Please save the date for our Grade 7&8 Play: The Lion King Jr.

It will be performed for the community on December 12th at 6:30 pm. Tickets are available through School Cash Online.

Can you help us in this Advent/Christmas season? 

As in the past, we hope to provide Christmas gift cards to any of our families who are in need at this time of year! To do this, each homeroom is being invited to bring in money for the Christmas Care Fund, from which the gift cards will be purchased. As a parent or guardian, there are three different ways for you to help us make this a success.

Here’s how:

1. Encourage your child to bring in money to their homeroom classroom for the school-wide collection from December 2 - 13

2. Consider using our school cash online at https://ocsb.schoolcashonline.com to donate to the fund directly on your family’s behalf (This account will be available from November 30 - December 15)

3. Purchase a gift card yourself (preferably from Walmart - where both food and clothing can be purchased) and send it into the school with your child.

Let’s ensure that all in our community have the means for a bright and joyful Christmas season this year. If the fund proves to be highly successful, and all the needs of our community are met, we will help our elementary schools in the area with any excess funds.

Our Grade 7&8 Religion classes are participating in a “Reverse Advent Calendar” initiative. They are collecting a wide variety of non-perishable food items as well as some personal hygiene items to give back to our local community. We will be delivering packages to our local parishes as well as the Ottawa Food Bank to help families in need before the Holidays.

On December 5 at 7 pm on the St. FX Stage, two professional bands, The Grey Jazz Big Band and The Hurricanes (Mr. Yemensky's professional band from the 1990's reunited) are performing. Earlier this week, parents received online payment information about this event. 100% of ticket sales will support the April 22-25, 2020 Boston Band Trip (grades 9-12) and the Intermediate Band's Toronto Band Trip (grades 7-8, date TBA). Tickets are $4 for students and $10 for adults.

For additional details, click on the following link: December 5 Band Fundraising Concert

Click on the following link to see a video from 1993 of Mr. Yemensky's Band: The Hurricanes!

On the morning of Wednesday November 20th, we participated in our 10th annual cake auction. The event was a success due to all the cake donations, help from the custodians, the audio crew, students and staff who brought in money and to all others who contributed their time to the event. This year we raised $7,682 which is the most we have raised since we first started 10 years ago. The money raised will go to a variety of charities chosen by the social justice club as well as the religion classes. A big thank you to Mr.Baars, Ms.Baine, students from Gr. 11 and Gr. 12 Religion classes, and members of the Social Justice Club who ran the event. An enormous thank you to all the teachers and students who took time out of their day to set up and help out at the event. Also, a big thank you to those who brought cakes to the auction as we had enough for every homeroom to have a cake or two! We look forward to next year's cake auction. Great job Coyotes!

(Sandra Assaf Gr. 12 Religion student)