St. David Students Spread Valentine Cheer on 100th Day of School
Grade 1 students at St. David Catholic School will be making 100 Valentines today to be given to the residents at Pioneer Manor. The class project celebrates the 100th day at school and brings some cheer to the residents as they have not been able to have visitors due to the flu outbreak.
St. James, St. David Students Make Appearance at MCTV Christmas Telethon
Olympic Athlete Visits St. James, St. David Catholic Schools
St. David Catholic School Wins Schoolyard Makeover Contest
St. David Catholic School is the winner of this year’s annual ‘Ugliest Schoolyard Contest’. The innovative contest reinforces and supports local efforts to provide shade for children in school yards through planting trees and shrubs, thereby reducing the strength of the sun’s rays.
As part of the winning package for the Ugliest Schoolyard, St. David will receive trees and shrubs, courtesy of Canadian Tire, Saturn of Sudbury will provide a reading corner containing large trees, sod and benches with Hollandia Landscaping and INCO donating top soil for the project. ALLMAC Tree Service will plant the trees, sod and shrubbery with the help of the students, staff and parents at St. David Catholic School.
The St. David entry was selected from fifteen schools that participated in the contest with the criteria consisting of submission of letters from the students, photos from staff, and a walkabout of the school by the panel of judges as to why their school should win the ‘Ugliest Schoolyard Contest’.
St. David Catholic School Holds Walkathon
St. David Student Selected to Attend Leadership Conference
St. David Student Wins Knights of Columbus Free Throw Basketball Competition
Children’s Lectionary Book Returns To St. David School In Annual Procession
St. David Catholic elementary school in co-operation with the Holy Trinity Catholic Church held a special mass followed by a procession of students, staff and parents to help celebrate the Children’s Lectionary’s Book return to the school. A Liturgy Committee was established at the school consisting of parents, teachers, staff and Paul Labelle, Permanent Deacon at Holy Trinity Catholic Church. The main purpose of the Liturgy Committee is to enhance the liturgical celebrations in the school and to develop a closer connection with the Church.
The St. David Catholic School Council purchased a copy of the Children’s Lectionary Book for the school so that the children would have the scriptures in a version they could understand more easily and at the same time have a visible sign of God’s Word in their midst. The Lectionary Book is used at all school celebrations where the scriptures are read and at the school masses that are held at Holy Trinity Church on the first Thursday of the month throughout the school year. At the closing celebration of the school year in June, St. David students, parents, teachers and staff celebrate the return of Children’s Lectionary Book to the school. St. David’s copy of the Scriptures was given to a representative of Holy Trinity to bring to the Church for safe keeping over the summer break.
The Liturgy Committee decided this year to once again bring the book back to the school in grand fashion. At the closing of the first school mass of the year, Captains from each of the four houses that have been established at St. David’s came forward and received the book. The book was then processed back to the school with Chelsea Wandziak, (a student at St. David’s and an altar server at Holy Trinity), leading the way with the Cross, and Deidre Richer and Chelsea Toulouse, also students and altar servers following with candles, along with the school’s students in a procession (see above photo). The Lectionary Book was then placed in its prayer corner at the school and will remain at the school for the rest of the year.
Sister Pat Carter Visits St. David School
Sister Patricia Carter visited the Grade 6 class at St. David School recently, challenging the students to become people of prayer and service. For the past five years, Sister Pat Carter has been visiting Grade 6 classes in the three dioceses of Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins. Throughout the presentations Sister Pat speaks to the students about the vocations of single life, married life, religious life and priesthood. In November, she visited over 600 students in 20 schools in the Sudbury region – Pius XII, St. Theresa, St. Anthony, St. Francis, St. Christopher, St. Anne in Hanmer, Our Lady of Fatima in Naughton, St. Michael, St. John in Garson, St. Mary in Capreol, Corpus Christi, St. David, St. James in Lively, St. Charles in Chelmsford, Immaculate Conception in Val Caron, St. Paul in Coniston, St. Mark in Markstay, St. Raphael, and St. Joseph in Killarney.
According to research, there are three significant times in the lives of young people when they are preoccupied with vocational choices; at age 11, grade 11 and during the second-year of their post-secondary education young people ask: What would I like to be when I grow up? What contribution would I like to make to the world around me? How can my life have meaning? Sister Pat Carter and Sister Mary Jo Radey, vocation directors for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Sault Ste. Marie, meet with young people close to these times visiting elementary schools and secondary schools, universities and colleges to encourage students to become people of prayer and service and to deepen their relationship with God.
As a follow up to the Grade 6 classroom visits, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Sault Ste. Marie will be holding an essay and poster contest in February 2003. The students will be invited to reflect on who has been a good witness of the Gospel message to them. They will be asked to write their reflections in an essay or create a poster to give specific examples of how this person was an effective witness of Jesus’ love. The essay and poster theme fits in well with the Grade 6 religious education program entitled “You Shall Be My Witnesses”. For more information on the essay and poster contest, contact Sister Pat Carter at csjcvocn@onlink.net.