or purchased. This is a super amazing fun fair event. Let’s make this the biggest year yet! Any questions please email me at tjohnston23@hotmail.com. 


Please follow the link to sign up: https://www.volunteersignup.org/QLABE

Come one, Come All to the St. Philip Family Fun Fair!!

Hello Parents,

Save the date for Friday June 1, 2018 for our annual Fun Fair event! A great evening event with BBQ, Games, bouncy castles, inflatables, cake auction and so much more. The event this year will run from 4:30-6:30 with the Talent show to follow afterwards.

Pre-order your tickets to make for a quick pickup, go and enjoy experience and save yourself waiting in the ticket lines.

See the order form attached that will be accepting orders until May 28. After that all tickets will have to be purchased at the event.

Hope to see you there!! 

St Philip's School Council

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Pre-orders for food and tickets will be accepted through the online hot lunch system only. If you do not wish to order through the online system, tickets will be available for purchase
during the event. See the details below of the costs and how to order. Pre-orders will be accepted until Monday May 28.

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1. Go to our online system to place your order. www.stphilip.hotlunches.net.
A $1.00 transaction fee will be applied to your order if payment is made online.
Instructions on how to use the only system are on the reverse page.

2. Pickup for pre-ordered tickets: Order before Monday May 28 and pick up at the BBQ
Ticket pick-up table on the day of the event. Please be aware there are separate lines for new orders
vs. pre-orders

3. Please treat the tickets as you would cash as we cannot be responsible for lost
tickets.

4. Again this year – Tokens will be provided for the Food Items, paper tickets will be for the
games and blow ups.

5. Come out June 1 and Enjoy!! - BBQ food will be served from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Friends
and relatives welcome! The Talent show will follow in the gym starting at 6:45pm

Volunteer Opportunities are open for the June 1st St. Philip Fun Fair!

Please consider volunteering for a half hour (or more!) time slot to help make our St. Philip Fun Fair a success.  Also a great opportunity for teens to get their volunteer hours!  Please sign up at the link below.  Any questions?  Please contact danakean @ gmail.com

www.volunteersignup.org/HKB4W

WANTED!! Science LOVERS!! (Judges for science fair!)

👩‍🔬🔭 WANTED!! Science LOVERS!! 🔭👩‍🔬

We need you to evaluate the science fair projects. If you want to share your enthusiasm for science with our scientists we want you! If you have a knowledge of the scientific method, we want you. We are looking for 12-15 evaluators to hear the presentations and give feedback to our scientists. Adults/Uni Students/Very keen HS Students (9-12) are welcome! May 10th, 6-8:00 PM

Please contact cmpiercey@hotmail.com
Thank you!!

A few volunteers needed!

Looking for a few more volunteers for the following jobs for our musical:

1. Costume Creation Workshop on Wednesday, April 25th from 12:05-1: 05 pm: Samples will be ready for each of the 6 fishy groups to follow. We require as many parents as possible (6+) to help each cast and choir member make 1 "headpiece" (elastic/ball cap), 2 "fins" (armbands) and one "tail" (waistband). NO SEWING REQUIRED.

2. A parent to video the musical at the 6pm show on May 16th.

Please email Ann Nielsen <ann.nielsen@ocsb.ca> if you can help out.

St. Philip School Gives Back!

Tuesday March 17, 2018

St. Philip School gives back!

Back in October, the CSPA meeting included a very eye opening presentation about fundraising equity across the Ottawa Catholic School Board.  Please check out the link to the presentation below:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J8srlMEcA0rXDbRJjWCDDKzbHePDg3J6lxwlDTfVU2I/edit?usp=sharing

This has been a topic that has been brought up at St. Philip School Council meetings in the past and it was voted and decided that this year we would allocate some of our fundraising efforts towards a less fortunate school in our board.  This decision was not taken lightly and we wanted to make sure that our hard earned fundraising dollars were put to the best possible use.  Our principal, Ms. White has helped to match us with two schools that have limited access to fundraising dollars.  These schools are not formally identified as high needs and therefore don’t have access to the additional resources that a high needs school would. As the demographic in communities shift, so to do the needs of the schools.  The schools we have chosen are:

- St. John the Apostle School, 30 Costello Ave, Nepean

- Our Lady of Peace School, 3877 Old Richmond Rd, Nepean

These funds will be allocated towards STEM technology resources similar to those that St. Philip students have access to and have been using to enrich their learning this year.  We will donate $2500 to each school.  We hope to continue this partnership going forward and continue to support the learning opportunities in these schools, if needed, in the future.  This will first be voted and agreed upon by future St. Philip School Councils.

Thank you to the St. Philip community for your amazing support of our fundraising activities without which we would not have been able to make this important donation.

Dana Kean, on behalf of the St. Philip School Council

WANTED: Scientists for the St. Philip Science Fair

The deadline for our St. Philip scientists to submit their forms for the science fair is today: Thursday April 12. We will extend the deadline to accept forms until end of day tomorrow for late entries.  Please contact cmpiercey@hotmail.com with any questions or concerns.  Don't forget to pencil in your t-shirt size on your form to get your highly coveted St. Philip Scientist t-shirt!!!

Happy exploring!

Sign up link for Paul Davis presentation: Space is limited!

The School Council is hosting a very special event. As part of our Parent Reaching Out grant we are very happy to have joining us TED speaker Paul Davis presenting on Social Networking Safety. This is a presentation that all parents should attend who have a child who has access to any electronic device. Paul will be sharing information about Snapchat, Instagram, Cyber-Bullying and more and how to protect your children.

Do you understand everything about these apps or what our children can be exposed to on the internet? If not this event is a must see.

When: Monday April 23 at 6:30pm in the school gym.

The evening parent session will run 90 minutes followed by Q&A. 

Please plan to attend this very highly reviewed, informative and important session. 

All parents are welcome even from outside our school. Lets work towards making our community safer for all of our kids. 

Space is limited so order your your free tickets now at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-networking-safety-with-paul-davis-tickets-44680325055

Save the date Monday April 23rd "Social Networking Safety"

Please save the date for an upcoming parent session presented by TED speaker Paul Davis on the topic of Social Networking Safety.  This event is brought to you by the St. Philip Parent Council with help from a PRO grant.  Grade 4-6 students will have a session with Paul in the afternoon and a parent session will be held starting at 6:30PM in the school gym.  The session will run 90 minutes followed by Q&A.  Please plan to attend this very highly reviewed, informative and important session.  A sign up link will be shared shortly for this free event, so we can make plans for seating etc.

Calling all scientists!

Registration is now open for the 2018

St. Philip Catholic Elementary School Science Fair!!

Date: Thursday May 10th, 2018 6:00 pm

Rules:
➢ No more than 3 students per project
➢ Registrations must be signed by one of the parents/guardians of each participant
➢ Please indicate if the project has any special requirements such as a dark room or electrical outlet. If this is not indicated on the form, it may not be possible to accommodate the request
➢ Registration forms with signatures are due by Thursday, April 12th. Space for late entries is not guaranteed. Please enter only one form per project
➢ Animals may not be brought to the Science Fair. Also applies to any displays using flames or other ignition sources unless permission is obtained from the Fair organizer (Colleen Piercey cmpiercey@hotmail.com).
➢ Each project is assigned a space of 90 cm x 90 cm. Please design the display to fit in this space. Office supply stores sell fold-up display boards that can be reused provided non-permanent adhesives (e.g. Blue tack) are used. The display should generally present the hypothesis (the question being asked) or theme of the project, followed by the experimental method (if experiments are done) then the data or information obtained, and is finished with a general conclusion. For a helpful online Science Fair resources, visit Education.com or Discovery Education Canada.
➢ Set up time is 5:30 – 6:00 pm

 Any questions please contact cmpiercey@hotmail.com

Link to registration forms: Download forms

Talent Show volunteers needed!

Looking for parents who would like to help out with the SPS Talent Show to be held the night of the SPS Fun Fair on Friday June 1st. Lunch time (Tues/Wed/Thurs 12-1) practices will start in April in the weeks leading up to the Fun Fair. Our coordinator Pam Budge-Carvish will be running the show but is in need of additional support this year. If sufficient volunteers are not available for lunch time sessions, we will have to look at changing format/event. Please contact sps.talentshow@gmail.com to volunteer or for more details. This is a much loved St. Philip tradition, please help if you can!

Monday February 26th!

Little Caesar's orders will be ready for pickup 4:00-7:00 at the school!
* *Please email: stphilippizza@gmail.com to make arrangements if you feel you will be later than 7pm. Remember, if the products thaw they can be refrozen once.**

Fun Fair meeting 6:00! <staff room>

Parent Council meeting 6:30! <staff room>

St. Philip's Little Caesar's Pizza Fundraiser is underway!

The always popular Little Caesar's Pizza Fundraiser is back again.  This fundraiser helps to support St. Philip School Council initiatives throughout the school year.  Please help us out by selling pizza kits to your family and friends.  Don't forget to pick up a few boxes for yourself!

When: Start Selling: Monday January 22nd, 2018

Stop Selling: Tuesday February 6th, 2018

Order forms, Payment & Online orders due on this date

Be sure your order form is correctly tallied!

Double check all rows and columns.

Late orders will NOT be accepted.

Pick Up Pizza: Monday Feb 26th between 3:00pm – 7:00pm

Where: Pickup will be at the school. Pick up your pizza kits as soon as possible.  

REWARDS AND GOALS:

SCHOOL: Our goal is to sell 600 items!  When we reach 600 items the whole school will celebrate with a SPIRIT DAY!

CLASS: The top selling classroom with the most participation (based on average # of kits sold per # of students in a class) will receive a School Council Pizza Party!!

INDIVIDUAL: The top selling student will win a $20 gift card!


Order Your Pizza Kits Online. Go to www.pizzakit.ca (Make sure you are on the Canadian website.) Click on products and then shop.  Support our fundraiser by providing our Fundraiser ID#  335972 and pay with credit card.

Happy Pizza Selling!!