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Learning about the pressures of today’s teen society by teens and for teens

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The grade twelve leadership class at St. Charles College put on a Wellness Day for the grade nine students last week.  The purpose of the Wellness Day was to educate our youngest high school students about the pressures of today’s teenage society. 

Students in the leadership class paired up to provide professional development on various topics such as substance abuse, reducing stressors, the pitfalls of technology and social media as well as a host of other informative topics. 

The presentations lasted the morning and served to even educate the adults presiding in the room.  One presentation by Keira Cronin and Cooper Joly honed in on the issue of technology making teens anti-social and creating other problems like generations of “tech-besity”.  This idea of technology causing obesity was raised in an article called “Always On” by Sherry Turkle.

Beverly Belanger, the grade 12 leadership teacher used the presentations as a final way to evaluate the leadership students going into the last days of semester one.

There were all kinds of surprises at the event, which was sponsored by a Speak-Up grant from the Ministry of Education this year.

Full Day Kindergarten Information and Registration Sessions to be Held on Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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The Sudbury Catholic District School Board will be holding its Full Day Kindergarten Information and Registration sessions on Tuesday, January 14, 2014, beginning at 6:00 p.m. These Information sessions are available for parents wanting to register their child(ren) for school beginning September 2014 (For children turning 4 years of age on or before December 31, 2014). Both regular (English) and French Immersion programming is available.

The SCDSB encourages all parents looking to give your child a head-start in life -in a high-tech learning environment, focusing on family values, social skills, and having fun -to come check out their local Catholic elementary school. “Our dedicated and hard-working staff will be on hand to answer questions, meet the students, and take you on a tour of the classrooms and school.”

If you are unable to make the Information session, please call the school and speak to staff about setting up an appointment for registration on a different day as registrations are always ongoing.

For more information about our kindergarten programs visit www.scdsb.edu.on.ca/schools/kindergarten/. For more information about Sudbury Catholic Schools, please contact the Board Office at (705)673-5620, “Like” us on Facebook at Sudbury Catholic Schools, or follow us on Twitter at SCDSB.

Grade 12 Leadership Class at St. Charles College helps brighten senior residence

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Students from the Grade 12 Leadership Class at St. Charles College headed over to Falconbridge Extendicare to spread some Christmas cheer. The students shared the task of decorating the senior’s home in preparation for Christmas. The students even helped make some decorations with the residents. Mrs. Belanger’s class came up with the idea and Falconbridge Extendicare proved to be the perfect place to give back especially with it being only a few hundred steps away from St. Charles College.

Explore Carpentry Day for Girls

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On November 28th, December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, female students from Bishop Alexander Carter, Marymount Academy, St. Benedict Elementary and St. Charles College participated in an “Explore Carpentry Day” at the Local 2486 United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America Training Centre located in Azilda. A great time was had by all. In the morning the girls were introduced to the trade by Cindy Hykin and Rhéal Gélinas, both journeypersons and members of local 2486. After a question and answer period the girls were outfitted with safety apparel including safety glasses, hard hats and safety footwear. Each girl also sported a fashionable pink T-shirt and a carpenter’s tool belt complete with hammer. The girls were divided into teams to frame two walls. Under the supervision of Cindy and Rhéal, they measured, cut, hammered and framed one wall with a window opening and a second regular wall.

Once framing of the two walls was complete they continued on to drywall the interior. After a full day of measuring, cutting and swinging of the hammer, the girls felt proud of their accomplishments and truly appreciated a glimpse into the carpentry trade. This event was organized in partnership with Tom Cardinal Union co-ordinator with Local 2486 United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America and Michel Grandmont co-ordinator with the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program.

Jersey Day at St. Benedict

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Students and staff at St. Benedict Catholic Elementary School recently donned their favorite sports jersey to attend their pep rally and celebrate jersey day. Saturday November 30th is “Sports Day in Canada”, and what better way than to wear favorite sport’s team jersey and have a raucous pep rally. The pep rally highlighted the fall sports season with all of its great successes as well as introducing the slate of winter sports.

Holy Cross Students Connecting with Ryan Hreljac

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On Tuesday, November 19th, the students in teacher Shanna Whalen’s Grade 2/3 class, Eva Scola’s class at Holy Cross Catholic Elementary School, engaged in a Skype session with Ryan Hreljac, the founder of Ryan’s Well. The students are part of the School Challenge that is organized by the foundation. Their goal is to raise money to help build a well, as well as latrines, for Haiti. After watching the Ryan’s Well documentary, and learning about Ryan’s amazing dedication toward bringing clean water to Africa, the students were very excited to have the chance to talk to Ryan through Skype. They had the opportunity to ask Ryan whatever questions they wanted during the half hour session. One student, Mia Maurice, asked if she could ask Santa for money for the well. It was clear by his expression and response, that he was touched by this selfless act. Ryan was very supportive of the students, and encouraged them to choose a cause that they are passionate about, and try to make a difference. He does not consider himself to be a hero, but we do, and we are looking forward help create justice as well.

A photo taken of Ryan shortly after our Skype session.

St. James Bears Give School a “Bear” Hug

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St. James students, staff, and community partners literally formed a human circle around their school and gave it a hug. The human circle symbolizes friendships, inclusiveness, respect, faith, and community. We are all in this building together and we need to always show in our actions that we are a St. James family. To show that we care and that we are a Safe Catholic School community we literally gave our school a St. James Bear Hug!

A ‘Different” Movember at Holy Cross

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During the month of November, several of Holy Cross teacher Tania Fay’s grade 2 students asked why they were seeing so many men with moustaches, and what the term Movember meant. Fay thought this would be a great learning opportunity for her students to discuss the importance of community initiatives. As the school often has different fundraisers throughout the year, several for cancer organizations, the class talked about how important it is to makes those in their own community happy by always trying to be supportive however they can. This discussion led to their own Movember initiative. Fay asked students in the grade three class to help the grade two students write stories about how they all suddenly grew moustaches. On Thursday, November 28, the two classes got together and shared their stories with each other – all while touting their own Movember ‘staches. “It was a great teaching opportunity that I couldn’t pass up,” explained Fay. “Our students are so observant of the world around them – and when they began noticing many moustaches sprouting on their dads’ faces, we were able to turn that into a fun discussion, a peer-to peer learning moment and a great way to show them the important of giving back and supporting one’s own community!”

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