Amber Konikow a member of The ESTEEM Team, a nation al, not-for – profit program of Motivate Canada that brings Olympic, Paralympic and National calibre athletes to schools in Canada to inspire and activate young people to set and achieve their goals.
Through their life stories, ESTEEM Team athletes effectively speak, entertain and engage students in grades 4-8 and 9-12, all with the objective to:Inspire young people to pursue what they want in life
Educate them in the processes that lead to success. Highlight the importance of health, sport and physical activity and their role to overall wellness and success in life. Amber is a 4-time Ontario provincial boxing champion and earned the title of Canadian boxing champ in both 2007 and 2008. On the world stage, she competed at the women’s world boxing championship in Ningbo city, China in November 2008, and did her country proud when she took home the bronze medal.In the last 4 years Amber has been running ultra-marathons starting distances at 50km to 273km. She had raced in Iceland, the Grande Canyon and will be racing in Quebec this September.Amber ‘s next event takes place in Alberta Aug 1st, 125km Canadian Death Race. Amber is a running coach for the Sudbury’s Triple Threat Triathlon Club.
In addition, to being a member of the Esteem team Amber is a personal trainer and offers services through Ultralouie Coaching in Sudbury. Amber took some time to meet with the Youth Counsellors from our Summer Camp on Friday to bring a message that with hard work and determination they too can become all they want to in life.
Category: Programs
Water Teachings at SCDSB Summer School
“Clean water for all” was the theme today for Sudbury Catholic Schools First Nations, Metis and Inuit Summer Literacy camp. Carla Petahtegoose, Aboriginal Support Worker for SCDSB shared traditional teachings about water and the responsibility to care for water. Students reflected on how important clean water is in their lives and the sacredness of water on our planet. Songs were sung and prayers were said for clean water for all.
Pictured with Carla are summer students Paa Ben, Brett McComber, Brianna Organ-Fortin and Isabella Pandolfo.
Proud of their Accomplishments at SCDSB Summer School
On the last day of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board summer program the campers were rewarded for all their hard work. Every student was given the opportunity to bring all the skills and self esteem they gained throughout the three weeks when they, one by one, came to the front of the room and safely kicked through a board.
Pictured below are two of the students and we think Jacob’s proud smile says it all. After breaking his board he picked it up and came running to show us what he accomplished. He was so proud to show Superintendent Rossella Bagnato!
Thank you to Roland Dutrisac and Chelmsford Taekwondo for helping bring proud smiles to our students’ faces.
Learning about Mnoomin at SCDSB Summer School
The First Nation, Metis and Inuit summer learning program students at St. Francis School had a special presentation hosted by the Department of Lands and Natural Resources (Wikwemikong). Mary Ellen Kitchikake, provided summer students an interactive and hands on learning teachings about Mnoomin (Wild Rice in Ojibway).
Manoomin, or wild rice is a gift given to the Anishinaabeg from the Creator, and is a center piece of the nutrition and sustenance for their community.
Miigwetch for sharing with us!
Technology at SCDSB Summer School
As most parents know children today can’t seem to go without their technology. Whether it’s playing on a gaming system or using a tablet. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board is using that interest in their summer program. Students were introduced to Dash and Dot as a new learning friend. Software is becoming a critical layer of all our lives. It is the language of our world. In the future, not knowing the language of computers will be as challenging as being illiterate or innumerate are today. Using these robots students are able to drag-and-drop programming language that snaps together like puzzle pieces. We start by sending simple commands and progress to creating more complex algorithms. The picture below shows Alexandra Gratton learning the first steps in using Dash.
Technology is Key at Sudbury Catholic Summer School
The goals of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s summer learning programs are to make a difference for students experiencing literacy and numeracy challenges, minimize summer learning loss, and increase literacy and numeracy achievements. In the program we use engaging and upbeat strategies such as technology to capture and hold student’s attention.
Pictured is a student who is using an accessory for the iPad called Osmo to learn about words. Students either in a group or by themselves spell words using tiles which are transmitted to the iPad. Students self correct when mistakes are made and celebrate as they move forward. Its been known to happen that students get so excited that they break out in a celebratory dance.
How to Register Your Child at Sudbury Catholic Schools
For our Full Day Kindergarten programming, (or any other elementary grades), our elementary schools will be open for registrations beginning Monday, August 31. Contact or drop by your local elementary school on (or after) this date and staff will be on hand to assist you with all of your registration needs.
For more information about our kindergarten registration, visit:
www.scdsb.edu.on.ca/schools/kindergarten/
Please note, St. Andrew, St. Bernadette and St. Raphael Catholic Elementary Schools are now closed. Holy Trinity Catholic Elementary School located at 1945 Hawthorne Drive, (705) 470-5123 is our new New Sudbury K-6 Regular and French Immersion programming elementary school.
For our secondary programming, our high schools will be open for registrations beginning Monday, August 24. Contact or drop by your local secondary school on (or after) this date and staff will be on hand to assist you with all of your registration needs.
For more information about our secondary registration, visit: http://www.scdsb.edu.on.ca/schools/schools.php.
Click on the secondary school’s website for more information about your secondary school of choice.
If you still have some questions, or you require additional information, you can also call the Sudbury Catholic District School Board office at (705) 673-5620.
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Saying Goodbye at St. Andrew
St. Andrew School staff and students said good bye to Mrs. Lesia Sawkiw (resource teacher) and Mrs. Melody Henry (principal) on Wednesday June 24th. A beautiful farewell prayer service was led by all the teaching staff. The two retirees were gifted with roses, homemade cards and a beautiful painting that incorporated a thumbprint of each student from the school. Pictured are Rachel Walker, Mrs. Sawkiw, Mrs. Henry and Joe Gouchie.
Bears in Action
Mr. Geoffrey Lougheed spoke to the Gr.9 Religion classes at St. Benedict during Catholic Education Week. After his visit the grade 9 Religion students became inspired to do one more thing before the end of the school year; and that was to raise some money for the Sudbury Food Bank. One thing that stood out to us during his presentation was that the Food Bank does not get a lot of donations during the summer months because school is out and families are on vacation. So after 7 weeks of bringing in money along with a pizza day fundraiser, the students in Ms. Skelly, Mrs. Adler and Ms. Dowdall’s classes were extremely proud to present a cheque to Mr. Lougheed on Friday, June 19th for $654.05. We hope that this will bring some comfort to the families in need this summer.