Miss Cuda (grade 8 teacher) along with the Grade 7 and 8 students as St. James Catholic planted a native species garden at the front of the school. Financial support was received for this action project through the EcoLeague™ Program at Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF).
Category: Programs
Family Time in St. James JK class
Sara Allen, a Junior Kindergarten student in the French Immersion program at St. James, enjoys having mom and dad at school. Together the JK class and their family members participated in a sing-a-long and created crafts together. This event reflects the importance of the home-school relationships that are nurtured at St. James.
Springtime in Kindergarten at St. James
The Senior Kindergarten class at St. James Catholic School invited their family members to help assemble crafts that represent the wonderful season of spring. Photographed is Kindergarten student Hannah Swearengen with her grandmother designing butterflies in celebration of the season of rebirth, renewal and regrowth.
St. Ben’s Pulls Out All the Stops!
Members of the St. Benedict Championship Boys Football team recently participated in the 1st annual Crime Stoppers Fire Truck pull. Our Bears sure made quite the impact in the event!
Team members consisted of from left to right.
Emilio Frometa
Alex Vendramin
Alex Insinna
Assistant Head Coach – John MacLean
Troy Kingsbury
Carter Long
Head Coach – Frank Rocca
Spencer Dailey
Erick Lessard
Tim Coffey
missing from picture – Brandon Sullivan
The Bears were in 3rd place after the 1st heat, but in the second heat, the team posted the fastest time of the event.
The Bears captured the award for most team spirit, but ended up finishing 2nd, only losing the 1st place trophy by two tenths of a second.
St. Benedict’s Principal, Laura Kuzenko, and Benny the St. Benedict Bear, present a cheque at the event for $500 to members of the Sudbury Rainbow Crime Stoppers’ team – Brook Johnston, Office and Event Coordinator and Bert Lapalme, Police Coordinator.
Congratulations goes out to all team members. The Bears hope to make the event an annual tradition.
St. Raphael Royals Take Gold
The St. Raphael Royals took gold after winning the Junior Floor Hockey Tournament at St. Charles College recently. The tournament, hosted by St. John’s teacher Denis Charlebois included a number of teams from the Sudbury Catholic District School Board.
Gathering Stone Ritual
On May 17 Father Jim Hutton and parent Brenda Cavallin travelled to three of the Sudbury Catholic District Schools that are closing in June – St. Theresa, St. Christopher and Corpus Christi. Students at each of these schools collected stones from the yard to symbolize something they wanted to bring to the new site of Holy Cross Catholic Elementary School opening in September. The stones will be placed in the yard but will represent the spirit of the school that have travelled from all three sites. With Father Him Hutton and Brenda Cavallin’s visit to each of the schools, students were invited to remember love, patience and the virtues they hold true at their school while holding onto the stone. The stones were then collected and brought to St. Patrick’s Parish to be stored until the students begin their new school year at Holy Cross.
Catholic Education Week Photo Contest Results
We would like to share with everyone the winners of the Catholic Education Week photo contest. Firstly, we would like to thank all the schools, students and teachers that participated. The photo submissions and reflections were outstanding, and made for very hard decisions for the judging committee!
Thank you again to the students and staff that participated, for your hard work and creativity!!
And here are the winners…
Primary Division
First place – Kayleigh MacNeil, grade 3 St. Bernadette “My Tulip”
Second place – Ava Levecque, grade 1 St. Francis – “Daddy and Sam”
Junior Division
First place – Gianluca Ongaro, grade 4 St. Christopher “God Made the Sun”
Second place – Samantha Thorpe Judd, grade 4 St. David – “Express Yourself”
Intermediate Division
First place – Darnell Peltier, grade 8, St. Raphael “Shoes”
Second place – Cora Audette, grade 8 St. Anne – “Walking into God’s Light”
Senior Division
First place – Elissa Punkkinen, grade 10 St. Benedict “God Works Through the Hands of His Children”
St. Raphael School helps rule out Diabetes and Participates in Sudbury Rocks!
On Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 13, students from St. Raphael School participated in the 5K Sudbury Rocks! run/walk for Diabetes. Students trained after school to prepare for the run. Eighteen students and Teacher Ms. Reynolds ran on Sunday. Students were also encouraged to collect pledges for this worthy cause. Over $1340.00 was collected by the Royals to help rule out Diabetes! It was a great way to help the community and to keep fit and stay healthy!
Welcome to Kindergarten at St. Bernadette
St. Bernadette held their Welcome to Kindergarten event held on Thursday, May 10th.
Fifteen future JK students and their parents attended the event. Cedar Park Daycare, The Greater Sudbury Public Library and The New Sudbury Best Start Hub were there to assist with the activity centres set-up for the new students.