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Happy Valentine's Day CTR families! ❤️ Prayer to Saint Valentine: Dear Saint and glorious martyr, teach us to love unselfishly and to find great joy in giving. Enable all true lovers to bring out the best in each other. Let them love each other in God and in God in each other.

Survey time is just around the corner! 📈🖊 Parents of students in Grade 4, 7 and 10 are encouraged to fill out the Alberta Education Assurance Survey which will be coming to your mailbox anytime after Feb. 6! Parents will be able to fill out the survey online with a random access code or return the paper copies to Alberta Education. Results of the survey provide important feedback to the province, the division, and your school. Please take a few minutes to respond. Deadline is March 3, 2023.

Forty-two CTR kindergarten to Grade 12 teachers and teacher leaders are immersed in writing during a two-day Writers' Workshop retreat. The retreat provides teachers with hands-on writing experiences and deeper learning in order to better serve students. Writers’ Workshop in schools provides students with authentic writing experiences, time to write, explicit instruction, responsive feedback and frequent writing that improves writing fluency and quality of writing.

CTR Catholic and École Good Shepherd School would like to thank the Government of Alberta through the Community Facility Enhancement Program for their contribution to the resurfacing project at two of Good Shepherd’s playgrounds. 🙏❤

Survey time is just around the corner! 📈🖊 Parents of students in Grade 4, 7 and 10 are encouraged to fill out the Alberta Education Assurance Survey which will be coming to your mailbox anytime after Feb. 6! Parents will be able to fill out the survey online with a random access code or return the paper copies to Alberta Education. Results of the survey provide important feedback to the province, the division, and your school. Please take a few minutes to respond. Deadline is March 3, 2023.

Check out this month's Board of Trustee Highlights from its regular meeting held on January 21, 2023 in Strathmore.

Open house tonight (Thursday, Jan. 26) at Holy Spirit Academy in High River for parents of kindergarten students. You don't have to register to attend. All are welcome, whether Catholic or not.

Teachers heighten their number sense knowledge with the help of CTR's Associate Superintendent Pat MacDonald and Director Learning Cheryl Kuemper who have been travelling throughout the division helping teachers improve on their skills to be able to better assist our students! Great learning happening in CTR!

Check out this kindergarten open house at Ecole Good Shepherd School...

Going into Grade 10 next year! Check out Holy Trinity Academy's Information Night!

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It's time to register for kindergarten! Sacred Heart Academy is hosting a kindergarten information night in Strathmore on January 25. Read post for details....

St. Francis of Assisi Academy is hosting a kindergarten sneak peek! Check out the details here....

St. Anthony's School in Drumheller is hosting a kindergarten open house! Check it out!

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Thank you St. John Paul II Collegiate and our Coordinator of Mental Health Chris Sciberras for taking the time to address this important topic!

Registration is now open for Little Flower Pre-Kindergarten! Programs are available at Sacred Heart Academy in Strathmore and St. Mary's School and, new this year, École Good Shepherd School in Okotoks. Please visit the school's website for details. Students must be four by Dec. 31, 2023.