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Sudbury Catholic Elementary Band takes silver, gold at the Northern Ontario Music Festival

Posted on April 6, 2017August 23, 2018 by admin

It’s Festival season, and the Sudbury Catholic Elementary Band did not disappoint! This band is made up of 125 students from 6 schools – St. Charles College, St. Benedict, St. Anne, St. Charles Chelmsford, St. John and St. James – and is directed by Leanne Urso, JoAnne Comisso, Sabrina Clark and Eric Miron.

The students competed at the Northern Ontario Music Festival on Tuesday, March 21st at Sudbury Secondary School and came away with a Silver award. Then, on Tuesday, April 4th, the band competed at the Kiwanis Music Festival at St. Benedict School and improved on their score by winning a Gold award! Congratulations goes out to all the band members for all their hard work.

RAMS have the Christmas Spirit!

Posted on December 12, 2016August 23, 2018 by admin

In record breaking numbers, students and staff at St. Charles Elementary in Chelmsford collected donations of cans and cash for the Friendship House Food Bank in Chelmsford. Last year, the school collected 3204 cans and we set out to beat that number by 1 this year. Thanks to the generosity of the families in the St. Charles school community, we collected 6743 cans this year, which included $1673.98 in cash!!

The students in Mme Bouzane’s grade 5/6 class demonstrated leadership as they counted donations, organized and graphed the results each week. After the collection of cans, students were privileged to go to the food bank and see behind the scenes, and what happens when all those boxes of food leave our front doors. They learned about how the food bank organizes donations for families in our community.

Thank you once again to all the families in our school for making a difference for the families in our community at this time.

Way to go, RAMS!

St. David students learn “What Counts, What Matters, What is Important, When we Solve a Math Problem Completely”

Posted on November 21, 2016August 23, 2018 by admin

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.

Pink Shirt Campaign at St. Charles Elementary

Posted on November 21, 2016August 23, 2018 by admin

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.

Welcome to Kindergarten, future RAMS!

Posted on May 19, 2016August 23, 2018 by admin

The soon to be St. Charles RAMS came together for a night of fun activities at the St. Charles Welcome to Kindergarten celebration! Both parents and children engaged in many different activities, such as exploring the discovery tables, the light table, iPads, living art, puzzles, fine motor challenges, numeracy and literacy stations. Once students completed their ‘passport’, they had a visit with Mr. Soehner, the principal who gave them a bag of goodies from the Learning Partnership.

St. Charles Elementary Students Embraced Their School!

Posted on May 5, 2016August 23, 2018 by admin

Staff, students and parents joined together to give our school a big hug, literally!

The hug was a part of Catholic Education Week, and is experiential programming by Heartspeak. The Embrace Your School initiative is about getting students involved in taking an active role in improving their school, and creating an opportunity to invite members of the school community to join them in creating a caring, safe and accepting school.

To all parents and first time bus riders

Posted on April 11, 2016August 23, 2018 by admin

The Sudbury Student Services Consortium in cooperation with school bus operators invites all Kindergarten and first time bus riders to a School Bus Safety Awareness session to be held in August at College Boreal at 21 Lasalle Boulevard in Sudbury.

For more information and to register visit http://www.businfo.ca/en/safety/ftr/.

St. Charles Elementary Students are Shown the Door!

Posted on March 8, 2016August 23, 2018 by admin

Students at St. Charles Catholic Elementary School in Chelmsford had the opportunity to admire a commemorative door that arrived at their school. This symbolic door contains beautifully laser-etched panels representing every school in the Sudbury Catholic District School Board. The door unites all of our schools with this year’s Catholic Education Week theme “Opening Doors of Mercy”, which aligns with Pope Francis’s declaration that this be a Holy Year.

This stunning piece of woodcraft has students, parents and visitors stopping in their tracks to marvel in it’s beauty. Several students shared what they thought of the door. Emma Carpenter, Grade 6, said “this door shows us that each school is different in their own way”.
Nicole Walker, Grade 8 explained, “I like how the door represents our Catholic school communities and how much we love each other through God by showing each other mercy”.
Andrew O’Brien, Grade 5 shared that “this door reminds us that the door to God is always open”.
Delia Ross-Arseneault, Grade 6, stated “I like how the door shows us all of the Catholic schools around Sudbury that come together to pray to God”.

Students gathered in the gymnasium for a brief introduction and prayer service. The door was then sent to St. Alexander’s Parish for a school mass and shared with the parishioners on the weekend and will return to St. Charles for another week before moving on.

St. Charles Elementary FDK FI Students Have an ‘Amazingly Delicious’ Field Trip at Topper’s Pizza in Chelmsford

Posted on March 8, 2016August 23, 2018 by admin

In Mme Wissell and Mme Huneault’s FDK FI class, St. Charles Catholic Elementary School students have been doing an inquiry about pizza for the last few weeks. They have been writing menus, ordering sizes from small, medium and large and counting slices. At the art centre, students painted pizzas and decorated pizza boxes. In the dramatic play centre, students created their own pizzeria, where they took orders and filled the order by building pizzas using ‘dough’.
To culminate this inquiry, students went on a field trip to Topper’s Pizza in Chelmsford, where they learned how real pizza is made! Students made their own pizzas and were fascinated as they watched the pizzas they created go into the oven on one side and come out ‘amazingly delicious’ on the other side!