On Friday, the eighth grade class spent the morning in Dr. John Hanson’s chemistry lab at The University of Puget Sound. They conducted multiple experiments to learn about and control rates of reaction. They determined unknown gases based on molar mass and then explored the reaction of different gases to a flame. They had a […]
Principal post January 15th 2019
Congratulations to 8th grader Josie Kinney who won the Northwest Catholic Student Essay Contest. Students in all 74 Catholic schools in Western Washington were asked to write on the question, “What does Mary mean to you?” Judges from Northwest Catholic magazine, the Office for Catholic Schools, and the Fulcrum Foundation chose winning essays for elementary, […]
Principal Post Jan. 8th
Dear Families: Happy 2019! I hope you and your family had a wonderful and relaxing holiday season. As good as it is to have the long break away from school, it is so very nice to return to our students’ smiling faces. The students were wide-awake and rarin’ to go at yesterday’s Prayer Assembly. I […]
Principal Post December 18th
Last Wednesday, the fifth-grade class began the All-School Mass on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a presentation of the history of the apparitions of Our Blessed Virgin Mary to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill in 1531. As the story was read by a narrator, class members acted as Juan Diego, the Bishop […]
Principal Post December 11th
Christmas is in the air! Last Thursday our sixth through eighth graders spent a morning in an Advent retreat organized by Mr. Haffey and facilitated by the middle school teachers. They began their day attending Mass, followed by prayer and time to reflect on the blessings in their lives. During the season of Advent and […]
Principal Post – December 4th
Yesterday at our Prayer Assembly, we lit the Advent wreath and sang our traditional Advent Song as we welcomed this holy season. Each morning from now until Christmas break, we will gather in the main hallway of the school and have our Advent celebration. Each day a 7th grader will share a personal reflection on […]
Principal Post November 27th
Dear Families: Last Tuesday the Pacific Science Center’s Science on Wheels program spent the day exposing our students to Physics. We began our day with an all-school assembly where students explored the properties of a mystery liquid (liquid nitrogen) and were shocked and amazed by a the “hair-raising” Van de Graff generator. Individual class workshops […]
Principal post November 20th
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF OUR FAMILIES FROM THE FACULTY AND STAFF OF ST. ANNE SCHOOL. […]
Principal Post November 13th
Whew! We made it! Thank you for your support during our accreditation process and site visit. We received our “Report of Findings” after school last Friday and it was excellent. Our Action Plan was accepted without any changes and many times in the report our school program was described as “highly effective”, the highest level […]
Principal Post Nov. 6th
A very special guest joined us at our Prayer Assembly yesterday to help announce the totals from the Move-a-thon. His helpers, Mrs. Flora, Miss Grelle and Mr.Haffey provided his “voice” while he provided the fanfare. Thank you to the Seahawks and Blitz for celebrating that we not only surpassed our $42,000 super goal, we blew […]