St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Catholic School
4453 51 Avenue T4G 1A7 Innisfail, AB, Canada

4A creating their signature to carve into soap, for our Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes book study.

We encourage you to share your family lenten time together on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter using #rdcrslent.

Today marks the first day of the Lenten season. Lent is a time when many Christians prepare their hearts for Easter by focusing on repentance through prayer, fasting/sacrifice, and charitable service. Ash Wednesday is appropriately named since during the service, the congregation receives the sign of the cross with ashes on their foreheads. These ashes are typically made from the previous year’s Palm Sunday palm branches. The blessing of the ash reminds us of the dust from which God made us and our call to repentance. #rdcrs

It's Shrove Tuesday! This day is marked by feasting and celebration, which traditionally precedes the observance of the Lenten fast. Other names for this day are Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) or Pancake Day, which comes from the old custom of using up all the fattening ingredients in the house before Lent so that people were ready to fast during Lenten season.

Just when you think the day couldn’t get any sweeter Cupid shows up with a cart full of goodies. Thank you Cupid for the thoughtful Valentine cards and yummy treats! #HappyValentine

Don't forget to check out our virtual book fair, open until November 15th. Orders are delivered straight to your home and all sales help support our school. https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5151247

Monday, November 16th is our second School Council Meeting. It will be held online and start at 6:30 pm. If you would like the link emailed to you, please let the Principal, Kelly Jacobson know via email ([email protected]) and he will email you the link.

We are so thankful for Catholic education.

Recently schools have been receiving questions in regards to families traveling and students returning back to school as part of the International Border Testin...g Pilot Program at Calgary International Airport. We would like to highlight a specific section of this program in regard to participants being prohibited from certain settings during the course of the pilot. The section below refers to school and child care and states: Child care programs (for example daycare, out of school care), K to 12 schools and post-secondary institutions - attendees, students in schools and staff who work in these settings cannot go back to these settings until they have their second test and have received a negative result. Participants in this pilot are required to undergo a second test on day 6 or 7 after returning to Alberta. This means that children and staff members will not be allowed back into a school until after they provide a second negative test result, which given these timelines will be a minimum of seven days from the time that participants are back in Alberta. Learn more at https://www.alberta.ca/international-border-pilot-project.a