Students in Mrs. Lotter’s Grade 2/3 class from Immaculate Conception have been participating in the Global Read Aloud. They had the opportunity to connect with Mrs. Herrod’s Grade 2 class from York, Maine during a real-time discussion about the book, called the BFG. Both classes will meet again during the rest of the read-aloud.
Category: Schools
Random act of Kindness wave hits St. Charles College
KICX 91.7 and Greater Sudbury Police Service have partnered to deliver Random Acts of Kindness and today they came to St. Charles College to support the breakfast program.
This morning, Constable Hally Willmott showed up with the KICX morning hosts, Brad and Leann Hulme and Moolah the Cash Cow to make the cash donation to Principal Patty Mardero along with SCC student and breakfast club helper Aryanna Recollet.
The breakfast program runs daily under theh direction of Julie Jessop to feed more than one thousand students in grades 7 through to grade 12.
SCC would like to thank Sudbury Police and KICX for their random act of kindness!
In photo: Brad Hulme, morning KICX host with Moolah the Cash Cow, student Aryanna Recollet, KICX morning host Leann Hulme and Constable Hally Willmott stand outside St. Charles College for the Random Act of Kindness cash presentation.
Go Cougars!
Immaculate Conception students participated in the Catholic Board’s first annual cross country run. Our school may be small but we have students with a BIG passion for running. GO COUGARS!
Cards are ready to crush 60 K cans
This morning, the St. Charles College student council and leadership class students kicked off the annual canned food drive in front of the student body that is 1200 students strong.
Students now have until Tuesday to meet the challenge.
They have had great help from feeder schools including Holy Trinity, St. John, Pius, St. David and St. Paul.
Principal Patty Mardero reminded the students what it must be like to worry about not only tests and assignments but about their next meal or going to bed hungry.
Totals will be announced on Tuesday when all food and money collected will be transported to the Sudbury Food Bank warehouse.
Immaculate Celebrates World Math Day
On October 14th, 2016 students at Immaculate Conception school celebrated World Math Day in true Cougar style. Families joined students to play cards, dice games and engage in engineering challenges to see who could build the tallest free standing towers. Grade 5 Math Ambassadors coached their younger schoolmates and took pictures of the amazing structures. Thank you Mme Larivière and Mrs Duguay for organizing this mathastic event.
Best of boys’ high school volleyball at St. Charles College this weekend
Today marks the start of the Cardinal Classic in the St. Charles College gymnasium.
More than fifteen school teams are registered for the yearly fall tournament.
Junior and senior teams are in action all Friday and Saturday.
Cards Athletic Director Darren Michelutti is overseeing the tournament.
Holy Cross Students Energized by Class Visit from Energy Minister
The grade 5/6 class at Holy Cross had many questions for MPP and Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault when he visited their class on October 11 to talk to them. Keen students emailed Thibeault two weeks ago with questions they had after studying electricity and energy conservation in science class. They were hoping that they would get an email response but were surprised when he offered to answer in person.
The students wanted to know about how we get electricity in Sudbury and Mr. Thibeault showed them an app called Grid Watch that shows energy consumption across the province in real time. He further elaborated that we get our electricity from a variety of sources but largely from the hydro-electric dams here in the north.
He addressed the students concerns about the safety of nuclear energy by explaining the many safety features he had seen in person at the power plants in southern Ontario. Many of the students are Simpsons fans and were relieved to hear that the plants we have do not resemble where Homer Simpson works at all.
There were further questions about what Members of Provincial Parliament do and what the responsibilities of and Energy Minister entail, prompting graded 5 student Woodrow Crowder to ask Thibeault how he manages such a large workload. Thibeault explained that he has many hard-working employees on his staff and that it takes a team to accomplish great things.
Harvest Time at Immaculate Conception School
Students in Mrs. Lotter’s Grade 2/3 Class used vegetables harvested from the school garden to make a hearty vegetable soup to share with friends in Mrs. Hayden’s Grade 1/2 class. Students in both classes also made fresh applesauce after collaborating in apple-themed literacy activities.
Lake Laurentian Excursion
Cloudy skies cleared quickly and the sun appeared for the Grade 1 and 2 students at Holy Cross School so that they could spend a wonderful day at the Lake Laurentian Conservation Area. The children went out hiking, carried out a pond study and played various games outdoors to gain a better understanding of the needs and adaptations of animals in Northern Ontario, and how we can do our part to protect them.