Chief Valerie Richer visited Mr. Beaudry’s Native Second Language classroom at St. James recently and shared the history of Atikmeksheng with all the students. Chief Richer is a practicing lawyer and discussed some of the economic initiatives that her community will be planning in the near future. She was happy to meet with all the students and encouraged them to learn the Ojibwe language. She said that some of our stories need to be shared in our language. The students provided her with some gifts following the presentation.
Category: Programs
St. Francis students collaborate to create their own community!
St. Francis students and staff are building community and collaboration through regular CLAN challenges. Today St. Francis School’s CLANs were challenged to build a snowman using the recycled materials from our Christmas door decorating contest. The students and staff had to build their snowman and were awarded points.
Each student and staff member is placed in a CLAN which is represented through the Medicine Wheel. Our CLAN challenges are held throughout the year, challenging students and staff to work together on common activities. Each CLAN challenge results in points being earned.
Maggie Polischuk, CLAN Captain said, “Our CLANs program gives us a chance to work collaboratively, be creative, have a voice and contribute to our school and community; all while being silly and having fun! Being part of a CLAN is like being part of a big family. We all become one!”
St. Joseph students from Killarney spread kindness and get kindness in return
The students at St. Joseph have been helping their parents with chores and talking about their acts of kindness, but Wednesday they were on the receiving end.
Santa showed up to treat the children at the school concert and community potluck.More than sixty-five members of the community showed up for the event which featured the students acting and singing in a skit. The event was organized by the school council.
Let your story begin here! Kindergarten registration night taking place on January 10
Register with our schools during our Board wide kindergarten registration night occurring Thursday, January 10 at 6 p.m.
These Information sessions are available for parents wanting to register their child(ren) for school beginning September 2019 (For children turning 4 years of age on or before December 31, 2019). If you are unable to attend these sessions at your school, we encourage you to contact the school to register on an alternative date. Both regular (English) and French Immersion programming is available.
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St. Anne Students Celebrate the True Meaning of Christmas as a Faith Community!
On Tuesday, December 18, 2018 the St. Anne Catholic School community came together to celebrate Christmas Mass at Our Lady of Peace Church. Students in grade 7 and 8 enacted the Nativity story while students in grades 4, 5 and 6 shared their gift of song. “This was a special celebration of faith, family and community. We are so fortunate to come together to celebrate our faith and experience the true meaning of Christmas,” said Alice Desormeaux, FDK educator.
Sudbury Catholic Schools staff and students participate in Hour of Code!
All week our staff and students have been working together to complete coding activities during the #HourOfCode! The Hour of Code is an internal event that occurs in December which promotes coding in schools and Board. Board staff and educators were able to put their coding skills to the test and help our students achieve a new way of learning to code!
St. Albert PSW students receive special visit!
On November 22, 2018, St. Albert’s Personal Support Worker Program enjoyed a visit from Andrew Olivier to reinforce the importance of PSWs. Without PSWs, many people would not be able to perform basic activities of daily living that so many of us take for granted. Andrew offered a first-hand perspective as to what it’s like working with a PSW on a daily basis and the valuable role they play. Personal Support Workers are often the unsung heroes of the health care field, providing clients with assistance in their day-to-day life with respect, dignity, and compassion.
This visit was a great way to cap off the theoretical portion of the program. Students have now headed out to placements in our community to build on what they learned in class and put their knowledge into practice. St. Albert’s is extremely fortunate to have supportive partners in education: St. Joseph’s Villa, St. Gabriel’s Villa, and Pioneer Manor continue to be integral and valued community allies in the drive to provide our city with quality PSWs.
St. Albert’s offers the PSW program twice per school year starting in September and January. There are still a few spots available for January 2019: feel free to come to an intake session December 10, 2018 at 2:30pm to learn more about our program and how to become a PSW.
Cards Customs makes their mark!
Cards Customs T-shirt shop is more then just an ordinary elective course for students at St. Charles College. This innovative in school business is flourishing this year with coop students collaborating together with teacher, Gregg Kolodinski to create and design logos for men and women’s apparel for sports, clubs and school spirit swag for many of our schools at Sudbury Catholic District School Board.
Cards Customs established a community partnership with Kevin Roetscher, owner of HMR Branding here in Sudbury, which has opened the eyes of students to the value in learning business skills when they move on to post-secondary or the workplace once graduated.
This has given at risk students in the Open Doors program every opportunity to highlight their hidden talents, to engage in a hands on learning experience and be apart of a school wide project that is growing with interest. Co-op students are using their web design and marketing skills to develop fun and unique apparel, while seeking part time job opportunities.
Student’s testimonials justify the level passion and engagement in this new initiative at St. Charles College with the following statement.
“ My co-op placement in Cards Customs has given me a real hands on learning experience that I need to be able to work in the public sector when I graduate”.-Damian Hanrahan (co-op student)
“ I have so much fun designing my own logos and meeting new people, which is valuable to my future career plans”.-Logan Ranger (co-op student)
“ The best part of Cards Customs is seeing my students engaged and inspiring each other to create something unique and fresh that they can call their own. The teamwork and camaraderie that is shown has given me the passion to make this in school business a success” –Gregg Kolodinski
Students of St. Benedict and St. James experiment with art and science!
Before launching into secondary school next year, students at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School and St. James had a chance to explore both art and science labs at the high school this week.
In Science, Mr. O’Donnell taught the students how to conduct themselves in a lab while dissecting a frog.The students learned safety and anatomy at the same time while the students created canvassed art with Mr. Timpano in the art room.
Students Mackenzie Richard and Brenna Vienneau weren’t shy about the dissection lab with Brenna taking the first cut. She says she is not afraid because she has cleaned deer and partridge in the past with family.
Vienneau wants to pursue sciences because she wants to become an electrician in the future.
Students from the two schools conducted their rotations over a two day period to better prepare them for life in the high school setting.