St. John Vianney Parish School Ready to Celebrate Catholic Schools Week

Catholic Schools week is a nationwide celebration of Catholic Education. Sponsored by the National Catholic Educational Association, the first official Catholic Schools Week was in 1974 and the theme was Catholic Schools, Different Where It Counts--Message, Community and Service. Thirty-eight years later, the annual celebration continues with the 2012 theme: Catholic Schools: Faith. Academics. Service. The annual observance starts the last Sunday in January and runs all week, which this year is Jan. 29 to Feb. 5. Schools typically celebrate Catholic Schools Week with Masses, open houses and activities for students, families, parishioners and the community at large.

St. John Vianney students will be reading Catholic Schools Week essays at each mass the weekend of Jan. 29. School families will participate at mass as greeters, ushers and gift bearers. All are invited to the Open House at noon on Sunday for tours and light refreshments in the cafeteria. The SJV band and strings students will be providing entertainment, student art work is on display, and Spirit Wear is for sale. 

SJV students will celebrate Catholic education all week with a trip to the IMAX, mass with St. Mary Visitation Parish School, a trivia contest, making rosaries for our troops and the annual 8th graders vs. staff volleyball game. All week long the students will be collecting books for the Catholic Schools Week book drive and participating in Daily Catholic Trivia.