May 10, 2010 Comments Off
Congratulations to the 2010 St. Ann Confirmation Class!
Twenty-two of our seventh and eighth grade students received the Sacrament of Confirmation on May 20, 2010. Msgr. Vernon Gardin, the Vicar General of the Archdiocese, celebrated the sacrament with them. This sacrament completes their full initiation into the Catholic Church and shows their personal commitment to their faith.
March 3, 2010 Comments Off
High school acceptance letters were mailed on Feb. 5, 2010. We are pleased to announce that each of our eighth grade students was accepted at his/her first-choice high school. The students are very happy!
Below is a list of the schools that the students will attend next year along with the number of students going there from St. Ann Catholic School.
Congratulations to all the members of the Class of 2010!
March 3, 2010 Comments Off
Please note that the date for this event has been updated below.
Friday, March 26, at 2:30 pm in the Parish Center
The 5th grade class is receiving instruction from Officer Susan Adams of the Normandy Police Department. The D.A.R.E. program provides students the information and skills they need to resist drugs, alcohol, and violence.
February 28, 2010 Comments Off
St. Ann Catholic School was chosen as a project site for the UMSL Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. A group of 7th-8th grade students provided free babysitting supervised by a parent volunteer. A team of 30 St. Ann School teachers, parents, students, and parishioners arrived in the morning of Monday, January 18, 2010. They got busy cleaning the halls, stairways, Science Lab, and cafeteria. They painted walls in the main hallway, the 5th grade classroom, and the 4th and 5th grade stairwells. They scraped paint in the cafeteria and repainted those walls. An UMSL team of 7 volunteers arrived after noon with lunches for our 30 school volunteers and paint for the Science Lab and the cafeteria. The UMSL team painted the Science Lab and helped to clean the cafeteria. An enormous amount of work was accomplished!
Mark your calendars for January 17, 2011. We will be asking for volunteer help from parents and students for the 2nd annual event! We hope to be chosen as an UMSL project site again next year, too.
Below are some photos taken during the Day of Service.
February 16, 2010 Comments Off
Catholic Schools week was kicked off with the fourth annual Academic Bowl in the Parish Center. The students were divided into 15 teams. Each team had one or two students from every grade. The students had to answer questions created by the teachers. The winning team (pictured here) answered 47 out of 50 questions! Congratulations!
February 14, 2010 Comments Off
On Tuesday the students participated in game time. Each student was encouraged to bring a board or card game to share. It was a nice way to get together with friends from another grade and have some fun!
February 14, 2010 Comments Off
On Tuesday the school was treated to a presentation entitled “Birds of Prey” The bird handlers showed the students 7 different bird species and shared amazing facts about each. Owls, falcons and ravens flew across the gym, coming within inches of the students heads. One raven was able to land on a teacher’s arm, take a soda can from her hand and recycle it in the bin! Awesome! Thanks to SACPO for sponsoring this fun presentation!
February 9, 2010 Comments Off
Our proud St. Ann School Super-spellers! They each did well enough in their classroom spelling bees to qualify for the big all-school competition.
And congratulations to Spelling Bee Champion and the two students who tied for 2nd place.
January 11, 2010 Comments Off
Throughout the month of December, St. Ann families sent in grocery bags filled with canned goods, boxed food and personal care items. Each bag was decorated by the students in Art class and labeled “filled with love”.
On Dec. 19th the entire student body created a human chain from the side door of St. Ann School to Caritas House down the street. Caritas House is a thrift store/food pantry run by the St. Vincent DePaul Society. After the chain was formed, the students started passing all the “Filled with Love” bags down the chain. It took a half hour to pass over 200 bags filled with food, personal care items and everything else donated by the St. Ann Community. The people at Caritas House were extremely grateful to receive so many supplies for the needy people in Normandy and the surrounding area.
When all the bags were passed the students and teachers gathered at the door of Caritas House and sang “We wish you a Merry Christmas” It was a wonderful way to live out our theme of service!
January 7, 2010 Comments Off
Order in the court!!
Order in the court!!
That’s what you’ll be hearing when the 8th grade class presents “The Big, Bad Musical” in February. It seems that the big, bad wolf is being put on trial for crimes against various fairytale characters. His lawyer the Evil Stepmother, will be pitting her wills against the Prosecuting Attorney, the Fairy Godmother. Little Red Riding Hood and Granny, along with many other defendants are looking for a big settlement from Mr. Wolf. Will he get off scott free? That will be up to you, the jury!!
Come join us for this hysterical courtroom calamity! Performances will be Thursday, Feb. 11 – Saturday, Feb. 13, beginning at 7 pm in the Parish Center.
Tickets are $5.00 for adults, $3.00 for students, and $2.00 for children 5 and under. All tickets are general admission.
