St. Joan of Arc School

Welcome back! I haven’t met with all my students yet, but we are getting off to a terrific start. The 7th grade Video Production classes are producing political campaign commercials, focusing on issues and the importance of voting. Eighth graders are working on our news show broadcasts, and we have the first one scheduled for […]

It’s hard to believe, but we are beginning to work on the final broadcasts for this semester’s news show teams. I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge all the hard work our 8th graders have put into making the broadcasts some of the best I can remember. They are an enthusiastic and creative […]

This week begins a new trimester for the junior high, and students will receive the report cards for the first trimester this afternoon. In my 8th grade News Show class, we are on a semester schedule, so the students will have no grades posted for the class. That will happen after the end of the […]

This afternoon, I met with the remaining 8th grade volunteers for the video yearbook project. We have so many excited and talented students signing up to work on the yearbook! The response has been unprecedented, and I will have to make arrangements for meeting with smaller groups as we move forward.
We will begin holding regular […]

This Friday morning the Good Morning, SJA, news show staff broadcast our second show of the school year. Now, all the students assigned to the News Show classes have produced a program, and they all did a tremendous job. It’s wonderful to see how each student assumes responsibility for his or her role, and how […]