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!
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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!
St. Charles College Wins Division 1 City Championship for Boys’ Hockey
St. Charles College won the Division 1 City Championship for Boys’ Hockey on Saturday night (March 6, 2010). The defeated LoEllen 5-2 to win the series 3 games to 1. St. Charles College now hosts NOSSa this week on Tuesday and Wednesday. Congratulations to all of the players on the team as well as all of the participating staff and volunteers! Way to go Cards!!!
St. Paul Catholic Elementary School Donates to Canadian Development and Peace
Students and staff of St. Paul Catholic Elementary School were thrilled to present a $1000 cheque made out to Canadian Development and Peace on Thursday, March 4, 2010. The students presented the cheque to Sudbury Catholic Trustee Paula Peroni who was on hand at the school to accept the money on behalf of the organization. The money was raised to help out people in Haiti still reeling from the devastating earthquake.
St. Andrew Does a “DEAR”
At 2:30 on Thursday March 5…World Book Day…the students and staff of St. Andrew School “Dropped everything and Read” DEAR for 10 minutes. The halls were all quiet except for the voice of the Kindergarten prep teacher Mrs. Hyndman who chose to have a read aloud for her group of students.
SCDSB Honours Staff at Employee Recognition Evening
Sudbury Catholic District School Board staff gathered in the gym at Marymount Academy on March 3, 2010 to attend the Employee Recognition Evening that celebrates the years of dedication and hard work that staff give to the Board. Approximately 120 people were in attendance and were delighted with the prayer service, presentation and social that the Board’s Human Resources department had prepared for the evening. Senior Administration and Trustees were on hand to honour the employees for their many years of service. Three of the Board’s staff – Patrick Byrne (St. Albert Learning Centre), Matthew Wiecha (Marymount Academy) and Roland Muzzatti (Superintendent) were recognized for an amazing 35 years of service to the Sudbury Catholic Board. Congratulations to all of our employees for continuing to work together for Catholic Education!
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.