St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School

The kindergarteners joined us for Mass today!

Thursday, we celebrated The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary!

Thank you Sister Grace and Mrs. Dawn for putting the program together!

Day 2 was great! We are soooooo excited to have everyone back!

Tomorrow, Friday, August 16th will be the first full day of school. Dismissal will be at 3:00 PM.

Late Stay begins on Monday, August 19th!

The first day of school was a success! We welcome old faces back and many new faces! See you all tomorrow for day 2! 🩷

Welcome back to our 2024-2025 school year!

Tomorrow, August 14th is our first day school.

Pre-K Last Name (A-L) All K5-5th grade. Dismissal at 12:00 PM

Thursday, August 15th:
Pre-K Last Name (M-Z)
All K5-5th grade. Dismissal at 12:00PM.

Friday, August 16th: First Full Dismissal at 3:00 PM.

Monday, August 19th, Late Stay begins from 3:16PM-6:00PM

We were able to celebrate National Public Works Week with our friends from the City of Greenville, South Carolina Government Public Works Department. We are so grateful that you brought the parade of trucks to our school so we can understand the great things you do in our community and see the people and equipment that helps our city stay clean and safe.

Thank you to Mr. Chris Rucci for talking to our 2nd graders today about your job as a pilot, letting us see your plane, and clarifying some of our curiosities about flying. It's possible we may have a few pilots coming from this class! Thanks Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) in South Carolina for having us on campus!

Let's play ball! Well, let's watch the Greenville Drive play ball! The Drive will be sponsoring St. Anthony Nite on Tuesday, May 14 at 7pm. Tickets are available for purchase at the link below and a portion of the proceeds benefit St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School. Our students will even have the honor of singing God Bless America prior to the start of the game! Come out for a fun evening with your St. Anthony family as we draw closer and closer to the end of a great school year!
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Ms. Mary & Ms. Paula from the St. Anthony "Green Space" ministry visited with our students this Monday to celebrate Earth Day. They talked about ways we can take better care of our environment and even shared seed packets and a crossword puzzle so we could spend some time at home talking about ways to reduce, reuse, & recycle! Thanks Mary & Paula for spending your Earth Day with us!

It’s Pre-K Enrollment Day! St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School is a part of Palmetto Pre-K, a statewide network of publicly funded preschool programs in South Carolina. We proudly partner with First Steps 4K to get children ready for school, work and life by offering FREE, curriculum-based, quality preschool to families.

Plus, First Steps 4K partners with SC Child Care to offer additional child care and after-school scholarships to all siblings of First Steps 4K students - providing care and education for the whole family.

Check your family's eligibility to attend for FREE and enroll today at Free4KSC.org.

Happy Easter from the faculty, staff, and students of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School.

We were honored to have Senator Karl Allen join our students and faculty today as our guest speaker for Black History Month. Senator Allen shared about his desire to help people at an early age and decided becoming an attorney and politician was the best way he could do that. His words of encouragement, humor, and even some cool dance moves serve as an excellent reminder to all of us that we are the only obstacles that can get in the way of achieving our own dreams! Thank you, Senator Allen, for inspiring us this afternoon!

This past Wednesday, our students and staff joined Fr. Mwape for a blessing on the new Early Childhood playground. We hope this space will bless the bodies and minds of our littlest ones with recreation and rejuvenation for years to come. Thank you to all of our donors who supported this project and to Usa-Play for being great partners from start to finish.

Nakisha McKinney, PreK Director, proudly displays the 30 Year Partnership Plaque that was awarded to St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School from ABC Quality and the SC Department of Social Services during last week's South Carolina Early Childhood Educator Conference. We are so grateful to those visionaries from our earlier days who sought every opportunity possible to support the students in our school community.

Celebrate Black History Month with us at St. Anthony of Padua! A list of upcoming events can be found on the flyer below!

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." –Harriet Tubman

Catholic Schools Week Schedule

Looking for a K4 option for your son or daughter for the coming school year? FirstSteps SC just opened their applications for the 24/25 school term. Apply now to see if you qualify for the free full-day program for your child. St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School will begin registration for next year on January 28, 2024. Visit our website and click Inquire Now to receive updates on our registration process. www.stanthonyschoolgvl.org

FirstSteps 4K Application: http://tinyurl.com/y687edym

This Monday, Jan. 8, we held our 2nd Quarter Honors Assembly and recognized students for academic excellence, perfect attendance, and commitment to classmates and studies over the past 9 weeks. Congratulations to all of our students and the hard work they've shown for the first half of the year!!

It's a soggy Tuesday here in Greenville, but it's a great day to recognize Ms. Bailey on and her birthday!

Happy Birthday, Bailey!

St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School will operate as normal on Tuesday, January 9. Any changes will be updated through Class Dojo, Email, text message, and school FB.

Last week, our students jumped at the opportunity to support some of their peers across the Carolinas who are battling cancer. Donning their favorite Christmas hat (or antlers), students and staff raised $175 for this most worthy cause. We are so grateful for the work Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas does to support children and their families in the fight against cancer.

It's almost here! Please join us Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 6:30pm for our performance of "A Christmas Carol". This event is open to the community and is only $5/pp. Tickets are available at the door or online at https://book.stripe.com/9AQ5nK7wafgRbzqfYY

Last Thursday, November 30, our school community gathered for a celebration of National Black Catholic History Month. During this time, our 4th and 5th graders shared information about six Black Catholics who are currently on the path to sainthood within the Church. Mary Corner, Director of Administration at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, shared her experience of meeting then, Sr. Thea Bowman, during a visit to St. Anthony many years ago. Finally, our students honored Venerable Thea Bowman through liturgical dance. This was truly a great celebration of our faith as we concluded Black Catholic History Month.