Did Your Child Have A Day Like This?

…a day where learning is fun and service becomes part of life…

Catholic schools have demonstrated that learning can be fun. Our teachers have created projects within their schools and beyond that support basic standards and curricular benchmarks. Students are learning to lead their own parent conferences with their work in portfolios, science labs facilitate experimental projects, the internet and technology labs allow children to create PowerPoint presentations and other digital creations, and the arts are integrated into a wide variety of lessons. Teachers are writing grants for drama productions, literary magazine creations, art galleries, in-school wildlife conservatories, and the Kid's Marathon project. Games and computer software are supplementing other classroom materials designed to enhance math and science skills.

Students in Catholic schools have many opportunities to learn the importance of service to others. Students in Catholic schools lead the way in our community in volunteering, collecting food and goods, peer tutoring, involvement in Habitat for Humanity, participating in intergenerational programs, entertaining in the wider community, and much more. The principles of Catholic Social Teaching reinforce the importance of building a just society, and service in the community is one way in which Catholic school students are active in their role to bring about that society.