Our St Mary’s Academy families had an amazing time at our annual Penny Carnival! We love to come together and have so much fun! Thank you to the Parents Club and all our parent volunteers for putting on this special event for us!

Today, St Mary’s Academy celebrated our wonderful dads! Students brought their dads, grandpas and/or papas for a celebration of donuts and milk! Thank you for all you do for your children! Happy Father’s Day!

Students in grades 1-5 attended the awesome Hero’s Hangout field trip! They learned all about what happens when you make a call to 911, toured police cars, an ambulance and fire trucks and came home with so many goodies! Thank you so much to all the sponsors of this incredible event! Not only did our kids learn so much, but they had so much fun!

PreK 4 & Kindergarten took a STEM field trip to Lock 24 Ice Cream. Students learned the science behind making ice cream & actually had the opportunity to make & taste ice cream of their own!

Today at SMA, we celebrated our incredible moms! Moms, grandmoms, and special adults came to enjoy muffins and coffee with their student. It was so wonderful spending the morning with such incredible people! Thank you for all you do for your children!

Students at SMA participated in an Easter basket service project! They brought in items for families in need and assembled baskets to help make people’s Easter brighter! Service is an important component of our Catholic faith, and SMA students happily participate!

Our first Daddy Daughter Dance was held this weekend and it was such a special time! So much fun was had by all….especially with the visit from the princesses, fun with friends in the photo booth, and all of the dancing and games!

It was a week celebrating what we love: Catholic Schools!

Today, our SMA students visited the Civic Center for a performance of the Nutcracker! This perfectly snowy day really helped us to feel the spirit of the season! Some kids even caught snowflakes on their way back to the bus! Thank you for inviting us, Syracuse City Ballet! It was an amazing experience!

During Discover Catholic Schools Week, we were able to celebrate our second annual Thanksgiving Feast! Students, teachers, parent volunteers, parish staff, Father Ben, and Father O’Connor came together to thank God for the gift of Catholic schools and most importantly, St Mary’s Academy! We are so grateful to be one big family, and to be able to openly share our faith and our love of God! Thank you to all who contributed!

In continuance of our celebration of Discover Catholic Schools Week, Bishop Lucia came to visit the students of SMA! Bishop served us donuts, showing us the importance of humility in serving others, helped make Christmas bags for our Rescue Mission service project, helping us to serve the hungry, was the host of our Would You Rather game show, where students were asked questions in regards to service, and then led us in a beautiful prayer service. Thank you, Bishop Lucia, for joining us today and for all you do to lead God’s people!

The fourth graders chose a saint to present on before our All Saints Day Mass today!

Thank you to all of the parents that decorated their trunks & made this Trunk or Treat so special for all of our students!

We had a spooktacular good time at our Halloween Dance! Thank you to our Parents Club, our parent and teacher volunteers, and all those that donated treats to make this night frighteningly fun! Students enjoyed face painting, games, sooo much food, a DJ and dancing under our incredibly awesome new gym lights that were set to Halloween colors!