Welcome!

St. Bernard’s Elementary School is part of the Eastern District. We’re located in beautiful Witless Bay on the Southern Shore of the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. We are a K-6 school, with an enrolment of two hundred and twenty-four (224) students. We serve the communities of Bay Bulls, Witless bay, Mobile, Tors Cove, Burnt Cove and St. Michael’s. Our feeder school is Mobile Central High in Mobile.

Our school has a total of 16 full-time and 3.0 part-time educational staff. This includes 11 classroom teachers, 1 administrator, 2 special needs teacher, 1 criteria C/F teacher, .33 learning resources teacher, 1 music teacher, .66 physical education teacher, .66 guidance counsellor. This year, there is also the support of two student assistants. The school also has the services of secretarial and maintenance personnel. In addition to the staff based at the school, there is access to District Office staff: a speech language pathologist, an educational psychologist, and an itinerant teacher for the hearing and visually impaired.

partners in song concert May 4 2009

new playground


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School Closure Information

 
h1n1 information

URGENT!

Airborne Spore Trap Mould Sampling Report

Parent Update
25 November 09

School Reopening Notice

St. Bernard's
Air Quality
Follow-Up Report
20 November 2009

St. Bernard's
Air Quality Report
17 November 2009

Air Quality
Action Plan
November 20

Air Quality Update
November 18

New! School Development Plan 2009-10

New! School Council Blog!

Renovation Update
September 5, 2009

Renovation Update
September 3 2009

School Extension - New!


Important Dates

December:

Dec 7-9: Scholastic Book Fair

Dec 9: Parent Teacher Interviews

Dece 16: Christmas Concert Matinee at 1:00, all K-6 students will attend, K, 1, 2 and 3 will perform "A Gingerbread Christmas"; Evening concert at 7:00

Happy Tree: Annual prize draws daily for students during December, staff provding prizes, all funds used for needy families for Christmas

Dec 22: Parents invited to Christmas Assembly at 9:00, early dismissal at 1:00

Jan 4: School re-opens for the New Year



St. Bernard's Events:
Recycling Every Friday!


What's New

Important Documents
letter to parents Vaccination Consent Form Pandemic Vaccine Fact Sheet Eastern School District H1N1 Information Page