6^th grade 2024

ADVENT ANGELS 

Advent is a time to prepare for 

Jesus’ Birth!

Jesus came to Love.  To celebrate that – let us show love to our fellow classmates. 

For our 6^th grade Advent Angel, Each week you will pick a new Advent Angel

Each Wednesday you will give your Advent Angel a snack and a prayer

Each Friday you will give your Advent Angel a treat or small gift and a letter about something that you admire in your Advent Angel.

So in total you will need

3 snacks

3 treats OR small gifts (from the dollar store)

3 prayers (thoughtful and colorful)

3 letters (thoughtful and colorful)

The snack and treat is due in every Tuesday

The prayer and letter can be worked on during homeroom

The prayer and the letter must be neat, thoughtful and colorful 

Write it to: and the name of your Advent Angel

But sign it from your Advent Angel

REMEMBER this is to share Jesus’ love – so do your very best – give your best

And this is a SECRET – no sharing who it is from until Friday

 

Merry Christmas

Happy Birthday Jesus

 

 

 

Congratulations!

 

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT AUDITIONS!!!!!!

Student Schedule	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
1st Period	ELA	ELA	Art	ELA	ELA
2nd Period	ELA	ELA	ELA	ELA	Technology
3rd Period	Social Studies	Social Studies	Social Studies	Music	Social Studies
4th Period	6th Math	6th Math	6th Math	6th Math	6th Math
Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
5th Period	Gym	Religion	Religion	Religion	Religion
6th Period	Science	Library	Science	Science	Science

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 

Happy Easter Everyone!

Ash Wednesday
Take inspiration for your Lenten journey from prayer and the reading of Scripture, from fasting and from giving alms. 
Prayer – Lent is essentially an act of prayer spread out over 40 days. As we pray, we are brought closer to Christ and are changed by the encounter with him. 
Fasting – The fasting that we all do together on Fridays is but a sign of the daily Lenten discipline of individuals and households: fasting for certain periods of time, fasting from certain foods, but also fasting from other things and activities. 
Almsgiving – The giving of alms is an effort to share this world equally—not only through the distribution of money, but through the sharing of our time and talents. 

“Even now, says the LORD, 
 return to me with your whole heart, 
 with fasting, and weeping, and mourning” (Joel 2:12, Lectionary)As we begin Lent, we pray for the strength to commit ourselves to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving so that we may grow to love God more each day.What will you do today for Lent?  For your Lenten Sacrifice?  To grow closer to your Savior?

Some Idea’s for Lent
One idea for each day – Add your own Idea’s – Share Idea’s

• Spend 15 minutes in quiet time with Jesus
• Listen to Christian Rock KLOVE 106.9 FM
• Watch videos about your faith such as Kid Catholic
• Go to Mass
• Give up all sweets today
• Give up social media today – spend that time praying
• Give up your phone today – spend that time talking to God
• Look up and read about a saint today – Pick a name and see if you can find a saint.
• No TV today – instead spend some time in quiet prayer
• Help out around the house today, without being asked
• Spend time with your brother or sister today, helping them, playing with them and finish the time by praying with them
• No electronics today – instead spend some quiet time in prayer
• No video games today – spend that time with God
• Spend time with your mom or dad today, just helping and talking.  Then end the time with a prayer
• Work an extra chore for some extra money to buy food for the food drive, so the food is from you
• Sleep on the floor tonight and think about people who are homeless and say an extra prayer for them
• Go to Stations of the Cross
• Only drink water today and think about people who don’t have the luxuries you and I have – say an extra prayer for them – many people don’t have clean water to drink
• Think twice today about what you say – and really try to only use kind words all day
• Call your grandparents today – just to say Hi and ask how they are doing.  End the call with a prayer
• Go to Confession
• Skip snacking today and think about people who do not have enough food, and say an extra prayer for them
• Say the Rosary today
• Go to Mass
• Look through your closet and give some of your clothes to the poor – say an extra prayer for the poor today.
• Do you have more coats and gloves than you need – give some to the poor – say a prayer for people who are struggling today
• Learn a new prayer today – look one up or ask someone to teach you one.
• Go to confession
• Go to the Stations of the Cross
• Be careful of your speech – Don’t use the Lord’s name in vain
• Be careful of your speech – only say nice things about each other, don’t gossip
• Spend the whole time you are showering praying for people who don’t have running water.
• Talk to someone today that you don’t always talk to
• Sit with a person you don’t normally sit with today
• Pray for your teachers today
• Pray for your school today
• Compliment someone today
• Help a neighbor today
• Pray for our leaders today – our Principal, pastors, bishops, Pope and president
• Pray more every day!  That’s the best way to stay close to God this lent

What are some of your ideas?
What will you do this Lent?
Pick something to do each and every day!  You can do the same thing over and over again and you can do more than one thing a day.
Make this Lent special!  Make it count!  Grow closer to God!
Build a Lenten Journal – in it put what you are doing each day and write a short prayer.
Remember Lent is for growing closer to God by

• Praying
• Giving
• Sacrificing

For God So Loved the World He gave His Only Son So that We might live!

Kid Catholic – Lent – It’s already here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2JHJB9QevA

Kid Catholic How to have a good lent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt38YaJgcVU

Kid Catholic - What is the Season of LENT All About?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqHJEkA1xZ8
Each week of Lent you will have a few assignment to complete.
Keep all the assignments in your Lenten folder.
The Lenten folder is due Holy Week.
The first week –

• Color in your Lenten journey and glue it to the front of your Lenten folder.
• Make sure your name is on it
• You can write on each day what you will do each day – or you can just color in each day as you give to Jesus
• Read through the first day’s information and suggestions
• Spend some time in prayer thinking about what you will give to Jesus this Lent.  How can you make this your best lent yet.
• Listen to one of the Kid Catholic Videos
• Write a summary of the video and a prayer on what you learned from the video on loose leaf.  Put it in the Lenten folder.  Make sure you put your name and the name of the video on the loose leaf.

Second Week of Lent

• Listen to another Kid Catholic video – On Loose leaf write a summary of the video and a prayer to help you live your best lent including things you learned from the video– make sure your name and the name of the video is on the loose leaf
• Read the readings – answer the questions
• Color in the Lenten page – talk to God as you color – glue it to the back of the folder

Third Week of Lent

• Listen to the next Kid Catholic video – On Loose leaf write a summary of the video and a prayer to help you live your best lent including things you learned from the video– make sure your name and the name of the video is on the loose leaf
• Read the readings – answer the questions
• Color in the Lenten page – talk to God as you color – glue it to the inside of the front of the folder

 

 

ART to REMEMBER is coming home today!
 Check it out!  It is so cool!
 You can get items with your child's art work on it!
 It is due FRIDAY 1/19
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 ART TO REMEMBER

MLK DAY OF SERVICE
 MONDAY FEB 15!
Some service in the morning and then
 ice skating in the afternoon
 AND you do BOTH with your FRIENDS!
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 MLK DAY OF SERVICE
 MONDAY FEB 15


 Happy New Year!
 2024!
New Year's Prayer
As the dawn breaks on a new year, let us give thanks for all we hold dear: our health, our family and our friends. Let us release our grudges, our anger and our pains, for these are nothing but binding chains. Let us live each day in the most loving ways, the God-conscious way.


Lord, we look toward you, our hope, our peace, and our comfort in this New Year. As we enter into the unknown of the coming year, we ask for your guidance and wisdom. Illuminate our path with your light so that we may walk in your ways and make choices that align with your will. Help us to seek first your kingdom and trust that all other things will be added unto us.




Our Annual Christmas Pageant is 
 Tomorrow
 Wednesday 12/13/23
 7:00
 in the Chapel
 Students should arrive by 6:45 in uniform with 
 Christmas Accessories.
 See you all tomorrow night 






ADVENT ANGELS 

For each week of Advent you will pick a new Advent Angel
Every student will write down their names with some of their favorite snacks and treats
Each week you will give your Advent Angel a snack and a prayer and a treat and a kind note
These are all due on Tuesday of each week.
Then once I see that I have 6 snacks and prayers – they will be given out on Wednesday
Then on Friday the treat and kind note will be given out – again once I see that I have all 6
For the prayer - It can be just a little prayer you wrote for your advent angel ~ 
Example  ~ Dear Bethany, today you will be in my thoughts and prayers.  I hope you have a great day – Good Luck on your Reading Test today – I know you’ll do great and I’m praying for you!  Love your advent angel
Then you need to decorate it, color it and attach a little snack to it.
The kind letter to your Advent Angel should tell them about a character trait that you admire in them. – with a little treat/gift – like cookies or a candy bar or chapstick. . . 
The letter must be kind and sincere – AND about a character trait.  I have a list of character traits attached to help you with this.
Then decorate the letter, color it and attach a little treat or gift 
Remember to write who the prayer/snack and letter/treat is to – 
BUT it is from Advent Angel 
Merry Christmas
Happy Birthday Jesus






Holy Family School
 Christmas Show
 Wednesday December 13
 1:15 and 7:00pm
 All are welcome
 All students are in the show!

Please note: If your child can not make the night time performance, you must email both myself and Ms. Jarvis.  Thank you.

 

HELLO MY 6TH GRADE!!
 WELCOME BACK!
 Welcome to the 2023-2024 School Year!
My wish for you is for you to have an awesome year! 
      PRAY - stay close to God all year long! 
       Try new things - And do not be afraid to make mistakes!
  Smile, have fun, Love yourself and others

                    Make new friends - See God in others

                Ask Questions
                 Grow in love, respect and curiosity 
                  And always choose KINDNESS

 Back to School Prayer

 Dear LORD,
      Use my EYES to see New Friends
           OPEN my ears to hear my teachers
                OPEN my Mind to learn new things
    Let my HEART remember,
            YOU are near when I am afraid
                          Help me to LOVE others like YOU do
                               I want to shine your light so Bright
                                      AMEN
 This year's Schedule!

 

6^th Grade Student Daily Schedule 2023

 

 

HELLO 6th Grade!

PLEASE wear your GYM CLOTHES to school tomorrow (THURSDAY, April 20). We are working with PLASTER in Art Class and I don't want you to ruin your school uniforms!



NEWSIES 
 NEWSIES
 NEWSIES
 We are so excited and proud about our upcoming show
 NEWSIES!
 All students are going to see the show Friday April 28 at Facetime Theater.  
 BUT, we need a signed permission slip from all students to attend
 EVEN if they are in the show 
 ALL students must turn in a signed permission slip to attend
 NEWSIES
 on Friday April 28 at Facetime Theater. 
 The permission slips went home last week - but I have extra if it got lost.
 Thanks





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100 Celebration Monthly Collection
 March
 Hearts of Gold
 We are trying to collect a total of $100 from the school community to donate to PACS
 PACS is the Phoenixville Area Food Pantry

 Ash Wednesday
Take inspiration for your Lenten journey from prayer and the reading of Scripture, from fasting and from giving alms. 
Prayer – Lent is essentially an act of prayer spread out over 40 days. As we pray, we are brought closer to Christ and are changed by the encounter with him. 
Fasting – The fasting that we all do together on Fridays is but a sign of the daily Lenten discipline of individuals and households: fasting for certain periods of time, fasting from certain foods, but also fasting from other things and activities. 
Almsgiving – The giving of alms is an effort to share this world equally—not only through the distribution of money, but through the sharing of our time and talents. 

“Even now, says the LORD, 
 return to me with your whole heart, 
 with fasting, and weeping, and mourning” (Joel 2:12, Lectionary)As we begin Lent, we pray for the strength to commit ourselves to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving so that we may grow to love God more each day.What will you do today for Lent?  For your Lenten Sacrifice?  To grow closer to your Savior? 

Some Idea’s for Lent
One idea for each day – Add your own Idea’s – Share Idea’s

• Spend 15 minutes in quiet time with Jesus
• Listen to Christian Rock KLOVE 106.9 FM
• Watch videos about your faith such as Kid Catholic
• Go to Mass
• Give up all sweets today
• Give up social media today – spend that time praying
• Give up your phone today – spend that time talking to God
• Look up and read about a saint today – Pick a name and see if you can find a saint.
• No TV today – instead spend some time in quiet prayer
• Help out around the house today, without being asked
• Spend time with your brother or sister today, helping them, playing with them and finish the time by praying with them
• No electronics today – instead spend some quiet time in prayer
• No video games today – spend that time with God
• Spend time with your mom or dad today, just helping and talking.  Then end the time with a prayer
• Work an extra chore for some extra money to buy food for the food drive, so the food is from you
• Sleep on the floor tonight and think about people who are homeless and say an extra prayer for them
• Go to Stations of the Cross
• Only drink water today and think about people who don’t have the luxuries you and I have – say an extra prayer for them – many people don’t have clean water to drink
• Think twice today about what you say – and really try to only use kind words all day
• Call your grandparents today – just to say Hi and ask how they are doing.  End the call with a prayer
• Go to Confession
• Skip snacking today and think about people who do not have enough food, and say an extra prayer for them
• Say the Rosary today
• Go to Mass
• Look through your closet and give some of your clothes to the poor – say an extra prayer for the poor today.
• Do you have more coats and gloves than you need – give some to the poor – say a prayer for people who are struggling today
• Learn a new prayer today – look one up or ask someone to teach you one.
• Go to confession
• Go to the Stations of the Cross
• Be careful of your speech – Don’t use the Lord’s name in vain
• Be careful of your speech – only say nice things about each other, don’t gossip
• Spend the whole time you are showering praying for people who don’t have running water.
• Talk to someone today that you don’t always talk to 
• Sit with a person you don’t normally sit with today
• Pray for your teachers today
• Pray for your school today
• Compliment someone today
• Help a neighbor today
• Pray for our leaders today – our Principal, pastors, bishops, Pope and president
• Pray more every day!  That’s the best way to stay close to God this lent

What are some of your ideas? 
What will you do this Lent?
Pick something to do each and every day!  You can do the same thing over and over again and you can do more than one thing a day.
Make this Lent special!  Make it count!  Grow closer to God!
Build a Lenten Journal – in it put what you are doing each day and write a short prayer.
Remember Lent is for growing closer to God by

• Praying
• Giving
• Sacrificing 

For God So Loved the World He gave His Only Son So that We might live!

Kid Catholic – Lent – It’s already here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2JHJB9QevA

Kid Catholic How to have a good lent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt38YaJgcVU

Kid Catholic - What is the Season of LENT All About?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqHJEkA1xZ8
Each week of Lent you will have a few assignment to complete.
Keep all the assignments in your Lenten folder.
The Lenten folder is due Holy Week.
The first week – 

• Color in your Lenten journey and glue it to the front of your Lenten folder. 
• Make sure your name is on it 
• You can write on each day what you will do each day – or you can just color in each day as you give to Jesus
• Read through the first day’s information and suggestions
• Spend some time in prayer thinking about what you will give to Jesus this Lent.  How can you make this your best lent yet.
• Listen to one of the Kid Catholic Videos
• Write a summary of the video and a prayer on what you learned from the video on loose leaf.  Put it in the Lenten folder.  Make sure you put your name and the name of the video on the loose leaf.

Second Week of Lent

• Listen to another Kid Catholic video – On Loose leaf write a summary of the video and a prayer to help you live your best lent including things you learned from the video– make sure your name and the name of the video is on the loose leaf
• Read the readings – answer the questions
• Color in the Lenten page – talk to God as you color – glue it to the back of the folder

Third Week of Lent

• Listen to the next Kid Catholic video – On Loose leaf write a summary of the video and a prayer to help you live your best lent including things you learned from the video– make sure your name and the name of the video is on the loose leaf
• Read the readings – answer the questions
• Color in the Lenten page – talk to God as you color – glue it to the inside of the front of the folder

 

You may find a Title I Family Survey in your child’s folder tonight. The youngest and only in each family received one. Please complete it and return it by Monday, Monday February 27th. Understand that your responses remain anonymous, and the data collected may influence the support we receive from your respective school districts.



Next week is Catholic School’s Week!
We are celebrating our Faith, our School, our Family and our Birthday!
Our school is 100 years old!  What an accomplishment!  But really, we have God so anything is possible!
Our Schedule for Catholic School’s Week
SUNDAY 1/29/23 Kick off Catholic School’s week by going to Mass together.  Students please show your school pride and wear your school uniform to Mass.
MONDAY 1/30/23 Student Appreciation Day!  Sixth grade will dress down in styles from the 60’s (Each class has a different decade) Think jeans and hippies.  Students will have a dance party showing off their moves.  6^th grade is dancing the Twist. And the students are getting a small treat. Plus no tests or homework this day.
TUESDAY 1/31/23 Celebrating our Community!  Students will make cards for shut-ins,  The school as a whole is trying to collect 100 wipes and boxes of crackers for a local shelter.  Students wear their school uniform
WEDNESDAY 2/1/23 celebrating our Education – Students dress down in their team color – either red or blue.  We will have our Academic Challenge – PLUS we put some trivia questions in the challenge on the school’s history.  The trivia has been announced during morning announcements – I hope everyone was listening!

THURSDAY 2/2/23 Celebrating our Faith, Family and 100^th Birthday.  Students will receive special birthday shirts to wear over their school uniform.  We have Mass at 9:30.  All are invited!  And it’s a special Mass!  Celebrating 100 years of our school, Celebrating Catholic School’s week, and celebrating our family and grandparents.  All are invited.  But please let us know if you are coming – BECAUSE – after Mass we will all be getting cupcakes! Parents and Grandparents are welcome to come back to school for a cupcake and a visit with your child in their classroom.
FRIDAY 2/3/23 Celebrating our Faculty and Staff and Panther Olympics.  Students will wear their Gym Uniform, and they will get a head band with the color of their team to wear.  Panther Olympics is held in the afternoon.
Here are the teams

We Love our Catholic School



Student Council Upcoming Events January and February 2023

Student Council has some fun events coming up . . .
For the Super Bowl – On Thursday Feb 9 students can dress down in their favorite team’s colors – Hopefully we will all be in Green – Go Birds!

• Friday February 10 is our actual 100^th birthday so the students will be wearing their 100^th birthday shirt they are receiving next week from school.

For Valentine’s Day – Student Council is selling Candy Grams for a dollar.  For one dollar the students can send a full size Hershey Chocolate bar to their friend, or brother, or sister, or prayer partner, or favorite teacher.  The Candy grams are on sale now until Feb 7.  They will be delivered on Valentine’s Day Tuesday Feb. 14
For Fat Tuesday – Student Council will be selling full size donuts for one dollar at all the lunches.  No need to preorder.  Just bring one dollar to school on Tuesday February 21.
Thank you,
Your Student Council


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Happy Advent!  As we prepare the way for our Lord, Student Council has planned some fun activities for December.
The 12 Days of Christmas starting Tuesday Dec 6 – appropriately enough – St. Nicholas’ Birthday!  And going right up to Dec 23 with our Christmas Spirit Competition.  For all 12 days we will be hiding an elf.  Anyone who finds the elf will win a small prize. 
Here is the line up
All 12 Days – Find the Elf – win a small prize 
Tuesday 12/6 – St. Nick’s Birthday – the student’s will find little candies on their desk when they come into school.
Wednesday 12/7/22 – Read a Christmas Book!  Teachers and Parents, please read a Christmas book to your class/child today.
Monday 12/12/22 – Christmas Raffles – Throughout the day Student Council will call out names of students to win prizes – all day long!
Tuesday 12/13/22 – Christmas PJ day.  Or just PJ day if you don’t have Christmas PJ’s
Wednesday 12/14/22 – Good Deed day – We are reminding the students to do a good deed today and everyday – as gifts to Jesus for his Birthday and to stay on Santa’s Good List
Thursday 12/15/22 – Hot Chocolate and Bake Sale.  Student Council will be giving everyone a cup of Hot Chocolate at lunchtime and selling homemade baked goods for a dollar each.
Friday 12/16/22 – Christmas Movie day – Each class will take some time to enjoy a Christmas movie
Monday 12/19/22 – Christmas Accessories – Students may add Christmas accessories to their uniform
Tuesday 12/20/22 – Christmas Prayer Partner Activity.  Teachers will work together to come up with and activity for their class and their prayer partners.
Wednesday 12/21/22 – The Student Council will be Christmas Caroling around the school
Thursday 12/22/22 – SANTA will visit the School!
Friday 12/23/22 – Christmas Spirit – Students will dress in their best Christmas clothes – or Christmas colors – it’s a dress down day with Flair!  Prizes will be awarded at each lunch.   
Merry Christmas – Your Student Council 

6th Grade will go to the Santa Shop on Tuesday 12/6 at 8:20
 Please bring money if you want to shop!

Santa Shop Parent Information

It’s the most wonderful time of the year - time for Santa Shop!
Santa Shop is a Home and School Fundraiser where students can select gifts for their loved
ones while raising money for the school at the same time. Classes will come to the Santa Shop
on either December 5th, 6th, or 7th. The shop will also be open for family shopping on Tuesday,
December 6th from 6:00 - 7:30 pm.
We need YOU to help us with Santa Shop. Here’s how you can help...
1. Volunteer! If you are interested in helping, please sign up by visiting bit.ly/santahfs.
You are welcome to sign up for multiple time slots. Clearances are required to volunteer,
with the exception of Santa Shop set-up and tear-down.please sign up by clicking here
2. Be an Angel sponsor - We want this event to be an experience where all students can
participate, regardless of financial means. You can be an “angel sponsor” by sending in
an envelope labeled “Angel sponsor” with a small donation in addition to an envelope
that you are sending in for your own child. Any students who are unable to participate
due to financial hardship will then have the opportunity to experience the true meaning of
Christmas - giving - by selecting something for their loved ones.
Keep an eye out for Santa Shop info coming home on Tuesday, November 22nd. Please return
Santa Shop envelopes and Angel sponsor envelopes by Friday, December 2nd.

Thank you!
~ The Santa Shop Committee
Jenna Rufo, Andrea Mather, Melissa Blanco





Hello everyone,
 A few weeks ago,
 the 100 th anniversary committee
 met to come up with activities to
 celebrate
 Holy Family
 School’s 100th anniversary.
 Along with Grandparents’ Day, Mass, and a birthday cake, which we
 celebrated during Catholic Schools Week,
 we will also be having monthly collections for local charities.
 There will be a different theme each month, and we will be trying to collect 100 items each month.
 We don’t expect families to give every month, Please pick and choose and only give what and
 when you can.

 December: Toys (Christmas)
 January: Lysol wipes and snack crackers
 (cold and flu season)
 February: Breakfast Bags
 (for shut-ins during the winter months)
 March: Pot of gold (100 dollars)
 ($1.00 from each student)
 April: cleaning supplies (spring cleaning)
 May: diapers (Mother’s Day)



 Giving Tuesday 2022

We are looking forward to tomorrow, November 29, this year’s #GivingTuesday!  Join with us and share the excitement of the giving season. We ask for your support of our Annual Fund, which helps bridge the gap between tuition payments and operating expenses.

 

As we prepare for tomorrow, we are reminded of the words shared earlier this year by our Student Council President Joseph Fanelli, Class of 2023:

 

“…. As we all know, this year is special. It is our school’s 100th year and it’s natural for us to look back and understand the responsibilities we have to live up to our school’s reputation that has so far taken 110 years to build.

 

The building of our school started on June 25, 1922. Fr. Wilson, the pastor of St. Ann’s Parish worked with the people of St. Ann to build the school and the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary agreed to teach the children who attended.  Construction was completed on February 4, 1923. That first year there were 145 students. In 1958 a new building was added to make room for more students and Mother Rita became the principal of the new, bigger school. In 1986, St. Ann’s, Holy Trinity, St. Basil’s and St. Mary’s merged their schools. Then, on New Year’s Eve in 1989, the school name changed to Holy Family School. In the 1990s our school added Kindergarten and Preschool programs, the children at St. Joseph’s Parish joined our Holy Family “family” and Mrs. Dura became our first lay principal. In the 2000’s, Mrs. Dura handed her leadership to Mrs. Braca, then Mr. Dever and now to Mrs. D’Amelio. Today, in 2022, we celebrate our history and think about our future timeline. The most interesting thing about our timeline after 2022? It’s blank! It is now up to us to decide what will be written next.

 

As we work to build what comes next, we should think about the lessons of the past. In 1922, there were no airplanes, cars or highways, no cell phones or internet. A World War had just ended, the Great Depression would start just six years after our school was built, and a second horrible World War was coming soon.  But, through all of that, our school survived and thrived. I think a big reason for that is because our Holy Family community of teachers, priests, sisters, parents and students focused on their faith and on living the teachings of Jesus. He taught us to love and serve one another the way he loved and served us. Those who came before us did just that. This is what makes our school different and why Holy family School has had a special place in this community for the past 100 years.”

 

Our school has indeed thrived. It has done so because of your support and the care and dedication of all of those who have come before us. We hope you will join us again this year, in honor of our rich history and strong values that have lasted 100 years. 

 

As an extra incentive to give, all families who contribute to the Annual Fund on #GivingTuesday will be entered into a drawing for their student and a friend to enjoy a special lunch with the Principal.  Help us spread the word by asking family and friends to contribute and join in the enthusiasm for supporting our wonderful school. 

 

If you’d like to give today, and give us a great head start, visit https://www.myholyfamilyschool.org/annual-fund.  Your early gift will also count toward entries to win Lunch with the Principal.  Thank you for your continued support!

CONGRATULATIONS
 TO THE CAST OF NEWSIES!
HFS Cast Member NameGradeNewsies Jr. RoleRyan Bell6Tommy Boy (Newsie) & BillLeah Bernat8Katherine Plumber (Reporter)Keira Brannen6Ada (Bowery Brigade) & "Scab" #2 (Newsie)Abigail Callaghan5Hannah (Pulitzer's Secretary) & Police OfficerAlana Cintron6Race (Newsie)Isabella Coleman7Pat (Announcer) & NewsieJulie Cucinotta7Pigtails (Newsie)Molly Cusatis7Romeo (Newsie)Morgan Duffy7Albert (Newsie)Brooke Emery7Hazel (Newsie)Michael Fennell7CrutchieSarabella Firkin7Muriel (Newsie)Lyla Fromhold6Nancy (Newsie) & DorothyMatteo Fontana7Newsie EnsembleSinead Hennessey6Medda LarkinSarah Huynh5Darcy & Woman CustomerCaroline Keough5Ethel (Bowery Brigade) & "Scab" #1 (Newsie)Kevin Kerr5Seitz (Editor of the World Paper) & Police OfficerElla Laskowsky6Bunsen (Pulitzer's Bookkeeper) & NewsieRachael Marple8Buttons (Newsie)Lilly McCarthy8Specs (Newsie)Brendan McCarthy7Newsie EnsembleMolly McCarthy7Newsie EnsembleAnnie Peck5Olive (Bowery Brigade) & "Scab" #3 (Newsie)John Peck7Snyder (Refuge Warden)John Pizzica7Oscar DelanceyTrey Pizzica6Morris DelanceyTeddy Root6WieselAnthony Sabatino6Les (Newsie)Vincent Sabatino7Davey (Newsie)Xavier Smith7Joseph PulitzerWill Spillane5JoJo (Newsie) & Gov. Teddy RooseveltMolly Thiel5Spot Conlon (Brooklyn Newsie)Jacob Thorn7Jack Kelly (Newsie)



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