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A couple of weeks ago we had some colour fun with colour wars in each classroom. There was certainly a burst of colour everywhere in the school.

Let us know how important Catholic Education is to you. Dress up in blue and send us a picture to share on our website. It would also be great if you could add a few words about why Catholic Education is important to you. Please submit your picture to JoAnne Akerboom, Principal.

This is Catholic Education Week. We celebrate the witness and mission of our Catholic School. The theme for this year, "Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength" ~ Isaiah 10:3

Please join us for the Division-Wide Rosary🙏

Parent council invites you to our May zoom meeting on Thursday, May 13 at 6:30 pm. Please email Cheryl Elkes if you would like to be added to the zoom link.

Last week our graduates had a delicious treat complements of the Black Mountain Roasters, a local business in Drumheller. A very big shout out and thank you to Sharon and Nathan. Their help in celebrating our graduates is greatly appreciated. We are so blessed to live in a community that looks out for one another 🙏🏿

Morris the HikeAsaurus is joining us to #GetPreparedDrum! A Flood Readiness Guide, featuring Morris, has been given to grade 4 classes at St. Anthony's School and Greentree Elementary School. If you didn’t get a book, or are in another grade, or even another school and want to participate you can download the activity book, colouring sheet and get the info for our colouring contest here: https://floodreadiness.drumheller.ca/ep-week-colouring-contest/

We are so blessed to have such an amazing team of teachers at St. Anthony's School🙏🏾

Thank you to all our students who helped celebrate Earth Day. The day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The day inspires us to act towards the protection of the environment and focus on the need for conservation. The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole. . . Our duties towards the environment are linked to our duties towards the human person, considered in himself and in relation to others. It would be wrong to uphold one set of duties while trampling on the other. (Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth [Caritas in Veritate], nos. 48, 51)

Grade 11 students Lorenzo Pulvinar and Weston Snider did a presentation for Ms. Boyne’s grade 4 class on our 3D printer. The grade 4’s were working in the computer lab last week when the printer was producing one of Lorenzo and Weston’s projects. They were so intrigued we arranged for the two grade 11 boys to show the grade 4’s how it all works, from the creation of the project in the computer program to how the printer itself works. These projects are CTS modules Lorenzo and Weston are doing in Art and Media.

Today is National Laundry Day! We All Need to Do Laundry Do it the Right Way! Save 10% for ONE Day only on National Laundry Day Click through our fundraising link https://fundraising.tru.earth/StAnthonysDrum and enter Discount Code LAUNDRY10 at checkout. Please share with others! Happy Fundraising!

Fundraiser for St. Anthony's School– the grade 7 science class has undertaken an environmental fundraising initiative with TruEarth Products to support school-based initiatives. We encourage all our parents and friends of St. Anthony's School to support our fundraiser. The school will receive a 20% commission on all regular purchases. Click the link to shop https://fundraising.tru.earth/StAnthonysDrum

Thank you to the schools in #Drumheller that participated in the Kilo of Kindness for the local food bank. These local schools raised 1,918 lbs of food for the food bank at The Salvation Army Drumheller. A great big thank you to Greentree Elementary School, St. Anthony's School, Drumheller Valley Secondary School for your generosity and community spirit!

This year, all three schools throughout the Drumheller Valley participated in the Kilo of Kindness program. Students were tasked with bringing in food to donate to the local food bank, and this year they collected a whopping 867.6 kilos... That's 1908.9 pounds! Thank you to everyone from Drumheller Valley Secondary School, Greentree Elementary School, and St. Anthony's School who participated this year to bring all of these Kilos of Kindness to The Salvation Army Drumheller Food Bank! The Kilo of Kindness program is a program organized by Community Development and Social Planning department at the Town of Drumheller that encourages schools throughout our community to donate specific, non-perishable food items that go to the local food bank to support families and individuals in need. #DrumCares

The JH Construction class made this Easter scene to share with the school. After Easter, we will have 50 days of celebrating Christ's resurrection. May our families unite with all families this Easter, in love and blessing for the whole world, on this holiest of holy days.

Please help us celebrate the 50 days of Easter. We are so blessed to have the gift of Catholic Education. We are asking each family to fill out a brief response (1 question) accessible via the link sent in the school newsletter (50 Days of Eastertide & Catholic Education). This initiative is hosted by GrACE (Grateful Advocates for Catholic Education). This organization works year-round to advocate for the gift of publicly-funded Catholic education. Throughout each of the 50 Days of Easter, it is their hope to share a short testimony/quote from parents in the CTR Catholic community on how Catholic education has impacted your life or the lives of your children. In the spirit of almsgiving during this Lenten season, we pray that you might consider answering this one question: How has Catholic Education had an impact on you or your child?

Kilos of Kindness - Our students and staff answered the call to donate food to the disadvantaged in our community. We gathered 903.4 lbs of food. #makingtheworldabetterplace

On March 19 we invite you to join the celebration of the Feast of St. Joseph by joining the mass at 5 pm at St. Anthony's Parish. Please go to St. Anthony's School's YouTube at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVgyIFIvbOs2LuLs3emVomw