Day 3 of Catholic Schools Week at SAS was dedicated to the members of our community. All grades took time to show their appreciation to those who help our Saint Family and the larger community with their service. Students wrote Thank You cards to our staff, firefighters, policemen and women to name a few. From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU! We couldn't do it without you!
Day 2 of #CSW19 at Saint Ann School is Community Appreciation Day and Day of Service. Students celebrated with a Favorite Character dress down day and a fun game of Prayer Buddy Bingo. On the schedule was also the annual CSW Philippine Sevice Project. Students gathered in the gymnasium where they decorated bags to be filled with school supplies and other items they collected in the last few weeks to benefit tribal schools in the Philippines.
Is faith-based schooling right for your kid? Only one way to find out. Join us for our next Open House on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 9 am & 7 pm and discover the quality of faith-based education. Saint Ann School is now accepting registration for the 2019/2020 academic year, grades Preschool through 8. After school care available.
Today we begin our celebration of Catholic Schools Week at SAS. After kicking off the week with our parish community over the weekend, we open #CSW19 with Parents Appreciation Day, welcoming all parents and guardians with complimentary donuts during drop-off as a thank you for their constant support. Your love and dedication help us "Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed."
This year for Catholic School Week’s service project, we continue to support tribal schools in the Philippines. These two tribal schools are in the villages called Kitorok and Ilian, deep into the mountain range of Santa Maria, Davao del Sur among the Tagakaolo tribal people, two hours by car from the nearest town. For the past few years, we have been donating school supplies and based on their current needs, we are including toothbrushes/toothpaste this year to further promote oral hygiene among the school kids and help prevent diseases or illnesses caused by improper oral care. All of our donations travel thousands of miles across the world to reach hundreds of tribal school students. We are very thankful to our SAS community for their constant generous support!
This month, Mrs. Daniel began running an afterschool club for students interested in learning about 3D Printing software, how a 3D Printer works, and how to use a 3D Printer. Check out the "glimpse" video! URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9UAdIcTgZo
During Computer Science Education Week, students completed Hour of Code on code.org in their science classes along with students all over the world! Our 6th graders even met with their prayer buddies to teach our 3rd graders how to code using block-based coding. They used code.org's Dance Party Hour of Code to create a dance character and to program that character to dance along to a song of their choosing. Fun was had by all! Link: https://saintannschool.org/news/hour-of-code
People were dazzled by Mrs. Gladwell's artwork and featured her in the Trenton Times newspaper this week. "To say Brenda Byrne Gladwell's paintings on display now at Pennington-Ewing Athletic Club are unique would be an understatement. And to say they are full of life and energy would be right on the mark." read the full article. Click HERE to read the full article.
It was a hard-fought Scholastic Olympics and Saint Ann School gave its best! Congratulations to one of our own 8th graders for taking home third place in English and congratulations to Saint Paul School for winning first place overall.
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, the Holocaust Remembrance Education Program is returning to Saint Ann School. Members of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., Post 697 will be speaking to students in grades 6, 7, & 8 at Saint Ann School. The program offers an interactive age-appropriate presentation of the Nazi Holocaust, which ties in with the 8th-grade Social Study curriculum of Adolf Hitler’s initiative in Nazi Germany and Europe during World War II. Volunteers from the Jewish War Veterans recall their experiences and offer an audio/video presentation to supplement their talk. It is a face to face experience that teaches students of diversity, tolerance, and bullying.
Meet our marvelous Mrs. Melillo! Suzanne Melillo teaches Language Arts to our middle school students. After teaching public school in the Hopewell Valley Regional School District, she brought her talents here at Saint Ann School. She teaches students to write thorough research papers and to work on enhancing their individual comprehension skills through reading strategies, activities, and exposure to different genres. Working very closely with the rest of the Middle School Team, she makes sure that her students are high school ready, with a renewed sense of responsibility and self-esteem.
Since 1974, National Catholic Schools Week is the annual celebration of Catholic education in the United States. It starts the last Sunday in January and runs all week, which for 2019 is January 27 - February 2. The theme for National Catholic Schools Week 2019 is “Catholic Schools: Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed.” Schools typically observe the annual celebration week with Masses, open houses and other activities for students, families, parishioners and community members. Through these events, schools focus on the value Catholic education provides to young people and its contributions to our church, our communities, and our nation.
In Italian folklore, January 6 marks the feast of the Befana, an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on Epiphany Eve. Befana visits all the children of Italy on the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany to fill their socks with candy and presents if they are good, or a lump of coal or dark candy if they are bad. Christian legend had it that the Magi came to her door in search of baby Jesus. Befana turned them away because she was too busy cleaning. Later, La Befana had a change of heart and tried to search out for Jesus. That night she was not able to find him, so to this day, La Befana is still searching for the little baby and she visits and leaves gifts for good young children because the Christ Child can be found in all children.