On Friday May 2, 2014 Para Olympic Gold Medal Cyclist, Robbi Weldon spoke to St. Charles Catholic Elementary School students. Robbi’s message was that of perseverance and with hard work and determination dreams can come true. We wish Robbi all the best of luck in Rio! Pictured here (left to right), Gage Robson, Kira Gouchie and Robbi Weldon.
Category: St. Charles School
St. Charles Elementary School Volunteers Recognized as Champions for Children
On Wednesday, April 24, a special group of people from St. Charles Catholic Elementary were recognized for their dedication to the school. The 2014 Volunteer awards for the Champions for Children were handed out by Our Children Our Future at an awards celebration and the volunteers for the school’s snack program won the group award for this event.
Vice Principal, Laura Stirrett explained that several days a week, the group of volunteers come in to wash, prepare the snacks, serve them to the students and wash up afterwards. They know that having a nutritious start to the day will help the students succeed. While most students do come to school with some form of snack, their eyes light up when the volunteers arrive with trays of fruit, vegetables and crackers arranged with the loving touch of a mom. Thanks to their unwavering support students are moved from a potential disadvantage to an advantage. “At St. Charles School, we are very lucky to have a core group of volunteers who run our Healthy Snack Program! Running a program like this takes a real dedication to the well-being of our students” says David Soehner, Principal. “We are very fortunate to have this group of ladies volunteer at our school, which is why we nominated them for this award”.
One of the award recipients, Kristine Belanger explained,” It is all about the children, and making sure they are happy and fed. Not everyone is as fortunate to have enough to eat every day so it is wonderful to see how excited the kids get when they get to experience different foods and are happy because they have had something nutritious to eat!”
Twin Day at St. Charles Elementary – Would the Real Mr. Soehner, please stand up?!
The RAM school spirit was alive and thriving at St. Charles Catholic Elementary School once again! Staff and students coordinated outfits to look like a twin or someone they admired. They were seeing double all day as they travelled the halls!
Buddy Luoma, a year one FDK student, wanted to dress like his principal, Mr. David Soehner. They both planned to dress the same. On the morning of Twin Day, Buddy stopped in at the office to show Mr. Soehner how he was dressed up just like the principal. Much to Mr. Soehner’s surprise, several students and staff also dressed up in the black pants, dress shirts and ties!! By lunch time there were 18 Mr. Soehners walking around the school, complete with ID badges and all!
St. Charles Elementary Celebrates St. Patrick’s Day by Wearing Green!
Staff and students alike showed their Irish and school spirit by wearing green on Monday, March 17th for St. Patrick’s Day.
Learning about the pressures of today’s teen society by teens and for teens
The grade twelve leadership class at St. Charles College put on a Wellness Day for the grade nine students last week. The purpose of the Wellness Day was to educate our youngest high school students about the pressures of today’s teenage society.
Students in the leadership class paired up to provide professional development on various topics such as substance abuse, reducing stressors, the pitfalls of technology and social media as well as a host of other informative topics.
The presentations lasted the morning and served to even educate the adults presiding in the room. One presentation by Keira Cronin and Cooper Joly honed in on the issue of technology making teens anti-social and creating other problems like generations of “tech-besity”. This idea of technology causing obesity was raised in an article called “Always On” by Sherry Turkle.
Beverly Belanger, the grade 12 leadership teacher used the presentations as a final way to evaluate the leadership students going into the last days of semester one.
There were all kinds of surprises at the event, which was sponsored by a Speak-Up grant from the Ministry of Education this year.
Learning Bus Safety at St. Charles Elementary
Recently students had a special guest at St. Charles Catholic Elementary School! Buster the Bus came to see the students in FDK to grade 3 to talk about bus safety. Pictured, Ryan Cooney and Buster are practicing how to cross the street safely.
NOFCC Presents Plaque to St. Charles Elementary
On October 29th, Dayna Caruso a representative from the NOFCC visited St. Charles Elementary to award them with a donation plaque for the donations that have been raised from the Johnathan Hetu walk. The plaque shows the nine years of donations that St. Charles has been able to raise for the NOFCC. The walk to date has raised just over $50,000. The walk has flourished over the years with the first year donation being around $1,300 to the last years donation of over $7,400. The walk is in remembrance of former student Johnathan Hetu, who past away from cancer.
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.
St. Charles Elementary Kicks Off Hockey Season
There is no doubt that the students and staff of St. Charles Catholic Elementary School love hockey. What better way to celebrate the beginning of the 2013-2014 NHL season than with a school-wide jersey day. The St. Charles students were encouraged to wear their favourite hockey jersey on October 1 to kick off the NHL hockey season and show their support for their favourite hockey teams!