The Immigrants, a story of the struggles newcomers encountered when migrating to the United States in the early 1900, was presented by Ms. Campbell Echols of Living Voices Diversity Center. Ms. Echols took on the role of an immigrant while using a DVD, charts, and interactions with students to help them understand the challenges, joys, and opportunities that faced those looking for a better life. Some of our children are immigrants themselves and many are children of immigrants. They certainly have a story to tell us as well.

 

Be a Wavemaker: Advent Collection 2011 Drink Local Drink Tap Did you know? Americans use a minimum of 88 gallons of water each day just to WASH, FLUSH, and DRINK? . . . .one rural Ugandan Family uses 5 gallons total each day. Students at St. Bonaventure/St. Charles orphan school in Uganda Africa walk miles each morning before school to gather 40 pounds (5 gallons) of unsafe water used to wash, cook, clean and drink. Sometimes, kids get sick from unsafe water. Students from Metro Catholic are being WAVEMAKERS: drinking tap water instead of bottled water and giving money to this project. Visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwBAtNiUWtg to see how these students obtain their daily water.

Student Government Elections 2011

We are pleased to announce the newly-elected officers of our Student Government. Elections took place on October 7th and these students were installed at a special prayer service on October 12th. We look forward to a year of creative leadership!

 

Student Government Officers   Co-Presidents Alana and Thomas 8th Grade School Spirit Yulisa and Tae'ron 7th Grade School Spirit Carissa 7th and 8th Grade Secretaries Angel and Quynh 8th Grade School Service Johany 7th Grade School Service Jastany Homeroom Representatives 106 Ana 107 Truc 103 Emmy 105 Aracely 104 Tiara 108 Sha' and Cole 301 Venessa 302 Aaron 305 Olivia 201 Thanh 204 April 205 Adalis Power of the Pen Congratulations to the following students who will participate in this year's Power of the Pen: 8th graders: Johany, Aida, Quynh,Tae'ron, Nathaniel, and Alana. 7th graders: Angel, David, Domicella, Cole, Chantiana, and Ashley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer at the Beginning of the School Year

On Friday, September 9, Grades 2-8 will join in prayer for a successful school year for each student. Each day preschool students
through grade 8 unite in prayer for the many intentions of our families, our neighborhoods, our country and our one world.

Literary Winners

We congratulate Katie one of our 8th graders for being a winner in a Cleveland Plain Dealer contest this summer. Katie wrote one
of the winning essays "What Harry Potter Taught Me". Katie's winning essay (along with her picture) was published in the July 12
edition of the newspaper. Moreover, Katie was featured on the PD website reading her essay. We congratulate Katie, her family,
and her teachers here at Metro Catholic! We also congratulate the following students who had original poems published in a
youth literature book: Keanen, Quynh, Guosay, Jay'da, and Cole. Congratulations to these students, their families and their teachers
for such success!

Congratulations to our 2011 graduation class. We are so proud that these students have accumulated over $100,000 of academic scholarships. Our graduates will be attending the following high schools:

Benedictine High School
Cleveland Central Catholic High School
Cleveland School of the Arts
Cleveland Public High School
Holy Name High School
James Rhodes High School
Lakewood High School
Lincoln-West High School
Magnificat High School
Max Hayes
Martin de Porres High School
Padua Franciscan High School
Parma Community
Shaker/Shaker Heights
St. Ignatius High School
St. Joseph Academy
Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School

Thank you to the families, friends, teachers and all who have encouraged these students to achieve an excellent education and prepare for their future

 

Metro Catholic Celebrates International Day of Peace

Stephen Campus All students at the Stephen Campus gathered for prayer together in the auditorium. Scripture readings, song, reflection on peace composed and read by threee seventh graters, a violin solo and a power point presentation created around the song, "Let There Be Peace on Earth" focused all on peace and non-violence. The prayer service concluded outside in the Peace Garden and potential green space. There students were anointed by their homeroom teachers-an action that strengthens their resolve to choose peaceful ways-and then each one place a pinwheel filled with peaceful wishes on the fences or in the garden beds.

Boniface Campus Through symbolic gestures including the lighting of candles and planting themselves as seeds of peace, the students at the Boniface Campus gathered in church to pray to be nourished and to grow as peacemakers, instruments of God's peace. They placed symbols of peace, love, pardon, faith, hope, light and joy on the peace tree as reminders of what all hope to live. The service was concluded by processing outside singing "Prayer of Peace," saying the "Pledge of Allegiance" and releasing ballons together.

 

Metro Students Support Water Project for Sumbuk, India, Advent 2010.

Student Government in cooperation with the Metro's Advent Committee are sponsoring activities to generate money for the Water Project in Sumbuk, India where the Sisters of Notre Dame operate Notre Dame School, a Health Center and a Women's shelter.

UPDATE! Metro Students collected over $800 during Advent. This is way beyond our expectation and goal!

Currently these three ministries as well as 22 other families in the area share one water source. Sumbuk gets water from a hilltop about one mile distance and at a height of 6000 feet. The connections are very temporary. Many other people also use this same water source and so water is a precious comodity. In consultation with the people who share the water source, Sister Sreeja in India proposed the following project:

• Make a concrete source tank at the origin of the water at the top of the hill.
• Bring the water down to 5000 feet where a distribution tank can collect the water through the use of metal pipes buried deep into the ground.
• One pipe line would go directly to the compound where the school, Health Center, Women's Center and 22 other families will benefit from clean water.
• The people of Sumbuk will help support the project as they are able.

The school of 500 is in a beautiful area of north India in the Himalaya Mountains by two Sisters of Notre Dame from India. Metro Catholic and Notre Dame School share a founding date of 1988!

Friends of Metro Catholic who would like to contribute to the Water Project may write checks payable to Metro Catholic School and be sent to Metro Catholic School, 1910 West 54th Street, Cleveland, OH 44102. Please designate the gift for the Water Project.