We recently received a Community Enrichment Grant from the Community Foundation of Greenville. This grant will be used to provide parent and teacher training, support literacy through building home libraries, and enhance the physical environment of our classrooms. In addition, the grant will help enrich our two pre-kindergarten classrooms and the kindergarten classroom.
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Thank you, Community Foundation of Greenville!
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Congratulations, 2011 graduates!
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
St. Anthony of Padua School celebrated the graduation of their sixth grade class on June 2 at a ceremony with Franciscan Sister Catherine Noecker, principal, and Franciscan Father Patrick Tuttle. The graduates are Madison Frost, Orlando Sanchez-Ferguson and Synclair Tucker.
All three were honored with the Presidential Award for Academic Excellence and the Citizenship Award for their dedication to the school and community.
Synclair, Madison and Orlando were also part of the school’s inaugural class of the Alpha Honor’s Club, whose membership also included Adrianna Vandross, Dayanna Poole and Quint Greggs. The students were selected for membership based upon academic excellence and superb moral character throughout the school year.
Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, a 1965 graduate of St. Anthony of Padua, spoke to the inductees. She serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Rhode Island and is the first black person to serve as a full judge in this capacity.
During her visit to Greenville, Thompson and her husband, Judge William C. Clifton, a Rhode Island District Court judge, made a financial contribution to the capitol campaign fund to build a new school.
(From The Catholic Miscellany.)
Save the date: Diamonds and Denim Jubilee on September 9
Saturday, June 18th, 2011St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School invites you to attend the Diamonds and Denim Jubilee on Friday, September 9, 2011 at the TD Convention Center. The jubilee is our annual school fundraising event. This year celebrates the 60th diamond anniversary of St. Anthony’s School.
So, get your best denim and BLING ready to go! To learn more about the event or to purchase tickets online, visit our Diamonds and Denim Jubilee page.
We are on Facebook.
Monday, May 30th, 2011St. Anthony of Padua School now has a Facebook page. Go to Facebook and search for St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School. Feel free to friend Father Patrick Tuttle and Sister Catherine Noecker while you’re there.
The Facebook page is one more place where we share on a regular basis our blog posts and other school news. You can also keep up to date on our Capital Campaign progress for a new school building and interact with other folks who believe in and are involved in our school through their time, talents and financial gifts.
New School Building Campaign is in the News
Friday, April 8th, 2011Over the past few weeks, the Greenville Journal, the Greenville News, other local publications and news media featured the new school building campaign. We are eager to share our story: our history, our school family, how we’ve grown, and where we’re going now. If you or your family members, friends or colleagues would like to read the articles, they can be downloaded here:
- “Old school dreams of new home”: GreenvilleNews
- “St. Anthony’s moves forward with fresh vision”: GreenvilleJournal
- “Something special happens at St. Anthony’s”: GNews.PiresOpEd
- “Help build new elementary school”: WYFF Clip
Learn more about the new school building fundraising efforts on the right-hand side of the Donate page or contact our Stewardship Director, Erena Allen, directly at (864) 331-2630 or weavingabrightfuture@gmail.com.
Sixth graders take third place in chess tournament
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011On Saturday, March 5, in Columbia, S.C., St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School’s sixth grade placed third in the Middle School Division of the South Carolina State Scholastic Chess Tournament. Quint Greggs, a fifth grader, was the highest ranking student out of the class!
Our students enjoyed the challenge of playing against other students with a higher ranking than them. The fifth and sixth graders are very proud of their team’s accomplishments!
Our TV debut on WYFF
Thursday, March 24th, 2011Would you like for your lunch time to be extra special? Spend it by watching St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church and School and their TV debut! Air time will be on the following dates on Channel WYFF4 at 12:30 p.m.
Friday, April 1
Wednesday, April 6
Tuesday, April 12
Thursday, April 21
Mark your calenders tell your friends about this very special event!
Ten minutes of beauty: watch our Capital Campaign video.
Friday, March 4th, 2011St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School has initiated a $5 million capital campaign to replace our current 55-year-old school building. Please take a few minutes to watch our “Weaving a Bright Future” campaign video below.
If you feel moved to do so, please share the link with others who might be interested in learning more. If you are interested in contributing, read more here and contact Erena Allen, Stewardship Director, at (864) 331-2630 or weavingabrightfuture@gmail.com to arrange a tour.
Apply now: student openings in K3 and K4
Monday, February 21st, 2011K3 and K4 Preschool Program Student Applications for the 2011-2012 school year are now being accepted! This program is grant funded, creating low costs to families. In addition, the programs use an advanced HighScope Curriculum and are in partnership with Greenville First Steps.
The St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School preschool program runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a Late-Stay Program offered from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Come by our school at 309 Gower Street today to pick up a student application and tour the school, or call Sister Catherine at 864-271-0167.
For your vocation: a resource for people discerning their call to religious life.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011In 2010, the U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations initiated a new website, For Your Vocation, to be a resource for both laity and clergy in the promotion of vocations. The site has two goals:
- To help individuals hear and respond to the call by God to the priesthood or consecrated life, and
- To educate all Catholics on the importance of encouraging others through prayer and activities to promote vocations.
Site elements include discernment resources for men and women, respectively, aids for promoting a vocation culture within the home, and a range of tools for educators, youth leaders and vocation directors including prayers, videos, best practices, lesson plans and vocation awareness programs.
In response to Pope Benedict XVI’s 2010 Theme for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Witness Awakens Vocations, the site also hosts videos of priests and religious men and women giving witness to their vocations, as well as testimonies from family members.
ForYourVocation.org exemplifies the Vatican’s embrace of new communications media. In his message for the 44th World Day of Communications, Pope Benedict XVI challenges clergy to employ the “latest generation of audiovisual resources (images, videos, animated features, blogs, websites)” to put the media “ever more effectively at the service of the Word.”
The launch of the site will be promoted through social media forums. Facebook users can become “eVangelizers” for the cause. By becoming an eVangelizer, one can connect others to the Website’s blog posts.