As first teachers, parents/caring adults are vital educational partners in supporting students throughout their schooling journey. As such, connecting with students’ families in authentic ways is essential to building and sustaining a healthy and like-minded partnership that see all stakeholders fully. This includes students, families and school staff. This connection is truly important and requires intentionality.

As emotional researcher Brene Brown notes “connection is the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard and valued.” Considering how busy school and home life can be, true connection must be fostered and cultivated so that all stakeholders can come together as a caring family, with the shared goal to support and empower students to be what God intends them to be.

In the spirit of growing a deeper connection and further building on the positive partnership between home and school, Saint Oscar Romero CSS is proud to present Log Off – Power Down, a special workshop series facilitated by Dr. Marlyn Morris, PhD. 

Log Off – Power Down will provide parents/caring adults with at-home strategies to support student academic and social-emotional learning. This includes tips to help students form a healthy relationship with school,  building a deeper understanding of social media’s impact on young people and why goal setting is essential to raising resilient children.

All Saint Oscar Romero CSS school families are invited along with TCDSB neighbouring area 2 elementary schools.

Register here: Log Off – Power Down Registration Form

With students currently working diligently on Semester 1 culminating activities and preparing for final exams, looking forward with a renewed mindset is critically important. Doing so, will provide students with the opportunity to embrace Semester 2 with the growth mindset to continuously build on their next steps and successes.  

Along with living their faith through the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations, students have the opportunity to embrace Semester 2 as a new beginning full of hope and promise.

With a commitment to fully supporting student academic achievement and well-being, Saint Oscar Romero CSS invites parents and families to a special presentation about the importance of students reflecting on their successes, next steps, setting goals and fully understanding the Ontario Learning Skills as transferable life skills that will enable success in school and beyond.

This presentation is hosted by the school administration, guidance staff and featuring special guest Dr. Marlyn Morris, Phd.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3JcVV8O

These words from Steven Spielberg, the legendary filmmaker responsible for cinematic classics such as Jaws, Raiders or the Lost Ark, E.T, Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List, speaks to the special connection between movies and audiences. 

This special connection where story comes to life in the shared experience of the movie theatre was at the centre of Frame, a special theatrical showcase of short films produced by Saint Oscar Romero Communications Technology students and Romero Visionaries.

Held at Cineplex Cinemas Yorkdale last month, the Sunday morning celebration, provided student storytellers with the opportunity to not only experience their work on the big screen, but introduce their friends and families (the custodians of newly created memories) to their ability to tell stories with purpose and meaning. With students new digital skill set projected onto the silver screen, memories were certainly “made in and from the film frame.”

With movies being the most universal of art forms, the movie theatre is truly a place where all people can come together to share thee unifying power of story. As the student filmmakers discovered, movies have the potential to shape, transform and unify, through a mosaic of visuals, music, sound effects, emotion and more. 

Mr. Raterman (Communications Technology and Romero Visionaries Co-Moderator ) and Mr. Perrotta (Romero Visionaries Co-Moderator) are so proud of all of all the student filmmakers screened.

Filmmaking is a complex process and thus all students should be incredibly proud of their work and progress.

Join us on Tuesday October 18 starting at 7:00pm and discover what Romero has to offer. As a faith-centred community committed to the well-being of all students, Saint Oscar Romero CSS is a school family, where all members can thrive to be their best in school and beyond. With so much to offer, find out what Romero is to you.

Saint Oscar Romero CCS is incredibly excited to present a special theatrical showcase of student produced short films.

Premiering on the big screen at Cineplex Cinemas Yorkdale will be a festival presentation of short films produced by Communications Technology students and members of Romero Visionaries, an after school club that highlights storytelling through digital media.

Memory, a short film produced by the Romero Visionaries will screen as part of this special event. Funded by the TCDSB Experiential Learning Project, Memory provided students with an enriched opportunity to connect and learn from a number of industry partners including acclaimed director Vincenzo Natali (In the Tall Grass, Cube), celebrated movie poster illustrator Paul Shipper and award-winning music producer Freddy Brobbey of Just Over Music Inc.

To reserve your ticket for FRAME, please click here. Tickets are $5.00 per person.

FRAME takes place on Sunday October 23 from 10:00am – 11:00am at Cineplex Cinemas Yorkdale.