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St. Anne’s Parent Going Above and Beyond to Support School Community

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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

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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

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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!

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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. Paul Catholic Elementary School Donates to Canadian Development and Peace

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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. Raphael Catholic Elementary School Keeping Busy before March Break

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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

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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. Mary Students Put their Bridges to the Test

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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!

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