Education

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre receives award for “Best Cultural Organisation”

Algoma University’s Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (SRSC) received the prestigious LCD Berlin award for “Best Cultural Organisation” during the 2020 LCD Berlin Academy, a renowned international event celebrating the world’s best new and established cultural destinations. The annual awards highlight the most exceptional and emerging cultural initiatives around the world, with nominees representing 50 cultural destinations in 26 countries. The two-day LCD ...

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Ontario Announces a Fair Plan to Keep Students in Class

The Honourable Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, today confirmed the Government has made additional, reasonable proposals at the negotiating table to fight for the priorities of students and parents, with a single focus on ending this impasse. During the negotiation process, the Government tabled proposals with each of the teacher unions, which included substantive moves on lower than proposed but ...

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Des mocassins faits sur mesure!

  Les élèves de l’École secondaire Saint-Joseph (Wawa) inscrits au cours de français 11e année «Découvrir les voix autochtones contemporaines », dirigé par l’enseignante Mme Carole Bouffard, ont pu mener un projet pour ce cours. C’est ainsi qu’ils ont découvert la fabrication de mocassins, un art minutieux. Les élèves ont complété toutes les étapes nécessaires pour réussir. Les mocassins fabriqués dans ...

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Custom-made moccasins!

  Students at École secondaire Saint-Joseph (Wawa) registered in the grade 11 French course “Discovering Contemporary Native Voices”, directed by teacher Ms. Carole Bouffard, were able to carry out a project for this course. As part of this project, they discovered the making of moccasins, a meticulous art. Students completed all of the steps necessary to succeed. The moccasins produced ...

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ÉSC Trillium Coyotes stand tall at North Shore championship

  The school’s boys junior and senior teams basket-ball teams as well as the girls’ junior volley-ball sport teams from École secondaire catholique Trillium (Chapleau) displayed fine form at the North Shore Secondary School (NSSSAA) Championship held in Marathon on February 18 to 20. The young athletes from Trillium responded to the challenge and played high level games. We note the ...

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À la découverte du monde hivernal!

  Durant le mois de janvier, les amis de la classe jardin B à l’école Saint-Joseph (Wawa), avec l’aide de leur enseignante, Mme Jenny Bouffard, ont créé un monde hivernal dans leur salle de classe.   Dans leur espace d’apprentissage reflétant l’hiver canadien, les élèves ont même eu la chance de faire de la pêche sur glace, activité durant laquelle ...

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Discovering the wonders of winter

  During the month of January, students in the Kindergarten B class at École Saint-Joseph (Wawa), with the support of teacher Jenny Bouffard, created a winter world in their classroom. Their learning environment truly reflected the reality of winter in Canada. Such being the case, students had the unique opportunity to do some ice fishing, an activity that enabled them ...

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All CSC Nouvelon schools in the Algoma District to be closed on March 5, 2020

The Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO), the union that represents teaching staff, short- and long-term supply teachers in all Conseil scolaire catholique Nouvelon schools, as well as the board learning consultants, will conduct a one-day full strike – withdrawal of all services – across the province of Ontario on Thursday, March 5, 2020 since no contract agreement ...

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SJD – Wash your hands!

  Do you ever wonder if you are getting all of those germs off your hands when you are washing them? Well the students in the Kindergarten class at Sir James Dunn found out first hand where those sneaky germs like to hide! We had a visit from Mrs. Gauthier and Mrs. Burgoyne who are nurses at the Algoma Public ...

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Minister of Education on OECTA’s Next Strike Action

Today, Friday, February 28th, 2020, Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, issued the following statement in response to OECTA’s announced one-day, province-wide strike: “Strikes by the teachers’ unions have resulted in millions of student days lost. This week, while in discussions with OECTA, we sought to get a deal that is in the best interests of our students through lower class ...

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All CSC Nouvelon schools to be open on February 27th – Strike Cancelled

The Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO), the union that representsteaching staff, short- and long-term supply teachers in all Conseil scolaire catholique Nouvelon schools, as well as the board learning consultants, has canceled its one-day full strike scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 27, 2020. The Districts of Sudbury, Manitoulin and Algoma were among the targeted areas. ...

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L’AEFO mènera une grève totale d’une journée le 27 février

L’ Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO) effectuera un retrait complet de services dans toutes les régions de l’Ontario le jeudi 27 février 2020 puisqu’une nouvelle entente avec le gouvernement n’a pas encore été conclue. Les districts de Sudbury, Manitoulin et d’Algoma font partie des régions ciblées. Au sein du CSC Nouvelon, ce syndicat représente les enseignants et ...

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AEFO to conduce one-day full strike on February 27

The Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO), the union that represents teaching staff, short- and long-term supply teachers in all Conseil scolaire catholique Nouvelon schools, as well as the board learning consultants, will conduct a one-day full strike – withdrawal of all services – across the province of Ontario on Thursday, February 27, 2020 since no contract agreement ...

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There was a FIRE TRUCK at Sir James Dunn!

  Wow, the Kindergarten class sure was excited when they saw the fire truck in the parking lot! It didn’t take us long to climb inside and explore the buttons and levers. We were very fortunate to have Mr. Gauthier, the Deputy Chief, otherwise known in our class as “Calvin’s Dad” come to show us the truck and tell us ...

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Rural Students’ Education Should Not Be Sacrificed Under Ford Government’s Funding Cuts

MPP Michael Mantha (Algoma-Manitoulin), NDP Critic for Northern Development and Mines, demanded that this government stop exacerbating the already underfunded school systems in rural and northern areas across Ontario. Mantha emphasized the years of neglect by the Liberal government with respect to education and that the added strain of Conservative funding cuts has worsened the situation for thousands of Ontarian’s. ...

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