SBCS celebrates Readventure 2010
SBCS supports Guam 350 10/10/10 Wave for the Earth
10/10/10. SBCS Administrators, faculty and 8th Grade students joined representatives from Academy of Our Lady of Guam and Father Duenas Memorial School in the “Guam 350 Wave for the Earth” event at the ITC intersection in Tamuning, Guam. This is part of Guam 350 awareness in support of the 350.org 10/10/10 Global Work Party that addresses issue on the climate crisis.
Clean your Closet
SBCS supports Read for the Record 2010
October 7, 2010 | We Give Books is celebrating Jumpstart’s Read for the Record. Join us and the millions of people around the world who will participate in Jumpstart’s Read for the Record campaign.
Organized by the Language Arts Department, Santa Barbara Catholic School is supporting Jumpstart’s yearlong literacy program – giving at-risk children a jumpstart on the future – and breaking a world record for the greatest number of people reading the same book on the same day by besting the current record of over two million readers in 2009!
We Give Books is a free website that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don’t have them,
simply by reading online. Share the power and the pleasure of reading and teach children about helping others at the same time. Each time you read a book online, you help give a brand-new book to a child in need.
To learn more, please visit www.wegivebooks.org/readfortherecord. You can click on the image bar above to proceed in reading online The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.
Archbishop Anthony Apuron’s Annual Visit to SBCS
October 5, 2010. Archbishop Apuron’s visit coincided with the visit of the International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima. A blessed filled day for the entire SBCS family.
SBCS Lives Within Me
60th Diamond Jubilee Celebration Song • Composed by Jed Balsamo | Lyrics by Maria Kristine Roxas | Musically Arranged for SBCS by Dolly Diaz | Performed by SBCS Honor Choir | Solo by Amara Santos | Director, Principal Photographer and Editor by Julius Sotomayor Cena | Assistant Camera and Technical Direction by Ron Pangan
OCTOBER is National Bullying Prevention Month
by Mrs. Jo-Ann Schaaf
It seems like bullies are everywhere – elementary, middle and high schools, streets, mall, workplace and even at home. For now, let’s focus on bullying that happens in school. Bullying remains to be one of the key issues that can have serious negative consequences for students while they are in school and most probably, if left unresolved, throughout their lives. Bullies make daily life stressful and miserable for the victims. In most reports (i.e. Kids Health.Org, National Crime Prevention Council, National Library of Medicine), it is stated that nearly half of school children or students said they had been bullied. According to the poll, some of these students said they were both bullies and the bully victims. In one online article, “What Kids say About Bullying,” D’Arcy Lyness, a child psychologist, explained it this way: “Some kids learn to bully because they have been subjected to mean, unfair treatment themselves — by others or by their families. That’s sad, but it’s no excuse. Everyone can choose to act in new and better ways. It’s never too late” (KidsHealth.org).
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Happy Feastday and Birthday Sister Jeanette Marie!
