Students from the Grade 12 Leadership Class at St. Charles College headed over to Falconbridge Extendicare to spread some Christmas cheer. The students shared the task of decorating the senior’s home in preparation for Christmas. The students even helped make some decorations with the residents. Mrs. Belanger’s class came up with the idea and Falconbridge Extendicare proved to be the perfect place to give back especially with it being only a few hundred steps away from St. Charles College.
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St. Charles College presents A Christmas Spectacular December 12 at 7pm
The St. Charles College Art Department proudly presents a Christmas Spectacular at St. Charles College on December 12 at 7pm. Tickets are $7.00 with children 6 and under admitted free. Learn more…
Holy Cross Students Connecting with Ryan Hreljac
On Tuesday, November 19th, the students in teacher Shanna Whalen’s Grade 2/3 class, Eva Scola’s class at Holy Cross Catholic Elementary School, engaged in a Skype session with Ryan Hreljac, the founder of Ryan’s Well. The students are part of the School Challenge that is organized by the foundation. Their goal is to raise money to help build a well, as well as latrines, for Haiti. After watching the Ryan’s Well documentary, and learning about Ryan’s amazing dedication toward bringing clean water to Africa, the students were very excited to have the chance to talk to Ryan through Skype. They had the opportunity to ask Ryan whatever questions they wanted during the half hour session. One student, Mia Maurice, asked if she could ask Santa for money for the well. It was clear by his expression and response, that he was touched by this selfless act. Ryan was very supportive of the students, and encouraged them to choose a cause that they are passionate about, and try to make a difference. He does not consider himself to be a hero, but we do, and we are looking forward help create justice as well.
A photo taken of Ryan shortly after our Skype session.
Jersey Day at St. Benedict
Students and staff at St. Benedict Catholic Elementary School recently donned their favorite sports jersey to attend their pep rally and celebrate jersey day. Saturday November 30th is “Sports Day in Canada”, and what better way than to wear favorite sport’s team jersey and have a raucous pep rally. The pep rally highlighted the fall sports season with all of its great successes as well as introducing the slate of winter sports.
St. James Bears Give School a “Bear” Hug
St. James students, staff, and community partners literally formed a human circle around their school and gave it a hug. The human circle symbolizes friendships, inclusiveness, respect, faith, and community. We are all in this building together and we need to always show in our actions that we are a St. James family. To show that we care and that we are a Safe Catholic School community we literally gave our school a St. James Bear Hug!
A ‘Different” Movember at Holy Cross
During the month of November, several of Holy Cross teacher Tania Fay’s grade 2 students asked why they were seeing so many men with moustaches, and what the term Movember meant. Fay thought this would be a great learning opportunity for her students to discuss the importance of community initiatives. As the school often has different fundraisers throughout the year, several for cancer organizations, the class talked about how important it is to makes those in their own community happy by always trying to be supportive however they can. This discussion led to their own Movember initiative. Fay asked students in the grade three class to help the grade two students write stories about how they all suddenly grew moustaches. On Thursday, November 28, the two classes got together and shared their stories with each other – all while touting their own Movember ‘staches. “It was a great teaching opportunity that I couldn’t pass up,” explained Fay. “Our students are so observant of the world around them – and when they began noticing many moustaches sprouting on their dads’ faces, we were able to turn that into a fun discussion, a peer-to peer learning moment and a great way to show them the important of giving back and supporting one’s own community!”
Celebrating Ste. Catherine at St. John
On Monday, November 25th, St. John Catholic Elementary School French Immersion students celebrated the tradition of Ste-Catherine. The students celebrated by making taffy with their families and teachers.
Peacemakers at St. Raphael
Students in the FDK class at St. Raphael Catholic Elementary School are learning what it means to be “peaceful.” Throughout the month of November students participated in a number of activities that promoted friendship, sharing, and teamwork. Their learning culminated during the SCDSB’s Bully Awareness Week, where they had a peace party! Students wore the colour pink, played co-operative games, participated in a Bingo game with some of our Gr.8 students, and had a ‘peace picnic.’ Although their Anti-Bullying Week has come to an end, they hope that their learning about what it means to be peaceful will stick with their students and that they will continue to be peacemakers in their lives.
Peace Rainbow at Holy Cross
Holy Cross Catholic Elementary School students created a Peace Rainbow during Bullying Prevention Week. At Holy Cross School, they focused on the positive and proactive strategies that students can use to prevent and to resolve conflict. For the Peasce Rainbow, students were asked to use their five senses to describe what Peace means to them. Then, each student was asked to indicate, either by drawing or writing, what Peace feels like to them on a coloured dove. Each dove corresponds to a colour of the rainbow and to one of the senses. The Peace Rainbow is displayed in the main foyer so that parents and visitors can easily see what peace means to students at Holy Cross School.