Niagara Catholic District School Board

Good morning, one and all, and Happy Monday! For those of you who aren't big on Monday and find them tough, here's your reminder that you are tougher! ICYMI - Director of Education Camillo Cipriano was just on the line with Tim Denis from 610 CKTB talking about COVID in schools. We'll post the link to the interview a little later. And don't forget the Facebook Live event with Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School at 1 p.m. as the Y2K time capsule is revealed. That's on the Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School Facebook page. It's a big, awesome Monday here - make yours big and awesome, too!

Hello there, and Happy Monday. Hope everyone's day is going well so far - and secondary students, welcome to the second half of your first semester! This is your Monday reminder to show everyone that You. Are. Awesome.

Let's close off the week with a fantastic story about students from the Niagara Launch Centre who are helping to make spirits bright in Niagara Falls, by building Christmas cabins for an outdoor Christmas market in the city. There are lots of other projects on the go for students, including ones for some of our youngest and oldest in the community, as well as four-legged friends. Read the story here: https://www.niagarafallsreview.ca//niagara-students-put-th

Good morning, Niagara Catholic, and welcome to the end of the week. Today is Friday the 13th, which makes it EXACTLY eight months since our pandemic nightmare began. So hooray just what we need, ANOTHER Friday the 13th in 2020. It’s enough to make a triskaidekaphobiac (that’s someone with a fear of Friday the 13th) want to stay in bed. ... According to today’s Friday the 13th story on BBC, it’s not only the number 13 that’s known for bad luck. Fridays might be the end of a work and school week, but they have their own sketchy reputation for bad luck as well. But what’s the deal on Fridays and 13 being bad luck? Fridays were known as Hangman’s Day in England, because that’s the day that people condemned to death would be hanged. Ironically, Good Friday is the only day that is known to have a good omen. The number 13’s bad reputation also has roots in the Bible and in Norse mythology. During the Last Supper, the 12 disciples and Christ ate dinner together. Judas, who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th guest to sit down. For the Norse, the 13th guest was Loki, who caused the world to be plunged into darkness. And so, it has been bad luck to have 13 at table, as Ludwig Bemelmens noted in one of his Madeline books. In France, it was deemed so unlucky to have 13 people at a dinner party that socialites known as quatorziens fourteeners were invited to prevent bad luck tainting the event. Did you know that the way the calendar falls, if the first of the month is a Sunday, there will be a Friday the 13th in that month? Most years have two months with Friday the 13th in 2019, it was September and December. This year, it’s March and November. And if February has a Friday the 13th (in a non-leap year), March will, too. That last happened in 2015. Friday the 13th is particularly unlucky if it falls on a full moon. Born on Friday the 13th? You’re the outlier the day is actually good luck for you. Whatever you make of today, make it a great one! Stay well and safe, and have a great weekend!

Goooooood morning, and welcome to a truly fantastic Friday! It's the final day of Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, and today we are happy to a photo this morning at Saint Michael Catholic High School, with everyone in their pink shirts to show solidarity against bullying. An advance announcement for Monday - Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School will livestream the opening of the school's Y2K time capsule on Facebook Live beginning at 1 p.m. Former Raiders, check it out. And listen live on 610 CKTB at 4:45 p.m. today to hear principal Andrew Boon talk about the event with Tom McConnell. Whatever you do today, make it awesome!

Goooood morning, everyone, and Happy Thursday! We've got another gorgeous day out there today - although someone seems to have turned down the furnace a bit. Still, any day you're in double-digits and sunshine in November is what is known as a Very Good Day. Today, we're thankful for the stretch of decidedly un-November like weather, and for all of our students, staff and families. Have an awesome day, everyone!

Good morning! Here we are at Thursday already! Niagara Catholic is committed to ensuring our schools are safe, caring, inclusive communities for our students and our staff. As part of our theme this week promoting both bullying awareness and prevention and cyber safety, here's a great resource from UNICEF about recognizing - and preventing - cyberbullying. Stay well and safe! https://www.unicef.org/end-viole/how-to-stop-cyberbullying

Good morning, and happy Wednesday. We know you love school, but we also know you love a PD Day. Enjoy this rare-as-a-white-moose mid-week PD Day, and we'll see everyone scheduled to be in school tomorrow, back in class tomorrow. While you're at home, your teachers, principals and all school staff are busy doing some awesome professional development to help them continue to be the fantastic work they do for you every day! Stay safe, everyone!

Good morning, everyone, and Happy Tuesday. Eyewitness weather from the Niagara Catholic Weather Desk (we're baaa-aack!) spotted what was at first thought to be a stray midge flying outside and was later confirmed to be a very determined snowflake. Sigh. Well, since we're all staying home and putting up Christmas decorations and making things look festive so we can all feel a bit better with settling down our long winter's nap (thank you, Samuel L. Clements), it might as wel...l be pretty. Did you know it's Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week in Ontario? And it's also the final week of an awareness campaign about cyber-safety. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection has some incredible resources that we're going to share this week, starting with this great Tweens and Teens in the Digital World resource guide, which touches on both topics. Stay safe and well, and have an awesome day, everyone! https://protectchildren.ca//C3P_ParentingintheDigitalWorld