Sudbury Catholic District School Board

Perkins Family Restaurant Serves Up Pancakes At St. James School

Todd Connors, Director of Operations for Perkins Restaurants prepared and served St. James Catholic Elementary School with a pancake breakfast recently. He graciously donated breakfast to thank the school community for their penny donations that went directly to support Pennies for Pediatrics. St. James School raised over $560 in pennies for this worthwhile cause.
“Pennies for Pediatrics is a fundraising drive to benefit children’s care at Health Sciences North.”
St. James students and staff would like to thank Todd Connors from Perkins for personally visiting the school and serving pancakes!

St. Benedict Visits the “Big Apple”

Thirty-two of St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School’s best and brightest business studies students recently travelled to New York City for a 5-day field trip from May 15-19. Among the activities, students experienced a trading simulation on Wall St. in front of the New York Stock Exchange, while also visiting the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and taking a full harbour cruise. Students were able to experience a myriad of business concepts in a real-world setting: from professional sports marketing (New York Yankees Game); to the entertainment industry (Broadway Show); to retail marketing (5th Avenue / Times Square); to corporate social responsibility (Central Park). The travel group also made a special visit to St. Patrick’s Cathedral as well as the 9/11 memorial (Ground Zero). Chaperones included Vice-Principal Stephanie Van Druenen and teachers Giuseppe Politi (Business Studies Teacher) and Gino Posteraro.

St. Bernadette and the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory will be developing new candy created by the Grade Four French Immersion students at St. Bernadette Catholic Elementary School. After studying the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, the students created advertisements to sell their “new and creative” candy inventions to Willy Wonka himself. Jenny Aubin, the grade 4 teacher, took on the role of WIlly Wonka for the day and she had the difficult task of selecting the successful candy invention. The lucky winner, Katrina Pellat, earned a “year’s supply” of Wonka candy! “The students were very creative and amazed the entire school and staff with their engaging candy advertisements.” Aubin stated. The Principal, Diana Salvador, was impressed by the ingenuity of the candy designs created by the students, she stated, ” I would buy their candy!” .

Welcome to Kindergarten at St. Andrew

On Wednesday May 15th at 6pm St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School welcomed 11 young children and their parents to their Welcome to Kindergarten evening. The school partnered with the Learning Partnership and our community partners Angela an OT from the Children’s Treatment Center and Cheryl the teacher from the New Sudbury Cooperative Nursery School to give the students and their parents some tools to help them be prepared for school in the fall. There was a read-aloud, a letters and numbers activity, craft and a delicious nutrious snack of fruit, meat and cheese. Thanks goes out to Mrs. Waugh and Mrs. Sawkiw from the school who made this such a fun evening.

St. David School Celebrates Police Week with Local Greater Sudbury Police Officers

This year National Police Week is celebrated across Canada from May 12-18. National Police Week allows police services from across Canada to answer the public’s questions and develop proactive relationships. It allows the public an opportunity to “get to know” their local police officers.
The Greater Sudbury Police planned many special community activities for this week and one of them was attending St. David Catholic School to have breakfast with the students. The police officers were able to take the time to answer student questions, discuss summer safety tips and eat a healthy, delicious breakfast together.

“The officers enjoyed themselves tremendously . St David students gave them a very warm reception. It is important for the children to see the police officers in a different light than what is portrayed on TV or portrayed by others as being reactive. Our motto is “Our Community – Our Commitment” and we are part of this community. We live in this community and these are our children and we are committed”, stated special Constable Denise Fraser.

“This is a great way to start our day. We had a good breakfast and we learned how to make good decisions when we get to high school”, stated grade a 8 student when speaking of her breakfast with Constable Grant Dokis.

Our community is a better, safer place because of these police officers. St. David School was proud to welcome them into their school community and is grateful for all they do to support Sudbury in being a great city to live in.

St. David School would like to thank: Special Constable Denise Fraser, Special Constable Cheryl Kenelly, Staff Sergeant Robin Tiplady, Constable Bert Lepalme, Constable Grant Dokis, Sergeant Carl Hoeg, A. Sergeant Randy Hosken, Constable Joann Russell, Constable Angela Sirkka, and Anna Barsanti for all they do to make a difference in our community!

Panthers on the Run!

On Sunday, May 12 2013, members of the St. Paul Running Club competed in the Sudbury ROCKS 5km Race, Run or Walk for Diabetes. Vice-Principal Tammy Lavalle, Educational Assistant Jennifer Palladino and Teachers Lucie Gautheir and Stacey Vendramin competed along with nine dedicated and energetic students who braved the snow and rain to take part in the race. To raise money for the event, St. Paul held a Spirit Day where students were asked to wear their favourite sports gear to school for the day. The school raised a total of $200.00 to donate to the Canadian Diabetes Association. The Running Club would like to thank the Knights of Columbus Council 6074, Evans Home Hardware and Coniston Guardian Pharmacy for sponsoring and supporting their race efforts. Way to go Panthers!

Marymount Academy Student Medals at National Science Fair

Marymount Elementary Academy student Electra Millar competed at the Canada Wide Science Fair held in Lethbridge, Alberta May 11-18, 2013.  Her project “Under Pressure” won a Bronze Medal in the  Excellence Award Junior Division category, as well as an Entrance Scholarship to Western University.
 

St. Andrew Visits Science North

On Thursday May 16th the entire student body and staff of St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School travelled to Science North and spent the day exploring the centre. Thanks to the generosity of a devoted group of parents who volunteer their personal time to work at a bingo the school enjoys a Science North membership and the busing to and from the Science Centre plus many other extracurricular activities. The JK/SK class has just completed a themed unit on space and all the children are very aware of astronaut Chris Hadfield and his recent expedition in space so they were excited to see the life-sized cut out of him at the Centre. This group also participated in the Music Monday Activity where they sang simultaneously with Chris Hadfield while he was still at the Internatinal Space Station.

St. Charles College Brings Home Gold

Recently the team from St. Charles College brought home the Gold medal from the Special Olympics Ontario 4 Corners Provincial Basketball Championship. There were 12 teams in total at this tournament and it was sponsored by the Special Olympics Ontario. This is SCC’s 2nd year winning a division championship, last year it was AAA division. The tournament was help on May 14 and 15. A special thanks goes out to Chantal Dagostino (Gym teacher SCC) and Chad West (EA SCC) who helped train the team for this tournament.

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