Departments

Arts Department:

Music

The highlight of Spring for many of our Music students was a trip to the Big Apple! The students, conducted by Mr. Ng, participated in the Rhythms International Music Festival in New York and achieved the highest rating, Superior, for their playing. In addition to performing, the students, accompanied by supervisors Mr. Ng, Mr. Meiorin, Mrs. Shephard, and Mrs. Mastromartino visited the MET museum, Ground Zero, Times Square, Central Park and viewed two Broadway Shows. The play, Mean Girls was an audience favourite, especially when playwright Tina Fey took to the stage in a surprise visit at the end of the play!

It has been a busy Spring as well with both the Vocal and Instrumental students performing at the Music Alive Festival in Newmarket under the direction of Ms. Doria and Mr. Ng. The festival, sponsored by the YCDSB provides the opportunity for adjudication, feedback, and workshops for all music students in our Board.

Finally, the students are preparing for the annual Spring Music Concert held at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts on Tuesday April 30th at 7:00 pm. Our six bands and the Senior Choir will perform for families and staff members in a night that is a wonderful finale to a year of hard work!

Visual Arts

The Art Club is still up and running with Mr. Meiorin at the helm, every Thursday after school in room 102. They continue to work on sports related art for the Physed hallways of STL. The Sketchbook Club, which runs on Tuesdays with Mrs. Shephard is well underway, allowing students who are are art school bound, to hone their skills. Are students are welcome to both Arts clubs.

Over the years, our Visual Arts teachers have run an excellent photography program taught in grade 11 Art, teaching students to develop their own prints in the dark room. Next year however, they are moving to digital photography; with the purchase of chromebooks a new skill set will be explored. We are fortunate to have Ms. Grice who in addition to being an dedicated Art and Drama LTO at STL, is also an accomplished photographer. She will be sharing her talents with our Art teachers to prepare for next year’s move to digital photography!

Drama

Every Thursday after school the Drama Club meets to improvise, play drama games, and introduce the art to those not currently enrolled in the course. The club is run by former grade 12 Drama students who miss their beloved theatre! All are welcome.

By: Ms. Santagato-Davies

Mathematics:

On April 11, STL sent two teams to compete in the York Catholic Mathematics Team competition. There were 15 teams from all schools in our board. Our two teams won Gold and Silver! Congratulations to our silver winners Hanna Au, Yichen Che, Armaan Mahajan, Abramo Ginevra, Ronny Thomas, and Payam Fakooriziba. Also congratulations to our Gold Medalists, who consist of Ellina Zhang, Thomas Yang, Alex Cho, Eugene Lee, Evan Zheng, and John Dong.

Once again congratulations on finishing 1st and 2nd of our 15 very strong teams.

Science:

On Saturday April 13^th several students from STL participated at the York Region Sci-Tech Fair at York University against approximately 160 students from over 60 schools across the York Region. After 3 rounds of judging, five of our students were awarded medals or honourable mentions for their incredible projects.

The Science Department would like to congratulate the following students:

Michael Capuano and David Jiang for receiving an Honourable Mention for their project "Removal of dioxins from factory production emissions.”

Alyssa Qian for winning a Silver Medal for her project “What you see might NOT be what it is--- String theory and extra dimensions.”

Mira Bhattacharya for winning a GOLD medal for her project “A novel and eco-friendly method to remove oil and other contaminants using fruit peels.”

Yaseen Abbas for winning a GOLD medal and University of Ottawa entrance scholarship for his project “Anthocyanins: A natural deterrent to Carcinogenesis.”

As a GOLD medalist, Mira and Yaseen also won a trip to Fredericton in May 2019 to compete at the Canada Wide Science Fair against 500 projects around the country.

Congratulations to all students who participated this year and we hope more students will consider entering the YRSTF 2020 for their chance to win a Gold medal and compete at the Canada Wide Science Fair in Edmonton in May 2020.

Student Services

Bocce:

Julia won first place in the first ever All Inclusion Bocce Tournament 2019. Youth Bocce accepted 16 special needs athletes from York Region and the GTA. The 16 athletes were paired with 16 non-special needs Ontario Bocce champions. When Julia took her final winning shot, all her supporters were moved to tears. Congratulations Julia. Match well played!!