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St. Anne School Donates 1,234 Cans & $556.70 to Inner City Home Of Sudbury

Posted on December 15, 2021December 15, 2021 by Carlee Vendramin

This week, St. Anne Catholic Elementary School wrapped up their canned food drive with amazing success.

Thanks to the hard work of the students, staff, and families at St. Anne school, the school food drive concluded with a successful collection of 1,234 cans and $556.70 that will be donated to Inner City Home of Sudbury. The generous donation provided on behalf of the school supports the services offered by Inner City Homes to help those in need in Sudbury.

Students and staff enjoyed coming together as a school community to honour the season of giving and help collect donations for an important non-profit in Sudbury. Thank you to Mme Lafrance for her amazing leadership who helped organize this food drive for the school.

A special shoutout goes out to Mme Lafrance’s class that brought in a total of 511 cans and Mme Shonwise’s class that brought in a total of 536 cans. WOW!

On behalf of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board, we would like to congratulate our Angels on a job well done!

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Students Create Their Own Space Probe Lander!

Posted on November 3, 2021November 3, 2021 by Carlee Vendramin

Stem Class #3

Students create their Own Space Probe Lander!

Nicholas Butt, Outreach Coordinator for Let’s Talk Science, lead a group of grades 4-6 students at St. Anne, St. Charles, St. John, Holy Trinity, and Immaculate Conception in both a minds on and hands-on activity about Space Probes. Students learned about the three types of Space Probes: orbiter, interplanetary and the lander. Then, from recycled materials students created their very own Space Probe Lander.

Mrs. Bradley, Grade 5 & 6 Teacher at Immaculate Conception School stated “Students enjoyed exploring ways to stabilize their space probes to be sure they didn’t fall over when hitting the ground. The engagement and sharing of ideas with each other was amazing!”

To watch the recording of this lesson in either French and English Click Here.

STEM Club is ideal for busy educators, whether teaching face to face or remotely! There is still time to Register Your Class for fun and interactive STEM activities intended for Grade 4-6 students! Each week, Let’s Talk Science, features a different hands-on activity using minimal, easy-to-find materials. Students will also have the chance to learn from and ask questions to inspire STEM role models.

An English activity is offered two times per week (Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. ET & Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. ET), and a French activity is offered once a week (Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m. ET).

The second cohort starts November 2nd, and the third on January 27th, 2022.

For more information, visit: Join the Let’s Talk Science STEM club or contact christina.raso@sudburycatholicschools.ca if you would like more details about participating in this activity.

Students at St.Anne Prepare to Compete in Skills Ontario’s Junk Draw Races!

Posted on November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 by Carlee Vendramin

Last week, a call out was made to all grades 2-6 at St Anne students to see if they were interested in participating in the first-ever Skills Ontario’s Junk Drawer Races! Over 100 students attended the first planning meeting. Due to the overwhelming response, the school has organized their own tournament with local winners advancing to the regional competition.

Each challenge nicely aligns with the grade specific science curriculum expectations. This is an excellent opportunity to integrate the curriculum while giving our students fun and engaging hands-on learning experiences.

There is still time to register your class, the deadline is:

November 16th at 4:00pm.

We are hoping to have representation from each of our schools and will provide a small budget for the extras that might be required for our students to participate. In addition, Dan and myself will be available to present the challenges with the specific details to individual classes or to a group of classes via Zoom.

If you require further information or support with this initiative please contact daniel.levecque@sudburycatholicschools.ca or christina.raso@sudburycatholicschools.ca