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Application to Present in Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools

Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools is committed to creating safe, faith filled, caring and accepting learning and work environments. It is our goal to work together with parents/caregivers/guardians and community partners to support students as they develop Catholic moral values, display ethical conduct and achieve to the best of their ability. Background information: A key component in creating safe, faith filled, caring and accepting schools is a positive school climate. Positive school climates are created when all stakeholders promote and model appropriate prosocial attitudes and behaviours such as caring, empathy, and appropriate interactions. Our schools strive to establish a culture for learning and address incidents of student bullying, harassment, racism, discrimination and violence. The focus is on proactive and responsive interventions and education. School staff support healthy and respectful relationship development and learning for students through high quality teaching and learning on a daily basis. School wide and/or grade level specific presentations may be a component of a school learning improvement target. All organizations/presenters must complete an application form to be reviewed for approval by the school

• division. Once approved, the organization/presenter will be added to the pre-approved list for GSCS

school communities to refer to if interested in providing their community with a specific presentation. Contact Name: Name of Company: (if applicable) Name of presenter (if different from contact name): Presentation title: Email Website (if applicable) Phone number Proposed grade levels ☐ Primary (Prek-2) ☐ Elementary (3-5) ☐ High School (9-12) Length of presentation

2 Biography (please include relevant training regarding healthy and respectful relationship development) Core Message of Presentation Provide a brief overview/summary of the presentation Does this presentation / activity involve First Nations or Métis people, themes or content? ☐ Yes Describe involvement ☐ No What information do you share regarding the impact of bullying behaviour? Do you discuss suicide / self-harm in your presentation and if so, what is your message about the link between suicide and bullying? What social media skills or positive digital citizenship information will students learn from your presentation?

3 Type of presentation ☐ class presentation ☐hands on activity for small groups ☐direct presentation – multi-media ☐ large group (school presentation) Links to provincial curriculum outcomes Provide an overview of curriculum outcomes that are covered during this presentation/activity for the grade levels indicated above (either indicate below or attach document to application) Catholic Dimension How does this presentation/activity affirm and contribute to the Catholic identity of our schools? Pre and post teaching materials Do you have pre and post teaching materials available to the school / teacher to use with students? ☐ yes, please attach a copy with your application ☐ no Cost of presentation

4 References Please provide at least three education related references that we can contact Are there any partner organizations or sponsors involved with your presentation? Please forward your completed form to Ginette Lavoie at glavoie@gscs.ca or via mail to: Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools Learning Services 420 22nd St. E Saskatoon, S7K 1X3

Please note: It is expected that organizations will resubmit an application for approval every two years unless indicated on the approval form.