“Christ is the reason for this school.” This sign hangs in the entryway of our school and is present in all that we do at Holy Cross School from the way that we treat each other to the way that we teach to the way that we discipline.

Yearly School Theme:
“This is what God asks of us, to love tenderly, to act justly and to walk humbly with our God.”

Our students:

• Have religion every day from 9-9:30.
• Attend weekly Friday prayer services that are prepared and presented by a rotating grade 5-8.
• Attend monthly masses each prepared by one grade throughout the year
• Prepare and attend Advent Candle Lighting services and Lenten Stations of the Cross, including a Living Stations during Holy Week.
• Crown the Blessed Mother every May. Our tradition is that the Second Graders crown The Blessed Mother in their First Communion finest.
• Attend Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on First Fridays.
• Have a prayer Partner. Each of our upper grades is paired with a lower grade, Pre-K and 4th, K and 5th, etc. They get together weekly during their religion period and read to each other, do crafts and celebrate holidays together. Prayer Partners also sit together during masses and prayer services.
• Serve others. In addition to a large service project during Catholic School Week and various smaller ones throughout the year, our middle school students assist at our local Food Cupboard one day a week.

This past year, our Catholic Week Service Project was to support entrepreneurs in developing countries by offering micro-loans through KIVA.org to 10 deserving people who were trying to grow or start a business in countries from Guam to the Congo to Kenya. We will be following those entrepreneurs and picking new people to support when the original loans are repaid.
In addition our students:

• Held a middle school service day in April where the students cleaned the school and church parking lots of winter debris and sand, including 2 pickups full of sand!
• Held a penny drive for our local food cupboard
• Donated books to a school and orphanage in Cambodia