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Yesterday
Tonnos’ Mike Thabane runs into Cathedral’s Neil Santos as he makes an attempt at two points. Photo by Cathie Coward, The Hamilton Spectator. | |
By Larry Moko
The Hamilton Spectator (Feb 17, 2012)
High school basketball fans will find out next week whether Big Blue is back.
A league powerhouse for most of the decade beginning in 2000, the Cathedral Gaels have qualified for the 2012 Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic senior boys’ basketball championship game at McMaster on Thursday.
Cathedral – sporting its fa ...
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Yesterday
St. Michael, a four-time Ontario certified EcoSchool, was happy to share one of its best practices in the Ontario EcoSchools monthly newsletter for February 2012.
The school, which holds an annual grandparents’ tea, decided to tap into grandparents’ gardening expertise to teach children about healthy and sustainable living.
Here is the article …
Grandparents and st ...
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Thursday February 16, 2012
Marissa Codispodi anchored Team Canada in the 4 x 400-metre relay at the Provincial Youth Championship last July after receiving the baton from Canadian champion Christian Brenna, shown in the background. |
By Mike Pearson
Ancaster News (Jan 19, 2012)
Marissa Codispodi is sprinting towards success in 2012.
Marissa, 16, has just returned from a hectic week at the National Training Center in Clermont, FL, where she trained on the same track as U.S. Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay. The Ancaster runner joined a group of elite Athletics Ontario athletes for last week’s training excur ...
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Wednesday February 15, 2012
Students and staff at St. Bernadette School raised $8,500 for a school in Africa last year. Retired Superintendent of Education Nancy DiGregorio travelled to Uganda in the summer to deliver the funds and visited St. Bernadette’s on January 31st at a Western Day assembly to update students on the school’s progress. Back row, from left: Nancy DiGregorio; members of 2010-2011 Student Council, Hayley Nedelko, Emily Gibbel, Liam Morgan, Alec Jadon and Jonathan Giordano; Principal Denise Fraser. Front |
Last summer Nancy DiGregorio found herself travelling halfway around the world on a mission of mercy.
Laden with flip flips and school supplies, DiGregorio – a retired superintendent of education for the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board – was delivering a cheque for $8,500 to an orphanage in Southwest Uganda to build a school.
The funds were raised by stude ...
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Tuesday February 14, 2012
Since September, St. James the Apostle Catholic Elementary School has been involved in fundraising for a Jesus Well in Asia. The school’s Student Council and Catholic School Council have been active in raising awareness of the issues facing communities in far away places that don't have water readily available to them. A fundraising campaign was launched to build a Jesus Well in one of those commu ...
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Monday February 13, 2012
It's Cool to Walk and Roll to School! | |
Despite cold temperatures, staff and students at Immaculate Conception Catholic Elementary School participated in Winter Walk to School Day, February 8th, in support of Active Transportation in Hamilton. Many teachers took their students on brisk walks around the school grounds. The students, in their yellow clothing and accessories, sent a wonderful message to the Ancaster community: Instead of d ...
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Monday February 13, 2012
It was two years in the making, but judging from the students’ and parents’ reactions, it was well worth the wait.
On January 31st, students and staff at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Elementary School moved from their temporary digs at the old Holy Family Catholic Elementary School into a spanking new 5,178 square metre two-storey building on Belmont Avenue in the heart of Hamilton ...
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Monday February 13, 2012
It’s an easy recipe to follow but the results are always different.
Antonietta Fede, an Art Teacher at St. Jean de Brébeuf Catholic Secondary School, shared a recipe for art with her graduating students and their creations formed the basis of an annual art exhibit, Recipes for Art, held at the school library on January 18th.
The recipe called for one pinch of abstraction, two ...
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Monday February 13, 2012
Michael Wade, author of the series “And Then it Happened” spoke to an engaged and enthusiastic audience at St. Michael Catholic Elementary School. Speaking to students in Grades 3 to 8, Wade empowered them by saying anyone can be a writer. He shared the story of his own early education and struggle with writing, and how, with the support of his wife, a Teacher-Librarian, was encouraged to embark o ...
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