St. Paul the Apostle School welcomed four Sudbury Wolves on the morning of Wednesday Feb. 1. These four players visited the various classrooms and read hockey related books for the students. Pictured is Nathan Pancel with Madame Wright’s JK French Immersion Class. He shared the book “Just One Goal” written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko.
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Math is More than Numbers
Parents of Grades 1-5 students at St. Charles Catholic Elementary School were invited to the school and experience math with their child using IXL, a math tool using technology. At St. Charles school, math concepts are approached from all angles, offering visual representations, word problems, interactive activities and more. Grade 4 teacher, Maria Petroski states that ‘with an abundance of math problems for every learning style, students can’t help but build lasting skills and confidence’.
St. John Students Celebrate Literacy Day with a Twist
Primary students at St. John School celebrated World Literacy Day on Friday, January 27th with a Fairy Tale twist. Students enjoyed dressing as their favourite Fairy Tale character as they spent the morning engaged in literacy activities. At one station, students played Fairy Tale Trivia, answering questions about some of their beloved stories. Students also listened to and acted out Fairy Tales with their teachers.
Students Get Hands-On With Health Care
The Introductory Health Care class at St. Charles College recently visited St. Albert’s Adult Education Centre for a shared lab. The high school students joined forces with the Personal Support Worker students to gets some hands-on practical health care skills in the areas of feeding, oral care, vital signs assessments, patient transfers and basic bedside care.
The Introductory Health Care Class is part of the Specialist High Skills Major for Health and Wellness offered at St. Charles College. It gives students the opportunity to start pursuing health care related classes in their high school years.
In photo: Students get hands-on with health care
The Introductory Health Care class at St. Charles College recently visited St. Albert’s Adult Education Centre for a shared lab. The high school students joined forces with the Personal Support Worker students to gets some hands-on practical health care skills in the areas of feeding, oral care, vital signs assessments, patient transfers and basic bedside care.
The Introductory Health Care Class is part of the Specialist High Skills Major for Health and Wellness offered at St. Charles College. It gives students the opportunity to start pursuing health care related classes in their high school years.
St. Charles Catholic Elementary Celebrate Family Literacy Day
On January 27th, Family Literacy Day, parents of St. Charles Catholic Elementary School were invited to attend their child’s classroom to play board games as a way to embrace the learning opportunity to practice literacy as a family and spending time together. Family Literacy Day is a national awareness initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999 and held annually on January 27 to raise awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family. Grade 1/2 teacher, Mrs. Bardswich says ‘taking time every day to read or do a learning activity with children is crucial to a child’s development, even just 15 minutes a day can improve a child’s literacy skills, and can help a parent improve their skills as well.’
St. Anne Students Believe in Motto “Respect For All”
The pupils at St. Anne School in Hanmer pride themselves on demonstrating Catholic virtues. Since September, the students within the Sudbury Catholic Board have worked very hard to practice those virtues of respect, faith, justice, patience, and responsibility. Recently, a presentation from Camp Quality helped to re-enforce all these virtues and more.
Camp Quality is an organization run by volunteers who provide children with cancer the opportunity to experience the joys of camp life during the summer. The camp location in Northern Ontario can be found on the west arm of Lake Nipissing near Monetville. During the school year, the camp sends volunteers and life size puppets into schools to work with students from all grade divisions. Some of the puppets are recovering from leukemia or cancerous tumours. They explain to other puppet friends their feelings and concerns as they return or get ready to return to school. The performances are free for elementary schools and help children to understand the importance of caring for and offering support to one another, especially when a child has a major illness such as cancer.
The St. Anne students enjoyed the presentation immensely. Many of the students themselves have family members who have experienced cancer. The Camp Quality volunteers not only helped re-enforce those virtues already learned, but helped prepare the children for future virtues such as compassion, courage, kindness, and helpfulness. When asked about the presentation itself, the students from all divisions got the message loud and clear. “We may not always look the same on the outside, but we are still the same person on the inside.” Way to go Angels!
St. Bernadette Catholic Elementary Celebrates Family LIteracy Day
Did you know that just 15 minutes of reading with your child can improve his/her literacy skills? This Family Literacy day students at St. Bernadette Catholic School visited the New Sudbury branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library for a very special Celebrity Story Hour. The students toured the library, received their very own library card, signed out their favourite selections and participated attentively while guest reader, City Councillor, Joscelyne Landry-ALtmann read to them. The students were encouraged to take home their book selections and read along with their families. Mme Perron, Grade 3/4 teacher stated that, “Visiting the library has been an excellent opportunity for students to explore the world of books and familiarize themselves with the many resources available for them and their families. Many have stated that they want to come back and bring their parents along!”
St. Raphael Celebrates Family Literacy Day
On Friday January 27, Family Literacy Day, staff, students, and parents at St. Raphael School participated in a variety of literacy workshops. Each workshop was linked to the importance of being able to read by such presenters as Roger Nash, Sudbury Poet Laureate, Mark Gentili, Managing Editor of the Northern Life, Emily MacMillan, Nickel District Conservation Authority, and Darren MacDonald of the Sudbury Star. Pictured is Brad Blackwell from Killarney-Shebanoning Outdoor Education Centre whose presentation was entitled “If Trees Could Talk”.
Wild About Reading At St. Francis
St. Francis Catholic Elementary School took the time to highlight literacy within the building on January 27 to celebrate Family Literacy Day. Students had the opportunity to read to others during the day emphasizing that reading is an important skill and reading everyday helps to improve student achievement.
Mrs. Healy’s Full Day Kindergarten program read the book “Where the Wild Things Are?”. They worked on a illustration based on the story, watched the film about the movie and re-told the story to each other. St. Francis students are WILD about reading!