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.

The grade seven and eight students at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School have been putting the final touches on Noah’s Christmas cards today.

Noah is a four year-old boy from Minnow Lake who has been battling cancer since he was six months old.

There is no cure and no other option for Noah so the students are writing cards with positive messages and his favourite characters (Paw Patrol and The Grinch) to keep him smiling just a bit.
Duncan Smith, in grade eight says he suspects that Noah wants the cards because “everyone loves receiving mail and to know that others care”.
Mrs. Belle will be delivering the cards to the new Hot 93.5 tonight so the radio station personalities can deliver them to Noah tomorrow.

St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School school raised $3500 during their Cystic Fibrosis Walk this week! The students traded in their pencils for running shoes as they walked their way along the track. In turn, their teachers got a taste of something sweet when their students shave their beards and completed a pie throw with all proceeds going toward CF.

Way to go Bears!

St. Benedict students completed artwork based on the one of the sub-themes of Catholic Education Week. Each group brainstormed what that theme meant and how it could be applied to our lives in the year 2017. We then gave each group a large piece of mural paper and had them visually represent their understanding of their theme. There was very little teacher input, and the Grade 8 students as what their theme meant to them and their lives.