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The Need to Win
The need to win is often so strong that small disagreements can blow up into bitter and futile quarrels. What fierce arguments we are prepared to enter into, just in order to prove that we are right! People who feel...
Patricia Daniel
jeanvanier: Opening day went very smoothly. Students have now been dismissed. Regular schedule tomorrow. Students please be in full uniform!
jeanvanier: Opening day went very smoothly. Students have now been dismissed. Regular schedule tomorrow. Students please be in full uniform!
Letter from the Most Reverend Thomas Collins
The letter below is from the Most Reverend Thomas Collins and is addressed to all parents of students in publicly funded Catholic Schools.
Peter Aguiar
jeanvanier: Opening day schedule is posted on the school website. www.jeanvanier.com | Have a great first week everyone!
jeanvanier: Opening day schedule is posted on the school website. www.jeanvanier.com
| Have a great first week everyone!
Welcome Back!
Classes begin on Tuesday, September 7. I hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable summer and is returning ready to face the challenges and promises of a new school year. I want to wish everyone in the Vanier community great...
Peter Aguiar
jeanvanier: Staff is back on Sept. 2. Classes begin Sept. 7. I hope you have all had a wonderful summer. Here is wishing all of us a great school year!
jeanvanier: Staff is back on Sept. 2. Classes begin Sept. 7. I hope you have all had a wonderful summer. Here is wishing all of us a great school year!
jeanvanier: My prayers go out to the Alfred family. May they find peace in God's love and His promise of eternal life. Rest in peace Allan. .
jeanvanier: My prayers go out to the Alfred family. May they find peace in God's love and His promise of eternal life. Rest in peace Allan. .
Graduating Class of 2010
This morning the Jean Vanier staff gathered with our Graduating students and some of their parents to celebrate the Eucharist. Afterwards, as is tradition here at Jean Vanier, we celebrated with our annual Graduate Breakfast. The graduates then gathered in...
Peter Aguiar
jeanvanier: Student acceptance letter for out summer school program will be mailed this coming week.
jeanvanier: Student acceptance letter for out summer school program will be mailed this coming week.
jeanvanier: Exams are well on their way. Students are encouraged to follow a study schedule this weekend. Good luck everyone!
jeanvanier: Exams are well on their way. Students are encouraged to follow a study schedule this weekend. Good luck everyone!
The G20 Summit
As you all probably know from the media reports, world leaders are gather on June 26-27 in Toronto for the G20 summit. Below is a letter addressing the G20 from our Director of Education, Ms. Ann Perron.
Peter Aguiar
Upcoming Dates
Classes are now over and exams are well on their way. Every student has a copy of their exam schedule and we encourage parents to review the schedule and to encourage their children to establish an exam study routine. All...
Peter Aguiar
Separating Ourselves
The walls built around people with intellectual disabilities are only the most visible of the great walls that we build to keep ourselves separated from other people. - Jean Vanier, Our Journey Home, p.6
Patricia Daniel
A Different Kind of Wall
In certain countries, we have seen the development of special schools, or sometimes integrated schools and workshops for people with handicaps. There has been a move towards emptying the huge institutions and psychiatric hospitals. But many of the people who...
Patricia Daniel
Progress or Regression?
People with intellectual disabilities, and above all those with severe handicaps, are among the most rejected members of our society. At school, if a child wants to insult a classmate, he calls him a 'spastic'. Despite the fact that some...
Patricia Daniel
Development
Loving a child does not only mean building a relationship of mutual trust. It means helping him to develop, to become responsible, independent, to be himself, free, capable of acting in love, in short, helping him to become fully human....
Patricia Daniel
How far have we come?
In 1964, when L'Arche began, there were still many people with intellectual disabilities hidden away by their parents. Even the neighbors did not know of their existence. I once came across a teenager on a farm chained up in a...
Patricia Daniel
Differing with Aristotle
My studies in Aristotle helped me to order my thoughts, and to distinguish what really matters from what is less important. Aristotle loved all that is human. He made me pay attention not primarily to ideas but to reality and...
Patricia Daniel
The Supreme Welcome
People with intellectual disabilities, usually incapable of abstract thought, are often more able to welcome the presence of others. Less competitive, they are better at creating communion. This hidden capacity makes them more open to welcoming the presence of the...
Patricia Daniel
A First Step toward Self-knowledge
If in every person's heart there is a thirst for communion and friendship, there are also deep wounds, fears and a whole world of darkness which govern our lives in a hidden way. Coming to know this shadow side, and...
Patricia Daniel
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