The staff and students of St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School Celebrated Catholic Education with much gusto once again this year. There were activities planned for each day of the week. They celebrated Music Monday outside in the school yard, families came daily for picnics in the park and they went to their home parish of St. Andrew for a Eucharistic celebration. They also had a faith based playday, Jamie Allison a former NHL hockey player came in to share his message of anti bulling, and we all celebrated our heritage in various ways on Friday. Individual classrooms also celebrated with special activities throughout the week.
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Crazy Hat Day at St. Andrew
On Friday, April 11th the staff and students of St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School wore their craziest hats for the day. The school was filled with sombreros, cowboy hats, shark hats and many more. Pictured are Mr. Gautheir our grade six teacher sporting a sun bonnet and Lorelai, Maggie and Robyn with their fun hats.
Celebrating Franco-Fun at St. Andrew
The staff and students of St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School enjoyed an afternoon of fun on March 20 as part of the the board Franco-Fun Day. The day began with singing Oh Canada in french and then a short description of the Franco-Ontario flag. The Core French teacher Mme. Price arranged an afternoon of fun activities including Salut (bingo), Musical chairs, fait moi un design (drawing out a given french word from the word list), mon beau drapeau (design core french flags) escargot (hopscotch) and a short french cartoon. Mme. Price and her Mother-in-law made homemade petes de soeurs as a treat for everyone. This was a great day of community building as the older Core French students helped the younger primary aged students with all the activities. Pictured is Noah and his team as they played escargot.
St. Andrew Receives Thanks
On Friday March 28th representatives from Samaritan’s Purse/Operation Christmas Child visited the staff and students of St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School. The students were given first hand descriptions of “shoe boxes” reaching children in the third world. St. Andrew School has participated in this social justice endeavour for the past two years and intend on participating once again next December. Students and their families gather small gift itemsfor either a boy or girl and place them in a shoe box. PIctured is a proud Mrs. Henry (principal) and the two Samaritan Purse representatives as they give her a thank you plague to place in the school foyer.
Career Presentation at St. Andrew
The junior students at St. Andrew School enjoyed an interactive presentation from Dr. Adam Ball a local chiropractor and owner of the Crossfit Gym in Sudbury on Tuesday March 25th. Students learned that Dr. Ball attended school for 24 years to become a doctor of chiropractics. He chose this field because he saw a need to help people attain good health through nutrition and exercise. Students learned to practice proper posture and how to do squats to improve mobility and strength. Pictured is Dr. Ball and Rachel Uguccioni.
Celebrating a Hundred Days at St. Andrew
Students in the primary wing of St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School had a full day of 100 day activities on February 10th. The students in teacher Shannon. Meyer’s SK/1 class created self portraits of themselves as 100 year olds. Pictured is Mason Walker from SK with his self portrait.
Career Presentations at St. Andrew
St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School welcomed Michelle Tonner to the school as part of a career presentation to grade 4,5, and 6 students. Students learned about what is involved with being a media journalist and the many varied jobs that are available in the area of television and news reporting. The students are looking at careers that they might like to pursue in the future. A few more career presentations are planned in the months to come.
That’s a Wrap at S.C.C. – 112 Thousand Cans to Fill Sudbury Food Bank Shelves
Once again, the food drive at St. Charles College was a smashing success. Together with its feeder schools, 112 thousand cans were raised for the Sudbury Food Bank – smashing the goal of collecting 60 thousand cans in less than a week.
The food drive began more than twenty-five years ago, and its founder, former student Jim Szilva still takes part in the drive with his children at the school.
The school also teams up with Q92 and KISS 105.3 as well as the students at St. Raphael, St. David, St. Bernadette, St. Andrew, St. Paul, St. John and Pius XII Catholic Elementary Schools.
Students collect a combination of canned foods and cash – the cash portion totalled 15 thousand dollars this year.
Stacking Cans from the Ground Up at St. Charles College
St. Charles College students and soon-to-be Cards are on a mission from October 7 to October 11 to collect 60 thousand cans of non-perishable food to feed the hungry in our city. The more than 950 students at the school, along with students at several of its feeder schools are helping tackle the huge feat.
With a professional development day scheduled for Friday, October 11, it’s an even more daunting and onerous task to average 15 000 cans per day for the next four school days with a wrap-up aimed for Thursday, October 10th.
Last year, the students shattered their goal for 60 thousand cans by delivering a whopping 121 thousand cans to the Sudbury Food Bank – making it the largest single donation in the history of the Sudbury Food Bank.
The founder of the food drive at SCC, Jim Szilva told the students that the food drive starts at the ground and works its way up with feeder schools like St. Raphael, St. David, St. Bernadette, St. Andrew, St. Paul, St. John and Pius XII working with students in grades nine through to twelve in the high school to accomplish the mission. Szilva started the drive when he attended St. Charles College more than twenty-five years ago.
The school and Szilva are teamed up with local radio station Q92 and KISS 105.3 to “Stuff the Bus”.
Q92 host Melanie Dahl asked the students to remember the times their belly ached because they felt hungry. “Most of you can ask your parents for food or head to the fridge. But consider for a moment you could not do that.”
General public is invited to assist with the stuffing of the bus by visiting the city transit bus each morning between 7 and 9 a.m. at St. Charles College with monetary or canned food donations. There are some added incentives this year – including the option to fill out a ballot to win a ticket to the Sudbury Kinsmen home.
The bus will also be on location at Vrabs Independent Monday afternoon, Dumas Independent Tuesday afternoon and at the Metro on Lasalle Wednesday afternoon.