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.
Category: Programs
The Living Rosary at St. Christopher
St. Christopher’s students celebrated Catholic Education Week with a number of activities within the school. The staff and student participated in the “Living Rosary” within the gym at St. Christopher’s school. Students represented a prayer within the rosary and led us as we prayed the rosary together. The gym was darkened and lights were lit as each prayer was said. May is the month of Mary and she is Jesus’s mother. Father Jim Hutton, from St. Patrick’s Church, and Father Andre were also participating in our rosary. The are with some of the grade 5 students.
St. James SK-FI Students Celebrate Their Love of Music
Students in the SK French Immersion program at St. James Catholic School celebrated their love of music with a Spring Sing-Along. As part of the school’s Catholic Education week, the children performed a number of French songs for their parents and grandparents. Afterwards, they had the chance to share in some refreshments with their families.
Open House Events At Corpus Christi
Massimo and Donna in Ms. Visentin ‘s Gr. 2/3 class at Corpus Christi School, proudly display the prayer cloth which classmates and family guests signed, after their Open House Celebration during Catholic Education Week. Students and family united in song to “Yes, We Believe” to reaffirm their Catholic Faith, before the activities began. Parents had an opportunity to listen to their favourite poem which the children had created throughout the year, along with many other writing pieces from their Writing Portfolio Collection. The students and their guests also worked together on the laptops in order to design a comic strip which summarized Sudbury’s origins as St. Anne of the Pines.
Jump Rope for Heart at St. Christopher
St. Christopher students are actively participating with their “Heart Hero” in the Jump Rope for Heart event taking place at the school on May 18th, 2012. Students are learning about keeping their heart healthy and also collecting pledges for a good cause, the “Heart and Stroke Foundation”. The following are some of our jump rope demonstrators from the grade 5 class and our “Heart Hero” Jamila Sargeant who is in grade 6.
Superintendent Bagnato Congratulates St. James Winners
As part of a Safe Schools initiative students were given the opportunity to design a button that reflects the safe, caring, inclusive environment at St. James Catholic School. Several members of the school community judged the button submissions and three student designs were published as button badges for every student in the school.
Superintendent Rossella Bagnato personally visited St. James to congratulate the finalists.
Jump Rope for Heart at St. Andrew
Students at St. Andrew School celebrated Catholic Education Week by generously Jumping hoola-hooping, running after frisbee’s and playing soccer to actively participate in Jump Rope for Heart. Pictured is Alex Vendette skipping.
St. David Dragons “JUMP”
St. David Dragons ‘JUMP’ rope for heart in support of the heart and stroke foundation during Catholic Education Week – May 7-11. The students collected pledges and skipped for 30 minutes. Maria Cimino, the Grade 1 teacher states “this is a great opportunity not only for our school to support local organization but also to continue our school initiative of staying fit and healthy”.
St. Charles College – “Cuts Footloose”
Students and staff at St. Charles College are finally seeing their hard work pay off. After months and months of practices, the school’s production of Footloose opened to rave reviews. From the live band accompaniment, to the choreography and the singing, the students and staff have outdone themselves with this year’s production. Running from May 9-12, performances are taking place every night at 7:00 p.m. For more information or tickets, please contact the school at (705) 566-9605.