Fun school traditions

• Reading Buddies — older students read with younger ones

• B.U.G. (“Being Unusually Good”) Awards • Prayer services on Monday mornings

• School Masses

• Halloween parade

• Operation Christmas Child — an international shoebox gift drive

• Joy of Giving (see top photo) — students get to do their own Christmas shopping for family members, making their own decisions among donated items. Then the students get to see the money they spent given to a charitable cause.

• Christmas caroling downtown

• Catholic Schools Week — a wide array of fun activities

• Winter Carnival parade float

• May Crowning (see bottom photo) — an old school tradition in which students recognize the month of Mary, mother of Jesus, by bedecking her statue with flowers.

• Poster and Poetry Contest — sponsored by the local Catholic Daughters

• Fifth-grade field trip to Boston for whale-watching and American history education

• Walkathon

• Field Day

• Spring play and concert