St. Francis staff and students celebrated Literacy Day and their love of books with its annual book swap organized by the school’s resource teacher, Ms. G. Visentin. Staff and students kicked off the special event arriving to school dressed as their favourite story book character. Students donated gently used books from their home and traded them in for “new” books. The school’s cafeteria had a large selection of book titles on display for students to choose from in both English and French languages. The book swap provided an excellent opportunity for students to exchange books and encourage reading.
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St. Benedict Starts the Bell Let’s Talk Conversation
Today, students in the grade 7 and 8 wing at St. Benedict planned for a tough conversation they might experience in the future.
The students completed response texts in the event that someone reaches out to them about their mental health to look for support.
The students also talked about taking negative and unwanted words out of their vocabulary when it comes to dealing with mental health.
Visit the website https://letstalk.bell.ca/en/ for more information such as videos and helpful tips
Need to talk to someone or know someone who needs to talk? Here is a good place to start: http://www.mentalhealthhelpline.ca/
Sudbury Catholic Schools participate in exciting coding workshop!
Many of our schools had the opportunity to participate in coding workshops this week with university instructor, keynote speaker and bestselling author Brian Aspinall! Grades 4/5 students and 7/8 students and teachers came together as they co-learned about the link between computational thinking and problem solving in math through coding.
Brian Aspinall provided a hands on workshop for the students and teachers to engage in and even provided ways to fit the training into classroom curriculum!
“The workshop was amazing! I’m watching the students become immersed in learning, while I make connections to the curriculum at the same time!” Amanda, St. Francis.
Financial Literacy in grade 1FI
Students in Mme Power’s grade 1FI class at St. Paul had a wonderful Financial Literacy Workshop from one of our local banks. Students learned the value of items used in their daily lives and the importance of saving money. Bravo les amis!
Group at Marymount Academy become semi-finalists in annual contest!
We would like to congratulate Marymount Academy on their recent success of being semi-finalists in OCSTA’s Annual Video Contest for students. The student group of Amanda, Audrey and Clara produced a well thought out video on the theme of stewardship and homelessness in our community.
Calming the mind, body and soul before secondary exams at St. Benedict!
For the month of January, the school staff have been focusing on mental health and managing the stress of exams which begin on January 25, 2018. The staff have tackled stress from all angles of mind, body and soul. There have been yoga sessions, a presentation by Canadian Mental Health and today therapy dogs.
The therapy dogs were brought in to help the students de-stress and smile ahead of exams.
The event was arranged by Christine Guerra, the school librarian with the organization, Magical Paws.
This has become common practice at Universities and in health institutions such as seniors’ homes and even in hospitals.
The dogs were so well received that staff are already toying with the idea of a return in the Spring ahead of exams in June.
St. John Jaguars host Volleyball Tournament at St. Charles College!
On January 20, the St. John Jaguars hosted a Junior Coed Volleyball Tournament at St. Charles College. It was a great day of volleyball for all 13 teams who participated. Thank you to all of our athletes, coaches, volunteers and parents who helped to make this tournament such a success. Congratulations to the following teams who finished in the top 4: 4th place – St. Francis, 3rd place – Helen Gravel, 2nd place – St. Anne and finishing in 1st place was Ste. Therese. Looking forward to seeing everybody again next season!
SEAC looking for new members!
The Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) is looking for new parent members for the fall of 2018. SEAC is a standing committee that makes recommendations to the Board on all matters related to the establishment, development and delivery of special education programs and services for exceptional pupils.
The committee is currently looking for members who belong to organizations or agencies that support children with special needs.
Prospective members must be 18 years and older, have Canadian citizenship, and not be an employee of the SCDSB. A letter of nomination (written by the director of the association you belong to) must be sent to the Superintendent of School Effectiveness, Rossella Bagnato. Please e-mail rossella.bagnato@sudburycatholicschools.ca
Tuesday, January 23 2018 – Bus Transportation Cancelled
TRANSPORTATION CANCELLED, SCHOOLS REMAIN OPEN – SUDBURY, ESPANOLA, MASSEY AND MANITOULIN DISTRICTS
Due to icy road conditions as well as snow covered side roads 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, MANITOULIN AND MASSEY (this includes all areas such as St-Charles, Noelville, Monetville, Markstay, Hagar, Warren, Wahnapitae, Coniston, Killarney, Whitefish, Whitefish River First Nations, Manitoulin Island, Onaping, Chelmsford, Capreol, Valley East, Garson, Chelmsford, Azilda, …) 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.