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There’s a lot of Heart at St. Raphael Catholic School!

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St. Raphael Catholic School held a Jump Rope for Heart at the school last Tuesday to help celebrate Catholic Education Week. The students solicited pledges and raised an amazing $12,320 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. During this year’s event, four St. Raphael students had a combined total of more than $1,500 with Sheldon O’Brien bringing in the most pledges at $610 followed closely by Ben Cortolezzis, ($351), Carter Prince, ($295) and Kiera LeBreton ($275).

Many thanks to the students, parents, staff and the St. Raphael Catholic School community for their tremendous support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

St. Andrew Students Celebrate Music Monday

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At exactly 1:00 p.m. on Monday, May 5th the students of St. Andrew Catholic School joined thousands of students across Canada in song to celebrate Music Monday. The students sang their favourite song “Children of God ” on the school’s outdoor courtyard in order to share their gift of music with the neighbourhood.

SCDSB Boys’ Handball Tournament

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The SCDSB Boys’ Handball Tournament took place at St. Francis school on Saturday May 3rd, 2008.

The following were the results of the tournament:

First Place – St. Christopher
Second Place – Corpus Christi
Third Place – St. Raphael
Fourth Place – St. Francis

Many thanks to the player, coaches and parents who help to make such a day possible. The event was hosted by St. Francis school. Thank you to the St. Francis staff and especially Lyanne Marion and Leo McLauglin who organized the day. Congratulations to the winners!

St. Benedict Student Awarded $5,000 Toyota Earth Day Scholarship

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The Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program has recognized Dayna Corelli, a Grade 12 student at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School as one of this year’s fifteen $5,000 scholarship winners. The award recognizes her outstanding achievements in environmental community service, academics and extracurricular participation. Dayna is among an elite group of students from across Canada chosen from a pool of more than 400 applicants.

“These students are involved in an array of inspiring projects that are having significant impact on their communities,” said Jed Goldberg, President of Earth Day Canada. “They are truly stepping forward as the environmental leaders of tomorrow.”

Dayna led her school’s Envirothon team to first place in a 2007 competition where she had the opportunity to make recommendations to the City of Greater Sudbury regarding water and energy conservation. She is active in other environmental initiatives in her community and also helped her Ontario team win a gold medal at a national soccer championship.

At school, Dayna keeps environmental considerations clearly in focus as the president of her student council.She is also a senior member of the Environmental Club, a role in which she coordinates the school’s recycling program and promotes energy efficiency and water conservation projects. Despite her busy schedule Dayna manages to find time to volunteer with the community’s nonprofit organizations. She was instrumental in helping a local youth centre win funding through the Young Philanthropist Challenge and spends time campaigning for Efficient Sudbury, an organization promoting home energy efficiency.

Dayna was presented with a $5,000 ceremonial cheque at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School on Tuesday, April 22, (Earth Day) by Mike Charbonneau, Area Parts and Service Manager for Toyota’s Northern Ontario Division. “On behalf of Toyota Canada it gives me great pleasure to present Dayna Corelli with the Toyota Earth Day Scholarship award for her commitment to environmental stewardship and her unending desire to improve the environment,” stated Charbonneau. “This scholarship will help to further her education and help her develop into one of Canada’s future environmental leaders.”

Dayna will now move on as a finalist for the Toyota Earth Day Scholarship National Award. The student chosen from among the 15 finalists will be presented with a Panasonic notebook computer at a ceremony on May 22, 2008

Free Evening Conferences on “The Catholic Church” at Villa Loyola Retreat Centre

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If you have questions about the Church, here is an excellent opportunity to discuss those questions and learn more about the Church. This information sheet is a promotion of three evening seminars entitled “The Catholic Church.” The evening discussions will be facilitated by Fr Davie Louch, a priest at Holy Redeemer Parish. IT IS FREE! For more information and registration contact Villa Loyola at 522-3502 ext. 0. Enjoy!

Director of Education Invited to Attend Education Leadership Summit

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Director of Education for the Sudbury Catholic District School Board, Catherine McCullough has been invited to attend Apple’s Education Leadership Summit in San Francisco, California on April 10 and 11, 2008. According to John Couch, vice-president for Apple’s Educational Division, “The summit will provide opportunities for education executives and global thought leaders to convene and explore a new course of action for creating dynamic 21st century learning environments where today’s students can achieve and thrive.” McCullough will also participate in an “Executive Think Tank Session” which will provide the opportunity to network with peers, explore ideas with other thought leaders and to work directly with those on the front lines of change and innovation.

The Summit will also feature keynote speakers, Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning To Be Creative and Andreas Schleicher, Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division at the Directorate for Education in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, located in Paris. An invitation has also been extended to Angus King, former Governor of Maine who will speak about his personal story of leadership and the very successful program in Main which has empowered students across the state by placing a mobile computer in their hands for 24/7 learning.

McCullough has been invited as one of the select few Canadian Education Executives (one of ten Canadian Directors and one hundred American Directors) based on the Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s extensive commitment to technology with respect to the introduction and rapid expansion of the “One to One” Apple laptop program in its elementary and secondary schools since 2002. “Education and the approach to learning have taken on a whole new dimension in the 21st century,” states McCullough. “Technology has quickly transformed the world around us. As a school board we decided to meet this challenge head on. In September 2006, we implemented a board wide one to one laptop program in all of our
Grade 7 and 8 classrooms, (a program unique to Ontario), as well as introducing the use of the ibooks in our junior grades.”

According to McCullough, one of the immediate benefits that was realized by the Board’s laptop program was its unique ability to provide teachers with the opportunity to align teaching activities to the interests, learning styles, and needs of all students in allowing them to be successful. The one to one laptop program provides opportunities to fully engage students in reading, writing, and visual literacy.

Sudbury Catholic Schools to Participate in Earth Hour

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The Sudbury Catholic District School Board along with its families of schools will be participating in the WWF’s Earth Hour on Friday, March 28, 2008.

On March 29th at 8:00 p.m. people around the world will turn off their lights for just one hour – Earth Hour – to show it’s possible to take action on climate change. Switching off lights is a simple action that school boards, schools and students can take, but one that helps make a difference and sends a powerful message that we care about our planet. After all, the actions we take today affect the planet students will inherit tomorrow.

Climate change is the biggest environmental threat to our planet and the number one environmental concern of Canadians. By participating in Earth Hour our schools and our students are demonstrating to the world that they want to be part of the solution.

In support of the March 29th initiative, Sudbury Catholic Schools will be taking the lead by turning off lights for one hour, on Friday March 28th. All Sudbury Catholic District School Board staff have also been encouraged to do the same by turning off their office lights for at least one hour during the March 28th workday.

For more information, on Earth Hour, please contact Mark Gervais,
Energy Coordinator for Sudbury Catholic Schools ph: 673-5620 ext: 424.

Sudbury Catholic Schools Prepare for the Triduum

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Over the next three weeks Sudbury Catholic Schools students along with their parents/guardians families, teachers and Board staff will be preparing to celebrate the Triduum.

The greatest mysteries of the redemption are celebrated yearly by the Church beginning with the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday and ending with Vespers of Easter Sunday. This time is called “the triduum of the crucified, buried and risen;” it is also called the “Easter Triduum” because during it is celebrated the paschal mystery, that is, the passing of the Lord from this world to his Father. The Church, by the celebration of this mystery through liturgical signs and sacramentals, is united to Christ, her spouse, in intimate communion.

The Easter fast is sacred on the first two days of the Triduum, in which, according to ancient tradition, the Church fasts “because the Spouse has been taken away.” Good Friday is a day of fasting and abstinence; it is also recommended that Holy Saturday be so observed, so that the Church, with uplifted and welcoming heart, be ready to celebrate the joys of the Sunday of the Resurrection.

The Easter Triduum is prepared for by Lent and it is prolonged for fifty days of the Easter Season. The Lenten Season has two purposes: a) to prepare catechumens to celebrate the paschal mystery through the sacraments of initiation; b) to prepare the faithful to celebrate the paschal mystery by penance for the renewal of their baptismal promises.

After centuries of neglect, Pope Pius XII restored the Triduum to its rightful place as the culmination of the liturgical year. The only way to really understand the Triduum is to savour it by active participation. In song, through ritual and sensory experience, the single, three day long liturgy plunges us into the Paschal Mystery. Our participation in the liturgical act is, then, the opportunity for us to enter into the mystery of Christ’s dying and rising. The life of the Christian is to be lived in union with Christ who “dying destroyed our death, rising restored our life.” It is the mystery of dying and rising with Christ that is at the heart of the Easter mystery.

St. Benedict Students Passionate About the Environment

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St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School is located in the south end of the City of Greater Sudbury. Like many other high schools in the region it has great sports teams, high academic standings, terrific school spirit and a deep and caring concern for the planet. However, it is level, breadth and intensity of this concern for the environment that makes it unique. Through a core group of passionate and enthusiastic students coupled with supportive teachers and the integration of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s comprehensive Dearness Conservation (DC) program, St. Benedict has developed a reputation for being a dedicated steward of the earth.

In Spring 2006, DC approached St. Benedict CSS students to campaign in their neighbourhoods to promote the Interactive Home Audit. The Interactive Home Audit was an online survey that homeowners would complete to determine their energy consumption. The audit then offered suggestions on how energy and money could be saved by implementing simple, efficient changes.

Groups of two to three students canvassed their neighbourhoods distributing pamphlets and florescent light bulbs to residents who agreed to complete the Home Audit. The students were overwhelmed with the results of the campaign as they felt that they had reached a great number of homeowners in the Sudbury area with their targeted message. Upon the completion of the Home Audit program, Efficient Sudbury deemed the St. Benedict groups as the most efficient representatives based on the feedback from residents who were targeted by the campaign.

In November 2007, Dearness Conservation held a school wide presentation to give students and staff an update on climate change. The students were enthralled by a dynamic, comprehensive presentation highlighting the effects of climate change and individual choices that can be made to reduce the impacts on our planet. Following the presentation, interactive workshops were held with grade ten science classes which peaked the interest of many younger environmentalists.

The Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s DC Conservation Challenge was launched to encourage each school to reduce their waste, water, and energy usage with the incentive of winning $500 for re-greening initiatives. St. Benedict has also established itself as an environmental icon purely through the initiatives of its students. Each year the St. Benedict Environmental club competes in the Ontario Annual Envirothon and have won the Oral Presentation Award for the most practical solution for pressing environmental issues for the past two years. Students must employ their extensive knowledge of environmental topics, as well as their originality and creativity. Students are also in charge of many environmental services within the school. Weekly recycling is coordinated by students as well the collection of cell phones and used batteries for proper disposal. The Environment team is adamant about ensuring that all recyclables are placed in the proper bins and that students and staff are being environmentally conscious with energy and water consumption.

St. Benedict is a remarkable school that takes environmentalism to heart. With the culmination of the DC initiatives and resources, supportive teachers, and passionate students, St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School is a school with an environmental conscience.

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