This week, more than 250 prospective students and their families flocked to the St. Benedict Catholic School Open House event. The purpose of the event is to educate parents and their children about the benefits of choosing the school in the fall of 2018 for grade 7 or 9. The students had to complete a “pawport” by visiting different parts of the building to complete activities such as making bathbombs in Science, trying their hand at programming in the Learning Commons and making buttons in the art room.

Before they departed, students were invited to take a parting picture with green screen technology. They posed and then chose traditional or really fun backgrounds for their photos.

Students at St. Benedict Catholic School in the south end shipped more than 1500 toys to the Salvation Army by school bus. These toys will be wrapped by the Salvation Army and distributed to families ahead of December 24th.

The toys were collected as part of the TD/Salvation Army Toy Drive.

Students have been participating in this drive for five years and in that time frame, a total of more than seven thousand toys have been contributed.

Chaplain Rob Pappin and Principal Laura Kuzenko feel it is always heartwarming to see the students take on such an initiative and load up the school Christmas tree.

Money was also collected. That money was turned over to the Salvation Army for families requiring food items over the course of the Christmas break.