More than 11 hundred students at St. Charles College bit down on sticks of celery this morning to celebrate the BIG CRUNCH.
The big crunch is an annual event each year in Ontario to celebrate Nutrition Awareness month.
The St. Charles College event was organized by teacher Julie Jessop as part of her Foods classes.
Many schools opted for apples but St. Charles decided to go green for their synchronized crunch.
This week, an author visited the grade 7 and 8 Literacy students at St. Charles College. The students had the privilege of meeting Paul Toffanello who gave an inspiring story about his struggles and accomplishments as a writer.
Paul Toffanello is a Timmins born author who is a former English teacher, Principal and Director of Education. He’s been writing for most of his life and has published Popchuck’s Ghost and Popchuck’s Revenge. He is now finishing his third book in the triology called Popchuck’s End.
Toffanello also taught key strategies to help students become better writers. Through his slideshow, students learned many things about his life and reasons behind some of the main characters and settings in the book. He also conducted a read aloud.
Grade 8 students have now begun reading the book “Popchuk’s Ghost” and also plan to read “Popchuck’s Revenge”.
The Sudbury Catholic District School Board (SCDSB) is pleased to welcome three international students to its school communities for the second semester. One student from Vietnam and one student from China are attending St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School while another student from Japan is attending St. Charles College.
The SCDSB has successfully hosted international students and exchange students in the past; however, these new students are a direct result of the school board’s recent international recruitment efforts. Recruitment initiatives aim to boost enrollment as well as enrich the educational experience of all students by affording them the opportunity to interact and learn with students from varied countries which will help them to become more global citizens. The SCDSB also hopes that its recruitment initiatives will attract newcomers to the Greater Sudbury community as students may decide to pursue a post-secondary education in the city and someday make Sudbury their home.
The majority of international students stay with local families and pay a monthly amount for room and board. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board utilizes the services of the Canada Homestay Network in order to find and assess suitable host families. The SCDSB currently has students who have applied to study for the 2017-18 school year and will need more families to host these students. For more information on how you can host an international student, please contact Michelle Kindt from the Canada Homestay Network at 1-705-479-2314 ext.2010 or by email at sudburyinfo@canadahomestaynetwork.ca. To learn more about Canada Homestay, and our International Education program, visit cometostudy.ca.
Grade 11 students studying in the Introduction to Canadian Law class visited the courts last week. The students in Mr. Boisvert’s class were performing their mock trial in the Superior Court.
The visit tied into their culminating task and exam as a completion to the court.
Mr. Dan Boisvert says “the hands-on learning always serves as a good lesson for students who are interested in studying law or pursuing law in the future”.
CARDS Sports Specialty Program puts the focus on taping injuries
Students who are part of the High Skills Major in Health and Wellness got to try their hand at taping injuries this past week.
They learned how to properly assess an ankle injury and studied recovery time. The students also learned how to apply basic support mechanics in order to return to sport.
Their teacher, Mrs. Poirier says “Students are not only presented with the information necessary for injury assessment but are given the time, material and guidance to feel comfortable performing basic skills. My goal as their teacher is to ensure they develop the knowledge and confidence to help others if a situation arises.”
The students in the Health and Wellness class will continue to learn about sports injuries, treatments and preventions with focus was on rehabilitative taping skills.
Grade 10 student Hannah Morningstar is about to be the “face of Naig”. NAIG is the North American Indigenous Games and she will be featured on posters and banners to promote the event in Toronto this summer.
Hannah will be in Toronto tomorrow to see the pictures taken last year as part of a news conference for the games. She has participated in the games in 2014 as a track and field athlete. This time, she is hoping to qualify for track or volleyball. The tryouts are taking place right now.
This semester, Hannah is taking Indigenous Studies. She beams with pride when talking about representing her country and culture. “This is such an honour” she says.
The games being held in July will bring more than four thousand athletes to Toronto.
A number of our grade 11 students at St. Charles College attended the “Push For Change” Youth Event held at the Steelworker’s Hall this week. Our students met Joe Roberts who is pushing a shopping cart across Canada to support the end of youth homelessness. Joe shared the story of his success which our students found very compelling and inspirational. So far, Joe has walked 4800 km of his 9000 km journey from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Vancouver. This message ties into graduate expectations and the essential theme of global solidarity.
Grades 7 and 8 students at St. Charles College met with the officers from Greater Sudbury Police Services to learn about the dangers of social media. School Liason Officer Hally Wilmott and Sergeant Marc Guerin talked to the students about being cautious when using the Internet.
One activity forced the students to come up with rules about the school playground and they discussed how those same rules apply to the Internet playground.
Another activity focused on bullying and the scars it leaves. Officer Guerin crushed a can and asked the students to consider how that can cannot ever be wrinkle free again.
Mrs. Sarah Bock says the presentation was “eye opening in many ways and forced students to think about social media in a new way attributing it to the school playground and what goes on there.”
For the last few years, Holy Redeemer church has relied on the leadership students at St. Charles College to deliver baskets to those who need help at Christmas. The students load and deliver baskets of canned food items, fresh food and gifts for the children.
This past week, the students delivered those baskets. Their teacher, Mrs. Bev Belanger says “each year at this time the students ask about this initiative. They say there is nothing that brings greater joy to them than seeing the faces of those on the receiving end of these care packages.”
The parishioners create the baskets to support one hundred fifty families in the Sudbury region. Some of the canned food items in the baskets comes from the St. Charles College fall drive which saw 121 thousand cans raised for the Sudbury Food Bank this year.
Former graduate from St. Charles College Brock McGillis recently wrote an article for Yahoo Sports Canada about being secretly gay in a highly hyper masculine culture of hockey. The article went viral and this week he was invited to St. Charles College to share his message of hope and inclusivity.
Brock McGillis graduated from St. Charles College roughly fifteen years ago. He spoke about playing hockey in the OHL, CIS and dealing with comments that were homophobic all the while he was questioning his own sexuality.
Brock also spoke about keeping his sexuality a secret from family and friends and only recently revealed his sexual orientation to the hockey community.
Brock says the reason he has come out is to educate people. He believes that it important for people to not be bystanders but instead break the habit of using homophobic language in the halls, as a joke or in the locker room.
Brock now works mentoring minor hockey and junior aged players.
The students were very receptive to his message. They were active participants in the presentation.
Principal Patty Mardero says “the conversation solidifies what we are teaching our students about respecting diversity.”
