Join the Church of Saint Ann's Adult Choir on Sunday, Dec. 10, at 3 PM. These spoken reflections and musical selections will help prepare your heart for the celebration of Christmas that is quickly approaching. A reception with light refreshments will follow in the Community Room.

On Saturday, Dec. 16, immediately following the 4:00 PM Mass, join our parish community as we gather around the Church of Saint Ann's Christmas Tree for the annual Tree Blessing & Lighting! Enjoy some Christmas Carols and light refreshments!

The Church of Saint Ann's Youth Choir would like to invite you to an afternoon of Christmas Spirit! Join them in singing some of their favorite Christmas songs on Sunday, Dec. 17, at 3 PM.

This Filipino Catholic tradition of over 500 years is celebrating its 20th anniversary in Mercer County! Join our parish Filipino community in celebrating the Star of Christmas during Mass on Saturday, Dec. 23, at 7:00 PM, at the Church of Saint Ann.

Hi! My name is Christine Savela and I am the PTA President. I have three daughters here: Kinley in 5th Grade, Kallie in 3rd, and Kambry in 1st. I want to briefly share with you some information about the PTA, what we do, your role and how you can keep us with us all year.  The PTA is here to support the mission of our school. We run numerous events and activities to enhance the educational, social and spiritual experience at St. Ann’s. We conduct fundraisers that allow us to fund in whole or in part: assemblies, field trips, clubs, special in school activities like field day and hot chocolate day, after school events like Trunk or Treat, Family Karaoke, and Dances. We provide funds to assist with school initiatives like new water fountains, cafeteria tables, white boards, and more. You can find all of our events for the year on our PTA Year-at-Glance on the PTA page on the school website. 

Hello Saint Ann School Families and Teachers! Can you believe the first week of school is almost done already?? We hope all of your students have had a fun start to the school year and enjoyed getting to know their teachers and classmates. Thank you to everyone who attended and volunteered at our End of Summer Picnic. We had a fantastic turnout and some great helpers who made the night such a success. We hope you all enjoyed it. Attached, find our monthly newsletter. Read on for lots of fun PTA updates and events! If you haven't heard, the new cafeteria tables are in and it has added so many additional seats for our kids. With your fundraising help at the end of the last school year, the PTA was able to fund the new cafeteria tables for the school!

Hello Saint Ann School Families, We hope you are all enjoying the start to your summer vacation. What a challenging, but wonderful year we had at Saint Ann's. While there were many changes, we are proud of how everyone was able to come together as a community to still provide learning and fun for our students. Thank you for all of the support you each gave us on the PTA. Whether it was volunteering for events, helping our fundraisers to be successful, or enjoying any of the various activities that the PTA ran, you all helped to bring some joy to our children. Colonial Bowling Gift Card We hope you all received your Colonial Bowling Gift Cards that were sent home with your students the last week of school. We want to thank Colonial Bowling for donating these cards to our school for distribution to all school families to have a little fun this summer! Coin Challenge Our Coin Challenge was a great success raising over $1,700 to help us purchase the new cafeteria tables. We also had $350 in direct donations for the cause as well! If you would still like to donate directly, you can send to Christine Savela via friends/family Venmo: CSavela22, PayPal: clage22@gmail.com, Zelle or Apple Pay: 603-930-2023. Trenton Thunder We have over 30 families attending our Trenton Thunder Night coming up on Saturday June 24th with fireworks after the game. Families should plan to arrive around 5:30pm to be ready for on field activities beginning at 5:45pm. We ask that students wear their gym uniform t-shirt or Fun Day t-shirts to represent our school, but this is not mandatory. We still have 8 remaining tickets for the game at $11/each. If you would like to purchase these tickets, please reply to this email ASAP. Tickets are available on a first come first serve basis. You will receive $3 financial commitment for each ticket purchased, to be applied to the 2023-2024 school year. All Trenton Thunder tickets have been emailed, so please let us know if you did not receive them. We are looking forward to a great night at the ballpark! Open PTA Board Positions There are a couple of remaining board positions open for the 2023-2024 School Year! We have both Chair and Co-Chair positions available. If you are interested in joining the PTA board, please respond to this email for more information. The 2022-2023 PTA Board thanks you for all of your support and we cannot wait to get started on things for the 2023-2024 school year. Thank you, SAS PTA

Dear Saint Ann School Families – I did not want to let the end of the year pass without sending my best wishes for the Summer. I wanted to officially announce that I will be Saint Ann School’s new Head of School for the 23-24 school year and Mrs. Laura Bond will be our new Dean of Academics, in addition to teaching Social Studies. Together with the teachers and staff we have already begun planning and working on plans for next year. The search for Math/Science teachers continues for the Middle School. Together we celebrated many joyful milestones for our Saint Ann’s students in their educational journey. We would like to wish the eighth graders all the best in their transitions to their secondary schools’ communities. They will forever hold a special place in our hearts. We are proud of them and we hope they know they take a piece of Saint Ann with them wherever they go. I hope you are able to take time to rest and relax this summer. Our summer office hours are Monday through Thursday 9:00AM-1:00PM. Enjoy the Summer! Ameriquin Dalmasy-Laccetti ​​​​​​​Head of School

Dear Saint Ann Families, We are keeping a close eye on the air quality due to the smoke from the wildfires in Jackson and Canada. Forecasts indicate that conditions should improve overnight and we are hopeful that tomorrow will be better. We will continue to hold indoor recess until the outdoor air quality improves. We closed the outdoor air ventilation dampers in our HVAC units, so that outside air is not introduced to our buildings overnight. The air in our buildings will continue to be circulated throughout the night and during the day tomorrow. We will follow the recommendations received from the Diocese of Trenton: 1-All outdoor activities should be avoided. Outside recess periods, outside lunch periods, field days, etc. should remain indoors until such time as the air quality improves. 2-All students should be allowed to wear masks, on a volunteer basis, if the family believes necessary for their student(s). Thank you for your patience during this situation.

This Wednesday, April 19, Saint Ann School will host Paul Sanfrancesco, a National Technology Speaker on Digital Citizenship for Schools, Administrators, Parents, and Community Groups. For over 20 years, Paul has worked in Catholic, private, and public education in Instructional Technology. Saint Ann School will host 3 different Social Media Assemblies with Paul Sanfrancesco that day: at 1 PM for the middle school students, at 2:30 PM for staff and faculty, and at 7 PM for parents and guardians. To learn more about Paul Sanfrancesco and the topics of the assembly click HERE or visit psanfran.wordpress.com

Easter is a time associated with new life, flourishing, and hope. As we find ourselves in the midst of this season of rebirth, Saint Ann School is getting ready to move in a different direction with its leadership. As we return from Easter break, Mrs. Ameriquin Laccetti will be stepping up as our new "Building Leader" for the remainder of the school year with direct support from our Pastor Father Dela Cruz, our Superintendent Dr. Vince Schmidt, and the Diocesan office. This will afford the parish a chance to conduct a formal search for a Principal during the spring and summer while keeping a day-to-day leader at the school who knows our families and staff and has at heart the well-being of our students and the success of our institution. We will resume our school year with renewed strength and focus and we will navigate what's ahead together as a school community. As we look forward to ending the school year on a positive note for all our students, we thank Mr. Chiaravalloti for his dedication to our program since his arrival and wish him nothing but success in his future endeavors.

Saint Ann School is partnering with Saint James School of Red Bank to raise funds for the Share Uganda Charity. One of our former teachers, Ms. Shields, often participates in volunteer work and this year she has the opportunity to travel to Uganda and help facilitate the Sanyu Project, a self-sustainable sanitary towel project for girls in Uganda's rural areas. Ms. Shields, along with Dr. Lisa Collins and Dr. Janina Moereke, will be traveling to Kaaso, in Southern Uganda to establish this project and find a solution for young women to be able to receive an education. In order to support this cause we will be having a dress-down day on Friday, March 24 for a $2 minimum, with all money raised being donated to Share Uganda. As we support Ms. Shields with our constant prayers, we are happy to put our faith into action with this service project. Thank you Miss Shields for this great opportunity to be citizens of the world! For more information about this project visit www.shareuganda.co.uk

Saint Ann School is excited to announce an important adjustment being made to the schedule options of our Prekindergarten Program, beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year. After much discussion and research, it has been decided that next year (2023-2024 SY) the PreK 4 program will move to a full day for ALL enrollees and will have options of 4 or 5 days a week. We will also transition students away from nap time within the first two months of school. This change will allow the program to continue its preparation for kindergarten and also better integrate the students into the whole school. More information about this change will be available shortly. For any questions or concerns please contact the school office at 609-882-8077, ext. 213 or 214.

Saint Ann School Families, Saint Ann School Christmas festivities have begun. Below are some important key dates for the next few days. We look forward to seeing many of you at the Christmas Pageant tomorrow. You will also notice we have some special “dress up” days the last week before break. As always, if you have any questions please reach out to us. Wednesday, December 14 – 12:30 pm: Pageant Dress Rehearsal – Families are welcome to attend but understand that this is a rehearsal and stoppages/corrections will take place as necessary. Wednesday, December 14 – Pageant 6:30 pm: the Evening performance is “dress-up”. NO tee shirts, jeans of any color, sneakers of any type, workbooks, or shorts. Students may dress in Christmas colors, or jewel-tone shades and prints. Some sections are reserved for students, please be cognizant of seating arrangements prior to taking a pew. December 15: Picture Retakes & 8th Grade Cap & Gown Pictures December 19-22: Christmas Spirit Dress. For more information about the dress code, visit our website. December 22: 12:00 PM Early Dismissal: NO ASP! December 23-January 2: Christmas Break! We wish all of our SAS families and students a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!

Simbang Gabi, the traditional Filipino nine-day series of Masses in anticipation of Christmas will begin on Thursday December 15, at St. Gregory the Great Church, and will conclude here at the Church of Saint Ann on Friday December 23. For a full schedule of Masses, click HERE or visit the Advent page of the parish website.

Sunday, December 18, at 3 PM, the Saint Ann Youth Choir will perform its annual Christmas Concert. All are welcome to attend and join in the Christmas spirit!

Saturday, December 10, the Church of Saint Ann will have the annual Christmas Tree Lighting in front of the church with hot cocoa and cookies immediately following. All are welcome!

On December 10 and 11, we will be having the Blessing of the Bambinell at all masses. You are invited to bring the Baby Jesus from your Nativity Scene to be blessed.