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St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School to Hold Book Fair March 25

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St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School in conjunction with Chapters Book Store will holding a Book Fair-fundraiser to promote the “love of reading” on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The event will take place in the St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School Library.

St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School students, parents and staff encourage you and your child to visit the Book Fair as it will connect students to the newest and best books that they are interested in reading.

Chapters will be bringing a wide selection of books, but suggestions and individual orders may be placed at stben_fundraiser@yahoo.ca

For more information, please contact Libby Marinili, Teacher-Librarian at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School, ph. 523-9235.

Congratulations to Science Fair Winners

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The Sudbury Catholic District School Board would like to congratulate the following students and schools on their excellent achievements at recent Board-Wide Science Fair. After the judges had completed their task, twenty-one of the more than one hundred Science Fair projects were selected to advance to the Regional Science Fair at Laurentian University on April 4 and 5, 2009.

Best of luck to all students in the upcoming Regional Science Fair.

Sudbury Catholic Schools, Science Fair Winners, March 6, 2009School:

Marymount Academy
Ashley Etmanski – Peripheral Vision
Emily Paquin – Audio Recall vs Video Recall
Alenna Predon – Les moutons ne portent pas le Spandex
Vanessa Wareham – Taking the “Fill” Out of Landfill

St. Francis
Elisa Bacik – Mould Growth on Different Breads
Matthew Bertuzzi – Cola Tooth Decay
Sabrina Cerilli – Flower Power
Katherine Kettle – Les déglaçant de route
Rachael Kim, Morgan Bourget – Musical Plants
Logan Lalonde – Does Gender Affect the Way You See Optical Illusions
Lisa Romanyszyn – Which Products Harm Our Environment
Owen Sarmatiuk – Braking Wind Can Be a Good Thing
Jeremy Walker – Chocolate Lab

St. James
Ronnie Andrews, Tanner Beaudoin – Motor Skills” Right Brain vs Left Brain
Thalia Pisaric – Can You Tell We’re Related by Our Fingerprints
Matthew Rennie – Salt and the Environment

St. Paul the Apostle
Marcie Szilva – Blow It Up:CO2

Pius XII
Alessia Pastre, Emily Rabski – Dare to Compare

St. Raphael
Bradley Ferguson – Spool Racer
Shaun Giro-Gooden – Concentration
Dawson Maki-Seeley – Battery vs Solar Car

Safety Alert

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The Sudbury Catholic District School Board has been informed by the Greater Sudbury Police Service that there have been a number of complaints issued by parents and students regarding suspicious vehicles and persons approaching children in the Greater Sudbury Community.

The Greater Sudbury Police Force is taking these complaints very seriously and is investigating the incidents. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board would like to remind all parents, students and staff to report all suspicious activities to school administration who in turn will inform the police.

Please see the Greater Sudbury Police Service press release for more information.

Talent Beats Experience

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This year’s Marymount Junior Regals Volleyball team began the season with little experience, a ton of talent and team spirit that was unrivalled. The team competed in numerous tournaments making it to the championship finals in four of six tournaments and capturing two Championships; the Champlain Tournament and the Cardinal Classic.

The Marymount Regals completed the regular season with an impressive 8-1 record to finish first in a very competitive field of ten teams. In addition, they defeated their toughest opponent, the Lasalle Lancers, in a close and exciting semi-final match to earn a spot in the City Championship. The Junior Regals represented Marymount Academy in a city volleyball championship for the 5th consecutive year.

The Lo-Ellen Knights would match up againstt the Regals in the final and were determined to beat the favoured Marymount Academy team. The Regals came out in the first set and showed the Knights they would have to play their best ball to bring down the young Regal squad as they were defeated 25 – 8. The Regal magic would continue as they dominated the match defeating Lo-Ellen in 3 straight sets to capture the coveted Division 1 Junior City Volleyball Championship.

Congratulations to the Junior Regals!

St. Mary Catholic School Celebrates Aboriginal Literacy Day

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St. Mary Catholic School recognizes the importance of cultural connections with respect to students and the promotion of literacy. With that in mind the school hosted a unique “Aboriginal Literacy Day” linking Aboriginal cultural activities to relevant literacy programming.

Special guests invited to the school to share in the excitement of Aboriginal Literacy Day included Sudbury Catholic Schools Trustees, Barry MacDonald and Estelle Scappatura, Chief Ted Roque from the Wahnapitae First Nation, Connie Ubriaco – Sudbury Catholic Schools Technology Integration Mentor Support Teacher, Will Morin, Aboriginal Storyteller, and Verna Hardwick, Sudbury Catholic Schools, Native Studies Teacher.

St. Mary Catholic School would like to thank everyone who helped plan and participate in this special event. Special thanks to Dawn Wemigwans, Sudbury Catholic Schools, Aboriginal Lead, and to Mrs. Tammie Meeks – from Bannock to Dream Catchers.

Miigwech!

Local Author Visits St. Benedict Catholic School

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Local doctor and author, Dr. Sean Costello visited St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School to speak to the students regarding the creative writing process and his new novel Here After.

Sean Costello is a master of the poignancy of everyday living. “Here After,” (his sixth novel) Dr. Costello tackles a difficult subject with wit and humanity-and a couple of really good scares. It’s a father and son story that will touch your heart.” (author Susie Moloney)

While researching this novel, Sean learned of organizations like Child Find and the role they play in the process of returning missing children to their families. In honour of that role, he has decided to donate all personal proceeds from the novel to Child Find.

Dr. Costello addressed the Grade 11 and 12 students at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School and encouraged them to read and write as much as possible if their long term career goal is to be an author. “The more you write, the easier it gets,” Costello told the students.

Dr. Costello is also an anesthesiologist and writes novels on a part time basis as more of a hobby. Costello also urged the young aspiring writers to take in writing conventions as much as possible to meet the agents and publishing companies.

Dr. Costello’s other works include Eden’s Eyes, The Cartoonist, Captain Quad and Finders Keepers.

School Bus Transportation, Games Cancelled

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Please note that due to weather conditions and in the interest of safety, all school related transportation services for English catholic and English public schools as well as the French catholic and French public schools, operating in the Manitoulin, Espanola, Massey and Sudbury District are cancelled today. All schools will remain open, however, NO transportation will be provided. Parents who transport their children to school are reminded that they must pick them up at the end of the day.

In addition, game two of the senior boys hockey semi final between St Charles and Notre-Dame that was scheduled for 7pm at Carmichael tonight will be postponed and played Saturday, 6:30pm @ Carmichael. Game three in this series, if necessary, will take place Monday, March 9th, 3pm @ Carmichael. NOSSA events scheduled for today may proceed, although some schedule adjustments may be required to accommodate late arrivals. Contact the appropriate NOSSA convener for details.

Marymount Academy Raises Funds for Heart and Stroke Foundation

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Marymount Academy kicked off the start to its annual fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Campaign last Friday along with representatives from the Marymount Catholic Charities Council and the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

To mark the day and as part of the fundraising activities Marymount hosted a school skating/sliding day at Queen’s Athletic Field. Students who participated in these activities were asked to make a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The school has already received donations from local Sudbury businesses who helped sponsor the event. These proceeds will also go to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Special guests such as the Chief of Police, Ian Davidson, City of Greater Sudbury Mayor, John Rodriguez, staff from the City of Greater Sudbury Fire Department, Celina McKinnon – a young girl who has been affected by heart disease and her father Derrick also celebrated the kickoff fundrasiser with the Marymount students.

Although donations are still being accepted until the end of the week, total dollars raised to date tally an impressive $2,000.

Marymount Academy would like to thank the following businesses for their support by donating to the Heart and Stroke Campaign.

ButterCup Cafe
Just Lubes (main office on the Kingsway)
Dalron Construction
LaRo Construction
Grand and Toy
Peddler’s Pub

Sudbury Catholic Board Places Schools in East Planning Area Under Review

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In accordance with its Pupil/School Accommodation Review Regulation BR 10, the Sudbury Catholic District School Board is in the process of conducting an Accommodation Review for its family of schools situated in the East Planning Area. Sudbury Catholic Schools Director of Education, Catherine McCullough will recommend an action plan to Trustees at a special Board Meeting in May 2010.

The Sudbury Catholic District School Board is committed to providing a full range of educational opportunities equitably distributed across a broad and diverse geographical area. Due to ever-changing factors such as mobile population, changes in funding, new legislation, changing in educational objectives, community aspirations and physical limitations of buildings, the Board is obligated to monitoring and evaluating all schools on a regular basis.

Given the present state of its priorities, the Board will be focussing its attention on the East Planning Area for the purpose of this Accommodation Review which will include the following schools;

Elementary:
Pius XII Catholic School
St. Andrew Catholic School
St. Bernadette Catholic School
St. John Catholic School
St. Mark Catholic School
St. Paul the Apostle Catholic School
St. Raphael Catholic School

Secondary:
St. Charles College
St. Albert Adult Learning Centre

The School Accommodation Review may result in such changes as boundary adjustments, major additions, renovations and alterations to school buildings, blending or twinning arrangements for school organization and/or programs or school consolidations

The Board is in the process of informing parents, staff, school councils, and school communities of the logistics and time lines regarding its Accommodation Review. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board has hired the firm of Waston and Associates Economists Ltd. (one of Canada’s leading economic firms) to prepare population, household, employment and student enrolment forecasts in the City of Greater Sudbury and more specifically in the planning area of the schools under review. This information will greatly assist the Sudbury Catholic District School Board in assessing opportunities for long term growth and development and help guide the Board in the implementation of accommodation strategies that will serve to enhance student learning.

Accommodation Review Committees (ARC’s) will be created to provide the Sudbury Catholic District School Board with information re School Valuation Framework and applying this framework to the schools under review, giving consideration to the value of the students, community, school board and the local economy.

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