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MMA Junior and Senior bands have great showing at Northern Ontario Music Festival

Posted on March 3, 2015August 23, 2018 by admin

The Marymount Academy Junior and Senior Concert Bands competed at the Northern Ontario Music Festival this past week, Feb. 25-27, and the results are in!

Congratulations to the Junior Concert Band for their ranking of “Silver Plus” and a huge congratulations to the Senior Concert Band who achieved a “Gold” standard of performance! A first for MMA in 5 years! Along with a Gold standard of performance, the Senior Concert Band also received an invitation to the National Festival.

Students and staff are thrilled with the results of their hard work and will continue to work towards performance goals. Next up is the Kiwanis Music Festival and back by popular demand, MMA’s spring pops concert on Thursday June 4th. Hope to see you there!

Ice Sculptures at St. Andrew

Posted on February 26, 2015August 23, 2018 by admin

Grade 5/6 Core French students took a well enjoyed break from their Fêtons l’Hiver textbook and worked cooperatively to plan and execute the creation of miniature ice sculptures. Students are now in the process of putting their experience and newly attained vocabulary to use in the creation of an instructional video. Bravo! Pictured is the class with their creations.

Shrove Tuesday Celebrated at St. David Catholic School

Posted on February 18, 2015August 23, 2018 by admin

St. David Catholic school celebrated Shrove Tuesday, more commonly known as Pancake Tuesday, by making pancakes for all staff and students. The school staff gathered at 7 am in the school kitchen and started the task of making pancakes for all 250 students and their teachers. In the Catholic faith, Shrove Tuesday is the day preceding Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. The penitential season of Lent is a period of 40 days ending with the celebration of Easter. Eating pancakes the day before Lent started as a way to use up rich foods such as eggs, milk and sugar.

The students enjoyed their pancake breakfasts with their teachers. “They were yummy” commented grade 2 student Fred Ranger after finishing his meal. “I really liked the blueberry topping on my pancakes. I think the fruit was my favourite part” stated Tate Armstrong, grade 1 student. The students also learned the term “Mardi Gras” is French for “Fat Tuesday”, again referring to the tradition of eating foods rich in fats and sugars on Shove Tuesday. “This is a wonderful tradition at St. David School. We have been making pancakes for the students and staff for as long as I can remember on Shrove Tuesday. It is a wonderful time to come together as a community of faith and enjoy good food and good company. It makes for a great start to the day”, stated Nancy Costanzi, the school’s resource teacher.

St. Andrew celebrates Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 18, 2015August 23, 2018 by admin

Staff and students at St. Andrew school celebrated Ash Wednesday in the school gym on Wednesday February 18 at 1pm. Students were reminded that lent is a time for fasting and almsgiving. Each class was challenged to choose a fasting and almsgiving project to work together on during the 40 days of lent.

Cardinals take 2015 NOSSA Skiing Title

Posted on February 13, 2015August 23, 2018 by admin

The NOSSA high school alpine ski championships were held this week at Adanac Ski Hill. Lockerby is always favoured to win – but the Cards upset the ski community with a strong showing that allowed them to clinch the level two girls’ title.

Level two means the skiers have raced at some time in the past.

Grade twelve Stephanie Martin racked up the most points for the team with a first place overall for girls’ skiing.

Three of the Cards girls’ placed in the top five – which secured the overall title win.

Lorenza Mottinelli came fourth overall, and Lauren Gareau came fifth overall. Grade ten student Alyssa Scott finished eighth.

The girls’ will now compete at OFSAA later this month at Blue Mountain in Collingwood.

Coach Gregg Kolodinski says “the girls’ were very modest and showed a lot of class this week which will prepare them for what’s to come in Collingwood. It’s nice to cheer for the underdog and see them sweep the podium.”

Marymount Alpine Ski Team Captures 5th Consecutive NOSSA Title

Posted on February 13, 2015August 23, 2018 by admin

On Wednesday, Feb. 11th/15 the NOSSA Alpine Championships took place at Adanac Ski Hill. Approximately 80 racers took part in competition hoping to earn their way to the Provincial Championships at Blue Mountain. Serina Seguin finished with silver medals in slalom, giant slalom and overall combined while Katherine Boyce finished the day with three third place finishes. Marika Moskalyk finished the slalom event in 8th place and completing the team of five was Brier Cook and Sidney Smith. These five girls took the overall team title in the Level 1 category which is high school trained only racers with no club racing affiliation or history past the Nancy Green level. This is Marymount’s 5th consecutive NOSSA title and will be the 6th time in 7 years that alpine racers from Marymount represent the Level 1 program out of Northern Ontario at the OFSAA Provincial Championships. OFSAA takes place at Blue Mountain from Feb. 22nd-24th and will travel with racers from St. Charles, St. Benedict’s, Lasalle, and Lockerby.

Blessing the throats of talented singers

Posted on February 3, 2015August 23, 2018 by admin

Students and staff at St. Charles College had their throats blessed today to celebrate Saint Blaise’s feast day.

Blaise was a bishop and is the patron saint of wild animals and those with throat maladies.

Deacon Steve Callaghan also visited the vocals music class to bless the throats of those who have share their gift of singing.

St. Andrew community enjoys Christmas mass together

Posted on December 19, 2014August 23, 2018 by admin

Staff, students and families in the St. Andrew community enjoyed a beautiful Christmas Mass interspersed with beautiful song on Thursday December 18th. Father Sam opened his parish church of St. Andrew the Apostle to everyone so that we could enjoy our last Christmas Concert for St. Andrew School. The choir began the celebration by singing Rejoice and Sing the Good News and everyone did just that. The FDK children sang It’s Christmas Day, the SK/1 children sang Hush There’s a Baby, Grade 2 performed the Huron Carol, Grade 3/4 sang Drummer Boy and Mary Had a Baby and finally the Grades 4/5 and 5/6 classes joined voices to sing I Saw Three Ships and Something About Christmas. Pictured are the three Kings presenting gifts to the baby as the grade 2 class sang the Huron Carol.

Students cut their hair for cancer

Posted on December 18, 2014August 23, 2018 by admin

The Christmas Spirit was in full bloom at Immaculate Conception School in December. Emily Lotter, Grade 1 and Morgan Bradley, Grade 4, teamed up to do something very special – cut their hair for cancer. The girls didn’t stop the “giving” with the donation of their hair. They also raised $1002.35 from the sale of their handmade angel ornaments to their school, families and many community organizations. The girls have each chosen Canadian organizations to donate their hair and money. Emily has chosen to donate to Pantene Beautiful Lengths and Pediatric Cancer Research and Morgan has chosen to donate to Angel Hair for Kids.
Many thanks go out to all who supported the girls. Immaculate Conception Cougars rock!