St. Therese Catholic School - We Celebrate the Family

The month of February is dedicated to the Holy Family. Here at St. Therese Catholic School we celebrate the family all year long! Family is more than the biological family. It’s also classmates, teachers, staff, parish members and members of our community. Being family means being engaged in your community and caring about those around you.

The mission statement of St. Therese Catholic school is;  To provide faith, service and learning experiences in a Christ-like environment. Our faith is shared during our morning prayers and special intentions for community members, weekly school Masses, Adoration, daily Religion classes and engaging with our community; often through our service-learning projects. Our faith is more than  whatwe do in church, it is  howwe treat others outside of the church. 

Each month our middle school students participate in the St. Vincent de Paul food distribution in our Gym. Students help to provide food to those most in need. They serve with respect and dignity to our community.On Veteran’s Day the students donate non-perishable items for care packages for our homeless veterans through the Veterans Integration Center. This year the entire school worked together to fill over 400 Care Packages!

At Christmas time our Giving Tree is decorated with hats, gloves, socks, scarves, jackets and more! These are all donated to our local homeless shelters.  The students hosted a jeans day and sent $500 help to the displaced families from the Paradise fire in California.Our third and fourth grade students took the city bus and went to the local senior center to sing Christmas carols to the seniors in our community. The people there were so happy to see the children and to listen to them sing. The children brought Christmas cards that they made to pass out to the seniors. These are just a few examples of how we are present in our community.

St. Therese students also know how important learning is to forming the whole child. We provide many opportunities to broaden their learning experiences. Our middle school has participated with La Luz Labs and AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory) for many years.They provide STEM based lessons and activities for our students throughout the school year. The students work in groups to learn about aerodynamics, trajectory and physics as they design and build their own rockets. Launch day is always an exciting day! Tracking and retrieving the rockets is often a challenge, but well worth it!Mr. Gilbert’s 5th grade class spends much of the year preparing for their Mission to Mars!This is a comprehensive program that entails students learning about habitat, environment, life support, and so much more. This is another STEM project that culminates in the students meeting at the Convention Center in the spring to “link up” with other schools and create a huge enclosed habitat. Link Up Day is a major event that involves using all of their knowledge to create an enclosed habitat that could, theoretically, support life on Mars.

Students have a very active year with the greenhouse and the garden plots.  Students in several classes participate with Mr. O’Meara in growing seeds under grow lights, starting plants in the green house, and transferring them into one of our raised garden beds or garden plots. Students are learning how plants grow, where our food comes from, and how to be good stewards of our environment. There’s always something going on to engage students!

Between our liturgical celebrations and social activities, we are working to build a true sense of family here at St. Therese Catholic School. The little ways of our patron saint permeates our halls and our classrooms.To learn more about our school or to see if this is the right place for your family, call 344-4479. Open registration is now taking place for the 2019-2020 school year.