MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Cafeteria Fuel: It is Tex Mex Day. Chicken Quesadillas, or a burrito bowl with Spanish rice and beef or chicken.
Today's Soup Tex-Mex Chicken
Goooood Morning St. Anne's.
Back by popular demand.......it's the Silicon Valley Trip of 2017! Sign up sheets is posted outside room 161 (Ms. Gayowsky's room). Come experience technology like no other. Enjoy innovation and hands on workshops with Intel, and the wizards at Google and more. Students will have the opportunity to visit some of the giants in technology like Microsoft, Standford University, Twitter, Facebook and more!
Students in grade 9-12, taking technology courses will be given preference seating for this trip.
Don't miss out... sign up today
MPORTANT REMINDER RE STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE FOR NEXT YEAR
If you are planning on returning to St. Anne's next year, your $50 Student Activity Fee is now due. The fee can be paid by cash or cheque and must be handed in to your homeroom teacher. Your teacher provided you with a Student Activity Fee Form explaining about the fee and also an envelope to use to insert your $50 cheque or cash. Please be sure to print your name on the outside of the envelope.
If you have not yet met with your counsellor to complete your course selections for next year, please make an appointment to get this done right away. You have until next Friday, February 26, to complete this important task.
The after school Math Homework Help sessions start up this week.
Math Homework Help runs every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:20 - 3:30 in the LCC.
Robotics, Robotics, Robotics Please say 3 times
Attention all Business team members - There will be a meeting immediately after school on Thursday this week in Room 264
All members are encouraged to attend
Attention grade 10 and 11 students hoping to take leadership next year please pick up an application form outside the phy'ed office or see Mr. Ficon. They are do by the end of the week
To Leadership students not attending iclimb at the WFCU:
Please bring your booklets, notebooks and your phones with you to class...room 171.
Instructions for the class will be posted on the door and on google classroom.
Yesterday your Lady Saints Hockey team won the weccssa title for tier 1 hockey. With a short bench of only 10 players, the girls out worked the villanova Wildcats and won a by a score of 2 to 1. Both Goals were scored by Sierra Moscone, but there is plenty of praise to go around. The defence was stellar, and was led by Ashley Lachine, Emily Dulong, Amy Maiter and Ashley Maiter. Up front it was Sarah Schincariol, Danieka Dupuis, Ellen Donaldson, Jessica Spratt, and Olivia Kireta taking care of business, and as always it was Vanessa Despinic that made key saves to perserve the win.
A special thanks to all fans, teachers, Mrs Lofaso for your support this season.
The girl will play SWOSSA next week details to follow.
Thank you to all juniors who attended last night'sbadminton tryout. The call back list for juniors is posted outside the physed office. There will be a tryout for the girls only this Friday immediately after school. All girls on the call back list as well as any girls who were absent Tuesday or are on the junior girl's volleyball team, but signed up are invited to Friday's tryout.
There will be a junior boy's tryout next week so listen to announcements for further instructions. Any boys who were unable to attend Tuesday's tryout but signed up are welcome to attend next week.
Sr. Boys Soccer Tryouts,
Our second tryout will take place on Thursday Feb 25th from 4-6 pm in Carmelita Hall. If the weather is bad, the try-out will be re-scheduled. Please pay attention to the announcements.
Spoken Word Competiton
The Literary Laurels Spoken Word Poetry Competition with be held on Tuesday, March 1st during Period 1,
that is TUESDAY , Match 1st during period 1
All students who have already entered the spoken word portion of the literary laurels competition will be signed out of their period 1 classes and should report to the chapel.
Any students wishing to participate in this competition should touch base with Mrs. Rozic by this Friday.
Tryouts continue
For the Jr boys hockey team on Thursday at TECUMSEH arena 3:30 - $10 to tryout
Attention choir members: there will be a choir rehearsal tonight from 2:30 to 4pm.
In honour of Black History Month
One of Canada's best known settlements founded by escaped slaves was the Dawn Settlement near Dresden. This settlement was started by Reverend Josiah Henson in 1841. Henson demonstrated exemplary leadership qualities as he convinced local abolitionists near Chatham to help him create the Dawn Settlement. His goal was for it to become a safe haven for other Black refugees coming through the Underground Railroad. His hope was that it's members would create an ideal community of peace and tolerance that could serve as an example of racial harmony. Henson himself had experienced the difficult trek of the Underground Railroad when he escaped from the Southern United States. He originally intended to buy his freedom from his master who had promised him an opportunity to do so however, when it became clear that his owner had no intention of fulfilling his promise, Henson escaped and fled north through the Underground Railroad to Canada. The Dawn Settlement which he founded was open to all people regardless of race. Henson also encouraged industry in the area to develop its economic growth and help pay for the school he started, which specialized in the training and education of the trades for all settlement members. Unfortunately for the settlement, when the American Civil War broke out, many of the Black members left Dawn and returned to the U.S. to fight with the North and the Dawn settlement began to shrink. However, today Josiah Henson's house is a national historic site named for the book that he helped to inspire - Uncle Tom's Cabin - which added fuel to the abolitionist movement in the U.S. which in turn became a cause of the Civil War. The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin opened the eyes of readers to the cruelty of slavery and became the bestselling novel of the 19th century and was the second bestselling book of it's time... topped only by the Bible. Although the Dawn Settlement itself faded away over time, it left a legacy of education and integration in Ontario.
Congratulations to all members of the Swim Team for a Great season. Yesterday at SWOSSAA the Saints represented us well in the pool. Congratulations goes out to Jackson Colomba who finished fourth in both the junior boys 50m backstrock and 100m Individual Medley and third, along with Max St. Pierre, Will Stanley, and Patrick Rinaldi Rossin the Jr. Boys Medley Relay. Jack Kawa place 5th in the 100m Butterfly in the Open Division. And the Highlight of the day was the Jr. Boys 200m Freestyle relay consisting of Max. St. Pierre, Will Stanely, Adam Sureau and Patrick Rinaldi Ross placing second and finishing in 2:03.67 seconds - which is an OFSAA qualifying time. We wish these boys good luck at OFSAA on the 8th and 9th of March. Way to go Saints Swimming!
Will all swimmers see Ms. Facchinato this afternoon for their WECSSAA and SWOSSAA ribbons.
