Autor: Janis DeVore

The 2013 All Saints Catholic School Field Day for Grades K-8 will take place on the grounds of Linton Hall School in Bristow on Wednesday, May 29^to.  

Instead of spending the last Saturday of Easter break relaxing, 18 seventh and eighth grade students at All Saints went to work cleaning the grounds of Bristoe Station Battlefield Park in Bristow, VA. Sponsored by the Civil War Trust, National Park Day is an annual event that invites volunteers from around the country to help maintain and preserve Civil War battlefield sites. The students were accompanied to this year’s April 6th event by middle school social studies teacher Mrs. Slovenkay and middle school literature teacher Mrs. Lewis.

A community service activity spearheaded by Mrs. Slovenkay, this is the 8th year that All Saints students have participated in Park Day. In previous years, students helped maintain trails, rake leaves, and clear trash at the Liberia Mansion and Signal Hill historic sites.

“The preservation of the Civil War sites is very relevant to our 7th grade history curriculum,” shares Mrs. Slovenkay. “It also reinforces the importance of good citizenship learned in 7th and 8th government lessons.” Being an environmental steward also ties into All Saints active virtue program as it provides students with a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate their civic virtues.

Adds Mrs. Slovenkay, “When I take students to this annual event, it is my fervent wish that children experience the great satisfaction and feelings of accomplishment when they give back to their community and that they will continue to responsibly participate in their communities. Just as we live our faith at All Saints, we live good citizenship as well.”

Congratulations to all of our winning CYO basketball teams and thank you to the coaches and parents who supported the program throughout the season.  We are proud of your accomplishments and your outstanding representation of our community!

8th Grade Boys (Coach Espos/Ella) – 3^rd Place in regular season/2^nd Place in Tournament

8^to Grade Boys (Coach McCabe/Gaynord) – 3^rd Place in regular season/Tournament Champions (Div. 5)

8^to Grade Girls (Coach Caturano) – 3rd Place in regular season/Tournament Champions

8^to Grade Girls (Coach Goldsmith) – 3^rd Place in regular season/Tournament Champions (Div. 6)

7^to Grade Boys (Coach Magee/Waddy) – 3^rd Place in Tournament

7^to Grade Boys (Coach Michak/Seigel) – 2^nd Place in Tournament

7^to Grade Girls (Coach Espos/Cadle) – 3^rd Place in Tournament

7^to Grade Girls (Coach Kreitzer/Kreitzer) – Regular season Champions

6^to Grade Girls (Coach Carter) – 3^rd Place in Tournament

5^to Grade Boys (Coach Rice/Rice) – 2^nd Place in Tournament

5^to Grade Girls (Coach Seigel/Seigel) – Regular season Champions/Tournament Champions

4^to Grade Girls (Coach Gray) – Sportsmanship Award

On Friday, March 1st, All Saints students participated in the “Read the Most from Coast to Coast” challenge, taking Accelerated Reader (AR) quizzes with students from across the country!  More than 29,000 educators from throughout the U.S. registered their students to take part in Renaissance Learning’s second nationwide reading challenge. All Saints library team of Mrs. Coyle and Mrs. Geary decided to participate as a way to encourage reading and support this fun goal-setting event.

The new one-day record of quizzes taken is 4,409,622, completely smashing the previous record of 3,581,992. That’s a lot of reading!!

Thank you All Saints students for demonstrating your love of reading.