April 22, 2015 is Earth Day and the students in teacher Christina Bedoya’s Gr.1/2 class at St. Francis Catholic Elementary School have been learning about how we all have an impact on our environment. Students learned and shared ways to help our environment through everyday tasks such as turning off the lights or taking a quick shower instead of a long one. They also learned the power of reducing, re-using and recycling because we truly have “the whole world in our hands”. If we all work together to respect God’s creations and planet Earth, we really can make a difference.
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Raise the Flag – St. Francis School Recognizes Autism Awareness Day on Thursday, April 2, 2015
April is Autism Awareness month and April 2nd was dedicated World Autism Day.
Autism Ontario’s Raise the Flag campaign, through the simple act of raising a flag, unites families, schools, communities, government and professionals in recognizing World Autism Awareness Day, and brings to light to struggles and triumphs of people on the autism spectrum.
Staff and students at St. Francis Catholic Elementary School took part in this event to support World Autism day.
OAPCE Monthly Newsletter
As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting our Sudbury Catholic parents, the SCDSB would like to provide a link to the latest newsletter from The Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education (OAPCE). To read this month’s newsletter, click here: Parent Partner Newsletter – Easter 2015
Finding Momo at St. Francis Catholic Elementary School
The students at St. Francis Catholic Elementary School were very excited to have Momo, the main character of the New York Times best-selling book, ‘Finding Momo’ visit the school. Momo is a black and white border collie who’s owner, Andrew Knapp, has driven across Canada photograhing Momo to create a canine version of the beloved picture book ‘Where’s Waldo’. Students were able to ask the author/owner, Andrew Knapp, questions of how the idea of the book came to be and many questions about Momo. The FDK students were very thrilled to take a picture with Momo. Can you find him?
St. Francis Celebrates Literacy Day
On January 27, the students from St. Francis School celebrated Literacy Day. This year a book swap was organized for students in grades kindergarten to grade six. Students were asked to donate gently used books from their home and trade them in for“new”books. The school cafeteria and gathering room had a large variety of book titles on display for students to choose from.
The book swap provided an excellent opportunity for students to exchange books within their school community, encourage reading, recycle books and select books for free.
St. Francis Flames Melt Away Winter Blues with a Hawaiian Day
On January 9 students at St. Francis school participated in their very own Hawaiian day celebration. Students showed great spirit as they dressed up in Hawaiian shirts, straw hats and hula skirts. The sound of Hawaiian music welcomed students out of the cold weather as they arrived to school. The students were awarded the Hawaiian day as a result of reaching their canned food drive goal last December. St. Francis Flames donated over 3 000 cans for the Edgar Burton Food Drive which will help many families in the Sudbury community.
Sisters helping sisters
Staff at St. Francis elementary school displayed their Christmas spirit by filling more than 15 shoe boxes for a charity organization called Sisters Helping Sisters. This organization helps women across our community by providing many of the essentials needed for daily living. Items will be donated to women’s shelters within Sudbury. Way to go Flames!
Learning to Drum
St. Francis student, Preston Patterson, was very excited to have the opportunity to drum on a traditional Aboriginal drum. Joel Agowissa, the board Aboriginal support worker, finished off the ABC program by bringing in items such as snapping turtle shells, animal skulls, furs, and traditional wooden games, just to name a few. When leaving the school, Preston was able to thank Joel by saying ‘miigwetch’ (thank you) in Ojibwe.
St. Francis Catholic Elementary School Goes Gold!
On September 9th, St. Francis Catholic Elementary school students and staff were unable to attend Tom Davies Square where Mayor Matichuk proclaimed September Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in The City of Greater Sudbury and raised the Northern Ontario Families of Children with Cancer (NOFCC) flag. However, in support of this day, the students and staff wore yellow/gold on this special day and also in honour of Karissa Kruk who is a cancer survivor and a student at the school. This was a great opportunity for students to be aware of childhood cancer and to show school spirit at the same time.