Gr.2/3 teacher, Mrs. Onucky-Vervega prepares her Gr.3 student Ryan Vendette for Easter. Each year, the students participate in a traditional Easter art activity. All students deocrate egg cartons. Each egg carton holder represents an Easter symbol, beginning the with the colour purple that represents Lent.
Category: Programs
St. Bernadette Celebrates Franco-Fun!
Grace Olive, Grade 2 student at St. Bernadette Catholic French Immersion School, proudly waves the Franco-Ontarian flag she created in honour of La Journee Internationale de la Francophonie on March 20, 2012. St. Bernadette celebrated this day by highlighting the French language and culture through a variety of educational activities including: dancing and singing along to traditional Francophone music, sampling home made culinary French treats like “la sucre a creme” and “les petes de soeurs”, and wearing green and white (the official colours of the Franco-Ontarian flag). The celebration ended in the gym with the students coming together to cheer, “Le francais est une chance!”
Cardinal Artists Participate in “Emergence” Art Exhibition
Each year, students from across the Sudbury district submit their best artwork to be chosen for the annual juried art exhibition known as “Emergence”.
This year, Ms. Stenabaugh and Mrs. Simpson, at St. Charles College would like to congratulate seven art students whose works were chosen for the show.
Congratulations goes out to:
Stephanie Mills
Renee Abate
Evette Marcolini
Kate Zanetti
Brittany Hayward
Abbie Trotheir
Claudia Lachance
The free show runs from 7-9 p.m at the Art Gallery on John Street. The display ends April 8th.
Marymount Academy Celebrates Franco-Fun Day!
As part of the school’s Franco-Fun day at Marymount Academy, the entire student body gathered in the gym as Grade 8 immersion student Regan Horner sang O Canada in French, grade 11 student Kiana Wardell said the Notre Père prayer and then the grade 8 immersion class sang the unofficial Franco-Ontarian anthem, Notre Place. Many other Franco-Fun activities have been planned throughout the day!
Learning Becomes “Magnified” For St. Anne Students
A recent visit to Science North proved to be a real “eye-opener” for students within the English E.L.K. program at St. Anne School in Hanmer. During the fall, the young children within the Sudbury Catholic System began a learning inquiry into the life cycle of plants with a garden harvest. With the arrival of spring right around the corner, the students are continuing to expand their knowledge of plant life through new growth. Before the children actually plant their own seeds, they participated in a session at Science North that discussed how plants grow, their needs and care, common plants around us, and how plants take root in the wild. Their classroom teacher, Cheryl MacRury, knew that her students had a good foundation before planting, but stated, “The children had a lot of fun. The best part of the session was watching them as they learned a lot about how plants reseed and grow in the wilderness. They didn’t know the important roles that people, animals, and insects play in a plant’s life, but they do now.” An inquiry task that involved magnifying glasses and a bag filled with seeds, berries, burrs, and felt allowed the children to put on their thinking caps and have a hands on experience with how pollination occurs. What will the final result be following their Science North visit? Hopefully a new generation of plant growers. It is never too soon to start cultivating a green thumb!
St. Anne Students “Go Green” For St. Patrick’s Day
The students at St. Anne School enjoy celebrating special days and holidays just like all other children do. This even includes holidays that take place while they are not at school. St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17th while students across Ontario are away on their March Break. Just before they left for their holiday, some students in the French Immersion E.L.K.P. classroom within the Sudbury Catholic Board showed their true spirit by dressing up to demonstrate their “love for the Irish”. Anthony Bertrand, Gavin Potvin, and Jacob Carosi had a lot to tell about the costumes they were wearing. “My mom helped me get dressed for St. Patrick’s Day,” said Jacob. “My mom even helped me put on tattoos for leprechauns,” stated Gavin. “I wanted to wear a beard for St. Patrick’s Day, but it is pretty itchy,” was Anthony’s comment. The wearing of the green by some of St. Anne’s youngest students had the entire school body seeing “wee little leprechauns” throughout the day. Way to go Angels!
St. Benedict Hosts Sudbury Rolling Thunder
Students at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School had the opportunity to buy out of last period on Tuesday, March 7, 2012 to support a great cause. The Sudbury Rolling Thunder basketball team visited the school to take part in an exhibition game involving both a student and teacher team. Proceeds from the buy out went to support local wheelchair athletes. Despite their best efforts, the St. Benedict staff and students who participated in the game weren’t able to sink many baskets againstt the Sudbury Rolling Thunder team, however the school community thoroughly enjoyed watching. One member of the Rolling Thunder, Sarah Lashbrook – a local author and writer, also stayed after the game to sign her latest book “Where the Stream and Creek Collide”.
This book is a fictional story whose main character is a paraplegic as she wanted to “give a relatable character to a minority group that seems to lack just that in the literary world.”
Stephanie Van Druenen, vice principal of St. Benedict was thrilled with the day’s event.
“This was a great opportunity for our school community on so many levels,” Van Druenen stated. “Not only did our students enjoy a lively basketball game, it was also an opportunity for everyone to learn about inclusion and awareness, overcoming obstacles, as well as enhanced understanding of equality in sports. On top of that, we raised almost a thousand dollars to support our community’s athletes.”
St. James School “Fun Family Faith Night”
St. James Catholic School and St. Pius X Parish of Lively partnered to create an event that brought the school and the faith community together. The School Council led by Chairperson Jane Saal planned a “Fun Family Faith Night”.
The evening offered an opportunity to share in many faith-based activities and games geared to both students and their families and provided a forum to celebrate the virtues and values of our Catholic School. The school community was welcomed at the door by parish priest Father Terry Fournier and Deacon Pat Raymond. School Council chairperson Jane Saal stated that, “One priority for the St. James School Council is to augment the school’s spiritual atmosphere by facilitating family faith development and a family faith evening was a perfect occasion to implement our goal. This event provided an excellent opportunity to strengthen the home, school and parish connections at St. James School. The evening was extremely well received and well attended and judging from the feedback we will continue the tradition of a faith night again next year”.
Open Letter of Thanks
This weekend the boys and girls junior handball tournaments were scheduled at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School. The St. David Junior Girls Team wanted to thank our coach and the convener of the tournament, Mr. McLaughlin. Mr. McLaughlin has volunteered his own time to coach our school teams. He taught us the importance of good sportsmanship, the strength we gain when we play as a team and that sports are all about having fun with our friends. We know that it took him a lot of time to organize the tournaments and order the trophies. We wanted all the teachers that volunteered their time to coach to know that their students appreciate it and have a lot fun playing againstt each other.
Thank you for helping us learn that even if we don’t win first place we can still have a lot of fun playing sports.