Please be advised that due to weather conditions, the St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School Open House scheduled for tonight Tuesday, February 10 has been cancelled and will be rescheduled to Tuesday, February 17, 2009.
School buses have been cancelled and schools remain open.
According to SDSSAA rules, whenever school buses are pulled off the road, all SDSSAA games are called off. Accordingly, all games scheduled for today will be postponed and rescheduled in the not-too-distant future.
St. Paul the Apostle Catholic School is seeking to promote a greater awareness of “bullying” through the school’s “bully busters” team.
Led by the school’s student parliament and Mrs. Lee, (teacher), the student body has been preparing rap songs, poster contests and messages about bullying. On Thursday,February 12, 2009, St. Paul Catholic School will be celebrating a “Bully Busters Day.”
Throughout the day students will be participating in anti-bullying and bullying awareness activities. The school has also invited special guests to join them such as Denise Fraser from the Greater Sudbury Police Force, police and her son, Marc Fraser, who oversees the Echo program for the Childrens’ Aid Society
On behalf of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board and St. Anne and St. James Catholic Schools, we would like to thank Xstrata Nickel Company for their generous gift of $881.00 for the purchase of two full goalball kits. Their commitment to helping develop the sport of goalball in our schools is sincerely appreciated.
Goalball is a team sport designed for blind athletes but can be played by sighted athletes as well. It is an established Paralympic sport.
Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball that has bells embedded in it, into the opponents’ goal. They must use the sound of the bell to judge the position and movement of the ball. Blindfolds allow partially sighted and sighted players to compete on an equal footing with blind players.
Thanks again to Xstrata Nickel Company for their generous support of our efforts to establish the sport of goalball in our schools.
Best Wishes,
Adriano Simonato
Teacher of the blind and low vision
Sudbury Catholic District School Board