Students at the Sudbury Catholic District School Board are on the receiving end of a wonderful gift from Newcap Radio once again. For the fourth year in a row, Director of Programming, Rick Tompkins paid a visit to the Sudbury Catholic Board office to present Nicole Snow, Superintendent of School Effectiveness with a cheque for over $7500 to put towards music programming for the board. The cheque is a result Newcap’s commitment to supporting music programs and education in Sudbury as part of an agreement between Newcap Radio and the CRTC. Through this agreement, the radio station promised to help foster musicianship among area youth, particularly through providing support of local school board music programming – including the purchase of instruments. Nicole Snow was thrilled to be accepting this donation on behalf of the board. “We are absolutely thrilled to have such a great relationship with Newcap Radio,” Snow stated. “Their generosity year after year has had such a positive impact on our students as it has allowed us to enhance our music programming at the board. We are very grateful to Newcap for their ongoing support and generous commitment to Sudbury Catholic.” Over the past four years, the radio station has donated close to $30,00 to the Sudbury Catholic Board’s music programs.
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University Information Night – October 15, 2012
There will be a University Information Night on Monday, October 16, 2012 for all students interested in finding out more information about Ontario universities. Representatives from all 21 of the provinces universities will be on hand to answer any questions from prospective students including admission requirements, residence, scholarships, application processes and much more. Students and their parents or guardians will be able to attend three different presentations from universities that will be thirty minutes in length. After each presentation, a question and answer period will follow. This university information night was created to help students in their decision making process before they apply to universities beginning January 2013. This event will be taking place at Lockerby Composite School from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
St. Raphael Students Work to Establish New World Record
Grade 8 students from teacher Marilyn Barbeau’s class prepare to lead St. Raphael Catholic Elementary students in an amazing 30 minute Science feat. On October 12, 2012, the students will work to establish a new Guinness World Record for the Largest Practical Science Lesson at multiple locations. Thousands of Canadian students will take part in this endeavour at the same time all across Canada. Stay tuned to learn if this industrious student body gets into the record book. For more information, you can visit Science.gc.ca.
Building Hype for Cans
This week, members of the Student Council at St. Charles College have taken their campaign about hungry people needing help to a number of elementary schools. Now it is up to the kids to take that message to the streets and collect cans.
The school is trying to meet its goal of providing the Sudbury Food Bank with at least 60 thousand cans of food to help people in our community during the winter months.
Each year, the feeder schools (St. Bernadette, St. Raphael, Pius XII, St. Andrew, St. David, St. Paul and St. John) support the initiative by getting the younger students to assist with the canvassing and collection of non-perishable food items.
Last year the school collected more than 120 thousand cans. They have been participating in an annual food drive for more than 30 years.
Student Council Teacher-lead Paola Gutscher says “it brings great joy to see kids helping kids in our community and feeling a sense of pride and accomplishment in achieving and surpassing our goals each year.”
Buster the Bus at St. Bernadette
Buster the Bus paid a visit to St. Bernadette Catholic School on Wednesday October 3rd. All students gathered in the gym and participated in a presentation which focussed on the importance of bus safety. The presentation included Buster the Bus himself; a talking and moving bus, a sing-along, an interactive presentation, and a trivia game. The students at St. Bernadette loved learning about bus safety and are enthused about making the right choices while riding to and from school on the yellow school buses.
St. David Catholic School Celebrates National Tree Day by Visiting Proposed New School Site
September 26, 2012 marks the third National Tree Day in Canada. National Tree Day is a celebration for all Canadians to appreciate the great benefits that trees provide us – clean air, reducing energy demand, wildlife habitat and connecting with nature. National Tree Day is the celebration of trees and forests in all neighbourhoods across Canada. As part of National Tree Day, the grade 3 and 4/5 classes from St. David Catholic School, in the Donovan, took their classrooms outdoors to visit the proposed site of their new school to observe trees in the area. Students were able to identify and describe the various trees that they saw incorporating language and science into their outdoor activities. The outdoor lessons focused on how the natural environment functions and how as human beings we can live in balance with nature as long as we remain committed to responsible behaviours and actions that protect our local ecosystems.
PIus XII Students Celebrate National Tree Day
Pius XII Catholic School, Grade 5 class celebrate National Tree Day on September 26th. The students in the Gr.5 class lead the school in ‘Dearness Conservation’ initiatives that support, promote and foster stewardship fo the earth and the wise use of resources; such as recycling, reusing and reducing. Classroom teacher, Amanda Schiafone says that “National Tree Day is a day when everybody can appreciate the great benefits that trees provide us – clean air, wildlife habitat, reducing energy demand and connecting with all of nature around us.”
Costco Donates Backpacks to Students at St. James School
St. James students Paige, Torance and Ava celebrated their first day of school with new backpacks. These backpacks were graciously donated by Costco Wholesale, Sudbury.
French Immersion students are Proud to be Francophone
On September 25th, students from the French immersion program at St. Charles Catholic Elementary School took to the streets of Chelmsford to share in their Franco-Ontarian pride. September 25th is celebrated across Ontario by many Francophones to show pride and support for their language and to honour the contributions of French speaking Ontarians to society. It is known as ‘La journée du drapeau Franco-Ontarien’ because on this date in 1975, the official Franco-Ontarian flag was raised for the first time to show that the French language is still very alive in this province. The students from grade 2-8 walked throughout their neighbourhood and visited local businesses along the way. They had previously contacted these businesses to inquire as to how many Francophone employees each one employed so that they could present them with necklaces with the words “’Je parle Français” on them – allowing them to let their customers be aware that they speak French. As well as the necklaces, the students also gifted flags to the different businesses. The students plan to also deliver the necklaces and flags to businesses in the neighbouring communities of Azilda, Dowling, Onaping and Levack. Along their route, the students could be heard singing and cheering French songs. According to the Grade 7 and 8 French Immersion teacher, Francois Viau, the goal of this campaign is to help French language learners feel comfortable speaking French in their community. “As the classroom teacher, I am extremely proud of the way the students embraced the opportunity to spread their message,” Viau stated. “Each one of my students has been learning French for 9 or 10 years. They are by all accounts bilingual. I thought it was important for them to spread the word that they too are part of the Franco-Ontarien community. This title is not only reserved for students in French-only schools. Most of my students have at least one parent with French-Canadian roots. This campaign allows them to express themselves and have fun with their second language.”