St. Clare Catholic Church

It has been a busy two weeks for our St. Clare School 8th grade class. A week ago they spent five days in Washington, D.C. and this week was their final week of school, culminating with graduation ceremony Friday evening

The Washington, D.C. trip was a great success. They left early Tuesday morning and returned Saturday evening. In those 5 days they visited colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, the Capitol building, multiple presidential and war memorials, Arlington Nat’l Cemetery, the Smithsonian museums and even attended a Nationals baseball game. It was a packed week, and our students shined! The teachers, principal and chaperones were proud of the student’s behavior and attitude. These are great kids.

This week was their final week of school at St. Clare. Some of these young people started here in our St. Clare Daycare/Preschool when they were infants. Some started here in Kindergarten and others joined our school some other time along the way. This week they hosted the weekly school Mass, we had a prayer service with their parents, a big “Send Off Assembly” with the whole school and finished up with graduation on Friday. There are 26 of them and I will miss them when I don’t see them every morning in the classroom. Again, these are great kids and I am proud of them.

Thank you for your support of our St. Clare School. We have been blessed for over 100 years to have helped prepare hundreds of young people to be smart and faith filled adults.

Let’s keep praying for one another. –Fr. Don

Our St. Clare 8th Grade class has been in the Washington D.C. area this week learning all about our federal government and national history. Years ago our school used to take the 7th and 8th graders to Washington, D.C. and now our principal, Mr. Harris, has resumed that tradition. Their flight left early (6:30am) on Tuesday and they return this weekend and then finish their last week of school before gradua-tion. Besides the students, two teachers and Mr. Harris and parent chaperones and a professional tour guide have been leading the students.

They had a full schedule of activities. They visited all the big sights and learned lots of history. It’s one thing to talk about these things in the classroom but it’s a com-
pletely different experience to see the sights first-hand. Most of the students had never been to Washington, D.C. before. Now, having been there, when they listen to the national news, it means a lot more to them.

This Washington, D.C. trip is just one more way that our St. Clare School is prepar-
ing our students to excel.

This weekend we have our Support-A-Student event. This is an annual fundraiser to provide funds for tuition assistance for our school. It’s expensive to enroll students in our school (approximately $10,000/year) and tuition assistance helps our families a great deal. We usually give out around $100,000 in tuition assistance each year. Your donations to Support-A-Student helps families be able to have their children learn here at St. Clare School. All gifts are generously matched by the Joseph E. Weston Foundation, doubling your impact.

Thank you for helping our parish families and our parish school!

~Fr. Don