Sudbury Catholic District School Board

Category: Environmental Education

International Day for Biodiversity: The Green Wave

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Grade 8 students at St. Francis school participated in the 2010 Green Wave program. On May 21st 5 trees were planted in the name of biodiversity. The Green Wave is a global biodiversity campaign to educate youth about biodiversity. It will contribute to worldwide celebrations of the International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22). It also supports other national, international and global tree planting initiatives. In order to encourage as many school as possible to participate in the Wave, the Convention on Biodiversity invited groups to plant trees on May 21st, or May 22nd.

Pictures, maps and more information about the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Green Wave program can be found at [ http://greenwave.cbd.int/en/home ]http://greenwave.cbd.int/en/home.

St. Mary Students Make the Most of Earth Day

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St. Mary Catholic School students celebrated Earth Day by cleaning debris and picking up garbage along Lakeshore Street in Capreol..They filled 39 bags, some pieces of wood, collected several discarded large items and even found a bicycle! The Vermillion River area by the beach looks so much cleaner. Even the Canada geese came for a visit and honked their appreciation. Upon their return to school students created chalk Earth Day messages in the school yard.

St. Benedict Art Student Wins Top Honours at Earth Day Festival

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This past weekend an Earth Day Festival was held at Market Square at which there was food, information, and artwork on display. Students in both systems were encouraged to submit works of art that dealt with environmental issues. These works were juried and Cassidy McAuliffe, a Grade 11 student from St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School won first place. This was Cassidy’s second time she and her artwork have gained recognition in the community as she was one of the students whose work was also on display at the Art Gallery of Sudbury recently.

St. Francis Student Thinks “Green”

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Students in teacher Lyanne Marion’s Grade 5/6 French Immersion class at St. Francis Catholic Elementary School had the opportunity to learn a great recycling idea recently. Classmate Brooke Sagle demonstrated to the rest of her class the “green” wallet. Brooke taught her peers step by step how to create wallets using only empty juice cartons. Lyanne Marion said it was a great opportunity for her students to learn from one another as well as being a really creative recycling idea!

SCDSB Students Celebrate Dearness Conservation at Energy Fair

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Approximately 600 students from the Sudbury Catholic District School Board visited Science North on February 11, 2010 to join together for the Dearness Conservation Energy Fair. All of the schools that participate in the Dearness Conservation program were invited to share best practice with each other and learn new ways to go green in their school communities. Each school was invited to speak to the different ways that they were taking care of the environment. Some of the different ways the schools shared their information was through displays, skits, scrapbooks and signs. Once they were done with their presentations, the students listened to Science North Staff Scientist Frank Mariotti speak about Sudbury and is development and environmental changes. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board applauds all of the efforts of our schools for their dedication to the preservation of our environment.

Sudbury Catholic Schools Greener Thanks to Provincial Funding

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Five Sudbury Catholic District Schools: Marymount Academy, St. Charles College, St. Benedict, St. Francis, and St. Raphael Catholic Schools are a lot “greener” today thanks to a McGuinty government investment of $272,284. The new funding for “Green School Projects in Sudbury” was announced at a media conference held this morning at College Notre Dame by Rick Bartolucci, M.P.P. Sudbury.

“Our government is committed to ensuring students in Sudbury have the best possible resources for learning,” said Bartolucci. “Today’s investment will save area school boards money while promoting a greener, more efficient approach to learning and living in our community”.

In August 2009, boards across the province were asked to submit applications identifying their interest in the “Green Schools Pilot Initiative.” The Sudbury Catholic District School Board participated in five multi-board project application submissions for five different green projects. In October 2009, the Ministry approved the pilot projects involving five of the Board’s schools and local businesses. The Board is working with green energy companies to pilot a variety of projects involving electric energy conservation, hybrid electric or thermal energy generation, sewage and water treatment, solar and thermal energy generation and conservation, and wind generation.

Barry MacDonald, Vice-Chair of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board was on hand for this morning’s announcement and is very pleased with the funding from the province in support of the Green Schools Pilot Initiative. The $272,284 that we gratefully received from the province will allow our Board to pilot nine green installations using five new initiatives. These new and innovative technologies will not only support our plight to reduce our energy consumption and our commitment to reduce carbon emissions but will also provide test sites for renewable and sustainable power generation plants.

The five schools involved in the pilot projects with their respective companies are as follows:

School Project Company
Marymount Academy Electric Energy Conservation Triacta Power
Fifth Light Technology
St. Benedict Catholic SS Electric Energy Conservation Triacta Power
St. Charles College

Electric Energy Conservation
Hybrid Generation
Sewage and Water Treatment

 Triacta Power Conserval Engineering Inc.
Brac Systems
St. Francis Catholic School Ontario Educational Solar Evergreen Power Solutions
St. Raphael Catholic School Electric Energy Conservation
Sewer and Water		 Triacta Power
Brac Systems

Sudbury Catholic Board Names New High-Tech, Green Elementary School

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There was a celebratory as Trustees with the Sudbury Catholic District School Board voted to name Sudbury’s new elementary school. In the end, trustees selected the name “Holy Cross Catholic School.”

“The name ‘Holy Cross’ has significant meaning,” says Board Chair, Jody Cameron, “The four points of the cross represents the coming-together of four existing school communities into one new, learning community where our children will learn and make lifelong friends. This is a very exciting time for the Board and the expansion of Catholic Education in Sudbury’s south end.”

The decision comes after extensive consultation with students, teachers and parents from Corpus Christi, St. Christopher, St. Michael and St. Theresa schools — as well as St. Francis. The Board also got input from the local Parishes and community partners.

The new school will serve elementary students in the city’s south end and will be located on the St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School site. Catherine McCullough, Director of Education for the Sudbury Catholic District School Board is equally pleased with the decision of the new school’s name.

McCullough emphasized, “Holy Cross Catholic School will have lower energy and utility costs than traditionally built schools, and the money saved can go back into the classrooms. That means more money to expand on programs such as our already-established, nationally-recognized Learning with Laptops program as well as full-day junior kindergarten which the Board announced just last month.”

“The naming of this new state-of-the-art school is only the beginning of the many new steps that our Board will be taking in creating this educational village in the city’s south end,” stated Board Chair Cameron, “The next step is to complete the architectural final plans for the design of the new school and get shovels in the ground.”

The Board will decide on the site plan for Holy Cross at next Tuesday’s regular Board meeting. The school will open in September 2011.

St. Paul Students Celebrate Earth Day

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On April 22, 2009, the students and staff of St. Paul the Apostle School celebrated Earth Day in a big way. Following a native good morning prayer service, the students were treated to guest speakers from Science North who spoke about the regreening of Sudbury and a Professor Crumplin from Laurentian University who discussed the environmental costs of driving a car. A Recycling Fashion show, litterless lunch, neighbourhood garbage pick up and tree planting session finished off the day.

On June 19, the students gathered again to create this earth daisy to represent the fact that if we work together we can make this world a much greener place.

Sudbury Catholic Board Launches New Outdoor Environmental Education Centre

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The Sudbury Catholic District School Board is pleased to announce the launch of its Killarney-Shebanoning Outdoor Environmental Education Centre, on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 6:30 p.m., 8 St. Paul Street, in the township of Killarney. The new Outdoor Environmental Education Centre is the latest addition in the Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s commitment in promoting environmental awareness and educational opportunities in a natural environment.

The Outdoor Centre will seek to support and expand the environmental, educational, cultural and historical aspects of the town of Killarney, St. Joseph Catholic School and the whole of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board by establishing an outdoor centre in the heart of the community. The Board owns seven acres of property associated with St. Joseph Catholic School which will serve as the host site for the centre. The centre is only eight kilometres from one of the most prestigious parks in the world-Killarney Provincial Park that boasts an average annual visitation of 100,000 people.

The Sudbury Catholic District School Board is partnering with the Municipality of Killarney, Killarney Provincial Park, and the “Friends of Killarney Park’ to offer exciting, exhilarating and very diversified activities. All programming is based on the Ontario Ministry of Education school curriculum with the added bonus of the unique Killarney experience. At the elementary level the centre will offer the students the opportunity to learn about: authentic Aboriginal culture and teachings, ecological and environmental studies, sustainability of resource uses, healthy living, child and youth stewardship, values of faith, community studies and much more.

The ecological focus of the centre will extend across elementary through to secondary and even post-secondary learning and will focus on the latest innovative “green” technologies and practises. Secondary school opportunities will permit biology, geography and geology students to partake in practical field course experiences. This will blend the theory of the class room with the reality of the outdoors and better prepare them for making post-secondary and career choices.

Please join the Sudbury Catholic District School Board in celebrating the launch of its Killarney-Shebanoning Outdoor Environmental Education Centre on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 6:30 p.m., (8 St. Paul Street) in Killarney.

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