Sports and Activities

Our students are well-rounded and busy! Every day the students at Saint Mary School can be found actively pursuing their interests outside of our regular academics. There are any number of activities, like those listed below. When students show an interest in an activity that is not already offered, new activities can be started.

Afterschool Enrichment  |  Arts Fair  |  Band  |  Basketball  |  Christmas Pageant  |  Craft Club  Crafts for Holly Fair  |  Cross Country  |  Computer Science Club | Declamation  |  STEM Day | Math Team  |  Science Fair
Service Club  |  Spring Musical  |  Student Council  |  Video Club  |  Writing Club

The Extracurricular Activities at SaintMary School not only mold our students but also enabled them to share their gifts with the community. The extracurricular activities Include: 

Video Club, Math Club, Christmas Play, Spring Musical, Chorus, Basketball, Service Club, Band and many other activities.

Arts Fair

In the years that we do not host a Science Fair, we focus on our Arts Fair.  Our Art teacher Miss Krakowski works with all the students to produce nearly museum-quality pieces of art that gets displayed throughout the school. Watch last years Art Fair Video .

 

Band

Mr. Cook teaches Band to grades 4-8.  Their weekly lessons take them from the very first steps of putting an instrument together and learning how to read music all the way to performing in groups for the Christmas and Spring Concerts. Watch one of our performances.

Basketball

Grades 5 through 8 have Boys and Girls teams that play in the Catholic School League - East Conference.  The 2012-2013 season was a big success all around.   The Grade 6 Boys won the Championship.  The Grade 8 Boys came in second in the Championship playoff.  The Grade 6 Girls won the annual Diocese of Worcester Basketball Jamboree.  Watch our team in action.
 

Christmas Pageant

Each year just before Christmas, EVERY SINGLE St. Mary School student and staff member get together to put on an awesome, meaningful, musical Christmas pageant.  Audiences are consistently impressed by the talent!  

 

Craft Club

Craft Club, for students in grades 5-8, was established as a result of many requests to learn more crafts. This year the focus is crocheting. The group, under the direction of two teachers, is made up of students with a love for crafts and various degrees of expertise.  Once students were proficient with various stitches they began an independent project; a scarf or a hat. 

Crafts for the Holly Fair

Students in grades 5-8 give of their time to make crafts; hand stamped greeting cards, hand-quilted mats, needlepoint plastic canvas bookmarks and ornaments. These items are sold at the school’s annual Holly Fair. Proceeds from the sale of the crafts benefit the mission of St. Mary students to aid impoverished, rural Colombian students striving to obtain a high school diploma. 

Cross Country

Boys and girls in grades 5-8 participate in Cross Country meets during the months of September and October against area Catholic Schools and AMSA.  Students practice locally and compete at meets in neighboring towns. They learn that running builds stamina, strength, and endurance both physically and mentally. Runners not only compete against others, but they also work on improving themselves. They learn to support their teammates and fellow competitors. The largest meet is held at the end of the season against many area Catholic schools at Lake Ave Park in Worcester. Watch our XCountry team in action! 

Click here to Learn more about Cross Country.

Computer Science Club

Students from grade 5-8 participate in the Computer Science Club every Tuesday after school, where they learn how to code using Sphero Robots, LegoWeDo Robotic Kits, Scratch and Code.org. They solve puzzles, create their own video games and race obstacles courses using their Spheros and Chariots. Students do other activites like disect computers, build structures in Minecraft, create circuit using Arduino boards and create toys using the school's 3D printer.

Declamation

Declamation is an annual speaking competition, sponsored  by the Diocese of Worcester, in which students in grades 6,7, and 8 compete in several categories including poetry reading, prose reading, children’s literature, original oratory, and  more. Declamation is a chance for students to show off their speaking skills, represent St. Mary School in competition with other schools in the Diocese, and maybe even win a trophy! Students practice during the year, and come together at St. Peter Marian High School on a Saturday in the spring for a Declamation Festival.  This year all the 7th and 8th grade students who competed returned with trophies

STEM Day/Week

All students participate in STEM activities during the year and also participate in the Massachusetts Annual STEM Week. Our school also holds a STEM day every year, where our teachers take a back seat and let students ask, imagine, plan, create and improve. Students are challenged to resolve different problems according to their grade. In the past, students have built tall towers, created sound-proofed containers, catapulted eggs and programmed Legos and Arduino devices. Guest speakers involved in STEM professions come to our school and bring real world examples to our students.  Watch one of our STEM days.

Math Team

The 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grade members of the St. Mary Math Team meet on Tuesday afternoons to stretch their minds and strengthen their problem solving strategies in the fields of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. After weeks of preparation, the team competes twice a year against several schools throughout Central Massachusetts and Metro West Boston in a Fall and Spring Invitational at St. John’s High School.  After giving their best efforts, the students enthusiastically await the results that are announced at the end of each competition.   Saint Mary students have been recognized for their individual perfect scores and the team for placing among the top three schools. 

Science Fair

All students in grades 5 through 7 participate in a biannual Science Fair.  The judged projects are always fascinating.  The students find that the science fair projects leave them well-prepared for high school!  The winners go on to a Diocese-wide Science Fair. 

Service Club

Saint Mary School's Service Club mission is to serve our God by helping our neighbors and living our commitment to Service Over Self. Service Club meets every other Friday after school beginning in late October. To see what we did in our 2016-2017 year, please click here. 

 

Spring Musical

The spring musical provides students in grades 5-7 with the opportunity to perform a fully staged musical for their family and friends.  Over an eight week period the students rehears up to three times a week after school learning music, staging and dance.  The rehearsal process culminates with a weekend of shows at the wonderful St. John's black box theatre.  Aside from learning about music, theatre and dance, students are able to use this opportunity to strengthen friendships in other grades, develop confidence and explore the importance of team work. 

Student Council

Student Council is a group of elected students from each class from grades one to eight. The students from each class elect one male and one female. The student council members must be a model for the behavior of the other children at school. The reason our school has student council is so people from the classes who want to make a change can do so though the student council students. The members of student council meet once a month along with Mrs. Lukach, Mr. Moakley, and Ms. Barry to discuss growing ideas, issues or class requests. Things that the student council is currently talking about are: the bully box, canned vegetables at lunch and, morning arrival back up.

Video Club

Fourteen years ago St. Mary School established a Video Club in conjunction with Shrewsbury Media Connection. The purpose of the club is to train small groups of students in the basic use of video cameras, production skills and editing in order for them to tape and present programs for Saint Mary School and the community. Participants of the club will develop teamwork skills, presentation skills, and media literacy skills. Video Club is for students in grades 5-8. Here is a link to some of our productions.