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SCDSB Staff, Students and School Communities Step Up for Hurricane Katrina Relief

Posted on September 14, 2005August 23, 2018 by admin

A number of SCDSB schools have organized relief efforts for the victims of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Students, staff and entire school communities have drawn on their living faith to make a difference in the lives of others.

St. Joseph School in Killarney has raised $900.00 for the Katrina relief
fund. The school held a spaghetti lunch in order to support the victims of
the hurricane. All members of the community were invited. Fun was had by all!
Thank you to the staff and parents of St. Joseph School, The Killarney Bay
Inn, The Killarney Mountain Lodge and Gateway Marina for their hard work and
commitment to this cause. St. Bonaventure Church will collect the money and
forward all funds to the Red Cross.
St. Charles College will be doing mission collections during the month
of September to help with the Katrina disaster. Early totals have already
hit the $450.00 mark.
St. Francis student council will be organizing a basket raffle in October.
Pius XII School recently hosted ‘Cool to be Kind’ dynamo Errol Lee, and
will donate some of the proceeds to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Bishop Alexander Carter CSS will be collecting a loonie or twonie from
students, and teachers have promised to match the amount.
Immaculate Conception will be holding a loonie collection over 2 weeks
and donating the profits from the next pizza day.
Marymount Academy will donate proceeds from a concert featuring one of
the school’s bands.
St. Theresa has solicited monetary donations from school families.
The Provincial government has stepped up as well. Children whose families
have come to Ontario will immediately be welcomed into the province’s publicly
funded schools at no cost, Minister of Education Gerard Kennedy recently announced.
“We are opening up our school doors to help meet the immediate needs
of these children and their families,” said Kennedy. “By welcoming
these students and ensuring that they can attend school at no cost, Ontario’s
publicly funded schools are doing their small part to help children whose
lives have been completely disrupted just as the school year was beginning.”

E-Learning Introduced to Classrooms by SCDSB

Posted on August 29, 2005August 23, 2018 by admin

Jody Cameron, Project Manager of mysudbury.ca, recently introduced Sudbury Catholic District School Board teachers to an electronic learning management tool. E-Learning using Microsoft Class S provides teachers with learning-management features to help manage curriculum on-line, assess students’ achievements againstt curriculum standards, and generate reports on the results.

“What is unique about Class S is its ability to create assignments that are aligned with the school’s curriculum standards,” stated Cameron. “Teachers can use this new electronic technology to grade assignments and evaluate a student’s work, even if the work is submitted on paper or as an oral presentation. Many types of questions, such as multiple choice or fill in the blank, can be automatically graded (autograded) in Class S,” concluded Cameron.

After the assignment has been graded, teachers can use the reporting feature to get a high-level view of the whole class or specific students within the class. These reports can also help identify individual student needs. Microsoft Class S will be introduced to Marymount Academy and Pius XII Catholic School this fall.

St. Charles College to Host Visitors from Labrador Straits

Posted on June 22, 2005August 23, 2018 by admin

St. Charles College is once again involved in the YMCA Youth Exchange Program. The school’s students have been twinned with a group from the Labrador Straits in Labrador. Students from Labrador will be in Sudbury from June 26 to July 1, 2005 to visit Sudbury and take in some of the great sites our city has to offer.

The students from St. Charles College will be visiting Labrador
from August 22 to August 29, 2005 in return as part of the exchange
program. In addition, students from St. Charles College and Labrador
Straits are invited to a luncheon on June 30, 2005 at Respect is Burning on Durham Street. The luncheon will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and will be hosted by Robert Gregorini, the owner and chef of Respect is Burning. Mr. Gregorini is offering the meal to the students at no charge as a way to give back to the community and to his former highschool as he is a graduate of St. Charles College.
After the luncheon the group will depart for Anderson Farm.

YMCA Youth Exchanges Canada promotes cross-cultural awareness and a
sense of national identity among Canadian youth aged 12 to 18. Travel
costs are funded by the Government of Canada through Exchanges Canada.
YMCA Youth Exchanges Canada sponsors exchanges between two groups of
equal size in different communities. Each group hosts the other.
During their stay in Sudbury, the youth will live with the families of
their twin group. Since 1976, thousands of young people have
experienced the cultural and geographic diversity of Canada through
participation in YMCA Youth Exchanges.

St. Anne Students Run for World Harmony

Posted on May 25, 2005August 23, 2018 by admin

Staff and students at St. Anne Catholic School had the opportunity to participate in the World Harmony Run at their school recently.
The World Harmony Run is a global torch relay that seeks to promote international friendship.

An international team of runners carry a flaming torch, (symbolizing the aspiration of human oneness), through more than 70 countries around the globe. Staff and students were told of the significance of the Run, listened to the World Harmony song, signed a banner, and were able to touch the torch as they each made a silent wish for World Harmony.

The St. Anne Catholic school community formed a gigantic circle in the school yard with Mr. Thomson’s Grade 6 class joining the World Harmony runners for a few laps around the circle, passing the torch among themselves. The World Harmony Run afforded the school a wonderful opportunity to participate in a global event which helped connect grassroots efforts to world harmony. For more information about The World Harmony Run, please visit
http://www.worldharmonyrun.org/canada

St. Paul Students Have Green Thumbs

Posted on May 20, 2005August 23, 2018 by admin

Students, parents, grandparents and staff at St. Paul The Apostle Catholic School celebrated the last of this year’s Earth Day activities recently by planting more than 400 Red Pine seedlings in the school grounds to help re-green the area. The seedlings were donated courtesy of Vermilion Forest Products Management along with two tandem truckloads of black loam from John Van Druenen, (Garson Pipe Contractors Ltd.) to bed the seedlings.

Mr. Toppers Pizza, (owner’s Kelly and Carolyn Toppazzini) kindly provided pizzas to feed all of the volunteers after the planting was complete. Pam Rivet from Dr. Signs provided ice cream treats to all planters and Stella Legault from the Colonial Inn brought juice boxes to quench their thirst after planting.

St. Paul The Apostle Catholic School would like to thank Vermilion Forest Products Management, John Van Druenen of Garson Pipe Contractors Ltd., Mr. Toppers Pizza, Pam Rivet and Stella Legault for their kind donations. Special thanks to the Ministry of Natural Resources staff: Don Mark, District Information Specialist; Amber Hamilton, Ontario Ranger Supervisor and Jesse Levert, Senior Forest Technician for coordinating the event and all students, parents, grandparents and staff for their hard work. Last, but not least, thank-you to Wal-Mart for jump-starting the entire project, and who continue to support the re-greening effort of St. Paul The Apostle Catholic School.

MPP Rick Bartolucci Takes Part in Unique Workshop at Corpus Christi Catholic School

Posted on April 26, 2005August 23, 2018 by admin

Mr. Rick Bartolucci, MPP for the City of Sudbury took time from his busy schedule to participate in “Learning Through the Arts” workshops held at Corpus Christi Catholic School recently. The three-year pilot project involving eight of the schools of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board infuses core curriculum subjects such as language arts, math, and science with art forms.

Eleanor Albanese, the project coordinator for Northern Ontario maintains that the use of art to teach the regular curriculum lends itself to a wide variety of individual learning styles among students. “Some children learn best through movement while others are better if they see or hear the words acted out,” stated Albanese.

“A study by Queen’s University showed students in the Learning Through the Arts program scored 11 percent higher in math compared to other students,” noted Albanese. MPP Rick Bartolucci echoed Albanese’s comments after observing the workshops in the Grade 1 and 4 classes at the school stating that, “Learning Through the Arts is an excellent program because it teaches the total child and enhances the students’ ability to understand complex material. Learning Through the Arts brings out the best in all of us,” concluded Bartolucci.