Purpose

As part of the “Purpose” Student Learning Expectations, school staff encourages students to exhibit awareness of self and responsibility to one another. Saint Anne’s Catholic School provides opportunities for students to recognize the importance of community service, and acknowledge the differences and diversity of others.

Students participate in weekly school Masses and various classroom activities in “Mass Families.” These “families” are assembled by grouping students from each grade level together, with the oldest children in the group acting as the family leader. As the students spend time with their Mass Families they get to know other students at all grade levels, creating a sense of community within the school, as well as serving as peer mentors for each other.

Annie’s Angels is a Parish Youth Organization that strives to teach and guide children to serve the community in a loving, Christian Catholic and nonjudgmental manner. Students in the 7th and 8th grade, with the assistance of appointed adult leaders, purchase, prepare and serve dinner once a month at the Salvation Army homeless shelter and participate in the Salvation Army’s bell ringing program during the Christmas season.

During the Christmas season, many of the classrooms sponsor a family from the community. As a class they purchase clothes, shoes, household necessities and toys as Christmas gifts and have a wrapping class party to wrap the gifts beautifully, so they are ready to be placed under the sponsored family’s Christmas tree.