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School News

The good news, student achievements, and daily blessings at Saint Catherine of Siena School.

Thank you!

Posted by on Sunday, January 29, 2017 in Grades K—8, School News

Thank you!

Thank you to all of our parents, students, & staff who volunteered to help at today’s Open House. Your support of SCS is much appreciated.

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Regis Scholarship

Posted by on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 in Grades K—8, School News

Regis Scholarship

Congratulations to eighth grader Jakob F. on his acceptance and full scholarship to Regis High School, one of the most elite schools in the country. Jakob is an exemplary scholar, leader, creative thinker, athlete, and a kind friend to all. We are very proud!

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Tech WOW!

Posted by on Thursday, January 5, 2017 in Grades K—8, Preschool, School News

Tech WOW!

Over the Christmas Break our SCS technology support partners were hard at work installing new speakers in the lower hall classrooms. Our technology room also received a major upgrade with the installation of new speakers, a wireless microphone system, and a HDTV for streaming via  chrome cast and apple TV. Our students will use this new technology to better their  presentation skills and increase their knowledge of streaming from multiple technology platforms. Students in grades 2-8 will be casting their Google Slides presentations in beautiful high definition, right from their technology...

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Merry Christmas

Posted by on Thursday, December 22, 2016 in Grades K—8, Preschool, School News

Merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

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PreK Lights

Posted by on Wednesday, December 21, 2016 in Preschool, School News

PreK Lights

Mrs. Sprague’s PreK4b students learn how Christmas lights work. WOW!

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Cancellation

Posted by on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 in School News

Cancellation

Tonight’s performance of our Christmas Show is canceled due to an abundance of illness in our student body. It will be rescheduled for Thursday, January 5th at 7:00pm.

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Scale Drawing

Posted by on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 in School News

Scale Drawing

The seventh grade is working on their Nutcracker Scale Drawing Project as a culminating activity to their unit on proportions in Mrs. McElroy’s and Mrs Barbarito’s joint math class period. Keep an eye out at our Christmas Show on December 20 to see their final project.

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Tech Update

Posted by on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 in Grades K—8, Preschool, School News

Tech Update

Week of Code was a big success. All the way from Pre-k 3 to the 8th grade. Pre-k 3 and 4 did the Daisy the Dinosaur app and once they got the hang of it they seemed to be having a lot of fun using the command functions to make Daisy grow, shrink, jump,roll and spin. Our 8th graders also came in to assist Prek-3 which was a big help, as well as Kindergarten.  2nd graders also started to code with Daisy the Dinosaur. They were able to use code through the many levels of the challenge mode. They loved it so much we are going to continue coding next week on code.org. a more advanced coding...

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Code

Posted by on Thursday, December 8, 2016 in Grades K—8, Preschool, School News

Code

Kindergarten students were mentored by their big brothers and sisters in grade 8 as they wrote computer code during Computer Science Education Week.

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Forensics

Posted by on Wednesday, December 7, 2016 in School News

Forensics

The SCS Forensics team competed in their second meet of the year.  All team members faired well in the competition. A special congratulations to Rebecca H. (Grade 5) who advanced to the finals round. Great job to all the competitors!

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Preschool 3

Posted by on Monday, December 5, 2016 in School News

Preschool 3

Mrs. Velsor’s Preschool 3 class is learning the story of the Nativity.

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Sister

Posted by on Sunday, December 4, 2016 in School News

Sister

Spotlight: Sister Mary Claire Weber Our school has been privileged for the last 40 years to have Sister Mary Claire Weber as an essential faculty member and constant cheerleader for SCS, currently serving as Special Services Director and HSA Faculty Representative. She has dedicated her life to the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell tradition, living the mission of responding to God’s call and unfolding the revelation of God to our school community. Our students rely on Sister for special help, moral direction, and a caring connection in the lunchroom and hallways of SCS. Her daily mantra of...

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