Students at Holy Cross and St. Benedict Secondary School in the southend of Greater Sudbury teamed up to make seniors smile this Valentine’s Day.
How? With a simple act of using creativity, imagination, and love, students handcrafted beautiful, heartfelt greeting cards to lift the spirits of residents at Finlandia Village, in the Hoivakoti Nursing Home located in Minnow Lake.
After being created, the cards were hand delivered and distributed to residents at Finlandia on Monday, February 14th, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Upon receiving the messages, Finlandia extended their appreciation for the generous act and shared a huge thank you to students, staff, and volunteers for the coordination of the project.
“Thank you so much for all the awesome Valentine’s day cards. The students did a really great job, and the residents were smiling from ear to ear. They sure made Valentine’s day extra special for our folks!” – Jeanna de la Morandiere, Finlandia
Ben and Bradley from Madame Riutta’s French Immersion class at Holy cross display their Valentine cards.
Last spring, grades 6-12 students at Sudbury Catholic Schools were invited to participate in the 24 hour Driving Your Career Competition. The competition was hosted by the Ontario Centre of Innovation and ChatterHigh to raise awareness about careers and post-secondary pathways in Ontario’s automotive and smart mobility sector.
Owen Carpenter, a grade 7 student at St. Benedict School scored the highest correct answers in his grade and had to choose from a variety of great prizes including membership sessions with industry leaders. Being passionate about vehicles made it difficult for Owen to choose a prize!. Owen comes from a family of car enthusiasts including his father Justin, who is an automotive sales consultant at Mike Doyle Dodge Chrysler.
After careful deliberation, Owen selected the Project Arrow Virtual Reality Cave Tour in Windsor, Ontario.This tour is an immersive and active virtual reality environment, integrated with state-of-the-art hardware and software. The facility serves as a teaching, training and research tool for the region and beyond, designed to support connected and autonomous vehicle development. Virtual reality provides many valuable opportunities to aid in product development, including simulation, skills training, communication and collaboration.
On the November 19th PA day, Owen and his father travelled to Windsor to meet Ed Dawson, a Senior Manager, at the Automobility and Innovation- Simulation Team at Invest WindsorEssex. Mr. Dawson stated; “Owen and his dad Justin visited us at the Invest WindsorEssex VR CAVE this past Friday to experience Project Arrow and our simulation programs. I wanted to say how happy we were to have Owen and Justin here. Owen is such a bright young man with impeccable manners and very appreciative! It was truly a delight for our team to show him all of the great tech that we have thanks to AVIN! “
Needless to say, Owen had a fantastic day filled with lots of hands-on learning and fun! “I like the VR CAVE, I learned so much and I’m so excited to work in the automotive sector when I grow up.” Peter Prochilo Superintendent of School Effectiveness stated; “The Sudbury Catholic District School Board would like to thank the Ontario Centre of Innovation and ChatterHigh for this opportunity. Opportunities as such, provide career exploration to our young students and help broaden their exposure to the working world they will one day enter. It helps them to see and dream of the possibilities between school and career”
Sudbury Catholic District School Board is pleased to introduce students to Storwell, in support of their Foster Children Bursary Program.
Storewell offers an annual bursary of $2,000 in support of foster children to help them attend post-secondary schools and to offer a hand up as they make their way forward in life.
Your newest member of our provincial EQAO Student Engagement committee. WOW!
We want to congratulate Myra who was selected out of 250+ students to be on this very important committee to promote student voice and find ideas/ strategies that will help our school community become more inclusive. Myra and the 34 other students that were selected in Ontario, carry on a role of leadership in their schools by attending regular zoom meetings and have wholesome discussions around equity and student needs. Well done Myra, we are extremely thrilled to celebrate your accomplishment, while starting our grade 11’s off in the OSSLT testing this week.
