At St. Raphael Catholic Elementary School, Mrs. Lucciantonio’s Gr. 2/3 class and Miss Filice’s Gr. 3/4 class have been involved with the International Friendship Project in Ecuador. They are working with Jan and David Buley who are two professors from the School of Education at Laurentian University. The students have become penpals with the students in Ecuador so that they can share the wonderful things about our community and knowledge of Canada, and learn a great deal about the community and customs of Ecuador. They have also been collecting Crayola Art Supplies to send to them as this spring Jan and David will be going to Ecuador and will be bringing 10 Laurentian Education students with them to provide an arts camp for 250 students. Both of the St. Raphael teachers feel this is an excellent opportunity for their students to learn about different cultures as well as the importance of building compassionate relationships.
Category: Community
Pius XII School Community Celebrates Mass
All of the students and staff of Pius XII came together as a school community on March 8, 2010 to celebrate mass with Father Remi at Holy Redeemer parish. The school took advantage of the beautiful sunshine and walked over to the church to enjoy mass each other. It was a great way to start the week as well as an excellent opportunity for the school to re-energize their faith before beginning their March Break.
St. Anne’s Parent Going Above and Beyond to Support School Community
At all of the schools at the Sudbury Catholic District School Board, one can find many parents who go that extra mile to ensure that the students and staff have all that they need for great, fun, safe school days. One such parent that fits this bill is Todd Connors. Connors is a parent of a grade 8 student at St. Anne Catholic Elementary School in Hanmer and is the Regional Operations Manager of Perkins Restaurants. Todd is continuously supporting St. Anne not only with different supplies, but also by finding time to fit volunteering at the school in his busy schedule. As Regional Operations Manger of Perkins, he often donates many different food supplies to the school including pancake mix, muffin mix, crackers, soups, juice etc and in large enough quantities to feed the entire school! As well, he has donated season tickets to the Sudbury Wolves games for the school to enhance their student recognition programs such as “I caught you doing something good”. Laura Stirrett, Vice Principal of the school feels that Connors is an excellent example of positive parent involvement as well as a great example of how community can work together with schools building strong partnerships. “Mr. Connors is an important part of our school.” said Stirrett. “With his generous donations, he has helped eased some of the fund-raising burdens on students especially during these difficult financial times. We are very grateful for all that Mr. Connors has done and does for our school!” Cheryl Macrury, the JK/SK teacher at the school had her students write a letter to Mr. Connors on behalf of the school to express their gratitude for all that he has done for them. St. Anne’s would like to thank Mr. Connors and Perkins Restaurant for really making a difference in their school community.
The letter includes these lines from the JK/SK students:
Dear Mr. Connors,
Thank you for the pancake mix and syrup
for our pancake breakfast. They were EXCELLENT!!
They tasted YUMMY!!! You always give us awesome
treats for our special celebrations. We wan to thank
you for everything you do for our class and for our school.
We love it and we love YOU!
Love,
JK-SK
Sudbury Catholic Students “Sizzle” at the Board-Wide Science Fair
On Tuesday, March 9, 2010 SCDSB students who made it to the board level Science Fair gathered in the St. Francis gym to display their science fair projects. Representing their schools, the Intermediate students waited for judging to commence with the hopes of being selected to move on to the Regional Science Fair on April 10 at Laurentian University. Fifty-six English and French Immersion projects made it to this level and between 20 and 25 of them will be selected to represent their schools at the Regional level. Judges included community partners as well as some SCDSB high school science teachers. Congratulations goes out to all of the day’s participants!
Gold Touches Home
Olympic fans Summer Smith (St. Francis School, Grade 6) and Brady Howard (Corpus Christi School Grade 1) were overjoyed to meet Tessa Bohomme and Rebecca Johnstone at the New Sudbury Shopping Centre on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Not only did they have the opportunity to see the gold medals and get autographs but the two students had the pleasure of discussing their Olympic school based projects with the Gold winners!
Gold Touches Home!
Olympic fans Summer Smith (St. Francis School, Grade 6) and Brady Howard (Corpus Christi School Grade 1) were overjoyed to meet Tessa Bonhomme and Rebecca Johnstone on
Sunday, March 7, 2010 at the New Sudbury Shopping Centre. Not only did they have the opportunity to see the gold medals and get autographs but the two students had the pleasure of discussing their Olympic school based projects with the Gold winners!
St. Raphael Catholic Elementary School Keeping Busy before March Break
On Tuesday, March 2, 2010, some of the St. Raphael Catholic Elementary School students participated in the school’s Science Fair and Heritage Fair.
Winners are as follows:
Heritage Fair
Eve Lindroos, Mikayla Lekun, Christopher Reynolds, Connor Crossman _ Gr. 4/5 and 5
Alex Moore, Ben Guido, Kieran Turcotte, Robert Ranger – Gr. 8
Science Fair – Gr. 7
Ava Danyluk, Stephanie martin, Kasandra Lauzon, Jeffrey Daggett & Kyle Byron, Owen Krystia & Brett Miller, Sarah Mulvenna & Emily Hreljac, Harry Smith & Brad Mackenzie
All students did a wonderful job with their presentations. Congratulations to participants!
As well, on March 3 the Sudbury Wolves visited the Grade 4 students as part of their sponsorship provided by Royal Tire. The students were very excited with their presentation and the opportunity to meet, hear stories from, and get autographs from Sudbury Wolves team members. Thanks to Royal Tire, our sponsors, who provided the school with this wonderful opportunity!
Dr. Jeffrey Wood, Guest Speaker at MISA NEOEN Carousel Event
Dr. Jeffrey Wood was a keynote speaker at a recent MISA-research carousel organized by Jean McHarg, Superintendent of Education for the Sudbury Catholic District School Board on behalf of the eight school boards and one school authority.
Dr. Wood emphasized the importance of the collaboration of all stakeholders to share the research being done in our region by the eight school boards and one school authourity and the two universities. Future plans would include having doctoral and masters students conduct research in the school boards on major initiatives presently being implemented.
St. Mary Students Put their Bridges to the Test
Four students from St. Mary Catholic Elementary School visited Tom Davies Square on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 to enter their bridges in the fourteenth annual Bridge Building Competition. Cody Brown (Grade 6 ) and Davey Meeks (Grade 5) and Cassidy Fortin (Grade 6) and Carli Meeks (Grade 6) entered the competition as partners to put their bridges to the test. The students had to build their bridges with certain specifications including using the provided bridge building kit that only has in it six balsa wood strips and one bottle of Elmers School glue. As well, the bridges had to be a certain size to be able to be submitted for the competition. All of the bridges are then subjected to the “Bridge Crusher” which is a machine that tests their maximum load carried before breaking into pieces before the students eyes. Representatives from the Sudbury Chapter of the Professional Engineers of Ontario were on hand to make sure that the all of the submissions were built following the specific guidelines. The winner is determined by the bridge which is able to carry the largest load to weight ratio before it is demolished. Last year’s winner was from St. Mary’s Catholic Elementary School. The students were thrilled that the Board’s Co-op Coordinator, Michel Grandmont provided them with t-shirts, and that David Bateman from Capreol Graphics printed the graphics for them. As well, each and every student who participated in the competition at Tom Davies Square received a prize ( ie. Chapters gift certificates, t-shirts, caps, badminton racquets, slinkys, key chains, etc. St. Mary’s would like to thank Dave and Tammy Meeks who were the parent volunteers who took the time to accompany the students to the competition and cheer them on!