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Saint Louis SchoolOur school honored our 30-year Catholic school educator Kathy Botelho and 20-year educator Mi-chael K. Pa’ekukui at the Annual Conference for Catholic Educa-tors. The annual event celebrates Mass with Bishop Silva and honors teachers for their years of ser-vice in Hawaii Catholic Schools. Congratulations! The elementary school was visited by the St. Louis Chinese Lion Dance club in cel-ebration of the Year of the Dog. Students wore red and offered tra-ditional offerings to the dancers in hope of good luck and prosperity. (Reported by Michael K. Paekukui)

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Sacred Hearts Academy High SchoolAcademy Ka Leo reporters Mad-eleine de Vos and Natalie Pagdi-lao had the unique opportunity to hone their journalism skills during an exclusive media event in late January for the Disney movie “Moana,” which is being translated into Hawaiian. The only student journalists invited to the press event, the duo reported alongside professionals from Ha-waii News Now, KHON and the Star-Advertiser. The highlight of the experience was a one-on-one interview with Aulii Cravalho, the star of the animated film. The student reporters posed ques-tions about the film and a few, fun “would-you-rather” inquiries. The invaluable event also allowed de Vos and Pagdilao to network and see industry professionals in ac-tion. (Reported by Hayley Matson-Mathes)

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St. Anthony SchoolOur school had a great beginning to a new year and third quarter. We enjoyed a very busy Catholic Schools Week celebrating all of the wonderful teachers and stu-dents at our school. We began on Friday with a school Mass and on Sunday a parish Mass followed by our annual pancake breakfast. On

Monday, our choir performed and then the whole school proceeded to Kailua Beach for a micro-plastic clean-up. On Tuesday, our band performed and we enjoyed our traditional cultural aware-ness day with presentations of countries and cultural foods. On Wednesday our faculty performed on ukulele and our Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser for the American Heart Association collected $7,000. On Thursday, a hula performance, crazy socks and another long-held tradition — our talent show. The week ended

with our faculty and staff attend-ing the ACCE Conference. On top of all that, our students contin-ued their learning with projects and classes. Such a great way to celebrate Catholic Schools. … Re-cently a number of our students have worked really hard, entered contests and won. Lani Pearce won third place in the state for her Lion’s Club peace poster art work. Chris Gomez won the school Ge-ography Bee and will be compet-ing on the next level. Grace Ken-nedy won the state middle school Prudential Spirit of Community

Award for service. Pictured win-ning first and second place in the Windward District Spelling Bee are Camryn Chun, first place, and Mikayla Seeger, second place. They go on to the State Spell-ing Bee in March. Mahalo to the teachers for all of their hard work too. (Reported by Patricia Barros)

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Sacred Hearts Academy Lower SchoolOur Lancer VEX IQ team took the Hawaii State Championships

on Jan. 13 and 14 by storm again this year! Based on their showing throughout the season and world rankings, two groups of junior high students and three lower school teams qualified for the VEX Robotics World Championships, April 29-May 1, at the Kentucky Exposition Center. Also, falling just short of earning a berth in this event, one lower school team received an invite for the CREATE U.S. Open Championships, April 2-4, at the Mid-America Center in Iowa. Kudos to advisor Peter Park and all the Academy VEX IQ participants! And a resounding mahalo to the remarkable par-ent mentors. (Reported by Hayley Matson-Mathes)

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Mary, Star of the Sea SchoolIt is always a wonderful way to kick-start our second semester by celebrating Catholic education. Learn, Serve, Lead and Succeed was this year’s Catholic Schools Week theme. The week was full of celebrations of each other, fam-ily, friends, community helpers and inspirational speakers. The students also each participated in service projects where they pre-pared food for the homeless. We thank all who participated! Pic-tured are third graders Ava Moe, Caitlin Jaimes, Claudia Krischke, Taj Bjorkholm, Niko Allday and Sydney Julian-Araki who deco-rated their classroom door with a Bible verse. (Reported by Roselyn Vicente McMahon)

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St. Anthony SchoolOn Feb. 4, our school was in-vited by the Japanese Women’s Society of Hawaii to entertain the Japanese senior residents at Kuakini. The students performed hula dances, songs, played the piano and Mrs. Corazon Aczon, our third grade teacher and music director, played a Japanese song on the piano. This is our school’s second community outreach for the school year. Each quarter, our school reaches out to the commu-nity visiting shelters, the elderly

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St. Elizabeth SchoolOur school invited parents and grandparents for a Morning of Coffee & Malassadas in our par-ish hall to celebrate Fat Tuesday. Everyone who came was treated to delicious poi, cinnamon and traditional malassadas and great conversation. A great time was had by all! (Reported by Sharon Nagasawa)

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St. John Vianney SchoolThe Intent to Return Form for the 2018-19 school year is available in the school office for current students. Completed forms need to be returned to the school of-fice via email or hard copy by Feb. 23. For first time new students, our school is offering Welcome Grants to Catholic students who transfer to our school from a pub-lic, private non-Catholic, charter or home school. Eligible students will receive a $4,000 discount on tuition for the first year, and a $2,000 discount for the second year. Parents, come learn what a Catholic education can do for your child and your family. For more information, please contact the school office at 261-4651. (Report-ed by Earl Walker)

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St. Theresa SchoolOur school learners had their an-nual STREAM (Science, Technol-ogy, Religion, Engineering, Art, and Math) Night on Jan. 30. All projects were based on faith and displayed in each classroom. We had a relaxed evening of fun and fellowship. In appreciation of our wonderful parishioners, pictured are some of the students who dis-tributed a token of thanks follow-ing the school’s Family Mass on Jan. 28. (Reported by Lehua Ham Young)

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St. Joseph SchoolThe administration, faculty and staff celebrated with Ms. Janis Davis and Ms. Grace Tokuda at the Annual Conference for Catholic Educators. With banners waving and special made fans, we stood and cheered for our

outstanding honorees, Ms. Davis and Ms. Grace. … Feb. 1 was a day of great celebration beginning with the school Mass! After weekly classes with Sister Judith Abique, SPC, the school witnessed the in-vestiture and commissioning of 10 students as Knights of the Altar. Sister Judith renewed her vows as a perpetually professed Sister of St. Paul of Chartres for 10 years and Sister Mercedes Namayan, SPC, for 16 years. Lastly, everyone honored and thanked Ms. Davis and Ms. Grace for 30 years of dedicated service in the Diocese of Honolulu. It was truly a memo-rable day! (Reported by Beverly Sandobal)

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St. Joseph SchoolThe students were geared up for Catholic Schools Week and

the Trike-A-Thon. After a won-derful week of activities from service day where the students cleaned the parish graveyard and grounds, to a sports and pajama day where they enjoyed wear-ing fun garb to school. Then to wrap up the week, the students participated on their first Trike -A-Thon to raise funds for the school. Children received pledges for laps they acquired around a trike path with a water mister, hanging balloon dodge and a butterfly garden. In the photo is a parent helping tag the students lap cards as they make the turning lap through the water mister. The Trike-A-Thon raised over $2,000 for the school. Thank you to all who helped make this fundraiser a success. Congratulations to But-terfly classroom student Camden Recopuerto for being the winner of a family pass to the movies for

collecting the most pledges for the event. Happy Catholic Schools Week to all. (Reported by Helen Souza)

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St. Catherine SchoolMuch has been going on at our school. In January, our amazingly talented recess/after school-care teacher, Sally Harrison, unveiled another piece of sacred art that she designed and created. We have a new building that is the first thing people see when they drive by or come on campus. Sally had the giant mural installed right there for all to enjoy. She entitled it “Heaven on Earth” because that is what she says it is like to be at our school. God bless her and our school! … We really had a wonderful Catholic Schools Week! We had a pet blessing,

dressed in school colors another day and had Mass at Lydgate Pa-vilion with our sister school, St. Theresa, Kekaha. The students had a picnic and got to play on the playground and with orga-nized games. The highlight of the week was decorating and stuff-ing bags. The students brought in crayons, coloring books and little toys. They decorated the bags with cheerful pictures and put the goodies inside. Andrew Bestwick, development officer for Wilcox Hospital, collected the bags at our morning assem-bly. They will go to children who come to the emergency room or who come with a family member needing aid. We sent prayers for swift healing along with the bags. Some students even included jokes. It was a beautiful project and summed up Catholic Schools Week for us perfectly. We are all grateful to be a part of a Catholic school and community. Pictured is Andrew Bestwick accepting gift bags from students (Reported by Elizabeth Sancho)

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Our Lady of Good Counsel SchoolOur school congratulates students who progressed to the next step beyond the school’s competitive science fair! Middle-school science teacher Mrs. Sylvia Tsuda and the school’s district representatives — Kylie Canubida, Nathan Bonnell, Kailee Tomas (grade 8); Sakura Morita, Alexia Eleccion (grade 7); and Kelina Fuerst, Lauren Shaw (grade 6) — traveled to Hawaii Baptist Academy on Feb. 10. The students completed their indi-vidual interviews. Sakura Morita took first place in junior division robotics and received the Office of Naval Research Naval Science Award! Kailee Tomas and Sakura Morita were selected to attend the Hawaii State Fair sponsored by the Hawaii Academy of Science, scheduled for March 29-30 at the Hawaii Convention Center. There they will compete for cash, schol-arships and other awards. The top five projects will represent Hawaii at the International Science and Engineering Fair held in May of each year. (Reported by Chantelle Luacra)