This year at Immaculate Conception School we decided to do something a little different in showing our support towards Anti-Bullying Awareness Week. Today we celebrated our differences by “Putting a Sock on Bullying.” Students and staff arrived to school wearing their most colorful, tallest, wildest socks over their pants. Putting a sock on bullying gave the students and staff an opportunity to express their individuality and show the importance of embracing our uniqueness.
Category: Schools
Anti bullying event returns to St. Charles College
Every year Mrs. B. Belanger’s Leadership class puts on a fall event to tackle the issue of bullying with the grade nine students. This year was no different. The students watched a video and listened to student speakers in the amphitheatre and then proceeded into smaller group discussions with the student leaders.
Mrs. Belanger feels that the activity is worth revisiting every year because “the grade nines have the power to change the culture at St. Charles College for years to come.”
The grade nine students participated in a four corners activity where they had to answer questions about respect and bullying, and more importantly standing up for bullying.
Visit from Sudbury’s Poet Laureate
On Tuesday November 22nd, students in Mme Mehes’s 5/6 French Immersion class took part in a poetry workshop with Sudbury’s Poet Laureate, Kimberly Fahner. Students collaborated and created a class haiku on the topic of panda bears. Thank you Kim for sharing your passion for poetry, and for encouraging students to write their own poetry!
St. David students learn “What Counts, What Matters, What is Important, When we Solve a Math Problem Completely”
The grade 5/6 class at St. David Catholic School learned what counts, what matters, what is important, when we solve a math problem completely. The students were involved in co-developing success criteria for problem solving in a lesson modelled by renewed, interactive educational speaker and author, Sandra Herbst.
The students and Ms. Herbst developed the criteria, while the Board’s principals and vice principals observed the lesson. The lesson included modelling, peer conversation, higher level questioning and the organization and sharing of student ideas to co-construct success criteria. The lesson was an opportunity for not only student learning, but also staff learning. The staff involved attended a pre-lesson professional development session, then attended a de-breifing after the demonstration lesson. Ms. Herbst spent the week working with Sudbury Catholic Schools teachers, principals, vice principals and students from a variety of Sudbury Catholic elementary and secondary schools.
Sandra Herbst visits Holy Cross
The Grade 4/5 class at Holy Cross was honoured and excited to have Sandra Herbst co-construct success criteria with us. What matters when we solve a math problem completely? Now we know!
Pink Shirt Campaign at St. Charles Elementary
St. Charles Elementary students and staff signed their name on pink shirts indicating their promise to the Sudbury Police Chief and their school to stand-up to bullying and support the Pink Shirt Campaign. In the picture from left to right, are grade 3 students, Catherine Villa MacVeigh, Shawn Huzij and Olivia Burke accompanied by Mr. Soehner, principal of St. Charles. This group went to every class and communicated the message about anti-bullying and the importance of standing up.
Attendance Awareness Month poster contest
October was Attendance Awareness Month at Sudbury Catholic Schools and the Attendance Counsellors held a poster contest. In order to engage students from FDK to Grade 12, the poster contest promoted the importance of regular school attendance. It was a huge success with 447 students participating.
Congratulations to this year’s winners!
1st Place – Erika Peever – Marymount Academy
1st place – Chris Hein – Bishop Alexander Carter
2nd place – Jordan Witty – St. Anne
3rd place – Merlin Coulter-Belleveau – St. Francis
All winners received gift cards and the 1st place winners will have their posters used in this years school board attendance campaign to promote regular school attendance.
St. Charles College Elementary Cards fill shoeboxes with love
Looking to answer the Essential Question “How are we church in the world?”, Mrs. Kathy Belanger’s 8A class and Mr. Thomson’s Grade 7/8 Life Skill’s class participated in Operation Christmas Child this year.
Operation Christmas Child is a special Christmas project affiliated with Samaritan’s Purse, a non-denominational Christian organization. With donated proceeds from an in-school Dress Down Day at St. Charles College, students went shopping at Dollarama and then had the opportunity to fill close to 70 shoeboxes with school supplies, hygiene items, toys and other gifts for children, ages 2-14, in less-fortunate countries around the world.
Mr. Thomson says “Every gift-filled shoebox is given unconditionally, regardless of religion, gender, or race, in a way that practically demonstrates the love of Jesus Christ around the globe.”
National Collection Week is Nov.14-20th with shoeboxes from Canada being shipped to places like the Ukraine, Haiti, El Salvador, Senegal and New Guinea.
‘To whom much has been given, much is expected in return’…Luke 12:48
‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me’…Matthew 25:40
Students try their hand at cooking
The grade 8 students at St. Benedict try their hand at cooking under the watchful eye of Mr. Sipos, Science and Foods Teacher. All the grade 8 students are shown how to work safely in the kitchen and prepare a delicious and authentic Mexican Quesadilla. Mr. Sipos was assisted in the kitchen with some of his Foods class students, who helped the Grade 8 students in preparing their dishes. One more delicious reason to try our Foods Class!