Congratulations to all our students on a fantastic season. The results follow:
Grade 5/6 Co-ed:
1st Corpus Christi
2nd St. Michael
3rd St. Francis
4th Eagles
Grade 7/8 Girls:
1st St. Raphael
2nd MMA “A”
3rd MMA “B”
4th MMA “C”
Grade 7/8 Boys:
1st St. Francis
2nd St. Raphael
3rd St. David
4th St. Francis B
Grade 7/8 Girls:
1st MMA “A”
2nd St. Francis
3rd St. David
4th MMA “B”
Grade 7/8 Co-ed:
1st St. David
2nd St. Francis
3rd St. Anne
4th Pius XII
St. Charles College will be presenting their “Arts Concert” this Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. The concert will feature vocal, guitar, band , choir and dance pieces. There will also be students’ art exhibition on display. Tickets are $5 each.
St. Mary School, in conjunction with Our Lady of Peace Parish in Capreol, will be holding its annual Christmas carolling for non-perishable food items, hats and mitts, and monetary donations for the needy on Wednesday December 12th. Carollers are invited to meet at the school for 6 pm and will then set out between 6 and 6:15 pm. They will be going on a float provided by the parish to sing carols and then return to the school around 7:30 pm for hot chocolate.
St. Anne Catholic School was runner up in the VETAC Ugliest School Yard Competition last spring. The school received a cash prize from Xstrata Nickel to help in its re-greening efforts. The funds were used to purchase sod for the playground, benches, trees, and materials for two large brick agricultural beds in which students from Mrs. Wuksinic’s Grade 2/3 class Ms. MacRury’s JK/SK class planted flowers.
St. Anne Catholic School would like to extend its deepest appreciation to the many families, staff and students who helped make this amazing idea a reality. Thank you also to the local businesses who donated items and/or services. St. Anne Catholic School would also like to recognize and thank Jamie Beauchamp from Xstrata Nickel along with representatives from the business community including Peter Vanderkooy from Botanix Azilda Green Houses and Myrna Bechamp from Ashley’s Landscape Supplies who visited St. Anne Catholic School to view the “final product” and to wish the students well.
The Sudbury Catholic District School Board will be hosting a Technology Celebration on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 (7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.) at St. Charles College. The Technology presentation will allow the Board’s students to showcase some of the Laptop projects that they have been working on during term one. Students will also have the opportunity to talk about their work and share their learning experience with the audience.
In its continued commitment to student success, the Sudbury Catholic District School Board has developed strong expertise in the use of technology as a resource for improving student achievement. Over the last several years the Board has committed itself to the expansion of the wireless laptop program into the Grade 7 and 8 curriculum which has had a dramatic impact on improved student learning and student achievement.
This evening is dedicated to showcasing the creative talents of the Board’s students as they embrace the technology they will be using in their upcoming careers.
The Sudbury Catholic District School Board elected its new chair and vice-chair at the inaugural meeting of the board held at the Catholic Education Centre on December 4, 2007.
George Middleton will assume the position of Chair of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board. Mr. Middleton is serving his sixth term as Trustee and has held the position of vice-chair on two previous occasions. Middleton “It is indeed a great pleasure to assume the position of Chair of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board,” stated Middleton. “Our successes as a Board are a tribute to the teamwork, cooperation and dedication of our students, parents, staff and partners in education. I look forward to continuing to build on these strong relationships and to working in concert with our partners in Catholic education to meet the challenges of the coming year.”
Paula Peroni is the Board’s new Vice-Chair having served previously as Chair of the Board from 1999 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2007. Mrs. Peroni is also the current vice-president of the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association (OCSTA) and the first vice-president of the Canadian Catholic School Trustees’ Association (CCSTA). “I would like to thank my fellow colleagues and members of the board for placing their confidence in me and allowing me to take on the role as Vice-Chair,” stated Peroni. “I will continue to use the experience and insights I have obtained as a Trustee with this board over the last ten years to champion the cause of Catholic education, not only at the local level but at the provincial and national level as well.”
Everyone likes a good play. A good play draws you in. It keeps you perched on the edge of your seat wondering how things will turn out. A good play has characters that you cheer or jeer. A good play fills you with a sense of excitement and wonder and resolves itself in a way that leaves you feeling satisfied. I am sure everyone reading this article can or has by now filled in the blank with their own good play and recalls all of the feelings it evoked.
Advent is the beginning of a good play. It is the beginning of the story of Jesus. Like a good beginning, Advent draws us into the mystery of the story through all of our senses. Music, candles, gestures and symbols create an atmosphere that tells us something different is happening. Stories about surprising events of births unexpected tell us that we are about to enter into a time that is very different. Voices from the past fill us with hope as we struggle with challenges of poverty, violence and exclusion. The beginning of the play seems to hold out a promise of better times to come.
Advent is only the beginning. The drama unfolds as we move from the birth of Jesus to his young adulthood, baptism and ministry of preaching and healing and ends with his passion, death and resurrection. The drama of Jesus is retold during the year and in different ways we are drawn into this drama and encouraged to see the drama as our own story. Participants are uplifted, saddened, inspired, challenged and comforted as we sing, pray, listen to stories and reach out to others in service.
There are high points in the drama such as Christmas, Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, the Triduum, Pentecost and Ascension Sunday but each Sunday is an opportunity to relive the whole drama and here once again the gestures, symbols, music and stories are a means of pointing to a deeper reality as a good play should.
What makes drama engaging is that in some way we recognize our own story in
The Story. The more we recognize our story in the Jesus Story, the more engaged we will become in the drama. Each of us has experienced times of insecurity, exclusion, doubt and fear. Jesus experienced all of these but his essential message which he called the good news of the kingdom confronted all these feelings and provided a radical alternative to a way of live which drags us down.
So, let the play begin. Become engaged in the drama making the Story your story. Take time to see how the events in the life of Jesus parallel your own life events. Take heart knowing that there is a resolution which will leave you satisfied much more than you could ever have expected.
St. Raphael, Marymount and St. Francis are proud participants in the Sudbury Elementary Volleyball League. The league includes more than 350 athletes and is in it’s 7th season. Boasting 19 girls’ teams in two divisions and 13 boys’ teams in a single division, the league develops Sudbury athletes throughout the area from all four local school boards.
Teams have competed over 4 Saturdays from the beginning of the school year, and at the end of league play going into playoffs SCDSB teams are ranked as follows:
Boys:
St. Raphael – 3rd
St. Francis – 6th
Girls Division 1:
Marymount A – 1st
St. Francis – 6th
St. Raphael – 10th
Girls Division 2:
Marymount B – 7th
The Sudbury Elementary Volleyball League is organized by Diables Sports Club – a non-profit organization. They take care of all scheduling, stats, hosting and other organizational duties.
The Sudbury Catholic District School Board recently launched the 2007-2008 Dearness Conservation Program and Challenge. The School Conservation Challenge was created by the Sudbury Catholic District School Board to increase the participation in the Dearness Conservation (DC) initiative that was introduced into all of the Board’s schools in 2001. Since the inception of the DC program, the Board has been able to achieve substantial utility savings by educating teachers, students and staff and providing them with the necessary resources through this program.
The Dearness Conservation Program is geared toward both secondary school and elementary schools. The program consists of an in-school presentation/workshop and seeks to incorporate all students in the school in its conservation efforts.
The DC in-school program launch consisted of two components:
Part 1: A viewing of the widely acclaimed environmental movie trailer, An Inconvenient Truth followed by a “Changes” and a “Choices” presentation which focused on the choices that students have to make with respect to the environment. Discussion also centred around the key aspects of the Board’s Conservation Challenge.
Part 2: A conservation trade show was held on energy efficient technologies. Students learned about energy and water saving technologies, how to perform technical audits, and how to run campaigns to involve all students and staff in energy, water and waste reduction.
Workshops are being presented in all secondary and elementary schools over the next two weeks, and all SCDSB Dearness Schools, Classes and Clubs are invited to participate in the “Conservation Challenge” which will run from October 30, 2007 to May 1, 2008.
The winner of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s 2007-2008 School Conservation Challenge will be awarded a Grand Prize of $500.00 (toward an approved greening/grounds improvement project) and the right to display the “SCDSB School Conservation Challenge Champions” banner for a year.
For more information on the Sudbury Catholic District School Board’s DC Program and Challenge please contact, Mark Gervais, Energy Coordinator at the Sudbury Catholic District School Board.
