School News

In this week’s column, Maggie promises not to deny service to a parental techie who wants her to download the deets about Dragon’s Grove 2.0. The answer is as simple as ABC, but explaining this alpha-bet soup to a beta-loving dad proves that Maggie can put the AI in sAInt!

Please join us in the Church Hall for our annual Spring Middle School Choir/Violin concert. Featuring St. Margaret’s School 6th-8th Grade students. All are welcome!

Every parent received an email from Mr. Holley with a request to complete the End-of-Year Parent Survey.  The School Board takes your feedback very seriously, and will use it in their planning for the upcoming school year.   They request each family to complete one survey for every child at SMOS.  The survey will be open until Friday, May 17, but don’t delay, just take it today!  

Teacher Appreciation Week for 2024 runs from May 6th-10th.  The PTA has a full week of celebrations planned for our amazing staff members, but we could use your help!

Congratulations to the School families and parents who won this year’s Dragon Raffle!

Lots going on in Sixth Grade this week! Sixth graders play cards to practice their math and work on building their own helicopters as part of their studies on the Renaissance and Leonardo da Vinci. And in Science, they’re working on a live broadcast project as part of their unit on weather and climate – plus recording data for a published paper.

Happy May! Traditionally we celebrate Mary throughout the month of May. Have you thought about how you would like to celebrate with your family this year? Read on for some ideas…

Remember that next week, May 6-10, St. Margaret of Scotland will be participating in the “No Place for Hate” program – which was created by the Anti-Defamation League and promotes school culture, anti-bullying, and inclusivity. Mr. Shorter has planned the week with his Student Diversity Council. Themes will include Motivate Monday, Together Tuesday, Welcoming Wednesday, Thankful Thursday, and Field Day Friday.

In today’s CIDE update, Mr. Shorter gives more detail about this important spirit week, and also provides some insight thanks to none other than The Rock, on the motivating factors of adversity.

As part of Friday announcements, Principal Holley likes to give shout outs to our students who get caught doing acts of kindness around school. We would like to share with you our weekly shout-outs.

I can’t believe that it is already May. Not that we are counting down, but after today we only have sixteen days of school left.  

Field Day will be held on Friday, May 10th, 2024.  PreK- 3rd will participate in morning. 4th-8th will participate on the afternoon!

The SMOS Chess Club, in association with the St. Louis Chess Club, will be running after-school sessions as an extra-curricular program for the 2024 Fall season open to 2nd-8th Graders.

This week our students talked a lot about how to be good stewards of our Earth. God created such a beautiful gift for us – we are called to love and care for it!

As part of Friday announcements, Principal Holley likes to give shout outs to our students who get caught doing acts of kindness around school. We would like to share with you our weekly shout-outs.

Maggie’s column is usurped today by her trusty admin, Gen (as in St. Genesius, the patron saint of secretaries), who has an axe to grind with our Ms. Maggie (which has nothing to do with the rumors of his beheading!) It appears that Gen was all-but-forgotten yesterday for Administrative Professionals Day – and he wants to make sure that we all didn’t lose our heads and forget to thank Chris Stephens & Jennifer Shearer for everything they do around the school!

Our students had several opportunities to show off their talents and gifts this past week.

Not only did the 5th Graders perform in the Dancing Classrooms competition this week – they also discovered a lot about ecosystems using their class terrariums AND put on their teacher hats to educate their classmates about the Civil War. Phew!

Event Date: Friday, May 3, 3:00pm
School Parking Lot

We at St. Margaret have been an active participant in the No Place for Hate program for the past few years. This year we will celebrate the program with a weeklong spirit week. This spirit week will take place May 6th- May 10th. In today’s CIDE update from Coordinator of Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity – Corey Shorter, we learn about No Place For Hate – and get more insight into the “disease of hate” from a quote by India Arie.

Congratulations to the members of the SMOS Speech Team members who qualified for the final Bellarmine Speech League tournament! It was an honor for them to attend, and they performed with excellence on April 20, 2024!