The Catholic schools on Staten Island hosted their Annual Regional Spelling Bee on Thursday, Dec. 12. All participants were in grades 5 through 8, and qualified for the competition by out-spelling their classmates. The winner, Charlotte Tama of St. Joseph Hill Academy, felt like she made her school proud when she won the competition by [...]
Jonathan Boo, STEM Director of Cathedral High School, received the 2019 Emergent Design Science Professional Award in September at the 6th Biennial Design Science Symposium held at Rhode Island School of Design. This honor is awarded biannually to a promising recent design graduate, whose design skills and design philosophy exemplify application of comprehensive anticipatory design [...]
Cathedral High School Juniors Skylla Collado, Annette Malan, Taiana Corchado and Thais Pena have been selected to participate in Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Science Enrichment Program. The two-year internship program helps high school science students learn fundamental skills in a clinical environment to explore careers paths in medicine. The students take courses in cancer, biology, lab [...]
The Moore Catholic High School choir will be opening for the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular on Dec. 19. These 32 Staten Island high school students will be singing an a capella version of “Hallelujah” and “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” on the world-famous New York City stage. The choir’s fellow [...]
The Archdiocese of New York announced today that it will open online Admissions for the 2020-21 School Year today, Wednesday December 4 – and host six open house events at 120 schools across the Archdiocese from January through March, 2020. For children entering grades K through 8, families can apply for both Admissions in three ways: [...]
When a fire ravaged a St. John's School of Kingsbridge student's home, principal Melissa Moore stepped in. With the help of Inner-City Scholarship Fund, the majority of this student's tuition was covered, and young Sachila is able to stay at the school he calls home. This is a heartwarming story of how Catholic schools step [...]
Students at St. Adalbert School in Staten Island hosted their Annual pre-Veterans Day breakfast and assembly for over 100 veterans and their families last Wednesday. The students gifted handmade cards and hearts to the veterans, performed patriotic songs, and took part in the White Table Ceremony -- a remembrance of Veterans who are missing in [...]
Dr. Susan Miller, Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and Staff Development, speaks with NWEA about the specific strategies we employed to improve the New York State Proficiency Test Scores for Catholic Schools across the Archdiocese of New York in Math and English/Language/Arts every year for the last five years. We implemented a targeted approach to instructing [...]
The Westchester County Center was filled with 3,500 Catholic school principals, teachers, and administrators yesterday for their annual Spirituality Day. The day consisted of Mass said by Timothy Cardinal Dolan and a keynote speech by former principal, and current Bishop-elect, Monsignor Edmund J. Whalen. Fios1 spoke to attendees about what makes the Catholic school system [...]
Nine seventh graders from St. Joseph’s School in Manhattan participated in one of the nation’s first TEDx events on Oct. 19. The event was hosted at their school and consisted of a celebrity guest panel which included WPIX reporter Monica Morales, former New York Knick John Wallace, and neuroscientist and author Shonte Jovan Taylor. Pictured [...]
