The students from two science classes at St. Charles College will get up close and personal with great Canadian scientist David Suzuki early next month.
Approximately sixty students at the school will take part in a virtual discussion with Suzuki November 2nd.
School science teacher Lloyd Rebeiro completed the application to participate.
Only 200 schools across Canada were selected for the virtual classroom discussions that are being hosted by the National Film Board of Canada and the David Suzuki Foundation.
Rebeiro says, “This is an opportunity of a lifetime for the students. They all know who David Suzuki is because he is the greatest science and environmental guru in our country.”
To prepare for the virtual classroom event, students must watch and study “Forces of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie.”
The student discussion with Suzuki will focus on Suzuki’s core message which is “humans have exhausted the limits of the biosphere and it is imperative that we rethink our relationship with the natural world.”
Some students may be chosen to the contribute to the discussion by asking their very own questions.
The event will take place at 1:30 p.m. on November 2nd in the school’s ampitheatre.
Category: Schools
All on Board at St. Paul
Teachers at St. Paul the Apostle School have included the use of technology into the new school year School Improvement Plan. Pictured are Ms. Dahlvik gr. 2/3 FI, Ms. Connelly board assistive technology teacher, Ms. Streitenberger gr. 2/3 regular, Mrs. Lavalee resource teacher and Mrs. Wilson gr3/4 teacher as they work together to create a plan for this new school year.
St. Anne E.L.K.P. Students Work On Getting “Stuffed” For Fall Celebrations
The month of October can be an exciting one for little people. The English and French Early Learning Kindergarten Students at St. Anne School in Hanmer are no exception. Along with their regular classroom activities during the month of October, they celebrated Thanksgiving and will also be celebrating Hallowe’en. Finding a mascot to help tie the two celebrations together wasn’t very hard. Who better than the scarecrow? The farm fields are full of scarecrows in the fall as the farmers prepare to gather in their crops and those same scarecrows watch over the most important Hallowe’en crop of all. Pumpkins!
With the help and guidance of their teachers, the youngest students at the Sudbury Catholic School in Hanmer took advantage of the nice weather and headed outside to build their own fall scarecrows. Armed with a wooden base for the body, a bale of hay, and all the usual clothing one would expect to find on a scarecrow, the students took turns not only talking about the order and appearance of their individual classroom scarecrows, but also took turns grabbing handfuls of the hay and stuffing their scarecrow bodies. In the end, three different classrooms had created three different looking scarecrows. The scarecrows will sit in the flower beds in front of St. Anne School for the entire month of October watching over the school’s own gardens and helping to put students and staff from all grades into a season of celebrating. Never let it be said that the English and French E.L.K.P. students at St. Anne School aren’t “stuffed” with ideas about having fun!
National Fire Prevention Week at St. Charles Elementary
Students at St. Charles Elementary had in a ‘surprise’ fire drill on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 as part of the school’s participation in National Fire Prevention Week. District Fire Chief, Pat O’Link was very impressed and stated ‘the children did a excellent job on evacuating the building quickly and quietly’. A couple of Grade one students, Emma Huzij and Ryan Leclair, had a surprise of their own when they were given an opportunity to sit in the fire truck, turn the sirens on and wear a fire fighters hat.
Supporting the Terry Fox Foundation at St. Paul
On September 28th, dressed in the school colours of red and white and many sporting Terry Fox hats or banners, the staff and students of St. Paul the Apostle School walked skipped or jumped in support of the Terry Fox Foundation. The students and staff raised $1218 for this very worthy cause. Pictured are Cassidy McLardie and Sydney Timony wearing their Terry Fox hats and holding a Terry Fox book.
Pius Students Learn About Fire Prevention
In preparation for fire prevention week, early learning kindergarten students and staff at Pius XII school welcomed firefighters from the Minnow Lake fire station. Students learned about fire safety, firefighters’ protective equipment and explored the cabin of the firetruck. They practiced techniques such as “stop, drop and roll” and learned about the importance of fire detectors and evacuation plans. ELK students enjoyed sitting in the driver’s seat of the firetruck and many were overheard telling friends “when I’m older I’m going to be a firefighter too!”
St. James Students Complete a Marathon for Terry Fox
Canadian icon Terry Fox continues to inspire the students at St. James Catholic School. Every student at St. James participated in the annual “Toonies for Terry” Walk and over $500 in donations were forwarded to the Terry Fox Foundation. Mrs. Denomme’s Grade 8 students added a mathematical dimension to their walk. After watching a video about Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope, Grade 8 class came up with the idea of running a combined distance of 26 miles. In the video, Terry Fox’s brother explains how Terry ran 12 miles every morning and 14 miles every afternoon (a marathon each day). The grade 8 students calculated the number of laps in the school yard that would be equivalent to a mile (208 laps). The Grade 8 class invited the intermediate students to be part of their marathon. In order to track the length of the marathon each intermediate student was given a handful of linking cubes. Every time a student ran past the bucket, he/she dropped in a cube. Collectively the intermediate students matched a day of running in Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope.
St. Anne Students Celebrate Thanksgiving from Harvest to Feast
If you sit down with the students in the English Early Learning Kindergarten Program at St. Anne School and ask them why they feel like the very first settlers at Thanksgiving, they can tell you why. They feel they’ve lived it! In part, they actually have!
Through inquiry, these youngest students within the Catholic Board tried to discover all that they could about the season of fall. Fall is a time of rest for Mother Nature and a time of harvest for people and many of the animals. The students took a trip to a local garden where they actually had a chance to see what happens to plants when they are ripe. Even though some of the students were familiar with gardens, many were not. Who knew that cheese didn’t come from the garden or that so many potatoes could come from one plant?
After “harvesting” carrots, potatoes, pumpkins, and celery, the students returned to school where they began talking about the celebration of Thanksgiving. It was no surprise that they started making connections between the first Settlers and Aboriginal Peoples celebrating their harvest with the traditional holiday they were getting ready to celebrate with their families. The students decided to relive the first Thanksgiving. They wrote and sent home their own invitations, peeled and cooked their garden vegetables, dressed in a type of Thanksgiving costume, and sat down with their parents, grandparents, relatives, and friends to enjoy their own Thanksgiving. All week one English E.L.K.P student, Mae Lin Zoldy, spoke of “being so excited for the class celebration”. She and her classmates weren’t disappointed! With good food such as carrots, potatoes, and turkey on the menu and the great company of their families, these children got a realistic experience of Thanksgiving. Can these St. Anne School English students understand the meaning of Thanksgiving? You bet they can! From harvest to feast, this Thanksgiving was a connection they will never forget!
St. Bernadette Rises to the Canned Food Drive Challenge
In support of the annual St. Charles College canned food drive, St. Bernadette students got a head start with their own canned food collection. In two weeks time, the New Sudbury elementary school collected a total of 1700 cans to add to the St. Charles College collection in support of the Sudbury Food Bank. Diana Salvador, St. Bernadette principal was thrilled with the student support for this initiative. “Our students really answered the call when the challenge was put forth by our St. Charles College family.” Salvador stated. “I am quite proud of their efforts, and congratulate them for once again helping to support such a great cause!”