Sudbury Catholic District School Board

Getting cultured with IMAX in their language of study

All grades 7 to 12 French Immersion students at St. Benedict Catholic School were using their French speaking and listening skills in the Imax Theatre at Science North this week.

The students were there to watch Météo Extreme 3D. The 2016 National Geographic film explores the collapse of glaciers, massive wildfires and deadly tornadoes.

This event is part of a Heritage Fund grant from the federal government this year to support French culture and heritage.

French Immersion teacher, Lisa Adler says “Thanks to the funding, the event gave the students a wonderful opportunity to embrace their bilingualism and celebrate French culture. It was enriching and encouraged them to learn French in a new context.”

Other events planned include a French café in the new Learning Commons at the school.

Marymount Academy Shines at 49th Sudbury Regional Science Fair

Many students at Marymount Academy were successful at this past weekend’s regional science fair!

The following students were listed as winners for their creative and innovative projects:

– Junior Division – Engineering: Sofya Mishchenko and Katherine Brown

– Junior Division – Physical Sciences: Molly McKeever

– College Boréal Award – Paul Jeanna Sarazin

– Harquail School of Earth Sciences Award: Molly McKeever

-Laurentian University Forensic Sciences Award: Amanda Symington and Catherine Caverson

– Ontario Power Generation Energy Award: Sofya Mishchenko and Katherine Brown

Sofya Mishchenko and Katherine Brown were also listed as Grand Prize winners and will be moving on to the National competition! Congratulations to all finalists!

Sudbury Catholic Schools Elementary Instrumental Band receives Gold at Kiwanis Music Festival!

On March 27th, the band performed at the Kiwanis Music Festival and received a Gold standard! The band has grown over the years, and includes 5 schools (St. Benedict, St. Charles College, St. Anne, St. John and St. James) and over 100 band members!

The band also competed at the Northern Ontario Music Festival on March 1 where they received a Silver standard. Congratulations to all band members!

Cooking up a storm during a snow storm St. Benedict student is heading to Skills Ontario qualifier this weekend

Fifteen year-old Aivan Apan is used to cooking for his family but he’s about to take his passion for experimenting in the kitchen to a whole new level.

Apan is heading to the northern qualifier of the Skills Ontario competition this coming weekend in North Bay at Canadore College.

The menu is pre-set and is comprised of minestrone soup to start, followed by a pan seared beef top sirloin cap steak, milk boiled garlic mashed potatoes and a combination of roasted root vegetables such as parsnip and bell peppers. It would not be complete without something sweet – a lemon tart meringue.

Apan took Foods class last year and enjoys watching cooking shows so the competition seemed like the perfect fit. He says he sacrificed part of his March break to cook and even came in this week on a snow day when buses were cancelled to practice one last time.

He says his parents are cheering him on and excited to see where he ends up in the competition.

Apan’s mentor and Foods teacher Mike Sipos says “cooking is straight forward but you have got to nail it in competition. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Know your movements.”

He says the same student can be entered two years in a row and seeing as this is his first time at the competition, he feels this is an opportunity to watch, listen and learn.

Students are scored on sanitation, presentation, taste, menu components, prep work and organization. The top 3 winners will move onto Skills Ontario in Toronto.

There are two more students from St. Benedict who are also attending the Skills competition in the area of carpentry under the direction of Mr. John Doyon.

St Francis Flames Raise the Flag for Autism Awareness!

Many of our schools brought awareness to autism by wearing blue. Staff and students at St. Francis also took part in a special assembly to mark this important day! The group watched videos, sang songs and raised the flag to stand up for each other.

We are all part of the puzzle! Thanks for the reminder Flames!

St. Charles School hosts successful families math night!

On Thursday, March 22 2018 St. Charles Elementary hosted a Math Night for their FDK and Grade 1 families. Parents and students visited five different stations where they engaged in activities focused on supporting the development of number sense and spatial reasoning skills. Each activity promoted the use of a model or manipulative to help visualize and represent thinking. To continue the learning at home, students left with an activity bag from every station, thanks to funding provided through the Ministry’s Parent Reaching Out Grant. A great time was had by all who attended!

STEM at St. Benedict: Making Molecules out of Jube Jubes

Chemistry (elements, compounds, and atoms) can often be a tricky concept but not when you have jube jubes to help you along. Students in grade 9 Science at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School have been using the sweet stuff to demonstrate chemical bonding.

Grade 9 Science teachers Ms. Loretta Cuda and Ms. Tessa Jewell feel that the learning has become more solidified and that bringing manipulatives into the science classroom reinforces and allows students the opportunity to visualize and understand concepts.

The two teachers have started a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) club at the school. So far this year, the STEM students have looked at environmental projects in the Sudbury area as well as competed in the PEO bridge building competition held at Dynamic Earth.

Upcoming events include the Living Wall competition presented by Clean Air Sudbury, Science North, and supported by Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations. In addition, students will be building and testing catapults, roller-coaster, lunar landers, and Tomatosphere in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency, HeinzSeeds, Let’s Talk Science, and the University of Guelph, just to name a few.

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