540737 School Starts Shortly! Here is what you need to know about the first day of school...

Grade Eight Students
Tuesday, September 7
12:30 - 2:30
Our Grade Eight Students are invited to meet in the Auditorium. A Homeroom orientation and visit to each of their classrooms will follow. A number of our senior students will be present to assist our "newest Angels". Parents are asked to make sure that their daughter arrives at the school between 12:00 (noon) and 12:25. Students will be dismissed at 2:30. Students do not have to wear uniforms on September 7 but must be appropriately dressed for school.


All Students
Wednesday, September 8
Classes begin with a Day 1 schedule (8:17am start). All students are to be in school uniform on Wednesday, September 8.

 540930 LFA Student Represents Canada Jacqueline Kwok was a member of our Junior National ultimate frisbee team that captured silver at the World Junior Ultimate Championships in Heilbronn, Germany. Jacqueline, who also plays for our LFA ultimate team in the spring season, was the youngest member of the Canadian team that played so well at this year's World Junior Ultimate Championships. She also had the honour of being the flag bearer for Canada.

The Canadian team went through the preliminary rounds with a perfect 6-0 record. They overcame Finland and Australia in playoff matches to make the final. In a super-close gold medal match, the Columbian team (which Canada had beaten in the preliminary rounds) handed Canada its only loss. Congratulations Jacqueline!
 540761 LFA's Rising Star Asianna Covington, part of this year's grade 10 class, has had quite a summer in sports.

Asianna attended the recent BC Summer Games where she accomplished four record-setting hammer throws. She travelled to Ottawa and won the discus and finished second in shot put at the Legion Canadian Youth Championships.

Congratulations, Asianna! 

 539197 Website Communication It's still summer and September feels a long way off. However, with the upcoming school year in mind, new families will receive information about logging on to our site in the mail over the next few weeks.
Our website is the most important tool we have for communicating with our community, so it is particularly important for our families to be able to "log on" to the site. Details on how to log on for the first time will be mailed to our new families over the next little while. Once you have logged on, there will be updates on uniforms, supplies, and first week of school orientation information.

Returning families will want to log on too. The site is regularly updated with information relating to the upcoming school year. In fact, school supply lists, PE uniform sale information, start dates and year-end school photos are all available right now. 538390 Passing the Torch Our newly elected Student Council look forward to an exciting 2010-2011 school year. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our 2009/2010 Executive Student Council, this past school year was filled with numerous fun-filled, spirit-building events, as well community outreach projects. Our newly elected members of the 2010/2011 Executive Student Council are:


  • Min Oh (president)

  • Elizabeth Perez (vice president)

  • Apryl Northrup (secretary)

  • Giovanna Perone (treasurer)

  • Kim Truong (mission rep)


They have big shoes to fill but these Angels are up to the challenge. We are all looking forward to the 2010/2011 school year, which promises to be memorable and a lot of fun! 536981 Soccer Provincials The Senior Soccer Team is departing for Kamloops on June 2nd to compete for the AA Provincial Championships!
 The girls have had a tremendous season this year, placing 3rd at the BC Catholics and in league play, and rounding out the Richmond-Vancouver Zone Playoffs in 2nd. The team is sitting with 12 wins and 3 losses as they head into the provincials and hope to continue their winning ways.
 536741 Outstanding Public Speaking Success Congratulations to Noel Lai who this weekend won the final round of the International Optimist Club public speaking contest in Portland, Oregon.

Noel was awarded a gold medal and a scholarship for her extraordinary efforts. Noel won the Vancouver, zone and regional contests to reach the International Optimist Club competition. In the end, she triumphed over students from B.C., Alaska, Washington, and Oregon to win the top prize. Kudos to Noel and the entire public speaking team, who supported Noel and each other this season.


 

 533494 More Public Speaking Success Our LFA public speakers are recognized for their outstanding public speaking skills at both the International Optimist Oratorical Competition and the Westerns Public Speaking Competition this past week.

A very big thanks to all of our student who represented LFA so well at the Westerns Public Speaking Competition this past weekend at York House School. There were 86 students from both independent and public schools across the province who gathered for a day of very fine speech arts. Thanks to our LFA representatives Kim Truong, Elizabeth Perez, Grace Lai, Anna Ren , Noel Lai , Olivia Hui and Stephanie Pillainayagam who put so much effort and talent into their speeches. We want to acknowledge special congratulations to Stephanie Pillainayagam, who won a gold medal for her "After Dinner Speech" and silver for her "Interpretive Reading" thus winning LFA the overall number one standing in the Junior Category. Excellent work to all of our Angels!


 


Meanwhile, we want to extend a big congratulations to Noel Lai who, after winning a gold medal at the club and and zone level, went on to win a silver at the district level. The district competition, which is called the "International Optimist Oratorical Competition" was held this past weekend. Noel's outstanding public speaking has won her the opportunity go on to compete at the next level in Portland, Oregon. Way to go Noel!


 


 


 

 531943 Media Release The full statement made by our Board Chair, which was distributed by press release on Wednesday, April 28.

Statement from the Chair of the Board of Directors of Little Flower Academy


While it is the policy of Little Flower Academy not to comment on personnel issues as they are


private between an employer and an employee, we must set the record straight when information


being distributed is not accurate.



A press release that was distributed today by the BC Pride Education Network is not accurate.



The teacher in question is a contract music teacher hired for a one-year term to cover for a


maternity leave beginning September 2009 and ending June 30, 2010.



When the teacher announced that she and her same-sex partner were planning to have a baby in


April, she requested leave. The school encouraged the teacher to take the leave owed to her and


use it at the time of the baby’s birth.



She did so when the baby was born earlier this month. She then advised the school she was


ready to return to work. A meeting took place between the school and the teacher to discuss


projects consistent with the music theory curriculum. The school understood that her proposed


role was acceptable and the matter was resolved. Therefore the school was quite surprised by


the press release issued today.



The teacher has not been fired, and she remains in the services of LFA until June 30 and will


continue to be paid accordingly.

 531126 Not Just Gold for Choir Our LFA Chamber Choir return from New Orleans, having achieved gold for the fifth straight year, as well as winning two prestigious trophies for exceptional performance. The LFA Chamber Choir traveled to New Orleans with Choir Director Mrs. Mislang Kirkpatrick from April 21-26 to participate in the Heritage Music Festival. Not only did they achieve gold for their performance at the festival, but they were awared the trophy for Best Overall Choir and won the Adjudicators' Trophy for highest overall score. As testament to the quality of our LFA choral program and the dedication of everyone involved and for perspective on this remarkable achievement, LFA is the first Single A school (an enrollment of 600 or fewer) to ever be awarded these presitigious trophies.

In addition, the performance garnered an invitation for our Chamber Choir to perform at one of the Festival of Gold shows in Chicago, Los Angeles or New York. We were also honoured with a special invitation to sing at Carnegie Hall for next year's National Youth Choir Festival--an exceptional commendation that our Chamber Choir Angels must be extremely proud of!

Congratulations to our Chamber Choir Angels!