Welcome to God Squad! We are the spiritual centre of our school – involved in so many aspects of the ND life, including:

1. School Masses (Opening Mass, Thanksgiving Liturgy, Advent Liturgy, Ste. Marguerite Bourgeoys Feast Day Mass in January, Ash Wednesday Mass, Closing Mass in June).

2. Various volunteer opportunities in the school (like Photo Day, Grade 8 Open House, Parent Teacher Interview Night, Staff Children’s Christmas Party and anything else that may come up in the school.

3. The Thanksgiving Food Drive.

4. The Christmas Basket drive.

5. All of the fun Lenten Fundraising activities that happen in the school (beginning on Ash Wednesday).

6. Big Sisters/Little Sisters – Formed to welcome students who are new to Canada (including our International students and all other students new to Canada and Notre Dame). We meet a couple of times a semester and organize fun activities (e.g. bowling, afternoon karaoke, relaxation colouring activities, Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas celebrations, etc...)

7. ND’s very own “Dance Off!” competition (a hip-hop competition for schools in our Board, that happens here at ND – God Squad provides all of the volunteer support roles to make sure that this event is one of the biggest and best of the school year).

8. Volunteer opportunities within our Beach community and in the Greater Toronto Community, and we try to do as many street patrols as we can during the school year (a street patrol is an opportunity to go out into our downtown community and prepare care packages for the homeless and hungry members of the downtown community)!

If one or many of these sounds good to you, we welcome you to God Squad! We meet every Monday, after school in the Library (unless otherwise indicated).

In order to stay up on announcements and calls for volunteers for the various events above, please text this number: (289) 212-0880 with this message: @8g3kb . If you can’t text, but you have email, then email this address: 8g3kb@mail.remind.com (no message or subject required). You will get a message back that asks for your name. Please respond with your name so I know who you are. You do not have to download the “Remind” app, like the message invites you to do. My messages will come to you in the form of text messages, and you can respond just like a text message as well! I will also keep a message board outside of 110 M so you can see upcoming events!

• Ms Soave