The Good News: Fall-Winter 2024
The Good News Newsletter is a periodic publication that provides updates on the Community of Saints Regional Catholic School. We currently distribute to over 3000 alums, families and friends. We would like to continually increase our distribution. So, if you know of any alums, families or friends of St. Matthew’s who are not currently receiving The Good News, please contact us with their mailing information.
Reading Skills Soar with New Phonics Curriculum – Last year, Community of Saints (COS) introduced a new phonics curriculum for students in grades K-3, and the results dramatically exceeded expectations. Student gains were so substantial, they were featured in a newsletter published by one of the school’s partners,
Achievement Network (ANet), a national nonprofit working to expand educational equity for all students.Fr. Steve’s Column – Over the years I have tried to focus on assisting young people, helping them grow and mature. One of the ways I have done so has been through supporting and actively participating in their education —elementary, secondary, college, and graduate school. For almost 55 years as a priest there hasn’t been a day when I have not been active in school and the education of young people.
Fr. Paul Treacy on What Led Him to COS – Fr. Paul Treacy (pastor at Church of the Assumption talks about his family, his love for Catholic schools, and his new role as Canonical Administrator at COS.
STEM Partnership with University of Notre Dame Inspires Future Scientists – EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the perks of working on The Good News is talking to COS students, and I often ask them, “What’s your favorite subject?” Over the last few years, I’ve noticed a steady rise in the number of students who tell me it’s science. After 17 years of doing this, it caught my attention. It also motivated me to follow up on a story from 2020, when COS was in the second year of a three-year partnership with the University of Notre Dame to implement a new approach to teaching science.
Alums & Friends & Families 2023–24 Annual Report – A&F&F contributors provide a foundation of school support with 1,033 Donations Totaling $434,206.
Meet the Andersons – COS School Family – Michelle Youness and her husband, Louis Anderson, began looking for a preschool for their oldest child the same year Community of Saints (COS) opened. Michelle, her sisters, her father and his siblings, all graduated from St. Michael School, so the idea of sending her three-year-old to COS was appealing. “I had such warm memories of being at St. Mike’s,” Michelle said. “I loved being back in the same building.”
A Mass to Celebrate Your Generosity, Thursday, December 12, 9:00 a.m., Community of Saints. – You are welcome to join us in person for a school Mass to honor the generous support of A&F&F donors. Father Paul Treacy will preside. Following Mass, you can tour the school, enjoy refreshments, and meet our middle school students. COS alum Isaac Garcia ’20 will address students and visitors after Mass. As a 6th grade student at COS, Isaac founded Isaac’s Blessing Bags, a ministry to serve homeless people.
Double Your Gift! Donations to A&F&F Tuition Assistance Fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar through December 31, 2024. – All gifts made by December 31, 2024, WILL BE MATCHED DOLLAR-FOR- DOLLAR up to $10,000. This matching grant is made possible thanks to the generous support of John Riehle ’57. Call Natalie Hartung, Advancement Director, at 651-457-2510 for Community of Saints.