Cardinal Léger Catholic School (elementary--Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8)

600 Morrish Road, Scarborough, Ontario M1C 4Y1

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History & Tradition

Cardinal Léger Catholic School was established in September 1988 at St. Malachy Catholic School, with which it shared facilities for its initial year. The new building was completed in 1989 and our excited school community took possession in September, 1989. Enrollment grew from 400 its first year to its current numbers.

The new building is a unique design, having a large atrium as a centre for the school. A child care centre is a vital part of the building and it provides a much needed day care for children in the community.

The school is named after Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal. His life served as a great role model for our students. He lead a life of service to others, particularly in his profession as teacher, priest, servant for the poor and missionary. He was a great Canadian whose life work was to educate, to help those in poverty and those physically disabled by disease and to bring people closer to God. For all these reasons Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger remains an excellent role model for us as Catholics and Canadian citizens in a multicultural society.

The school has close ties to our parish, St. Joseph's of Highland Creek. The parish is staffed by Irish Spiritan fathers and represents a wide diversity of ethnic backgrounds in our community.

Cardinal Léger School strives, within the Toronto Catholic District Separate School Board community to develop its students spiritually, academically, athletically and aesthetically. The staff work closely with parents, priests and students to achieve these goals.

How We Meet the Diverse Needs of Our Students

Cardinal Léger Catholic School implements the Board's mission of providing a Catholic education which focuses on Christ's life as intrinsic to the entire curriculum. Our school is not just a school where academic learning occurs, but more importantly it is a place to teach and model Christian living. We respect individual differences, individual rights and individual responsibilities in following God's plan for us, with the guidance of His church. Love of God, love of others and love of self as the basic means by which we are to live our lives and conduct our school activities.

Our school board has initiated support documents in keeping with the Ministry of Education directives.

Our school provides an inviting, safe and welcoming environment where each child can learn, grow and develop. We provide a safe arrival program, ensuring that each child is at school or is safely at home by phoning to verify the presence of each child daily.

In addition to the regular subjects taught our school provides:

• Physical and health education
• Library studies in our school library
• Computer lab studies in our school library
• Individual computer programming in each classroom
• Vocal music (an itinerant teacher) junior kindergarten to grade 6
• Instrumental music grade 7-8
• French as a second language grade 1-8
• Special education for those in need grade 1-8
• Gifted education (weekly program) at St. Rose of Lima Catholic School

In addition to the regular program, teachers often modify the curriculum to meet individual needs. They meet with other staff and resource personnel to support student learning and foster success. As well as meeting academic needs we also seek to develop the student in the area of athletics and the arts, all of which is within our Catholic school environment. We have regular house league sports at recesses for all children to participate for good fun and friendly competition. Our school teams in track and field, softball, soccer, volleyball and basketball continue to perform well in local and regional competition. Cardinal Léger Catholic School is known as one of the greatest sports schools in the city.

In the arts, we have presented a play of the life of Cardinal Léger, a passion play every Easter, Christmas concerts, spring concerts and talent show at the fun fair. We also have a primary/junior choir, a chess team and W5H teams. Our staff has been most generous with their time to coach, direct and supervise these various activities.

School News

PA Days 2008-2009

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• November 14

• December 5

• February 13

• March 13

• June 26

Ray Alba of cardinal leger RECEIVES the
keith tavares spirit of inclusion bursary
Congratulations Ray Alba of Cardinal Leger Elementary School! Ray is the first-time recipient of the Keith Tavares Spirit of Inclusion Bursary.

This bursary honours the memory of Keith Adam Tavares, a grade 6 student who attended Cardinal Leger Catholic School.  Keith was an exceptional student identified as Deaf/Hard of Hearing and as a student with a Learning Disability.  Resilient in the face of medical adversity, Keith taught the world about inclusion.  A fitting legacy, this bursary is designated to a TCDSB student who is deaf or hard of hearing and in grade 8.  The bursary which recognizes the spirit of inclusion provides financial support in the amount of $100.00 towards hearing loss management for costs such as hearing aids, batteries and FM systems.

Ray Alba has a mild sensorineural hearing loss and wears two hearing aids. In his cover letter, Ray writes about his friendship with Keith. He wrote “Keith smiled a lot, he was very intelligent. Sometimes if I needed help, I asked Keith.”

Ray loves sports and has played with the Cardinal Leger Basketball and Volleyball Team. He participates in Youth for Christ, and loves visual arts. He has provided artwork for “Mayfest” at the St. Lawrence Market. Ray will attend Pope John Paul II in September. Best wishes in your future studies Ray! 

Energy Drill Pilot Project
Cardinal Leger is one of three TCDSB schools selected to participate in the Energy Drill, which aims to reduce energy consumption while generating a culture of energy conservation. The project will run throughout the school year.

School Learning Plan -- 2007-2008

EQAO Assessment Results

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