St. Justin Martyr Catholic Elementary School
Dedicated in faith, to excellence and service.
On March 21, 2024 the York Catholic District School Board celebrated the third annual board-wide Lenten Mass of Renewal and Reconciliation. Livestreamed to the board’s 50,000 students, the Mass featured the talented students of St Edward Catholic Elementary School and St Brother Andre Catholic High School, in Markham, who performed the music and helped with the readings.
The celebrant was Bishop ... Continue reading "2024 Lenten Mass"
World Down Syndrome Day is on March 21st. This year’s Global theme is #EndTheStereotypes. People are all different. Each person with Down syndrome is different. Each person with an intellectual disability is different. We don’t all act the same way or like the same things. We each have our individual identities, interests, likes and dislikes, gifts, and talents, just like everyone else. On this day ... Continue reading "World Down Syndrome Day"
We are excited to announce that on Thursday March 7th, with support of our Healthy Schools Grant, we will be participating in the “Great Big Crunch” initiative. This is an annual, Canada wide movement of anti-silence in which students, teachers, parents and others passionate about food, join the food movement and crunch into apples to make noise for healthy school food!
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We are preparing for our Junior Dance Presentations that are taking place March 5th & 6th and our students are excited to showcase their talents! Shortly, our Intermediate students will commence their six-week HIP-HOP dance lessons with Jamie Meltz from “Stars From The Stage” Markham Dance Program. We look forward to celebrating this groove-based style of dance with our Grade 7 & 8 students. An ... Continue reading "School Of Dance – HIP HOP"
National Pink Shirt Day, was established in 2007 in Nova Scotia, Canada. It happened after students, David Shepherd and Travis Price, saw one of their fellow students being bullied for no other reason than that student was wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school. In a stroke of brilliance, these two boys came together and decided to show support for the student ... Continue reading "PINK SHIRT DAY"
We are happy to announce that St Justin, Martyr will join our Area of schools, St Matthew, St John XXIII and St. Monica Catholic School communities to support a parent evening that addresses the topic of “child behaviour and positive mental health”. Come join us, on Wednesday, February 28th from 6:45 to 8:15 at St Monica Catholic Elementary School as we welcome guest speaker, Karen ... Continue reading "PRO GRANT Parent Information Meeting"
