Our Schools

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Public Schools

1 Centennial Road                                           Where the schools are
   271 Centennial Rd: 416-396-6125
2 Charlottetown Junior Public School
   85 Charlottetown Blvd: 416-396-6135
3 Joseph Howe
   20 Winter Gardens Trail: 416-396-6405
4 Mowat Collegiate Institute
   5400 Lawrence Ave: 416-396-6802

Separate
5 St. Brendan
186 Centennial Rd: 416-393-5359

Schools News

St Brendan

Posted May. 08

There was not a second to rest after the March Break at St. Brendan’s. We are currently preparing many of our students for our school play “High School Musical”. The play will be presented in early May. We are also preparing for Catholic Education Week during the last week of April. The theme for this week is “Called to Serve”. Many of our classes will be hosting literacy presentations for parents during the school day to highlight the achievements of our students in this particular subject area.

April had our school hockey team completing their regional tournament at York University on April 2^nd. The team was placed in the top division and displayed excellent sportsmanship but just failed to advance to the Ricoh Coliseum for the City Championships. Our primary boys and girls also competed in the Divisional Primary Soccer Championships during early April. Both teams made it to the finals of their tournaments with the girls’ team winning the championship banner! Way to go Bruins!

Our book club continues to grow and the students are involved in reading books that are included in the Blue Spruce, Silver Birch and Red Maple Award program. Students get to vote for their favourite Canadian author once they have completed reading the minimum number of books. Our hope is to increase the number of students in this book club over the next few months and into the 2008-2009 school years.

We also congratulate all of our grade two students as they received the Sacrament of First Holy Communion during the April 12^th & 13^th weekend. It was wonderful to see our students celebrating this special Sacrament at St. Joseph’s Church.

Dan Koenig

Principal, St. Brendan

What has 36 legs, is noisy and has lots of skins, wood metal and plastic.?

Posted Mar. 08

It's the St. Brendan Drum Club!

Last year we started a drum club at our school for children in grade 6 which meets after class on Tuesdays. Our goal is to foster a love for music and sensibility to rhythm, to prepare them for the move to instrumental music in grade 7. We work with hand and sticking percussion and children are introduced to both tub and standard notation. This provides them with a strong theoretical and practical base. In the spring, the children will have the opportunity to learn drum kit rhythms and techniques.

Another goal of the club is to serve as a window to other cultures through their instruments and music. As an example we have already performed at two of our school board's events: a First Nations Symposium in December and the opening activities of the TCDSB Arctic Games this February. With the continued support of our community, We hope to keep our rhythms rolling along in the future.

By: P. Morgan, D. Aungier

(Teachers at St. Brendan)