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Catholic
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Expo 2010
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OUR MISSION
We are about living the Catholic faith and forming our students to live the faith. We teach our students dignity and truth. They will learn of God, to love God, to love neighbor, to love self, to develop their God-given talents, to form community and to serve others.
OUR FULL ACADEMIC PROGRAM
St. Vincent Ferrer School offers a full academic program from preschool through eighth grade The curriculum is reviewed and updated to include current teaching strategies and methods. The students are actively engaged and challenged to become critical thinkers and problem-solvers.
St. Vincent Ferrer students score above the national norm on the Terra Nova Standardized Tests, thus reflecting our academic excellence. 100% of the most recent classes were placed at the high school of their choice.
In recent years SVF graduates have been at the forefront of the competition, receiving scholarships at Fenwick, Trinity, St.Patrick, St. Ignatius and other area high schools.
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
St. Vincent Ferrer provides for social development through "Faith Partners" (a multigrade faith, social enrichment program), special projects, and celebrations. Leadership skills are developed through a student council from third through eighth grade.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
St. Vincent Ferrer has adopted a learning program which incorporates the following objectives:
• To encourage the school community to use a global view,
• To improve religious instruction and faith experiences which foster a knowledge and appreciation of Roman Catholic beliefs and Dominican tradition which will guide students in making moral choices,
• To provide opportunities which help students master the basic skills of reading, communication, computation, and problem-solving, while progressing in diversified learning modes,
• To teach students to recognize and to use wisely the benefits of the ever expanding technological world,
• To foster an atmosphere where children learn how to study, how to think for themselves, and how to make individual decisions,
• To monitor continuous self-assessment of each child, encouraging him/her to become a self-initiated learner,
• To integrate learning experiences from all subject areas in order to provide a unified program of studies,
• To provide a program of home/school communication which generates interest and encouragement from parents and other adults in the community to reinforce a child's motivation to learn.
OUR CURRICULUM
Academics
• 3-year-old program
• Pre-Kindergarten
• Full-day Kindergarten
• Instructional after-care program
• Computer lab with full-time instruction
• Fully networked computers in each classroom with Internet access
• Foreign language instruction
• Finance class for seventh and eighth grades
• Accelerated Reader Program
• Award-winning science fair competition
Extracurricular
• Annual drama production
• Choir
• Band
• Art Club
• Chess Club
• Math Club
• Spanish Club
• Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts |
Athletics
• Boys and girls basketball
• Girls and boys volleyball
• Boys and girls soccer
• Boys and girls track
• Boys and girls cross country |
SCHOOL AND FACULTY
St. Vincent Ferrer School serves elementary children of the River Forest, Elmwood Park, Melrose Park and Chicago metropolitan communities. The school is certified by the Archdiocese of Chicago and fully recognized by the State of Illinois. Each member of the faculty is a degreed professional who participates in continuing education programs, workshops, and seminars. Along with excellent credentials, our staff is dedicated to a Catholic education and the academic success of each child.
Enrolling over 300 students each year, St. Vincent Ferrer School nurtures students in a small, personal environment. The students are educated in a warm yet disciplined atmosphere that emphasizes high quality academics, personal responsibility and Catholic moral values.
HISTORY
In 1922 the Archbishop of Chicago gave permission to the Dominican Order to establish a parish named in honor of St. Vincent Ferrer, the Dominican known as the "Patron of Builders."
Father William McIntyre, O.P., then Parish Pastor, deemed it necessary to educate the children of the parish in a Catholic environment and opened the school in 1940 with Sister Ramona McAllister, O.P serving as the first principal and teaching positions staffed by the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa.
Ms. Frances Mazzulla, B.A., M.Ed., a doctoral candidate at Chicago's Loyola University, was appointed principal of St. Vincent Ferrer School in 2002. Ms. Mazzulla has degrees in School Administration and Supervision and English Literature.
In 2009 Fr. Herb Hayek, O.P. was appointed as Pastor of the Parish.
CALENDAR
- Mar. 1-5 TERRA NOVA TESTING
- Mar. 8 NO CLASSES
- Mar. 9 MARKET DAY PICK UP
- Mar. 16 SPRING PICTURES
- Mar. 19 SOLEMNITY OF ST. JOSEPH; 8:30 MASS, 11:30 AM DISMISSAL
- Mar. 25 HISTORY FAIR
- Mar. 27 "MARCH MADNESS"
- STATIONS OF THE CROSS - FRIDAYs DURING LENT, 2:30
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