The Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board (NPSC) is deeply saddened by the conflict in the Middle East, the Holy Land. During this time, we draw strength from our Catholic faith and unite in prayer together for peace in our world. We pray for all the innocent lives lost, and for all those across our world who have been forever impacted by this conflict. May God bring healing and comfort to all those affected and for peace in our world.

We recognize that within our Catholic school communities, students and staff may be deeply affected by this conflict in different ways. NPSC continues to foster learning environments where students feel loved, safe and included, while promoting the dignity of the human person. In light of these recent events and others that have occurred in our world over time, our NPSC Student Support Services team and Board Chaplain will be available to support any students and staff. Resources that have been developed to support students in responding to world events have been shared with our staff and are available to parents in the links below: 

Resources:

Supportive Conversations with Students during Challenging World Events

Ways to Help Students in Response to World Events

Helping Kids Cope with Media Coverage of War and Traumatic Events

How to Talk to Your Children About Conflict and War: UNICEF’s guide offers eight tips to support and comfort your children

Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact your child's school Principal.   

As a Catholic faith community, we pray together for peace:

Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.