This story was originally published by the Saskatchewan Health Authority and is shared here with permission. A group of students from Bethlehem Catholic High school in Saskatoon recently designed and sent 51 handmade cards and notes to the health-care workers at...
Greater Saskatoon Catholic School Division
Playing around nets a Prime Minister’s teaching award
To put an educational spin on the old tree-falling-in-the-forest adage: if a kindergarten student doesn’t realize they are learning by playing, are they are actually learning? If you ask Shelley Smith, kindergarten teacher at Holy Trinity Catholic School in Warman,...
E.D. Feehan Catholic High School working to save refugee family
This story was originally published by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon and is posted here with permission. By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News When an E.D. Feehan student spoke to her teachers about the peril facing her brother and his family,...
Draft plans for new St. Frances Cree Bilingual School revealed
Guests at a series of open house consultations and presentations on November 17 at Prairieland Park entered a room filled with conceptual drawings, tentative floor plans, a 3-D model and a "virtual explorer" view of select areas for a new St. Frances Cree Bilingual...
St. Anne School Treaty 6 medal installation
After opting to postpone last year’s plans to install a Treaty 6 medal at St. Anne School, the school community hosted a ceremony on October 7, 2021, as a tangible sign of their commitment to treaty education and their collective response to the Calls to Action of the...
St. Anne students honour Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu-Tum
Continuing a long-standing partnership with Rotary Club of Saskatoon – Nutana and Meewasin Valley Authority, the Grade 7 and 8 class at St. Anne School—led by teachers Dustin Kasun and Katelyn Stinson—had a celebration at Rotary Park Peace Plaza to install a peace...
Gift of fiddles scores a perfect 10
You can see the happiness in their eyes. Early in September 2021, students at Oskāyak High School eagerly opened boxes containing 10 fiddles, thanks to the generosity of world-renowned musicians Natalie MacMaster and her husband, Donnell Leahy. The gift seeds the new...
Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action inspire new Transit shelter
Content written by Saskatoon Transit and shared with permission. Saskatoon Transit and students from the E.D. Feehan Catholic High School Newcomer Youth Engagement Program (NYEP) and the miyo mâcihowin program met with Métis Elder Nora Cummings, First Nations Elder...
Nitōhtem Partnership signed between division and Wanuskewin
On May 31, 2021, Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools (GSCS) and Wanuskewin Heritage Park Authority (WHPA) signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding aptly titled: Nitōhtem, meaning my friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHJa-bxVuYQ The purpose of this MOU is to...
Sketchbooks are created and donated by GSCS students as an outreach to prisoners
This story was originally published by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon and is used with permission. By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News A collection of lovingly decorated, hand-made sketchbooks were recently delivered to the Catholic Pastoral...