Sudbury Catholic District School Board

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It’s All about the Music with Sudbury Catholic Schools and Newcap Radio

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For the seventh year in a row, Newcap Radio presented the Sudbury Catholic District School Board with a generous donation of over $7,500 to enhance music programming in their schools. The cheque is a result of Newcap’s commitment to supporting music programming and education in Sudbury as part of an agreement between Newcap Radio and the CRTC. Through this agreement, the station helps foster youth musicianship in the area. “We are so grateful to Newcap for their ongoing support of our music programming in our schools,” Nicole Bédard, Superintendent for the Board stated. “This extra funding helps us enhance the programming in both our elementary and secondary panels – with the purchase and repair of instruments, the funding to support music field trips and concerts, and the purchase of new music programs. We want to thank Newcap for their partnership in music advocacy – recognizing the importance of engaging students through the arts at Sudbury Catholic”. The cheque presentation took place at St. Anne Catholic Elementary School in Hanmer. Newcap Director of Programming Rick Tompkins was on hand to present the cheque to Joanne Bénard, Director of Education, and St. Anne Vice Principal and music teacher JoAnne Comisso. Much to the students’ surprise, Hot 935 Morning Hot Tub Team G-Rant and Sherry K also came out to help present the cheque. The group visited the school’s music room, and then proceeded to take over the school’s intercom to announce an early recess to the entire school – much to the principal’s dismay.

To date, Newcap has donated over $40,000 to The Sudbury Catholic Board to support its students.

Grades 7 to 12 “F.I. Cards” Celebrate Franco-Ontarian Flag

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To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Franco Ontarian flag, on September 25th, 2015 at 11:00am, over 1500 Franco- Ontarian flags were raised across Ontario to recognize the francophone community and their contribution to culture and history. It’s also a way to recognize the 400th anniversary of Champlain’s arrival in Ontario – marking the birth of Francophone culture.

SCC teacher Jessica Demore’s high school Immersion students were able to participate in the celebration and create their own flag raising ceremony. The students were also featured on the CBC/Radio Canada “carte de drapeau” or “map of the flag” and can be seen on one of the three Sudbury points on the map located at:http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/ontario/2015/09/25/002-drapeau-franco-ontarien-25-septembre.shtml

The students in the 7/8 Immersion program did the same under the direction of teacher Sabrina Rocca. Students were given the opportunity to experience their francophone culture, by learning about the meaning, and background history of the flag.

It also happened to be country/western day to wrap-up a very successful Spirit week at S.C.C.

VIVE LA FRANCOPHONIE!!

Seven Year Partnership Continues in their Support of the Community

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St. David Catholic School welcomed community partners into their school to support the planning of a local conference on Cultural Safety and how First Nation culture is shared and promoted. The Best Start Aboriginal Hub’s Agency Advisory Committee, which includes the Child and Family Centre, the Metis Nation of Ontario, Aboriginal People’s Alliance of Northern Ontario, N’Swakamok Native Friendship Centre and the Jubilee Aboriginal Daycare were all at the table to plan the November 20th interagency conference on Cultural Standards in Our Community. According to Jim Eshkawkogan, program manager, “We all have a responsibility to share the culture in the inclusive way it was intended.”
St. David Catholic School and the Aboriginal Best Start Hub have had a 7 year partnership supporting the needs of the community. It is through positive partnerships, with an emphasis on relationship building, that continues to be the foundation of student success and well-being both within the school and the community.

Grades 7 to 12 Cardinals Celebrate Mass All Together as One

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The St. Charles College student body grew by more than two hundred this fall when grades 7 and 8 students were introduced into the campus mix. 

On Thursday, September 17, 2015, students celebrated their first mass together in the gymnasium with Father Jim Ketzler of St. John the Evangelist in Garson presiding.   

Under the direction of teacher Shannon Coyle, the new 7-12 choir helped to beautify the mass with their voices.

Students from the senior boys’ football team helped with the procession and the Prayers of the Faithful.

“Why Yes, it’s HAT DAY at St. David School!”

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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. This is a great time for schools and families to create awareness about pediatric cancers.

St. David Catholic Elementary School started its year off right with a fun-filled HAT DAY at the end of the first week of school. The students and staff wore crazy hats and ball caps during the school day to emotionally and financially support a former student battling synovial sarcoma cancer. Students donated funds for the privilege of wearing their hats during the school day. The school raised almost $400.00 to help provide support for the family. The school would like to publicly thank everyone who participated in this event!

Dylan Fay, a former St. David student, now a St. Charles College grade 8 student, was diagnosed this summer with synovial sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. His family spent most of the summer at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. This fall, Dylan will be going back and forth from Sick Kids to the Sudbury Cancer Center for treatment. During the month of September, St. David School will continue to support the Fay family through pray and fundraising efforts. “It is important that we support our school families in every way possible. We are asking for donations to support Dylan’s family during this time, but more importantly we are praying for his full recovery. We know every little bit counts and want to provide as much support as possible — in any form they need.” stated Lindsay Michel, kindergarten teacher at St. David School.

Learning about Mnoomin at SCDSB Summer School

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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!

Activate them for life!

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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.

Technology at SCDSB Summer School

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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.

Proud of their Accomplishments at SCDSB Summer School

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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.

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