Month: February 2018

Students at St. Benedict Catholic School wanted to remember DJ Hancock.
Hancock was a graduate from the St. Benedict class of 2014 and his first passion was hockey.

Today, the student council organized the first-ever teacher versus student buyout ball hockey game to remember DJ.DJ was killed by a drunk driver in 2014 and his family works closely with Mothers’ Against Drunk Driving (or MADD). 814 dollars was raised by students who attended the buyout.

The teachers put on a lot of pressure at the start of the game, but that fizzled and the student team grabbed a 2-1 win.

To commemorate National Flag day, students and staff at St. Benedict raised the Canadian flag at the site of its new flag pole.

The flag was blessed by the school Chaplain, and together the students and staff smudged with the Indigenous Support Worker, Carla Petahtegoose.

It is a great day to be Canadian.

The grades 7/8 Aware Bears organization at St. Benedict supports charitable causes in the community.

This year, a lot of the funds raised will go to Northern Ontario Families of Children with Cancer, NOFCC.

With more than 25 hundred dollars raised already, Mrs. Trowbridge, a teacher at the school got an idea to duct tape teachers to the walls of the gym as a means to raise even more money for the cause using the house system.

All students in the school are grouped into houses as a means to build spirit and friendships at the school so the event became even more of a challenge worth winning.

Mr. Posteraro and his house, Mkwaa won the challenge by keeping him taped up to the gym wall for the longest period of time.

An additional 732 dollars was raised during the challenge.

Mrs. Trowbridge says the event was “an awesome show of spirit and support with the best teachers and student body going.”

Today, students in the grade 7 and 8 wing at St. Benedict planned for a tough conversation they might experience in the future.

The students completed response texts in the event that someone reaches out to them about their mental health to look for support.

The students also talked about taking negative and unwanted words out of their vocabulary when it comes to dealing with mental health.

Visit the website https://letstalk.bell.ca/en/ for more information such as videos and helpful tips

Need to talk to someone or know someone who needs to talk? Here is a good place to start: http://www.mentalhealthhelpline.ca/