Collège Notre-Dame (Sudbury)

Collège Notre-Dame is a French Catholic secondary school in Sudbury, Ontario. The student population is roughly 800(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 Basketball, Flag Football, Gymnastics and Hockey.

The school was founded in 1946 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-Cœur in the late 1960s. Le Collège du Sacré-Cœur is now known as École secondaire du Sacré-Cœur and is the other French Catholic high school in the city of Sudbury. Collège Notre-Dame is known for its qualities emphasizing on theoretical academics, offering Enriched Mathematics and Integrated Sciences, as well as possessing 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 as a navy blue blazer, a red tie and grey pants for boys, and a navy blue vest and skirt for girls along with navy blue pants and cardigan, 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 Mme Joanne Chrétien, 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 Tracy Landrie, and Le Bistro Notre-Dame, a French-Canadian, cultural music showcase put on by Mme Renée Dupuis with the help of M. Mario Taillefer. Most of these events are set to be re-scheduled this year and the annual amount of money raised is as of yet undetermined.

External links

• School website (French)

Le Bistro was started and created by Mme Sylvie Brosseau.