Welcome to our weekly St. Bonaventure Parent Newsletter. We will share weekly reviews of student learning, celebrations, and ways we built community. Give you updates on Optimal Learning and School Events. Plus, share reminders with families.

Principal’s Message

We had a wonderful week at school! Students enjoyed our Healthy Hunger hot lunch, the cooler fall weather, and many fun learning opportunities. Throughout the week, we continued to focus on the Fruit of the Spirit, Goodness, by showing kindness, helping others, and making positive choices every day.

As part of my Principal Challenge for October, I encourage all students to show acts of goodness at school, at home, and in the community. Students can share their act of goodness by writing a short sentence or description of what they did, or families can send a photo to their child’s teacher. We look forward to celebrating the many ways our students make a difference!

A reminder that traffic safety is very important. We continue to see parents crossing between parked cars and buses, not using the crosswalk, and making U-turns in the school zone. These behaviours are dangerous and can put children at risk. Please work together to keep everyone safe, even if it takes a few extra minutes to drive around or walk to a designated crossing area. Thank you for helping us model safe habits for our students.

Finally, please remember that there is NO SCHOOL on Monday, October 19th due to the Referendum. We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable long weekend and look forward to welcoming students back to school on Tuesday, October 20th.

IMPORTANT DATES 

October 16—Grade 6 Immunizations 

October 19–Referendum, No School

October 30—Halloween Activities 

November 6–Hot Lunch

November 10—Remembrance Day Celebration 1:00 pm 

November 11-13 Fall Break No School 

November 26—Demo of Learning 

STAY HOME WHEN SICK

The health, safety, and well-being of our students and staff remain Edmonton Catholic Schools’ first priority.

Staying home when sick is one of the most important ways we can protect our school communities. Students and staff need to monitor for symptoms daily before coming to school. Anyone who is exhibiting symptoms of illness, including fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, new or worsening cough, or shortness of breath, should remain at home until their symptoms have improved and they have been free of fever for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication, and they feel well enough to resume normal activities. If your child becomes sick at school, please come and pick them up as quickly as possible. Keeping illness out of our schools is a shared responsibility. Please inform us if your child will not be attending for any reason.

ECSD continues to follow the guidance and direction provided by Alberta Health Services, Alberta Health, and Alberta Education to support our schools in reducing the risk of transmission of illness and maintaining safe and healthy learning environments for our students and staff.

HOT LUNCH – Hot Lunch starts October 16th

As we welcome everyone back for a new school year, we are excited to get the Hot Lunch Program started once again!

Our upcoming dates are until the end of January are:

• October 23
• November 6
• November 27
• January 15
• January 29

You will need to register for the new school year.

1. Go to Healthyhunger.ca
2. Click add students
3. Add:

• first name
• last name
• Alberta
• Edmonton
• St. Bonaventure School
• Select grade, ensure Homeroom is correct

Hot Lunch Ground Rules

If your child is sick or absent on a lunch day, or if you have already ordered lunch and your child will be absent, please contact the school to let them know what you would like to do with the lunch:

• Donate it to another student, or
• Arrange to pick it up by the end of the day

Ordering cut-off

The ordering deadline is the previous Sunday at MIDNIGHT for the upcoming lunch.

Please do not message the hot lunch coordinator, the school, or Healthy Hunger asking to add an order after the deadline. Unfortunately, once the ordering window has closed, late orders cannot be added.

SCHOOL COUNCIL NEWS

Thank you to all the parents who participated in our Annual General Meeting; we had 11 attendees. We also elected our 2026-2027 Executive.

Meet your St. Bonaventure School Council:

• Chair – Rhiana
• Vice Chair – Stuart
• Secretary – Megan
• Treasure – Kellie
• Members at Large– Rebecca, Mari, and Lana

We invite all parents and guardians to join us on Wednesday, October 21 at 4:30 pm for our next School Council. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more, ask questions, and get involved in supporting our school community. We also have all our meeting minutes located on our school website. https://stbonaventure.ecsd.net/school-council

We hope to see you there!

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