Thank you Miss Mansourian and our grade 6 students for leading the whole school in the Living Rosary during Catholic Education Week. It was moving and beautiful.
Pius XII visits Holy Redeemer to celebrate Catholic Education Week
Pius XII is celebrating Catholic Education Week by “walking forward together” as a triad of home, school and parish at Holy Redeemer Parish during a special mass on Sunday April 30, 2017. This triad emphasizes for our children, the reality of our wider Catholic community that collaborates on their faith formation and education.
Students at Pius XII Catholic school raise over $4000 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation
Pius XII Catholic School would like to thank all the family members, staff members and community partners who supported Pius XII students in collecting funds to support the Heart & Stroke Foundation. We raised over $4000.00 to help fight heart disease and stroke.
The JUMP Rope for Heart event is a fantastic way to work together as a community to support those in need as well as have fun promoting healthy living with our students.
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/
Love is in the air at Pius XII
Love is in the air at Pius XII Catholic Elementary School! Students celebrated Valentine’s Day by sending each other candy-grams and thoughtful card messages, but the highlight of the day was the Valentine’s Dance organized by the Grade 6 students and their teacher.
“What a fun time! It is always nice to see students celebrate with one another and to see the virtue of love being lived out in front of us,” said Ms. Mansourian, Grade 6 teacher.
Multi-Media Mondays at Pius XII
Multi-Media Mondays is a new after school Club at Pius XII which supports students in developing self-expression, confidence, relationships with peers, and artistic creativity. Students have the opportunity to experience Karaoke, Improv, Dance, and Rap Battles, just to name a few.
Pius XII celebrates Family Literacy Day
On January 27th, Pius XII Catholic Elementary School welcomed parents and family members into the school community to enjoy a morning of literacy activities with their children. Families enjoyed a variety of simple literacy crafts and activities with their children while also using the time in the school to help build community and model what a trusting home/school relationship looks like.
Smiles were abundant throughout the school as families laughed and learned together. “What a great morning of community building and learning! It was a wonderful opportunity to share our literacy curriculum and the simple ways that families can support their child’s success at school” stated Sabrina Kutchaw, Pius XII School Special Education Resource
The sky is the limit for canned food collecting at St. Charles College
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”.
Activate your Recess at Pius XII!
Pius XII school is very excited to begin the ‘Activate Your Recess Program’. This is a partnership program with the SDHU and a local firm called Healthy Living Inc.. Recess gives children the opportunity to be active and engage in free play on a daily basis. This makes it an important school environment for the promotion of health-related physical activity. The program includes an activity pack with various sporting equipment for students to use at recess. The items are aimed at improving locomotor skills, ball skills, foot coordination, and visual-motor integrity.
Thank you Sudbury District Health Unit and Healthy Living Inc. for selecting Pius to receive this program!
Buddy Bench at Pius XII
The staff and students at Pius XII school are very excited to introduce ‘The Buddy Bench’! The Buddy Bench is the latest addition to our school yard in an effort to promote inclusion. If a student is feeling like they have nobody to play with, or their best friend isn’t at school one day and they are in need of a buddy, they simply can sit at the Buddy Bench; other students will see someone sitting alone at the bench and they will go over to keep that student company, talk with him or her, or invite the buddy to play. Our Pius Penguins are a kind and compassionate school family. The Buddy Bench is one more way that we live out our vision of ‘Everyone Succeeds, Everyone Counts!’
The Buddy Bench was hand-crafted by Educational Assistant Derek Zaher.