SAINT ANN SCHOOL

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 8th grade 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.

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!