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Month: April 2008
Racing Against Drugs at Lionel E. Lalonde Centre
More than 600 students from eleven Sudbury Catholic Schools participated in the Racing Against Drugs (RAD) event at the Lionel Lalonde Centre in Azilda recently. RAD is a community-based drug, alcohol and tobacco awareness program offering different learning opportunities, (racing pit stops) from police, public health, addictions agencies and numerous other community partners.
The car racing also afforded students the ability to take part in numerous “hands on” interactive teaching events such as Day Construction’s Driving Simulator, the Sudbury and District Health Unit’s Impaired Goggles, and a Racing Slot Car Track. As the students moved through 11 pits stops or teaching events they learned about the consequences of “drinking and driving,” driving too fast, the effects of alcohol drugs and tobacco on the body as well as its legal and social consequences. The students were also introduced to educational modules on nutrition, diet, physical fitness and motivational sessions to inspire them to make the right leisure and social activity choices.
The purpose of the drug education initiative is to utilize the sport of auto racing to capture the attention of young people and communicate with them through an exciting and high profile sport (such as auto racing) which has no tolerance for substance abuse. Students raced each other by remote control on 1:24 slot car race track with the winner of the day’s event winning a bike for their school.
Sudbury Catholic Schools would like to thank the following service groups, corporations and agencies for supporting the Racing Against Drugs Event. ATV Safety, EMS (Bike Safety), Day Construction (Driving Simulator), Healthy Choices, Megan McGrath, (Positive Role Models), Greater Sudbury Police Services, Sudbury Action Committee for Youth, (SACY) Sudbury and District Health Unit, the City of Greater Sudbury Fire Department, Ministry of Transportation, (MTO) and the Racing Slot Car Track.
Sudbury Catholic Schools CPCO Spelling Bee Semi-final Winners Announced
The Sudbury Catholic Schools, Catholic Principals Council of Ontario (C.P.C.O.) once again hosted its annual Spelling Bee competition. The semifinal competition for the Junior Division was held at St. Francis Catholic School on April 16.
The Spelling Bee finals will be held on April 23, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Francis Catholic School. Students will be competing in both the Junior and Intermediate Divisions.
The winners are:
Sarah MacRury – St. Anne
Alex Wilson – St. Charles
Erin McLelland – St. Christopher
Vanessa Bulfon – St. Francis
Cindy Coleman – St. James
Samantha Udeschini – St. Michael
Katherine Kettle – St. Theresa
2008 SCDSB Chess Tournament Winners Announced
The following are the results of the SCDSB Chess Tournament held at St. Francis School on Saturday April 12, 2008. Each team consists of six places and they compete againstt other schools in order to detemine who the winning team is in each division.
Junior Division
First Place – St. Francis
Second Place – St. Paul
Third Place – St. Thersa
Intermediate Division
First Place – St. Francis
Second Place – St. Charles
Third Place – Marymount
Congratulations!
Sudbury Catholic Schools Students Advance to Regional Science Fair, Winners Announced
George Middleton, Board Chair (right) and Catherine McCullough, (left), Director of Education for the Sudbury Catholic District School Board recently joined Trustees, Senior Administration, parents and guests in wishing twenty-two of the Board’s students the best of luck in the Regional Science Fair held at Laurentian University on April 12 and 13, 2008. The students along with their projects were selected from more than one hundred entries at the Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s Science Fair held at St. Francis Catholic School before the March break. The students were presented with Awards of Recognition as well as a token of appreciation during the Board meeting.
Nine students walked away with a combined total of 14 awards at the Regional event this past weekend. Congratulations! See full list of Sudbury Catholic Schools winners.
Bishop Alexander Carter CSS to Host Fashion Show
Bishop Alexander Carter welcomes the community to it’s “Can You Imagine” Spring Fashion Show. Students and staff will be modelling beautiful fashions from vendors all over the Sudbury region. If you are unsure as to what’s in style this spring and summer, this is the show for you. The event will take place at Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School April 10th at 7:00 p.m The doors will open slightly earlier. Bring your mom, your dad and all your friends. This is a wonderful opportunity for both genders. You don’t want to miss this show, you are sure to have a great time.
The cost of admission to the Fashion Show is $5.00
Director of Education Invited to Attend Education Leadership Summit
Director of Education for the Sudbury Catholic District School Board, Catherine McCullough has been invited to attend Apple’s Education Leadership Summit in San Francisco, California on April 10 and 11, 2008. According to John Couch, vice-president for Apple’s Educational Division, “The summit will provide opportunities for education executives and global thought leaders to convene and explore a new course of action for creating dynamic 21st century learning environments where today’s students can achieve and thrive.” McCullough will also participate in an “Executive Think Tank Session” which will provide the opportunity to network with peers, explore ideas with other thought leaders and to work directly with those on the front lines of change and innovation.
The Summit will also feature keynote speakers, Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning To Be Creative and Andreas Schleicher, Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division at the Directorate for Education in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, located in Paris. An invitation has also been extended to Angus King, former Governor of Maine who will speak about his personal story of leadership and the very successful program in Main which has empowered students across the state by placing a mobile computer in their hands for 24/7 learning.
McCullough has been invited as one of the select few Canadian Education Executives (one of ten Canadian Directors and one hundred American Directors) based on the Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s extensive commitment to technology with respect to the introduction and rapid expansion of the “One to One” Apple laptop program in its elementary and secondary schools since 2002. “Education and the approach to learning have taken on a whole new dimension in the 21st century,” states McCullough. “Technology has quickly transformed the world around us. As a school board we decided to meet this challenge head on. In September 2006, we implemented a board wide one to one laptop program in all of our
Grade 7 and 8 classrooms, (a program unique to Ontario), as well as introducing the use of the ibooks in our junior grades.”
According to McCullough, one of the immediate benefits that was realized by the Board’s laptop program was its unique ability to provide teachers with the opportunity to align teaching activities to the interests, learning styles, and needs of all students in allowing them to be successful. The one to one laptop program provides opportunities to fully engage students in reading, writing, and visual literacy.
Sudbury Catholic Schools Participate in Racing Against Drugs Event
585 students from eleven schools belonging to the Sudbury Catholic District School Board will be participating in a Racing Against Drugs (RAD) event on Tuesday, April 8 and Wednesday April 9, 2008 at the Lionel E. Lalonde Centre, 239 Montee Principale in Azilda.
Racing Against Drugs is a community based drug, alcohol and injury prevention program for students in Grades 5 and 6. This team-based effort promotes healthy, substance abuse free lifestyles and allows children in the Sudbury Community to experience the excitement of racing by competing on a professionally built 1:24 slot car track.
The event involves the use of miniature racing cars on an oval track as well as a drag strip configuration. Students move around the race track circuit via a series of “11 pit stops” where the City of Greater Sudbury Police Services and other partner agencies will have an opportunity to make presentations to the students.
The Racing Against Drugs program was first developed by the London Detachment of the RCMP in 1994 in conjunction with the Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited and the Whitlock/Abby Quality Car Racing Team.
From the desk of…
Regan Corelli
Communications Officer
Sudbury Catholic District School Board
165A D’Youville Street
Sudbury, Ontario P3C 5E7
Tel: 705-673-5620, ext.373
Fax: 705-688-1781
E-mail: corellr@scdsb.edu.on.ca
For more information on the Racing Against Drugs, please contact Denis St. Pierre, member of the RAD Steering Committee,
ph: 969-6057, ext: 208.
Wilfred Cywink from the University of Western Ontario’s Indigenous Services Recruitment Office to Speak to First Nation Students
Mr. Wilfred Cywink from the University of Western Ontario’s Indigenous Services Recruitment Office will be at St Benedict Catholic Secondary School on Friday, April 4 to interact with the school’s First Nations students.
Mr. Cywink will share with the students his personal educational experiences and encourage them to stay in school and strive for a post secondary school education be it college or university.
Mr Cywink is also coming to the City of Greater Sudbury to participate in the Northern Aboriginal Festival at the Sudbury Arena on April 5 and 6, 2008.