September is Here!

Welcome back to everyone in our Lorna Jackson P.S. community! We hope that everyone has had an enjoyable and restful summer break. Mr. Brown, Principal and Ms. Chatterpaul, Vice Principal would like to extend a warm welcome to all our returning and new staff that have joined us this 2025-2026 school year.  We say "Good Bye," to Mrs. Herdman, Mrs. Ho, Mrs. Acquisto and Mme. Sacco who have moved on to other teaching adventures at other school communities in YRDSB. We want to welcome our new teachers and support staff, Ms. Akhtar and Mrs. Lee and all the teaching experiences they bring to LJPS. We also want to share that our educator teams have worked hard to prepare for students' return to school so that 2025-2026 will be another great year! Please see the Staff Directory for a complete list of our educators below.

To make September as successful as possible please have your children at school and on time. We can't emphasize this enough because when students get into a routine and arrive with their peers the see and feel a classroom connection at the beginning of everyday. Some highly recommended helpful tips for starting the school day off on the right foot include, making sure to set up predictable routines such as, an early bedtime, eating breakfast and packing student backpacks the night before, so that you are able to get to school on time. Also, we wanted to take the opportunity to share some resources from YRDSB to better support student mental health as it connects to our Student Mental Health and Addictions Strategy. 

Student absences occur from time to time and should your child be experiencing symptoms of illness, please keep them home and report their absence through Edsby or with a phone call to the office at 905-893-2829. If we have students attending school and they feel ill or have observable symptoms, the office will reach out and make contact for next steps. This is in an effort to keep everyone, students and staff safe. 

Helpful School Information - please visit our LJPS website for items such as our calendar, holidays and important dates and school information.