Collège Notre-Dame (Sudbury)

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Collège Notre-Dame is a French Catholic secondary school in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The student population is roughly 750(AA school). It is one of four French Catholic high schools in the Sudbury region and is renowned for its academic excellence and its sports teams, particularly Football, Flag Football, Gymnastics and Hockey.

The school was founded in 1948 as le Couvent Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil. Originally an all-girls school, boys were finally allowed to attend after the closure of Collège du Sacré-Coeur in the late 1960s. Le Collège du Sacré-Coeur is now known as École secondaire catholique du Sacré-Coeur and is the other french catholic high school in the city of Sudbury. Collège Notre-Dame is known for its qualities emphasizing on theoritical academics, offering Enriched Mathematics and Integrated Sciences, as well as possesing a Gifted students program (Douance). The school also instills a great deal of discipline in its students, which explains why the school remains very popular among parents. Furthermore, the students are required to wear classic uniforms, such a navy blue blazer, a red tie and grey pants for boys, and a navy blue vest and skirt for girls, complete with a white shirt for both sexes. The uniforms add to the distinct elitist character of the school.

Collège Notre-Dame is currently headed by Sr. Rachel Watier, and is known throughout the city for its work in fundraising for the Northern Cancer Research Foundation, headed in Sudbury. In the year 2005-06 the school raised over 40,000$ CDN for the foundation through such events as: the blitz, where a large majority of the students went throughout the city, on assigned streets acquiring door-to-door donations, The Franco-Vedette Competition, sponsored by Radio-Canada, a competition where students performed vocally, quite similar to the Idol type shows, which was won by grade 9 student Tracie Landry, and Le Bistro Notre-Dame, a French-Canadian, cultural music showcase put on by Mme Renée Dupuis. Most of these events are set to be re-scheduled this year and the annual amount of money raised is as of yet undetermined.

[edit] External links

• School website (French)