This weekend was the Flames/Cards Handball Tournament held at St. Charles College. The boys tournament was held on Saturday with Holy Cross placing 1st, with Holy Trinity placing 2nd and St. John placing 3rd. On Sunday, the girls took the court with Holy Trinity A placing 1st, St. Francis placing 2nd and Holy Cross placing 3rd. Thank you to all of the coaches, volunteers and parents for all of their hard work this weekend!
Their Story Begins Here – Kindergarten Registration info night taking place January 24!
Register with our schools during our Board wide information night occurring Wednesday, January 24 at 6 p.m!
These Information sessions are available for parents wanting to register their child(ren) for school beginning September 2018 (For children turning 4 years of age on or before December 31, 2018). If you are unable to attend these sessions at your school, we encourage you to contact the school to register on an alternative date. Both regular (English) and French Immersion programming is available.
St. Charles Students Explore Social Skills for Success by LDAS!
Students in Ms. Cormier and Mme Bouzanne’s class at St. Charles Elementary School, participated in a presentation by the Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario by Chris Doucette called Social Skills for Success. The students explored Emotional Awareness, feelings and social interactions.
St. Charles Students incorporate Indigenous Artwork into their School
The students of grade 5, 6 and 7 at St Charles are being inspired by great Canadian native artists such as Isaac Bignell, Norval Morrisseau, Benjamin Chee Chee and Glen Rabena amongst many others. They chose a piece to base themselves on and chose their favourite colours for their image. Now their beautiful masterpieces line our halls.
To all parents of first time school bus riders
The Sudbury Student Services Consortium in cooperation with school bus operators invites all Kindergarten and first time bus riders to a School Bus Safety Awareness session to be held at College Boreal on 21 Lasalle Boulevard in Sudbury.
Sessions will be held on August 25 and 26, 2017. For further information and to register and secure a spot, visit http://businfo.ca/en/safety/ftr/
Sudbury Catholic Elementary Band takes silver, gold at the Northern Ontario Music Festival
It’s Festival season, and the Sudbury Catholic Elementary Band did not disappoint! This band is made up of 125 students from 6 schools – St. Charles College, St. Benedict, St. Anne, St. Charles Chelmsford, St. John and St. James – and is directed by Leanne Urso, JoAnne Comisso, Sabrina Clark and Eric Miron.
The students competed at the Northern Ontario Music Festival on Tuesday, March 21st at Sudbury Secondary School and came away with a Silver award. Then, on Tuesday, April 4th, the band competed at the Kiwanis Music Festival at St. Benedict School and improved on their score by winning a Gold award! Congratulations goes out to all the band members for all their hard work.
RAMS have the Christmas Spirit!
In record breaking numbers, students and staff at St. Charles Elementary in Chelmsford collected donations of cans and cash for the Friendship House Food Bank in Chelmsford. Last year, the school collected 3204 cans and we set out to beat that number by 1 this year. Thanks to the generosity of the families in the St. Charles school community, we collected 6743 cans this year, which included $1673.98 in cash!!
The students in Mme Bouzane’s grade 5/6 class demonstrated leadership as they counted donations, organized and graphed the results each week. After the collection of cans, students were privileged to go to the food bank and see behind the scenes, and what happens when all those boxes of food leave our front doors. They learned about how the food bank organizes donations for families in our community.
Thank you once again to all the families in our school for making a difference for the families in our community at this time.
Way to go, RAMS!
St. David students learn “What Counts, What Matters, What is Important, When we Solve a Math Problem Completely”
The grade 5/6 class at St. David Catholic School learned what counts, what matters, what is important, when we solve a math problem completely. The students were involved in co-developing success criteria for problem solving in a lesson modelled by renewed, interactive educational speaker and author, Sandra Herbst.
The students and Ms. Herbst developed the criteria, while the Board’s principals and vice principals observed the lesson. The lesson included modelling, peer conversation, higher level questioning and the organization and sharing of student ideas to co-construct success criteria. The lesson was an opportunity for not only student learning, but also staff learning. The staff involved attended a pre-lesson professional development session, then attended a de-breifing after the demonstration lesson. Ms. Herbst spent the week working with Sudbury Catholic Schools teachers, principals, vice principals and students from a variety of Sudbury Catholic elementary and secondary schools.
Pink Shirt Campaign at St. Charles Elementary
St. Charles Elementary students and staff signed their name on pink shirts indicating their promise to the Sudbury Police Chief and their school to stand-up to bullying and support the Pink Shirt Campaign. In the picture from left to right, are grade 3 students, Catherine Villa MacVeigh, Shawn Huzij and Olivia Burke accompanied by Mr. Soehner, principal of St. Charles. This group went to every class and communicated the message about anti-bullying and the importance of standing up.
Welcome to Kindergarten, future RAMS!
The soon to be St. Charles RAMS came together for a night of fun activities at the St. Charles Welcome to Kindergarten celebration! Both parents and children engaged in many different activities, such as exploring the discovery tables, the light table, iPads, living art, puzzles, fine motor challenges, numeracy and literacy stations. Once students completed their ‘passport’, they had a visit with Mr. Soehner, the principal who gave them a bag of goodies from the Learning Partnership.