Mrs. Boudreau’s class is in charge of the St. Raphael Conservation program this year and as part of their efforts, they are trying to reduce lunch waste, divert dead batteries from our landfills and reduce electricity by reminding people to turn their lights off when they are not in use.
The program is part of the school board “SCDSB Conservation Challenge” and the winning school can win up to 15-hundred dollars for re-greening the school landscape.
Students at St. James are getting metabolism-boosting, strength-building benefits thanks to parent Jennifer Pattison who volunteers to hold Zumba classes during lunch. But for the students it’s not so much about fitness as it’s about having fun through dancing to hip-hop, Latin and international music.
Due to road and weather conditions and in the interest of safety all school related transportation services for English catholic, English public, French catholic and French public schools, operating in the Districts of SUDBURY, ESPANOLA AND MANITOULIN are cancelled today. All schools will remain open, however, NO transportation will be provided. Parents who transport their children to school are reminded that they must pick their children up at the end of the school day.
All staff is expected to report to work.
Shrove Tuesday with more than 800 pancakes drizzled with syrup…
Shrove Tuesday
Fat Tuesday
Fettisdagen
Mardi Gras
Fastnacht
Sprengidagur
Apocreas
It doesn’t matter what you call it, it was definitely a morning to fatten up heading into Lent at St. Raphael School. All the students packed into the gymnasium to enjoy pancakes dripping with syrup.
On Wednesday, students will celebrate the first day of Lent with an Ash Wednesday Service with Deacon Steve Callaghan and the St. Charles College Choir.
Shrove Tuesday is the last day before Lent. In St. Paul tradition, parent and grandparent volunteers prepared a pancake lunch for all the students and staff. Everyone shared a blessing and then ate together at tables that were set up in the gym.
Recently the children and parents of St. Mark School, had an opportunity to write poetry with their parents and guardians. All groups were introduced to the different types of poetry as children read some examples of well-know poems.
The group was taught what a cinquain poem is and then everyone was given an opportunity to write a cinquain.
Rebecca Reimer helped us with our understanding of free verse poetry and she gave everyone a chance to write a free verse poem.
Students and parents were given poetry packs to work with.
Pizza was also served to help nourish the minds and bodies of our authors.
Here is an example of a cinquain poem written by grade 4 student, Madison Reimer Roy and her mom:
Baby
Happy, small.
Kicking, small, waiting, sleeping.
Excited to come out.
Youngling.
Here’s some free verse written by kindergartener Zoey Cryderman and her dad:
Flowers,
From the garden,
They dance with me,
They wear rainbow dresses.
This poem was written by Haley Cornthwaite and her dad:
Water,
The flowing water,
It looks so peaceful,
It looks so blue.
Mrs. Kennedy (parents) remarked, she had a pleasant afternoon with her son and appreciated the uniqueness of the event.
The poets ended the afternoon by sharing some of their new pieces of writing in front of the group.
On March 1, 2011, the grade seven students at St. Anne Catholic Elementary School participated in World Math Day. The event involved students from all over the world playing againstt each other in real-time battles of mental arithmetic using the newly updated Live Mathletics game engine, their laptop computers, and accessing the internet in the classroom. Students were also able to access the site at home to practice. Students learned more about world time zones and discovered that at a certain times during the day they are more likely to play students from particular countries. This was a truly unique world event and a fantastic way to promote numeracy within the school and the students learned that Math is fun!
Learning about the past can be amazing, especially when you can relate to the people and events. That’s what the St. Anne Grade 5 students did by participating in the 2011 Historica Fair. The primary focus of the Fair was to encourage students to research their past and present the results of their efforts to the community at large.
There were 4 winning entries that will move on to the city wide judging taking place at Laurentian University. This year’s local historica theme winners dealt with heroic grandparents who were veterans of the Korean and Second World Wars, an uncle and local hockey hero, Andrew Brunette, and the history of Sudbury Secondary Highschool. Winners were judged on their research and presentation skills, as well as their oral and written reports. Congratulations to all Gr.5 students for their great efforts and participation in such a worthwhile fair. You have truly uncovered your history!
Imagine the comfort of getting to wear your pyjamas to school as well as having fun with your friends while doing so. Mrs. Lafrance’s Gr.3/4 class and Mme Pickard’s Gr. 4FI class recently did so while celebrating spirit day at St. Anne School.
While in their pyjamas, the students participated in a special Zumba dance class led by a parent, and qualified Zumba instructor from Zumba Vibe, Mrs. Stacey Kydd. Mrs. Kydd donated her services for this special event. For 40 minutes, the children and their teachers shimmied and danced to the upbeat music. The students would like to extend a big St. Anne thank you to Mrs. Kydd for her efforts and enthusiasm. It was a fantastic Zumba/school spirit experience and all St. Anne classes are looking forward to seeing what excitement the next spirit day brings!
