Principal James Horne

Restructuring Learning and Offering Leadership

Dear Parents and Friends,

In our continuous attempt to improve the educational program we offer Saintsmen, Saints will be restructuring its school day in the 2010-11 school year to a modified block schedule.

Broadly defined, block scheduling is a restructuring of the school day whereby students attend half as many classes, for twice as long. In a departure from the traditional 50-minutes per class, 6 classes per day ritual, students take three classes in 90 minute blocks.  Some schools have adopted this schedule five days a week.  Saints has modified its approach to a block system and will host traditional schedule 3 days/week and block schedule 2 days/week.

The administration and faculty have spent a great deal of time planning and preparing for this transition and are excited about the opportunities it will provide to create college readiness, enable project based contextualized learning and to energize classroom learning with new teaching methodologies.  Furthermore, this newly modified schedule will provide time for a weekly Homeroom that will offer every student a value based leadership curriculum.

As we move forward, we do so in the spirit of Augustine, who said, "always make progress....so that you may become that which you are not yet."

In the spirit of Catholic Education,

James Horne

Principal