Sudbury Catholic District School Board

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Making sacrifices on Ash Wednesday

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As part of the Ash Wednesday service at St. Charles College, the students’ FIRST robotics team presented a cheque to Deacon Steve. The cheque in the amount of four hundred dollars will be used to support Chalice, a Catholic organization that supports children in Third World countries.

Every year, the school aims to financially support a handful of children in places like Haiti, Bolivia and Africa. Throughout the Lenten season, the students take up a collection in their homerooms. These students created a business plan that involved getting community sponsorship. Werner Scherzinger, who heads up the group says “we wanted to support children who have nothing and want very little.”

Marymount Alpine Skiing – It’s a 4-Peat and an OFSAA 5th!!!

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On Wednesday, February 12th the Marymount Alpine Ski Team successfully defended last year’s title as Level 1 NOSSA Girls’ Champions and won the Northern Ontario Championships for the 4th year in a row.

Competition was extremely close this year and the skiers were challenged with an extremely difficult slalom course in the morning. Ultimately, this provided excellent race experience for five skiers who represented the NOSSA Champs at OFSAA. Danielle Burla, Katherine Boyce, Toni Teale, Carissa Roy, and Marika Moskalyk travelled to Blue Mountain in Collingwood along with a contingency of skiers from a few other schools from Sudbury to represent the Northern Ontario District at OFSAA.

On Day 1 of competition, Marymount jumped out of the gate and tackled a long, challenging slalom course. Danielle Burla finished in 12th place overall while Katherine Boyce finished in 14th overall, which included a second run that was the 6th fastest time on the course for the day. Along with the remaining team results combined, the outstanding racing helped earn Marymount a 5th place overall finish as a team. Absolutely unbelievable!! Equally impressive on Day 2 was Danielle Burla’s two Giant Slalom runs. Danielle finished in 9th place overall among the whole group of Level 1 Girls’ racers.

Congratulations is extended to the whole Marymount Alpine Team on their incredible accomplishments once again this year. These girls have created memories that will surely last a lifetime!

BAC Partners with Crime Stoppers

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The staff and students at Bishop Alexander Carter partnered with the Sudbury Rainbow Crime Stoppers and held a “Jail and Bail”. Students paid money to vote for teachers and administrators they would like to see put in jail. The staff who was put in jail then had to compete in a variety of activities such as sumo wrestling, hula hoop contest and a dance off.

Only the winners of each competition were released from the jail that was constructed and put in the gymnasium. In the end, the president of the student council, Michaela Donnelly-Perras had to compete with the Principal, Mrs. MacGregor in a dance competition. They brought all their “moves” to the dance floor and Mrs. MacGregor sneaked out with the win.

The students raised $500 for Crime Stoppers. Way to go Gators!

Canadian Cancer Society Fundraiser at Immaculate Conception School

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The students at Immaculate Conception School have fundraised for the Canadian Cancer Society during the months of January and February. All monies raised were directed to the Breast Cancer Research.

The students were involved in many fundraising activities, which included the following: creating and selling Rainbow Loom jewellery items to students, participating in Bubble Gum contests, donating money to the Pink & Red Spirit Day and selling hockey tickets for the Pink in the Rink event held on February 14th. We sold 99 hockey tickets for Pink in the Rink.

The students at Immaculate Conception School raised $2,331.00 for Breast Cancer Research. Chantal Beauparlant, a representative from Canadian Cancer Society attended our Liturgy Celebration, which focused on the theme of Compassion and Healing. We are so proud of our students for all their efforts and hard work.

Sudbury Special Olympics take their talents to BAC

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Sudbury Special Olympics took their talents to the basketball court in February to play againstt staff and students at Bishop Alexander Carter. Students and staff donated money towards this event. The money raised will be used by the Special Olympics to help them host their first ever Northern Ontario basketball tournament. The $500 raised at Bishop will help fund the tournament and the teams participating in this event. Way to go Gators!

Students at St. James demonstrate Catholic virtue of compassion

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The students at St. James Catholic School demonstrated the Catholic virtue of compassion. Logan Lariviere, a low vision student, travelled to Ottawa where he was fitted for his new technological glasses.
The ‘Community, Care and Culture’ club chose to sell candy grams for Valentine’s Day and have a coin collection to help Logan and his parents purchase his much needed and expensive glasses. The whole school gave generously and, during our Olympic spirit day, Logan was presented with a cheque by Mrs. Lanci.

Jamie the St. James Bear Travels to Sochi, Russia Olympics

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St. James students are “beary” excited that “Jamie”, our St. James Bear has travelled to Sochi, Russia with Meagan to cheer on Meagan Duhamel from Lively. Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford have been sending St. James students pictures of Jamie in Sochi.

Our latest picture that we have received is our very own Jamie wearing Meagan’s silver medal that was captured for Canada’s Team Figure Skating! Go Canada!

Parent Survey:  Share Your Views about Careers in the Skilled Trades

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The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum is conducting a national survey with parents and we want to hear from you!

We are interested in your opinions on careers in the skilled trades and your approaches to career planning with your child.  Your views will shape future career awareness programs and resources so they will better meet your children’s needs as they explore potential careers.

To be eligible for this survey, you must have a child under the age of 24.  If you have more than one child, complete the survey only thinking about the child who most recently had his or her birthday.  You may only do the survey once.

The results are anonymous.  The survey will take 10 minutes to complete. 

All surveys must be complete by February 28th, 2014.

Take the survey now

The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum is a non-profit organization that promotes apprenticeship training.  We share information about careers in the skilled trades with youth and parents across the country by distributing career resources and conducting information workshops on apprenticeship. 

For more information about the survey or the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum contact Emily Arrowsmith, Project Manager (t) 613-235-4004 ext. 201; or by email at emily@caf-fca.org

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