St.David School chose to celebrate their students and families for their consistent hard work this school year with a special Superhero Day!

Staff and students wore their favourite superhero customers and applauded each other’s efforts for being true heroes throughout the pandemic.

The school sent letters to families thanking them, hosted a school wide superhero dance with prices for school spirit, taught literacy and math lessons based on the superhero theme and played superhero bingo!

The school also created and shared the below video showing tons of community members (and a few surprise guests) thanking the students and their families for a job well done! Way to go Dragons!

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For Catholic Education week, students at St. David’s partnered with Skills Ontario today to create their very own birdhouses on zoom. Students were able to pick up their birdhouse kits at the school and tune in for their lesson on the importance of skilled trades, nurturing hope, and connecting with nature.  Skills Ontario has a focus on creating workshops that build, design, create and fix for Elementary Career Awareness week.  Students are invited to extend their learning and partake in the school-based challenge to decorate their birdhouses in a way that demonstrates pride and their unique identity. Providing students with the opportunity to explore these actions through experiential learning workshops, allows them to discover different career possibilities in the skilled trades and technologies at a very young age.

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Mrs. Raso’s grade 1/2 class participated in an amazing workshop last week with special visitors from the Engineering Outreach team of Waterloo University. The university students are running the ESQube mobile workspace STEM workshop that helps engage students in a more hands on learning approach virtually. Students learned several things about animals, adaptations and their habitats, as well as creating their very own animals using the scratch junior APP and coding their own stories. Students were so excited to have special guests in their classroom to give them a different perspective on what experiential learning looks like online.

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Grade 1 & 2 students at St. David school had a special visitor from Sarasota, Florida this morning. The students have been reading the series of Howard B. Wigglebottom books in class – as a surprise Mrs. Raso invited Mr. Howard Binko and his friend Howard B. Wigglebottom for a visit.

Mr. Binko, the author read a story called, “Mud and Rainbows”. Howard teaches us that, “We can’t change the world but we can change our mind”. 

Afterwards, Mr. Binko showed the students his educational website where students can play a variety of games. The We Do LIsten website also gives students the opportunity to write and colour their own storybook.

Teachers can book Mr. Howard Binko for a visit by emailing him at:  info@wedolisten.com 

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