Author: Janis DeVore

Kindness Week is coming to All Saints next week.  The theme is “Spread Kindness Like Confetti.”  A kick off assembly, presented by the Ambassadors, will be held this Friday, May 11 at 11:00 a.m. in the Parish Activity Center.  Kindness Week will emphasize kindness towards others and random acts of kindness.  Be sure to check out our “kindness tree” and the kindness bulletin boards to see how the children are putting this virtue into action.

Kindness Week is just the beginning for a yearlong focus on kindness during the 2018-2019 school year.  Let’s spread kindness like confetti!

Spread Kindness Like Confetti Video

All Saints has been invited to provide emergency relief through contributions of the following items: peanut butter, cans of chicken, tuna, spam and any other meats or fish, powdered milk, cereal, macaroni and cheese, soup, pasta and baby food.  Collection bins will be available in the new breezeway through Friday of this week.  In advance, thank you for any support you can provide.

Congratulations to the members of the All Saints Advanced Band for their stellar performance at the Arlington Diocese Band Festival on Saturday.  The band was awarded two Superior ratings from the judges and was assessed as an outstanding band in the diocese.  These ratings mark the 40^th time that our band has been awarded the highest rating at the festival.  Both the beginner and the advanced bands are now getting ready for another exciting performance at a competition to be held at Busch Gardens in May.

Congratulations, All Saints Band, and thank you, Mr. Ward, for inspiring our students to excellence!

Students in grades four through eight recently participated in the school-wide round
of the National Geography Bee. Congratulations to our school champion, Patrick
McCurdy, who will complete an online assessment to determine whether he will qualify to advance to the state level competition.

Congratulations to Andrew Horgan who won second place and to all of the students who represented their classes in this academic event.

Zachary Kreitzer (8A)
Patrick McCurdy (8B)
Krysta Drone (7A)
Patrick Dickson (7B)
Esther Paz (6A)
Alex Iskenderoglu (6B)
John Karcher (5A)
Orla Haggerty (5B)
Anthony Williams (4A)
Andrew Horgan (4B)

Congratulations to the following winners of the annual middle school science
fair. Thank you, Mrs. Cottingham and Mrs. Woolfrey, for your dedication and for all that you did to guide the students through the process.

Science Fair Winners – 2018

Overall Winners

• 3rd Runner Up: Varun Varma
• 2nd Runner Up: Michael Caturano
• 1st Runner Up: Tim Mills
• Grand Champion: Mike Short

Category Winners

Category: Behavioral & Social Science

• 1st place: Chloe Davies  – “Work to the Beat”
• 2nd place: Ashleigh Sorbet  – “The Sound of Music”
• 3rd place: Sabrina Yap – “Mmmm … Mnemonics”

Category: Botany

• 1st place: Vlad Rapolti – “And the Best Fertilizer Is…”

Category: Chemistry

• 1st place: Beverley Appiatse – “Shaking for Suds” & Isabelle Tate “Balloon Morphing”
• 3rd place: Alexa Brophy – “Fantastic Flour Formula”

Category: Computer Science

• 1st place: Varun Varma – “Focusing Signals for Better Wifi”
• 2nd place: Mehek Jamil – “Where’s My Wifi?”
• 3rd place: Paul Swaray – “Don’t Get Blocked!”

Category: Earth & Space Science

• 1st place: Dan Coleman – “Putting the Solar in Solar Panels”

Category: Engineering

• 1st place: Kevin Balagtas – “Stolen?  I think not!”
• 2nd place: Anthony Suppers – “Oils Well that Ends Well”
• 3rd place: Ian King – “Aluminum Foil Boat Buoyancy”

Category: Environmental Science

• 1st place: Michael Caturano – “Keeping Earth’s Waters Clean”
• 2nd place: Skyler Yann – “Devastating Tsunami”
• 3rd place: Isabella Ortiz – “How Do Plants Affect Soil Erosion?”

Category: Mathematics

• 1st place: Zack Kreitzer – “Projecting Your Fantasy”
• 2nd place: Christina Santiago – “How the Golden Ratio Affects People’s Aesthetic Opinion”
• 3rd place: Ryan Crocker – “Going Going Statistics”

Category: Medicine & Health

• 1st place: Mike Short – “Can Blood Pressure Take the Heat?”
• 2nd place: Alyssa Neuman – “Inherited… Not Inherited?”
• 3rd place: Kiera Egan – “Which Sunscreen?”

Category: Microbiology

• 1st place: Brian Varghese – “Spicing Up Your Diet”

Category: Physics

• 1st place: Timothy Mills – “May the Force Be With You”
• 2nd place: Maggie Horan – “Chillin’ With Batteries”
• 3rd place: Mary Collins – “How High Does it Take to Launch a Rocket?”

Representing All Saints at the Diocesan Science Fair

• Kevin Balagtas
• Michael Caturano
• Chloe Davies
• Zack Kreitzer
• Timothy Mills
• Mike Short
• Ashleigh Sorbet
• Varun Varma
• Skyler Yann
• Sabrina Yap

On Friday, January 19th the students of All Saints will join their prayers with the
thousands who will gather in Washington, D.C. at the annual March for Life.

As a school community we will pray for an increase in respect for the sanctity of life at all stages in our society. While children who wish to attend the March for Life with their
parents or the Youth Ministry Program will be marked as absent, please know that this
absence will not affect a child who otherwise would earn “Perfect Attendance” at the
close of the year.

If your child will be attending the March, please notify his or her teacher via a note by Thursday, January 18th.

On Saturday, December 5th, over a dozen students participated in our school float as part of the Annual Greater Manassas Christmas Parade. Dressed in costumes borrowed from our 6th grade theater arts program, the children presented a living nativity scene, winning first place in the sponsored division. I want to thank Mrs. Pereira for coordinating the design of the float and the many details that led to such success. It was a great joy to see our students proudly riding the float and providing such an enthusiastic witness to the true meaning of Christmas – the birth of our Savior.