Dubinia Nieforth is a grade 12 student at Marymount Academy and is contemplating a future in marketing, advertising and public relations. When she approached her guidance teacher Brenda Thompson, the two discussed the possibility of a co-op placement that would allow her the opportunity to try out these types of jobs to see if it would be a good fit. After talking it over with her co-op teacher, Allison Simspon, Dubinia was offered the opportunity to work with the Communications Team at the Sudbury Catholic District School Board. When asked why she chose co-op, Dubinia replied that she “felt that she was ready to try some work in a real career field and preferred out-going, social situations rather than sitting in a class. By getting out and experiencing what (she) was interested in sounded like an amazing opportunity.” Dubinia has been documenting her experiences and the stories she has been covering in her own newsletter. She has also had the opportunity to learn new software on the macbook including Pages and GarageBand which will be great experience for her when looking at advertising and graphic design. Already Dubina has helped with the celebration for the United Kingdom visitors as well as visiting schools with the communications team to learn about covering events and media relations. For the remainder of the year, Nieforth will be th “eyes and ears” for Marymount keeping on top of all of the stories as well as continuing to assist the team with future marketing and Sudbury Catholic promotions and events. Dubinia is looking forward to her future assignments and exploring all of the possibilities that her new co-op placement will offer her as she wants her career to involve “ideas, writing, working with people and getting to be creative – this is just the perfect fit!”
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St. Ben’s Students Celebrate Multicultural Day
Students from the Lifeskills class at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School were thrilled to be able to share their projects on March 11 during their Multicultural Day celebration. All of the students were asked to pick a country and then use books from the library and find information on the internet to help them put together a project for their geography assignment. Some of the countries picked included Cuba, South Africa, Mexico and Ireland. The presentation of the projects was the first part of the day’s celebration and then the students played games, listened to music from different countries, and enjoyed different foods from around the world. Pam Colasimone, the Lifeskills teacher was very proud of the work that the students had produced. “ The students have worked for the last six weeks on these projects.” said Colasimone. “ They thoroughly enjoyed learning about the countries they selected as well as learning about the other countries that were presented today. It was a fantastic project for the students and they had a lot of fun in the process!”
Pius XII School Community Celebrates Mass
All of the students and staff of Pius XII came together as a school community on March 8, 2010 to celebrate mass with Father Remi at Holy Redeemer parish. The school took advantage of the beautiful sunshine and walked over to the church to enjoy mass each other. It was a great way to start the week as well as an excellent opportunity for the school to re-energize their faith before beginning their March Break.
St. Anne’s Parent Going Above and Beyond to Support School Community
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
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!
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!!!
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. 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.