Q:  What’s your best chance to enjoy a night of tropical fun on Saturday, January 25? A: Trivia Night at ASH! Plan now to attend our 12th annual trivia night in Rauch Memorial. Gather your family and friends and put together one or more teams of eight. Click here to reserve a table, volunteer to help, or learn about sponsorship opportunities.

Thanks to all our students for their heartwarming Silver Tea performances. What a beautiful gift! Here are a few pictures of the Pre-Primary AM Class’ Silver Tea performance in Cribbin Hall.

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Pundmann Ford presented the Academy with a check for $5,940 for their participation in Ford’s Drive One for your School program. Our gratitude to Pundmann for the opportunity to partner with them in this endeavor!

We’re pleased to claim Kimberly King, rscj, Fifth Class literature teacher and Academy librarian, as our resident poet. We share here Advent reflections from her blog: Consider the Lilies.

Advent I, 2013 Wrap me in the now of Love for it is a touching time when nearness is felt absolutely, entirely— and my yes echoes from star to star: I will touch, I will open, I will receive, I will share. Your life fills the heavens, spins the planets, and sings my dreams home to sunrise and more! Augh, live in me, find hearth in me, though I am hopeless to contain you! You, the largeness of my love, and depth of my breathing.
Advent II, 2013 It is within me to seek you, alive and encompassing. It is in my soul to ache with beauty, to sigh while believing that nothing can come between the flame and the wick. It is within me to be radiant with you. It is in my soul to yes to you, to love.
Advent III, 2013 Birth and life… neither is a muted affair. The effort to quiet or contain them would snatch at starlight and whisper away the edge of awe’s flame, leaving mystery to sputter.
Advent IV, 2013 Your nearness crackles, Love, and I sing for want of a way to contain certain joy swishing her cape at the awe of it all.

NEW: LOWER SCHOOL SILVER TEA HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, SAME TIME… 

We were delighted to welcome many of our students’ grandparents to the Silver Tea dress rehearsals—the Middle School’s Thursday afternoon and the Lower School’s this morning. There were lots of toes tapping and heads nodding in time to the music! The children are ready and excited to repeat their performances for their parents.

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December’s Silver Teas are much-anticipated events. The students have been working for weeks on their performances, lovingly prepared as a Christmas gift for their parents. The dates and times of this year’s Silver Teas are:

• MIDDLE SCHOOL (Classes 5-8):  Friday, December 13  •  7:30 p.m.
  • Grandparents may attend the Middle School Dress Rehearsal
    on Thursday, December 12 at 1:30 p.m.
• LOWER SCHOOL (Classes P-4):  Saturday, December 14  •  2:00 p.m.
  • Grandparents may attend the Lower School Dress Rehearsal
    on Friday, December 13 at 9:00 a.m.
    
• PRE-PRIMARY:  Monday, December 16  •  10:00 a.m. (for morning class) and 2:00 p.m. (for afternoon class)

The final week of school before break is a busy one. Students in Classes 3-8 will take exams Dec. 16–19. On Thursday, Dec. 19, the Academy band will give a Christmas Concert for the whole school. Classroom Christmas parties will follow.

In a tradition dating back many years, each Academy family is invited to provide a basket of food for the needy. As we joyfully anticipate Jesus’ birth during Advent, assembling items for your family’s food basket can become a special family activity and a new holiday tradition. When students (P-8), faculty, staff, parents, alums and friends gather for Christmas Basket Mass on Friday, Dec. 20 at 10 a.m. in Rauch Memorial, hundreds of bountiful baskets will fill the bleachers, representing the incredible generosity of our families. Not only is this a prayerful way to part before the holidays, it is also an opportunity to realize the abundance of our blessings.

This year, in commemoration of 100 years as an Alumni Association, Academy alumni are invited to assemble food baskets the evening before Basket Mass. They’ll gather from 7–9 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19 in the White Center.  [Read more]

Dismissal for Christmas break is Friday, Dec. 20 at 11:30 a.m. [NO LATE DISMISSAL]

Finally, all are invited to attend Christmas Eve Liturgy at 10 p.m. Dec. 24 in the Shrine of St. Philippine Duchesne. This is a beautiful, joyful and prayerful way to celebrate the birth of Jesus!

If you have questions about any of our December events, please call the school office at 636-946-6127.

First Class students prepared a Thanksgiving play for their parents, who joined them in other holiday activities while visiting their classroom before the break. Here, Mrs. Metcalf’s students pose in the replication of the Mayflower that they helped create.

Our Middle School students go out into the community to work with others. Read about the Academy’s “In the Footsteps of Philippine” program for students in grades 5–8.

Our school community celebrated the Feast of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne with an all-school liturgy in Rauch Memorial. Father Sean Martin, celebrant, asked the students to reflect on Philippine’s sense of adventure in her quest to bring God’s love to the American frontier.

Our thanks to the Sixth Class, who, under Sister Margaret Munch’s direction, presented a play about Philippine’s life for students in Classes 4-8.

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Click here, on the Society of the Sacred Heart’s website, to read more about St. Philippine Duchesne.

Alums, join us as we continue the Centennial Celebration of our Sacred Heart Alumni Association. Get involved and reconnect at one or more of four upcoming alumni events. Read more…

‘Tis nearly the season! The Mothers’ Club has arranged for 45+ vendors to inspire and delight you on Saturday, Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Taste of Christmas CHIC BOUTIQUE held in the Academy gymnasium, cafeteria and play room. Whether getting a start on your holiday shopping or treating yourself, you’ll be wowed with the offerings of apparel, jewelry, candles, home decor, monogrammed gift items, totes, books, toys and so much more. Featuring home-baked cookies, lunch and raffles, too!

For more information, click here or call 636-946-5632.

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