Sudbury Catholic District School Board
June 25, 2019

Celebrating Our Accomplishments

Director's Corner

As the school year draws to a close, it is a good time to reflect on the many accomplishments we have achieved as a system during the 2018-2019 school year. Our staff and students have propelled themselves to new heights and reached new goals. Whether it was academic success, athletic stories, the arts or staff celebrations, it is clear that this school year has been an impactful one guided by our three strategic pathways: We are called to strengthen our faith-based, inclusive and equitable community; to promote innovation; and to advance leadership and learning for All. This blog highlights a few of these accomplishments. For more information on past accomplishments we encourage you to revisit past blogs and the many news stories found on our website. Our thanks is extended to all who contributed to our successes this past year, our amazing staff, students, families and community partners. Wishing you a restful summer filled with laughter and joy.

St. Benedict School recognized by EQAO

Each year, EQAO recognizes schools that support student achievement in Ontario and use EQAO data to develop action plans to increase student achievement over time. For the 2018 year, EQAO is celebrating schools that support student success in mathematics. As a recipient of this award, St. Benedict has fostered a positive mindset toward math over the last three school years.

By creating a culture of inquiry and collaboration, St. Benedict built a positive attitude toward mathematics, working with staff and students to expand math vocabulary, understand concepts from various points of view and evaluate student work in a team setting. All of these strategies have paved the way for growth for both staff and students.

“I have had the pleasure of working with both the elementary and secondary math teams for a number of years focussing on strong math instruction,” said Laura Kuzenko, Principal at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School. “It is clear that our grade 7 and 8 math model works and that it creates not only collaboration with the staff but also students who are comfortable in their respective math classes and working at their full potential.”

St. Benedict built a positive attitude toward mathematics, working with staff and students to expand math vocabulary, understand concepts from various points of view and evaluate student work in a team setting.

Bishop Alexander Carter Receives Catholic Education Foundation of Ontario Michael Carty Award

The Catholic Education Foundation of Ontario awards grants to schools as part of the Michael Carty Award. The objective of the award is to improve and develop Catholic education as part of the school’s culture. This year, Bishop Alexander Carter was a recipient of the award!

As part of the 2018-2019 school improvement plan, the group of teachers at Bishop focused on developing a school culture that inspired and developed Christian leadership.

“Their goal, was to align our culture to our vision and values of the school.  It also involves a lot of work with parents, staff and students.  Receiving this award not only recognizes their hard work over this past year, but it also allows them to continue their work into the following school year,” said Cassandra MacGregor, Principal of Bishop Alexander Carter.

Bishop staff worked on creating a positive school culture that promoted Catholic leadership for staff and students.

St. Charles College Cards come together to crush cancer

The Cards have a longstanding tradition of completing a Spring fundraiser to raise funds for the Cancer foundations. This year, the school community participated in the Cards Crush Cancer event to support the Northern Cancer Foundation. Staff and students produced custom t-shirts to sell throughout the year, and organized a day-long outdoor concert, complete with music, activities, food vendors and much more! The school was ecstatic to present the Northern Cancer Foundation with a cheque in the amount of $13,500!

The Cards had another successful fundraising season, raising over $13,000 for the Northern Cancer Foundation.

Marymount Academy wraps up the Regals Fight MS Campaign!

Regals wrapped up their semester-long campaign to support the MS Society of Canada. Students contributed to the cause by selling customized t-shirts , participating in buy-outs and canvassing throughout the community in teams. Students even set up lemonade stands to donate to the cause!

The campaign was student driven, with students organizing the many events to support the campaign. The school looks forward to contributing to more organizations during the next school year!

Marymount Regals wrapped their Regals Fight MS Campaign, providing funds and support to the MS Society of Canada.

Secondary Students excel in athletics

Secondary students represented Sudbury Catholic well at the various athletic events held during the school year!

Bishop Alexander sent several students to NOSSA in track and field this year. Highlights included:

  • Paige Savard participated in the 100m and 200m. She placed 5th in 100m and 3rd in 200m with a personal best!
  • Abigail Calvank participated in running long jump.
  • Hailey McAuhey participated in javelin.
  • Tiffany Fahey participated high jump and triple jump.
  • Cody Therrien participated high jump and placed 3rd.

The boys softball team also had a fantastic season, taking the City Championship for the third year in a row!

The 2018-2019 Boys Softball team managed to keep their City title for the third year!

St. Benedict took home its first OFSAA gold medal banner in Alpine Skiing this season.

OFSAA Alpine skiing was held in Collingwood at Osler Bluff Ski Club under adverse skiing conditions.  The first day of racing got cancelled due to weather conditions, and the second day brought white out conditions.  But the athletes prevailed and brought home the first OFSAA banner after competing at this level for a number of years. 

The results are as follows:

Individual Tony Piro       

  • Silver Medal High School Level Giant Slalom
  • 4th Place High School Level Slalom

Team Gold Banner         

  • High School Level Giant Slalom

Team Silver                      

  • High School Level Slalom

Members included Tony Piro, Alex Madden, Vincent Palladino, Elijah Jeffery, Nikolas Donato. The team was also coached by teachers John McDonald and Monica Dailey.

The Alpine Skiing team brought home the first OFSAA gold banner in Alpine Ski for St. Benedict!

St. Charles College continued their athletic success, sending over 100 athletes to OFSAA this school-year. Erik Struk, in particular, has been an important and integral part of SCC track and field program for the past four years. He has medaled in all 4 years at both SDSSAA and NOSSA meets in sprint distances. In his final grade 12 year, Erik has surpassed his personal goals and reached new best times in all aspects of his sprint training. Erik recently added the 400m race to his repertoire and excelled. He won SDSSAA goal and NOSSA silver. Qualifying for OFSAA, he met excellent competition but raised up to the challenge. Erik had a personal best time of 52.17 at OFSAA and made St. Charles College extremely proud.

Erik Struk capped off his high school track career with a successful NOSSA and OFSAA season.

Marymount Academy had 14 athletes competing at various OFSAA events this year. Some highlights included:

  • Abby McDonald (Swimming) – Gold Medal (100 Meter Butterfly) also 3- time gold medallist in three OFSAA Championships!
  • Angelina Lam (Badminton) – Bronze Medal (Girls’ Doubles)
  • Mackenzie Watkins (Badminton)  – Bronze Medal (Girls’ Doubles)
  • Tyanna Soucy (Wrestling) – Bronze Medal
  • Angelina Lam (Wrestling) – Bronze Medal
Doubles team of Angelina Lam and Mackenzie Watkins captured the bronze medal at OFSAA in doubles badminton.

St. Joseph Students win Poetry Award

The students at St. Joseph School in Killarney won the Young Authors Award contest this year for the Catholic Teachers Association. The group submitted a poem entitled Beautiful Birds. The poem was awarded because of its beautiful and descriptive language! The winning students were also awarded gift cards to Chapters to continue their positive relationship with reading and writing. Congratulations St. Joseph students!

St. Joseph students won a poetry contest for their poem ‘Beautiful Birds’.

St. David Students complete weekly class outside for the entire school year!

Every Wednesday from September until the end of June, regardless of weather, Ms. Lepage’s Grade 3 class has taken their learning outdoors.

Participating in land-based learning has resulted in increased student engagement and attendance. Students also developed a greater ability to self-regulate and problem solve.

Throughout the year, and with the support of staff and community partners, students were able to:

  • Work at meeting the curriculum expectations through hands-on learning
  • Learn how to identify a variety of trees
  • Create their own maps of the St. David trail system
  • Prepare herbal teas using plants they gathered in the forest
  • Create dream catchers
  • Track a variety of animals
  • Snowshoe
  • Keep nature journals
  • and they created their very own field guide!

Congratulations Dragons, what a wonderful way to learn and get in touch with nature!

St. David students spent every Wednesday outside as a class!

Staff Honoured During Employee Recognition Night

On Wednesday, June 5, we honoured our employees who are retiring this year as well as those who have been with us for 25 years. We also honoured the recipients of this year’s Chairperson’s Award. It was truly a special evening of recognition as we celebrated the many accomplishments. We are thankful for all those individuals who have dedicated their work and service to Catholic Education. Your commitment to Sudbury Catholic Schools inspires us all to be better educators, stewards and leaders. 

25 Year Employee Club – Giorgio Urso, Joanne Craig, Angele Lachance and Carole Guillemette.
Absent: Silvia Faggioni, Ginette Fraser and Toni Kritz-Roque
2018-2019 Retirees:
Back Row – Michael Fabiilli, Jo-Anne Walberg, Lise Malette, Krista Sarmatiuk, Fleur Hackett and Terry Papineau
Front Row – Kelly Orasi-Leach, Denise Desmarais, Lucie Lapalme-Cullen, Patty Mardero and Daniela Visentin
Absent: Francine Brouse, Daniel Boisvert, Claude Dupuis, Rheal Durette, Denis Ethier, Louise Kennedy, Eric Mclaughlin, Joseph Paluch, Viviane Roy,
Eddy Sacchetto, and Kim Taylor-Horeck.
2019 Chairperson Award Recipients Julie Denomme, Maria Rothensee and Joanne Craig.

Get to know us!

St. Charles College student Ryan Scarpellini has been appointed as the Student Trustee for the 2019-2020 School Year.

Ryan has been enrolled in the French Immersion program for 13 years and is passionate about the Francophone culture that is present at both St. Charles College and at the Sudbury Catholic District School Board. He hopes to one day have a career in the education field, teaching French Immersion at the secondary level. Ryan is also very involved within the school community of St. Charles College. He is a member of both the Student Senate and the Student Council, which has allowed him to help organize food drives, cancer fundraisers and other school functions.

“I feel extremely blessed and proud to have been selected as the next Student Trustee of the Sudbury Catholic District School Board,” said Ryan Scarpellini, newly appointed Student Trustee. “ The thing I am most looking forward to next year as Student Trustee is spreading more information about mental health through the community. Mental health is a very important part of my life, and I look forward to promoting this topic as Student Trustee. ”

Chairperson of the Board Michael Bellmore welcomes newly appointed Student Trustee Ryan Scarpellini.
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