Eight intermediate students were trained on November 15 to become the newest members of St. Charles College’s Peer Mediation team. The members of the Mediation Team provide a unique service for students in conflict. They give the students an opportunity to solve their problem in a confidential and peaceful way.

The team consists of fifteen mediators in grades nine through twelve. All students are given training in listening and effective communicating. The St. Charles Peer Mediation team consists of Caitlin Beland, Nick Charles, Steven Collins, Ryan Eles, Darren Falcioni, Colin Grant, Brandon Grace, Shelby Gobbo, Erica Hallock, Alison Hunt, Deanna Jalbert, Casey Lalonde, Jory Laurin, Caitlin MacKenzie, and Craig McLean. Ms. Daoust and Mr. MacNeil are the team moderators.

St. Theresa Catholic School has been selected by Four Corners Your Independent Grocer Store (Phil Fluery) in Sudbury to host the Fuel for Kids Program. As part of the program, the students and staff at St. Theresa Catholic school will enjoy a complimentary nutritious lunch provided by the Fuel For Kids Program sponsors along with a visit from the Maple Leaf CASCAR Race Team on Wednesday, May 31.

The race team and volunteers will arrive at St. Theresa Catholic School prior to the lunch hour and provide a free nutritious lunch featuring Maple Leaf Top Dogs, Lipton Cup-a-Soup, Mott’s Fruitsations, Dare Bear Paw Cookies and Del Monte juice to the students and staff of the school.

Everyone will have the opportunity to hop inside the actual 475 HP Maple Leaf CASCAR and check it out and obtain an autographed picture of the race car from driver Dave Connelly!

In the afternoon, the Maple Leaf CASCAR will travel to Four Corners Your Independent Grocer to display the race car and provide a complimentary BBQ fundraiser for St. Theresa Catholic School from 3-7pm with 50% of the proceeds being donated towards the school’s fundraising efforts and 50% of the proceeds being donated to the President’s Choice Children’s Charity on the school’s behalf.

Sudbury’s Science North and Laurentian University were invaded by about 100 “Mathletes” from across the province last weekend. The Northern Ontario Mathematics Association (NOMA) hosted a provincial Mathematics Olympiad comprised of 25 teams of Grade 7 and 8 math students. Participating teams represented the top teams from over 15 provincial playdowns that were held over the past month throughout the 15 Chapters that make up the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education (OAME). Participants competed in several individual and team math challenges which included a Science North “Math Trial”. The event was sponsored by OAME, Union Gas, the Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan, Texas Instruments, Spectrum Educational Supplies, Thomson-Nelson Publishing and McGraw-Hill Ryerson as well as many local sponsors such as Inco, Laurentian University, Science North,
Laking Toyota, Staples, Copy Copy and Gougeon Insurance.

During the two-day Math Olympiad event, participants had the opportunity to visit Science North to view an Imax movie, ride the Virtual Voyage, and visit other area sites. The Northern Ontario Mathematics Association, (one of the 15 chapters of OAME), were represented by three local Sudbury school teams.

Mike Foligno, Coach of the Sudbury Wolves paid a surprise visit to St. Bernadette Catholic School on Friday to present the Junior and Senior Kindergarten classes with brand-new tricycles, bicycles, and go-carts complete with helmets for their recreational pleasure.

The items were purchased with funds donated to St. Bernadette Catholic School from the Sudbury Wolves Community Club 50/50 draw in March 2005. The donation to the school reinforces the Sudbury Wolves organization’s mandate to utilize proceeds from the hockey team’s fund-raising events to give something back to the community, and in particular its young people.

The students made their own Sudbury Wolves hats and brought with them Sudbury Wolves paraphernalia for Mike to sign. Coach Foligno entered the room enjoying a wild round of applause and cheers from the students and even engaged in a shooting contest after presenting the gifts.

Students and staff at St. Bernadette Catholic School presented Coach Foligno with a number of gifts as a token of their appreciation for the Sudbury Wolves kind donation.

The Sudbury Catholic District School Board together with its family of schools celebrated Catholic Education Week this year from May 1 to May 6, 2005. During this week, the Catholic community took the opportunity to reaffirm the distinctive contribution that Catholic schools make to our students, our community and our society.

This year’s theme, “Being the Body of Christ”, was particularly appropriate in this “Year of the Eucharist.” The theme reminds us of the ultimate reality of an education rooted in Christ; namely, through the body of believers and the communion of the Eucharist, the divine is made “just as real and as radically physical as when Jesus of Nazareth, in the flesh, walked the dirt roads of Palestine.” Through our intimate participation in the life of Christ as Christ’s body, we “keep God present to humanity and to the world.”

Catholic Education Week 2005 begins on a Sunday to highlight the partnership that remains the foundation of Catholic Education. We particularly want to underline the relationship of Catholic schools with the broader Church community, especially with the parishes that remain the center of the worshipping faith community.

Throughout Catholic Education Week, we hope that everyone in our school community reflected on the significance of Catholic Education’s presence in and contribution to our Church and our society. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board would like to thank all students, parents, teachers and staff for their excellent participation in the special activities and prayer celebrations that marked this year’s Catholic Education Week!

View highlights of SCDSB’s celebration of Catholic Education Week 2005. (pdf)