St. Andrew School’s grade 1/2 and JK/SK classes welcomed Mr. Brady, Joe and Jack Gouchie’s grandfather, on Tuesday June 12th. He showed them all the exciting things that a prospector uses and does in this field of interest. Mr. Brady brought in several rock samples and let the children use a black light device to find the hidden minerals in these samples. The children were all very engaged and we thank our grandparent visitor for sharing his love of prospecting.
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Family Time in St. James JK class
Sara Allen, a Junior Kindergarten student in the French Immersion program at St. James, enjoys having mom and dad at school. Together the JK class and their family members participated in a sing-a-long and created crafts together. This event reflects the importance of the home-school relationships that are nurtured at St. James.
St. Anne Angels “Read Their Way To The Top”
For the past two years, junior students at St. Anne School in Hanmer have been participating in an event called “The Battle of the Books”. The competition is open to students from the different Sudbury Boards. The event helps encourage a love of reading by its participants. This year, the St. Anne Angels, under the direction of Sudbury Catholic Board teacher Denise Desmarais, took second place at “The Battle of the Books” competition that was held Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at the Radisson Hotel in Sudbury. The competition, which is an annual event organized by the Sudbury Public Library, requires students in grades four, five and six to read up to 30 books and then respond to questions about them. Throughout the school year, students read, meet, and discuss the selections that have been outlined to all students entered within the competition. This year, 15 schools from the Sudbury District entered the battle. The student team from St. Anne placed second in the event and were able to take home silver medals. Coach Denise Desmarais praised her team for their great effort and recognized that the final results between first and second place were very close. The staff and students at St. Anne are very proud of their “Battle of the Books” team and all of their hard work. Your enjoyment of reading has really opened up a world full of exciting stories and has sparked your interests for years to come. Way to go Angels!
Springtime in Kindergarten at St. James
The Senior Kindergarten class at St. James Catholic School invited their family members to help assemble crafts that represent the wonderful season of spring. Photographed is Kindergarten student Hannah Swearengen with her grandmother designing butterflies in celebration of the season of rebirth, renewal and regrowth.
St. Ben’s Pulls Out All the Stops!
Members of the St. Benedict Championship Boys Football team recently participated in the 1st annual Crime Stoppers Fire Truck pull. Our Bears sure made quite the impact in the event!
Team members consisted of from left to right.
Emilio Frometa
Alex Vendramin
Alex Insinna
Assistant Head Coach – John MacLean
Troy Kingsbury
Carter Long
Head Coach – Frank Rocca
Spencer Dailey
Erick Lessard
Tim Coffey
missing from picture – Brandon Sullivan
The Bears were in 3rd place after the 1st heat, but in the second heat, the team posted the fastest time of the event.
The Bears captured the award for most team spirit, but ended up finishing 2nd, only losing the 1st place trophy by two tenths of a second.
St. Benedict’s Principal, Laura Kuzenko, and Benny the St. Benedict Bear, present a cheque at the event for $500 to members of the Sudbury Rainbow Crime Stoppers’ team – Brook Johnston, Office and Event Coordinator and Bert Lapalme, Police Coordinator.
Congratulations goes out to all team members. The Bears hope to make the event an annual tradition.
Commitment to Stewardship at St. James
During Catholic Education week the Grade 8 students at St. James Catholic school painted birdhouses as a demonstration of the Virtue of Stewardship. The students learned the importance of placing birdhouses around their home because they provide nesting sites for birds. Providing nesting sites helps preserve bird populations. Stewardship is the responsible management of God’s Earth and the simple act of hanging a birdhouse is living out this commitment.
Celebrating Safe Schools at St. James
Earlier this year, the St. James Safe Schools student council, named C3 (Catholic, Community and Culture) was awarded a Government of Ontario “Speak Up Grant” for their inclusive education campaign. In organizing activities, the C3 aims promote a positive school culture of mutual acceptance and inclusion.
A recent C3 campaign was an in-school Safe Schools Button Contest. All students were given the opportunity to design a button that reflects the safe, caring, inclusive environment at St. James Catholic School. Several members of the school community judged the button submissions and three student designs were published as button badges for every student in the school.
The three winners are Lidia Campagnaro (grade 4), Joshua Laronde (grade 4) and Christopher De Poli (SK).
Lidia Campagnaro’s explains that in her design “everyone is holding hands to show that at St. James we’re like a family and we treat each other respectfully”.
Joshua Laronde’s button is “meant to show that St. James school is welcoming to everyone”.
SK student Christopher De Poli’s button depicts a bear, the St. James mascot “because we are all St. James Bears”.
St. Benedict Students Lend a Helping Hand
Students from St. Benedict teacher Krysten Purawec’s Grade 9 French Immersion class prepared sandwiches for the Elgin Street Mission recently. Twenty-seven students made more than 125 sandwiches, carefully packaged with homemade cookies and a brief note of encouragement. Mme Purawec commented that, “It is our collective mission as a classroom to make our entire community a better place”. The students had fun putting together the tasty snacks, which were delivered to the mission after school that day. Maurizio Visentin, a Guidance Counsellor at St. Benedict, shared a story on the origins of sandwiches and complimented the students on putting the gospel into action to help those who use the Mission on a daily basis.
Gathering Stone Ritual
On May 17 Father Jim Hutton and parent Brenda Cavallin travelled to three of the Sudbury Catholic District Schools that are closing in June – St. Theresa, St. Christopher and Corpus Christi. Students at each of these schools collected stones from the yard to symbolize something they wanted to bring to the new site of Holy Cross Catholic Elementary School opening in September. The stones will be placed in the yard but will represent the spirit of the school that have travelled from all three sites. With Father Him Hutton and Brenda Cavallin’s visit to each of the schools, students were invited to remember love, patience and the virtues they hold true at their school while holding onto the stone. The stones were then collected and brought to St. Patrick’s Parish to be stored until the students begin their new school year at Holy Cross.