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OAPCE 2023-2024 Annual General Meeting
June 10th 2024(Virtual) 7:00pm
Wednesday May 29, 2024
Dufferin Peel
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Toronto
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
York
Monday, June 10, 2024
All Regions
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Message From The Premier
OAPCE 85 CONFERENCE 2024
Our Gallery
📰 Year End Report 📰
Since 1939, the Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE) has been a provincial not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting Catholic Education in Ontario.
📰 Position Paper 📰
Empowering Parents and Preserving Catholic Education: Ensuring Student Success and Well-Being in Ontario Presented by: Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE).
☀️ June 2024 Newsletter 📰
Welcome the summer with our latest newsletter! Brimming with heartfelt reflections, vital resources, and noteworthy updates, it’s your essential companion for all things related to Catholic education.
Year Of Prayer
On January 21, 2024, Pope Francis inaugurated a Year of Prayer ahead of the 2025 Jubilee, calling on the faithful “to pray more fervently to prepare ourselves to live properly this grace-filled event and to experience the power of hope in God.”
OAPCE News
Joe Perri, OAPCE
Co-Executive Director
OAPCE recently delegated at the Social Policy committee meeting at Queens park regarding the proposed Bill 98, the video from our delegation from Co-Executive Director Joe Perri
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Reclaiming and Re-Engaging Parents As Partners
PARISH
• Have masses at church with parents/families
and then have coffee in the church hall
afterwards.
• Ask Parents to participate in school masses by attending, singing or reading.
• Host Fundraising events at church – i.e., bazaar, raffles, markets.
• Ask Parents to participate in school masses by attending, singing or reading.
• Host Fundraising events at church – i.e., bazaar, raffles, markets.
ONLINE
• Use online presence to build relationships with
local businesses and politicians – tweet other
businesses who are supporting the school in events
and donations.
• Create a QR code for events so parents can scan to find out info.
• Create followers on social media accounts by inviting community members, past parents and alumni
• Create a QR code for events so parents can scan to find out info.
• Create followers on social media accounts by inviting community members, past parents and alumni
SCHOOL
• Family games! Focus on any game that also supports
mathematics learning. Allow parents to share their
favourite games, may even be a new game from another
country which also teaches about other cultures and
traditions!
• Books for Breakfast. Parents are invited to have breakfast while hearing an author read their work (and enjoy breakfast together) before school. Love of reading is encouraged, parents meet more parents and get tips on children’s literature.
• Do a twist on the coffee mornings – rotate volunteers through a schedule as parent ambassadors to be outside the school at drop-off and pickup times to greet parents they had not met, introduce themselves as members of the council, and invite folks to the next gathering (and wear something that identifies you, a vest, same colour, school spirit wear).
• Books for Breakfast. Parents are invited to have breakfast while hearing an author read their work (and enjoy breakfast together) before school. Love of reading is encouraged, parents meet more parents and get tips on children’s literature.
• Do a twist on the coffee mornings – rotate volunteers through a schedule as parent ambassadors to be outside the school at drop-off and pickup times to greet parents they had not met, introduce themselves as members of the council, and invite folks to the next gathering (and wear something that identifies you, a vest, same colour, school spirit wear).
COMMUNITY
• Ask for donations from local businesses and
provide them advertising at events, school
newsletter or online.
• Reach out to the neighbours and local community – have parent council members knock on neighbours beside the school and invite them to parent council meetings – builds community, in turn neighbours can help at school!
• Movie night! Family movie nights with snacks before and after so families would mingle and children would connect their parents with their friends’ parents. The extension to this, once families are comfortable, let the parents gather in another room as the children watch a movie under supervision of volunteers and of course, invite close neighbours and community members – what is better than watching a movie at your local school!
• Reach out to the neighbours and local community – have parent council members knock on neighbours beside the school and invite them to parent council meetings – builds community, in turn neighbours can help at school!
• Movie night! Family movie nights with snacks before and after so families would mingle and children would connect their parents with their friends’ parents. The extension to this, once families are comfortable, let the parents gather in another room as the children watch a movie under supervision of volunteers and of course, invite close neighbours and community members – what is better than watching a movie at your local school!
PARISH/COMMUNITY
• Post events and information on the main
board at church. Ask the Parish Priest to
place in weekly bulletin.
• Attend mass and have parent council say a few words inviting parents to the school for meetings, events.
• Invite Parish Priest, Catholic Women’s League and Knights of Columbus to attend meetings and events, have them as members on council!
• Attend mass and have parent council say a few words inviting parents to the school for meetings, events.
• Invite Parish Priest, Catholic Women’s League and Knights of Columbus to attend meetings and events, have them as members on council!
SCHOOL
• Have a meet and greet for parents – coffee in the
morning at drop off or after-school at pick up – as well as
at the beginning of the Parent council meeting or a bbq
one evening to meet one another – if not at school at local
restaurant or coffee shop.
• Create a brochure or flyer of your role as parents in the school, how to volunteer or help or become a member of the parent council – have one specifically for new parents to provide them pertinent info of the school – translate in other languages.
• Provide tours of the schools for parents before a meeting or on the weekend – a drop in for parents to meet one another.
• Create a brochure or flyer of your role as parents in the school, how to volunteer or help or become a member of the parent council – have one specifically for new parents to provide them pertinent info of the school – translate in other languages.
• Provide tours of the schools for parents before a meeting or on the weekend – a drop in for parents to meet one another.
ONLINE
• Create social media accounts for parent
council or parents of the school
(#wisdomwednesday).
• Create an easy webpage to add any info parent related or for the community.
• Create hashtags for the social media accounts (#wisdomwednesday) share info about the school or community.
• Create an easy webpage to add any info parent related or for the community.
• Create hashtags for the social media accounts (#wisdomwednesday) share info about the school or community.
COMMUNITY
• Invite past parents and student alumni
to all events.
• Ask them to be community members on the council to provide guidance and history of school.
• Help with sharing history/tidbits of the school of past events.
• Ask them to be community members on the council to provide guidance and history of school.
• Help with sharing history/tidbits of the school of past events.
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