St. Robert CHS Student News
On October 28, the St. Robert Junior Boys Volleyball team had to face off against not 1, but 2 teams – the Sacred Heart Crusaders and the Middleton Hawks. They started off the night against the Crusaders, taking the lead right from the beginning. Throughout the entire game, the Rams were relentless, never showing mercy and maintaining the lead. With a final score of 25-19, the Rams came out victorious from their first game against Sacred Heart.
Students were treated with an eerie sight on Friday, October 31st as ghouls, monsters, and superheroes roamed the halls of St. Robert. Creatures of the night haunted every classroom and ordinary students walked around dressed in fantastic costumes for just one day. Students and teachers of St. Robert transformed into different beings, wearing an exciting array of different costumes, ready to display true Halloween spirit.
Wouldn’t you like to be able to communicate with only your gestures? Learn another language? Or have secret conversations with your friends and not even make a sound? Then, American Sign Language (ASL) club is the club for you. At St.Robert, there is a sign language club to teach you signs, play games, and learn new things. Sign language gives people with hearing disabilities a creative and innovative way to communicate. Like any other spoken languages, ASL is a natural language with complex structures and rules.
On Oct. 2, 2014, St. Robert’s freshmen happily drove away from their stress after the intense first month of high school. Completely clueless about high school trips, they wanted to find out why Camp Robinhood is such a memorable experience for everyone.
Welcome back students and staff to the new school year. It’s safe to say that the 2014-2015 school year started off with a bang. Excited chatter was overheard as friends were reunited and the new grade nines acclimated to the new school environment.
Established in 1946, DECA is a worldwide organization that provides key skills to individuals to prepare them for the business world. Over the past 60 years, they have had a major influence on over 10 million students, teachers and business administrators. This organization allows one to develop skills with respect to public speaking and the ability to think quickly and formulate effective presentations. St. Robert has been fortunate to have this well-known organization established here.
On Friday September 26th our school hosted the very first dance of the year, only for ninth graders!
It was a fun and exciting night as we dressed up to the Wild West theme and hung out with our friends. After a day of meeting new people at Camp Robin Hood , the dance gave us the chance to get to know everyone a little more. What better way to have fun and improve our friendships than by having a school dance? By the end of the night, everyone headed home with big smiles on their faces knowing that they weren’t alone in this giant school community.
ROOM 118 is where all the magic happens. One of the most influential councils present at St. Robert is the Student Council. Composed of students and teachers, they devote a long period of time every Monday after school to bring events together for the student body.
We’ve all had our share of problems with airports, whether it be rowdy neighbours, loud babies, air sickness, or irritable security officers. And maybe it’s just been our bad luck that we Torontonians are cursed with having to use one of the worst airports in North America – Lester B. Pearson Airport. Perhaps we can sympathize with the fact that it will undoubtedly be plagued with problems with it having the greatest level of people traffic in Canada; however, we travellers expect more from our city.
As part of a Catholic community, St. Robert always strives to give back to those in need and one of the many clubs that helps make this possible is Social Justice, which has been part of the school community for many years. Its goal this year is to partner with Free the Children and Me-to-We to build yet another school as part of the Adopt-A-Village program. Social Justice continues to make a great impact on the school community as it brings awareness to global issues and encourages the school staff and students to participate in fundraisers and volunteering opportunities. For the month of October, Social Justice started a “We Scare Hunger” food drive for Halloween. It is small acts like these that go a long way to better the life of families in need. As said by Amanda F. (12), the Social justice President,