ACE Cards & Certificates
Agape Dinner
Altar Servers
Art
Band
Baptismal Day Celebration
Bellarmine Speech League
Box Tops for Education
Catholic Schools Week
Choral Club
Christmas Concert
Eighth Grade Play
English Tutoring Project
Entrances
Faculty Meeting Days
Field Day
Fundraisers
Kids' Heart Challenge
Mission Carnival
Music Festival
Music Sharing
Out-of-Uniform Days
Parish Picnic
Science Club
Sixth Grade Camp
Title I Program
This is a certificate program handled by volunteers. The parish acts as a broker of gift cards and gift certificates and receives a percentage of the face value for each one sold. The percentage varies according to the store or restaurant. By purchasing gift cards to be used at businesses where you would be spending money anyway, you are able to generate funds for the school. There is absolutely no cost to you; just purchase the gift card and use it as you would any other gift card. The cards and certificates also make wonderful gifts and stocking stuffers.
The school bills each family $250 for the ACE Buyout. This amount will be billed through a school family's FACTS account and due no later than July 31. If you utilized the ACE program during the previous school year, your amount due will be prorated based on your usage of the program. As a reminder, we ask each family to purchase an average of $450 / month ($5,400 yearly) in ACE and / or Schnucks (eScrip) purchases to be applied to this July assessment.
For more information, see the School Handbook or the ACE webpage.
This dinner is held prior to the the First Communion celebration and is for the 2nd grade students and their parents. The 3rd grade parents are asked to take part in serving the meal. Families will receive more information about this from the 2nd grade teacher as the children prepare for First Communion.
Students in Grades 5-8 may choose to be altar servers for daily and / or weekend Masses. At this time, we are welcoming back servers who have been vaccinated. Contact Mary Regan for more information.
During Catholic Schools Week, art is displayed at one of the local shopping malls. Our school also has its own art fair in the spring that correlates with Donut Sunday (first Sunday of the month) or another event. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the art show will be virtual in 2021.
Band is offered at an additional cost for students in Grades 4-8. Instruction takes place during the school day. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, band lessons have been conducted virtually this year, outside of school hours.
Every other month, students in Grades K-8 take time during an 8 a.m. Mass to remember their baptism or entrance into a church community. Students whose baptismal anniversary falls during that two-month period are called forward to receive a keepsake medal, which is different each year. When all have been called to the altar, everyone renews their baptismal promises.
Speech meets are open to students in Grades 5-8. There are three preliminary meets per year held on Saturdays at area Catholic grade schools. The final meet, which honors the highest-placing contestants, is held at an area high school. Students try out after school or during a break in class time, and team assignments are made the day after tryouts. Parents and teachers are involved as coaches and judges. This program teaches responsibility and gives students practice speaking in front of an audience.
General Mills has a program which sends our school cash for digital "box tops." Participants must download the Box Tops app and scan receipts for the purchase of qualifying products within 14 days for SSP to get credit.
This is a week-long celebration that begins on the last Sunday of January. The week features special activities each day that encourage children, parents, teachers, and the parish family to commemorate the gifts of Catholic education.
Dr. David and Dr. Anne Borgmeyer moderate the Choral Club, which is open to students in Grades 3-8. They begin practicing for Christmas performances in the middle of November. They may go Christmas caroling at nursing homes, parish organizations, and other groups who request a performance. They also join the parish adult choir in providing music at the Christmas Eve Vigil Mass.
This event, which typically happens at the end of the last school day before Christmas break, features the Choral Club and the band. All classes do not perform at this event.
The 8th Grade students are involved in the production of a play under the direction of an experienced adult. Students sell advertisements for the printed program, make posters promoting the play, act in the production, and work backstage. Aside from providing on-stage experience and being a team-building activity, the play serves as a fundraiser, which helps fund 8th grade events such as graduation and the mystery trip. All 8th grade parents are expected to volunteer to help in some manner.
This program is available to children for whom English is a second language. Classes are taught during school hours by teachers employed through the ETP.
Moving around the campus from east to west ....
Door 1 is the Parish Center (gym) entrance.
Door 2 is the preschool entrance.
Door 3 is known as the east door.
Door 4 is known as the flagpole door.
Door 5, also known as the trophy case door, is the main entrance to the school.
Door 6 is known as the belltower door and may be used as a handicapped entrance to the church.
This periodic meetings allow for teachers and staff to come together for planning, training, professional development, or camaraderie. School is closed on these days.
Field Day is scheduled on a Friday in May. Carondelet Park may be used in weather permits. This activity is planned and carried out by parents working with teachers. All Field Day activities are planned with the idea that students enjoy a spring day of games without being highly competitive.
Each year all students have the opportunity to participate in the American Heart Association's Kids' Heart Challenge event. This takes place on a school day during PE clas. The money collected through pledges (optional) goes to the American Heart Association for heart disease research. This activity is planned and monitored by the PE teacher (with teachers and parent volunteers as needed).
Mission Carnival is held on the afternoon of Fat Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday). Tickets for games and refreshments may be purchased in advance or on that day. Mission Carnival has two goals -- to raise money for missions, and to give 8th grade students the opportunity to learn how to plan and execute an event. The 8th grade students decide which games are to be played, make decoration, run games, help with the purchase of prizes, send out letters requesting donations, and clean up after the carnival.
The Archdiocesan Song Festival is held in the spring. Our school performs a few songs at a host school along with four or five other schools. Drs. Borgmeyer rehearse with the grades selected to participate. The Archdiocese rotates through all the grades, assigning two grades per year, so that all students will participate twice over the course of their elementary school years.
Drs. Borgmeyer direct each class in the performance of a song at our own all-school Music Sharing. Each class performs, and parents, grandparents, and friends are encouraged to attend. The band also performs. The event typically takes place at the end of a school day in mid-May.
Students are allowed to dress out of uniform for several reaons, some of which include:
The biggest fundraiser of the year takes place on the second Wednesday in June. It is a carnival on the parish and school grounds which features a parade, music, food, games, and rides.
The Science Club is open to 5th Grade students. The club meets on Wednesdays for 45 minutes after school. Students participate in science-based activities outside of those permitted by the limits of class time.
A special weeklong field trip is held in the spring for 6th Graders at an off-site campground. Students spend the week with their own classmates (and occasionally share the camp with other schools). Counselors are provided by the camp. Students may raise funds to defray the cost of camp.
This is a program paid for by the federal government and run by a private company (Catapult Learning), which provides additional instruction in the core subjects to students who qualify. Instruction takes place during the school day.