The Buzz

Greetings SBPS Parents and Friends:

Thanks to everyone for their patience navigating arrival and dismissal this week with the OktoberFest set up in the courtyard. Hopefully you’ll be able to join in on the revelry this weekend - stop by for a beer, German pretzel or great music. We know the students are really excited! The weather looks great for the weekend.

Running club will be ending soon. We are offering Theatre Club for Grades K-2 on Tuesdays after Running Club ends. Please see the post below for more information.

If parents of grades preschool through grade three are interested in signing their child up for Bitty Basketball, now is the time. See below for more information.

There’s a lot more important information below. Be sure to check out the following:

• Tuesday Theatre Club for Grades K-2 Registration

• Bitty Basketball Registration

• Pet Blessing on Monday, October 6 - see below

• MBL Parent Update - Video recording of parent session

Please find listed below important dates:

• October 3, 2025 - NO SCHOOL - Professional Development Day for Teachers

• October 3-5, 2025 - OKTOBERFEST

• October 4, 2025 - Pet Blessing after Mass

• October 6, 2025 - Pet Blessing in courtyard at 8:05AM

• October 10, 2025 - Preschool VIP Day

• October 13, 2025 - No School - Indigenous People’s Day

• October 15, 2025 - First Day of Regular School Uniform (Warm Weather Uniform Ends - please see below)

• October 16, 2025 - First Trimester Conferences (In Person - From 4-7PM)

• October 17, 2025 - First Trimester Conferences (VIRTUAL from 8AM to Noon)

• October 17, 2025 - No School - First Trimester Conferences

• October 19, 2025 - Father Ryan Welcome Mass and Reception at 10AM in Church

May God be with us always!

Ms. Rachel Gemo, Head of School

Ms. Gemo’s Prayer Corner

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi (Prayer for Peace)

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.