Dear Tiger Families,
Merry Christmas Everyone! We hope you are all safe and doing well.
This year our Student Leadership Team hosted a Gingerbread House Challenge. Classes used cardboard to create gingerbread houses. They all did an amazing job. We created this short video to share with families their great work.
Merry Christmas Tigers!
| Please read the attached letter regarding return to school in January 2021.
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Dear Tiger Families,
The following message is from St. Ambrose Church:
Due to a COVID-19 outbreak of St. Ambrose Parish staff, and by order of Bishop Crosby OMI, St. Ambrose Church is CLOSED effective immediately as of December 18 for at least two weeks.
– There are no weekend Masses December 19/20, 2020.
– There are no weekday Masses.
– There are no Christmas Masses.
– There are no Confessions.
– There are no weekend Masses December December 26/27, 2020
We will be advised as to when the church can re-open in the new year.
Please keep us in your prayers!
We would like to wish everyone a restful Christmas break. Stay healthy and stay safe. Please make sure to check your emails over the holidays for updates regarding our January start up.
A huge thank you to our Catholic School Council for their thoughtful gifts to our families. We hope you enjoy!
Please find attached a Christmas greeting from our Director.
December 16, 2020
Dear Tiger Families:
A case of COVID-19 has been identified at St. Vincent de Paul CES. Public Health has identified one classroom as high-risk contacts. All high-risk students and staff are required to self-isolate at home. Individuals in the affected class have been immediately notified by the school already and Public Health is in the process of contacting all high risk contacts, and will provide individual guidance to them.
At this point in time, all other students and staff can continue to attend school and are advised to self-monitor for symptoms and seek testing if symptoms develop.
Please know that St. Vincent de Paul staff – as well as staff at our school board head office – are working with Region of Waterloo Public Health to prevent further spread of COVID-19 in students, staff and the community.
A Note About School Cleaning Processes
Upon confirmation from Public Health that one or more individuals at a school site have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, Facility Services will be notified as soon as reasonably possible. Members from the Facilities team will make arrangements to disinfect school spaces as deemed necessary. This is typically done after school ends for the day and before school begins the next day. However, in some cases, depending on the timing of notification and size of the school, disinfection may occur at the beginning of the school day.
Disinfection involves the use of standard cleaning products available in your school, plus one or more high speed disinfection units. A disinfection unit is used to ‘mist’ surfaces with a chemical called Clorox Total 360. The product needs to sit on a surface and air dry for it to be fully effective. It has been reviewed by our staff and has been deemed safe when used as directed.
Custodial and maintenance staff who apply the mist will be wearing full PPE including masks, goggles, and gloves. Classroom spaces are safe to occupy after the chemical has been applied. A video of product application can be found here: https://youtu.be/BIlhdx3XQI0?t=75
What does this mean for students at the school?
Additional COVID-19 resources can be found on Region of Waterloo Public Health’s COVID-19 webpage at http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/COVID19.
Dear Parents / Guardians:
Region of Waterloo Public Health received notice yesterday afternoon that the probable case of COVID-19 identified on December 10 at St. Vincent de Paul, has been deemed NOT a probable case.
There was no risk of exposure to COVID-19 in the affected cohort that was dismissed, and the affected students and staff are welcome to return to school Wednesday, December 16, 2020.
This applies only to the students and staff affected by the December 10th case. Those affected by the December 13th case are still required to self-isolate until December 24 at 11:59 p.m.
As always, the health, safety and well being of our students and staff remain our top priority, and St. Vincent de Paul staff, as well as staff at our school board head office, are working diligently with Region of Waterloo Public Health to prevent spread of COVID-19 in students, staff and the community.
December 13, 2020
Dear Tiger Families:
A case of COVID-19 has been identified at St. Vincent de Paul CES. Public Health has identified one classroom as high-risk contacts. All high-risk students and staff are required to self-isolate at home.
Individuals in the affected class have been immediately notified already by the school and Public Health is in the process of contacting all high risk contacts, and will provide individual guidance to them.
At this point in time, all other students and staff can continue to attend school and are advised to self-monitor for symptoms and seek testing if symptoms develop.
Please know that St. Vincent de Paul staff – as well as staff at our school board head office – are working with Region of Waterloo Public Health to prevent further spread of COVID-19 in students, staff and the community.
A Note About School Cleaning Processes
Upon confirmation from Public Health that one or more individuals at a school site have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, Facility Services will be notified as soon as reasonably possible. Members from the Facilities team will make arrangements to disinfect school spaces as deemed necessary. This is typically done after school ends for the day and before school begins the next day. However, in some cases, depending on the timing of notification and size of the school, disinfection may occur at the beginning of the school day.
Disinfection involves the use of standard cleaning products available in your school, plus one or more high speed disinfection units. A disinfection unit is used to ‘mist’ surfaces with a chemical called Clorox Total 360. The product needs to sit on a surface and air dry for it to be fully effective. It has been reviewed by our staff and has been deemed safe when used as directed.
Custodial and maintenance staff who apply the mist will be wearing full PPE including masks, goggles, and gloves. Classroom spaces are safe to occupy after the chemical has been applied. A video of product application can be found here: https://youtu.be/BIlhdx3XQI0?t=75
What does this mean for students at the school?
What is COVID-19?
Additional COVID-19 resources can be found on Region of Waterloo Public Health’s COVID-19 webpage at http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/COVID19.
Full letter – SVDP Community letter
December 10, 2020
Dear Parents / Guardians:
A case of COVID-19 has been identified at St. Vincent de Paul CES. Public Health has identified one classroom as high-risk contacts.
All high-risk students and staff are required to self-isolate at home.
Individuals in the affected class have been immediately notified by the school and Public Health is in the process of contacting all high risk contacts of the positive case by end of the business day tomorrow, and will provide individual guidance to them.
At this point in time, all other students and staff can continue to attend school and are advised to self-monitor for symptoms and seek testing if symptoms develop.
Please know that St. Vincent de Paul staff – as well as staff at our school board head office – are working with Region of Waterloo Public Health to prevent further spread of COVID-19 in students, staff and the community.
A Note About School Cleaning Processes
Upon confirmation from Public Health that one or more individuals at a school site have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, Facility Services will be notified as soon as reasonably possible. Members from the Facilities team will make arrangements to disinfect school spaces as deemed necessary. This is typically done after school ends for the day and before school begins the next day. However, in some cases, depending on the timing of notification and size of the school, disinfection may occur at the beginning of the school day.
Disinfection involves the use of standard cleaning products available in your school, plus one or more high speed disinfection units. A disinfection unit is used to ‘mist’ surfaces with a chemical called Clorox Total 360. The product needs to sit on a surface and air dry for it to be fully effective. It has been reviewed by our staff and has been deemed safe when used as directed.
Custodial and maintenance staff who apply the mist will be wearing full PPE including masks, goggles, and gloves. Classroom spaces are safe to occupy after the chemical has been applied.
A video of product application can be found here: https://youtu.be/BIlhdx3XQI0?t=75
What does this mean for students at the school?
Additional COVID-19 resources can be found on Region of Waterloo Public Health’s COVID-19 webpage at http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/COVID19.
Hey Tigers!
Don’t forget our special Christmas theme days next week:
Monday, Dec 14: Red/Green Day
Tuesday, Dec 15: Grinch Day
Wednesday, Dec 16: Christmas Hat/Wacky Hat Day
Thursday, Dec 17: Christmas Sweater/Shirt Day
Friday, Dec 18: PJ Day
Tree of Hope
Thanks so much Tigers for all of your donations to our “Tree of Hope”. We will be collecting donations until Wednesday, December 16.
Dear Tiger Families:
We would like to review the appropriate use of the student WCDSB Google accounts that have been provided to students. The student WCDSB Google accounts are for learning and academic purposes. The Google applications are to be used for research projects or creating assignments as per the classroom teacher’s instructions. Google Meets and Hangouts are to be used for remote learning or if it pertains to a project that students are working on at school.
WCDSB Google applications should NOT be used for communicating with friends – at any time. If students want to communicate with friends using Google Meets or Hangouts (outside of school) then they should use their own personal accounts that are not linked to the WCDSB board accounts. Parents are encouraged to monitor their students’ use of devices at home to ensure they are staying safe and remind them to logout of their WCDSB accounts when not using them.
We appreciate everyone’s support as we help our students be responsible digital citizens.
