Participant schools included Marymount Academy, St. Anne Catholic School, Holy Trinity Catholic School, Immaculate Conception, Holy Cross Catholic School, St.Benedict Catholic Secondary School, St. John Catholic School and St. Charles College.
The senior band and strings ensemble from Marymount Academy (pictured here) were recommended for the provincial competition.
Congratulations to all musicians who participated and thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
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/
To celebrate World Autism Day, the students at Holy Trinity were engaged in a fun and creative art project while inviting them to think about the importance of inclusion and understanding of students with ASD within their school and community. Students were asked what kinds of actions or specific behaviours go into creating a supportive school, for not just students with ASD, but for everyone. They were asked to think about ways they could be supportive of everyone’s unique differences and what this might look like. The intention of this activity was to show students that every seed or idea will be uniquely one of kind and that all ideas about how to make school a better place are equally beautiful in their own way. In other words, all seeds have the potential to grow and flourish and when placed together all seeds have the potential to create a beautifully diverse and colourful mural – and ultimately a beautifully diverse school.
A “Toonies for Autism” fundraiser was also launched to support Autism Research. Ms. Reynolds would like to thank the staff and students for supporting this initiative! “Together we can promote awareness about ASD, and increase understanding, critical first steps to creating more supportive environments for people living with ASD in our classrooms.”
Since the mid eighties, St. Charles College student council has been organizing a fall food drive in support of the Sudbury Food Bank. Every year it just gets better and better.
The students were given the task of collecting sixty thousand cans this year. Teacher leaders Paola Gutscher and Bev Belanger were happy to report that the students smashed their goal with raising more than 126 thousand cans. Year after year, it has become the largest single donation to the Sudbury Food Bank warehouse.
The leadership students cannot do this alone. It is supported by all the 7-12 students at St. Charles College along with feeder schools — Holy Trinity, St. Paul, St. John, St. David and Pius.
The wrap-up event today highlighted the accomplishments of the students but also the staff had to hold up its end of the bargain complete with staff pie in the face showdowns, shaved heads, dyed heads and waxed legs.
Principal Patty Mardero says it is also important to recognize the citizens of Sudbury who graciously donated to the drive when the students knocked upon their doors. The food collected over the course of the last week was delivered to the Sudbury Food Bank warehouse today. Mardero says “This visit to the warehouse to unload is critical in helping students see the fruits of their labour as they lift each box of canned food and fill the shelves of the warehouse”.
Holy Trinity Catholic School presents our “Chapters Poetry Reading Fundraiser” on Friday May 6th, 2016 from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm.
Print out this invitation and bring it with you. Shop for Mother’s Day and your Summer Reading List!
-Sign up at our registration desk
-20% of your purchase will be donated back to Holy Trinity Catholic School!
-FREE COFFEE supplied by Starbucks!
Hope to see you there to support literacy at SCDSB!
The Sudbury Catholic District School Board is pleased to announce that Rosemary Tripodi and Domenic Vicedomini from Holy Trinity Catholic Elementary School have been selected as one of two teams who have received the 2015-2016 Frances Polischuk Award. The award is presented by the Council of Associated Primary Educators (CAPE), which recognizes Rosemary and Domenic as educators who have had a significant impact on the education of young children.
Rosemary and Domenic were enthusiastic pioneers of the early learning inquiry and exploration full day kindergarten model for the Sudbury Catholic District School Board. Since 2010, Rosemary and Domenic have developed an incredible relationship that has been supporting the learning, health, and well being of young minds.
On Tuesday, April 5th, Holy Trinity Catholic School held an awards presentation in the gymnasium to honour them with a plaque and flowers. An official award presentation will be held by CAPE on April 14th via a webinar.
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 in August at College Boreal at 21 Lasalle Boulevard in Sudbury.
For more information and to register visit http://www.businfo.ca/en/safety/ftr/.
In 2015 eight universities in Ontario collaborated with the Ontario Catholic School Trustee Association (OCSTA) to create the OCSTA Certificate Course in Leadership & Good Governance. This is a 12-week online course that is provincial in scope but also includes local Catholic issues specific to a trustee’s own regional district. The course provides a trustee with many benefits such as developing a greater understanding and appreciation of the history of Catholic education in Ontario along with a greater understanding of the role of Catholic social teaching in our modern society. The leadership lessons of Pope Francis are also explored in the course. Topics include youth engagement in Catholic education, the role of the trustee as a public advocate for Catholic education, our support for Ontario First Nations, Metis and Inuit education and an examination of trends in Catholic education throughout Canada and the rest of the world.
Sudbury Catholic Trustee, Nancy Deni took part in this program. As part of the program, trustees are required to work on a practicum project that ideally could benefit their school board. Deni chose to focus on the home-school-parish triad relationship and ways that this triad can be strengthened. As part of her project, she sought and received feedback from parents, principals, priests and laypersons in the Church as she feels very strongly that the strength of this relationship is the key to keeping Catholic education alive and well in Ontario.
“I feel very privileged to be amongst the first cohort of trustees to complete the program,” Deni stated. “It was an eye-opening experience and I recommend the course to all trustees who want to be strong advocates for Catholic education in this province. This course really strengthened my belief that a Catholic education provides students with a really special and unique educational experience. We really do educate the mind, the body and the spirit in our schools.”
The grade nine French Immersion students at St. Charles College are currently studying a unit on “Les Contes” (short stories). One of their assignments was to create a “conte” and develop vocabulary words and comprehension questions about their “contes”.
The students collaborated with teacher Colette Perrin’s Grade 1 Immersion students to read the “contes”, and assist them with their French reading and understanding.
The small students also happened to be celebrating pajama day and were divided into stations for story time with the big SCC students who were celebrating ugly Christmas sweater day.
John Steinbeck is quoted as saying, “I guess there are never enough books. ”The school community at Holy Trinity Catholic School feels the same! They would like to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to all who generously donated to this year’s ADOPT-A-SCHOOL campaign. Each and every contribution is greatly appreciated! At the end of this autumn’s 2-week campaign a grand total of $8,139.00 was gathered for Holy Trinity to use to add to the school’s library collection.
But, that is not all… on December 2nd, 2015, the staff of the local Chapters and Coles stores dropped by Holy Trinity to officially kick-off “Giving Tuesday” by “giving back” to our school community through the donation of a collection of treasured books (each employee suggested their favourite children’s book to donate to the school).
In another surprise twist – the store representatives opened a large poster tied in a bright red ribbon to reveal yet another donation of $5000.00!! These additional funds will go far towards helping encourage the love of reading for every student at Holy Trinity Catholic School.
