Fifteen of our Seventh and Eighth Class students will fan out across the country this summer to take part in Network of Sacred Heart Schools’ summer service projects.

• Caroline will live for a week on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She and 23 other Network of Sacred Heart students will serve the Native American Indians from the Lakota Tribe. They will be building decks, skirting trailer homes and doing minor repair work as well as learning about Native American culture and customs.
• “Helping Hungry Hearts” will take Kenneth to Michigan. He will volunteer at Gleaner’s Food Bank in Detroit or Pontiac and Forgotten Harvest in Oak Park. He and other students from Sacred Heart schools will serve dinner at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen and visit Crossroads of Michigan in Detroit to prepare bag lunches for children.

Congratulations to Paul McClain, Sixth Class, who received a perfect score in the second of three meets for this year’s WordMasters Challenge—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually.

Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge, Paul earned a perfect score of 20 in the recent meet. Nationally, only 11 sixth graders achieved a perfect score. Paul and his classmates were coached by Mrs. Laura Craig, Fifth and Sixth Class Literature and Writing teacher.

Our Middle School students made us all very proud at the Excellence in Mathematics Contest held March 19 at St. Louis Community College in Florissant.

6TH CLASS earned second place in the small school team category.  Students whose scores qualified for this award were Matthew Leight, Anna Robben, Paul McLain and Nathan Rich. Additionally, all four of these students placed among the top 10 students in their division: Anna placed 10th, Nathan 8th, Paul 6th and Matthew 2nd overall.

It was great to hear from Barclay Dale ’14, Gracie Holloran ’12  and Mary Clare Cassidy ’12  at the General PCC meeting Tuesday night. These Academy graduates spoke about how ASH prepared them for high school and helped them become confident learners. To read Barclay’s message, click here.

Congratulations to ASH students whose artwork was recognized in the St. Louis Symphony’s Picture the Music competition. Third Class student Suhani, whose piece inspired by A Mid Summer Night’s Dream was chosen among the top 100 pieces now on traveling exhibition throughout the area, was honored at an awards ceremony March 3 at Powell Hall.

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