Your Roncey community school since 1914
Your Roncey community school since 1914
About Us
A Long and Rich Local Tradition (est 1914)
Serving families in Roncey since 1914, St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) Catholic school is an engaged and supportive elementary school community, and a faith-filled, challenging, and exciting place to learn
A JK to Grade 8 TCDSB school - core French starts in Grade 1, Extended French is available for students starting in Grade 5. Instrumental music (strings) starts in grade 6. We strive to provide an exceptional education within a nurturing learning environment for all our students. One that fosters faith development, and a passion for learning, creativity, and independent thinking.
Activities in the classroom and beyond help students uncover their talents, develop the desire to use their gifts in service to the Common Good, and the self-confidence to pursue their dreams. On this strong foundation, SVDP prepares its students to embrace the future!
Extra-Curriculars
An important part of the curriculum is offered through outdoor learning, and field trips to outdoor education centres, provincial destinations and city day trips. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) is a school-wide focus - Waterloo math contests, STEAM Days, music festivals, ballroom dancing and drama presentations. School teams and clubs include W5H, chess team, math and coding clubs, choir, and a wide range of athletics from cross-country and track-and-field to soccer, volleyball and basketball.
Catholic Elementary School Graduate Expectations
We seek to develop students who are:
- Discerning believers formed in the Catholic faith
- Effective communicators who speaks, writes and listens honestly and sensitively
- Reflective, creative and holistic thinkers
- Self-directed, responsible, and life-long learners
- Collaborative contributors who finds meaning, dignity and vocation in work which respects the rights of all and contributes to the common good
- Caring family members, and
- Responsible citizens.