ST. GEORGE NEWS January 2019 • geooa@ldcsb.ca • 519-660-2782 Principal’s Message Welcome back and Happy New Year! Thank you to all of you who joined us on December 18th for our annual Christmas Concert. A special thanks is extended to our School Council for their continued support and encouragement. This is definitely a time to make resolutions that will hopefully help us to live healthier lives, not merely physically but most importantly spiritually. I hope that we all resolve to make time to pray together as a family. I have been privileged to pray the rosary with our students. There is nothing more powerful than prayer. We are experiencing a spiritual poverty in our society that we must address. As Saint Mother Teresa reminded us, responding to the brokenness that surrounds us can be accomplished through small and simple acts of kindness. My resolution is to try and see Christ in every person who enters my life, to listen to him or her, not merely in a polite manner but most importantly to listen with an open heart. Henri Nouwen addressed the woundedness that characterizes our society when he wrote: ”Why do we keep bypassing each other always on the way to something or someone more important? Maybe simply because we ourselves are so concerned to be different from the others that we do not even allow ourselves to lay down our heavy armor and come together in a mutual vulnerability. Maybe we are so full of our own opinions, ideas and convictions that we have no space left to listen to the other and learn from him or her.” May the God of hope fill you with joy and peace! God bless, Mary Lynn Hamzo A New Year's Prayer Lord, You make all things new You bring hope alive in our hearts And cause our Spirits to be born again. Thank you for this new year For all the potential it holds. Come and kindle in us A mighty flame So that in our time, many will see the wonders of God And live forever to praise Your glorious name. Amen WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS MONTH Important Date Registration for JK students for September 2019 will be Jan. 21 - Feb. 8, 2019 Call Mrs. Weitzel 519-660-2782 to book your appointment. Save the Date On Friday January 18th is the first PD Day of 2019. No School!!! “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me”

JK Registration Starts January 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Mad Science Grade 1-6 Afternoon 12 13 14 15 Swim to Survive Grade 3 Mass @ 10am 16 17 Caribou Math #3 18 PD DAY 19 20 21 JK Registration Starts 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Grade 8 IPRCs at STA 29 30 31