I welcome you to St. James the Greater Catholic School. Our mission is “Preparing Minds for a Lifetime and Souls for Eternity.” We have a caring faculty and staff dedicated to enriching the academic and spiritual lives of our students. We boast a Traditional Preschool program for our youngest students and a developing classical curriculum for students in Kindergarten through Eighth grade. Class sizes are small...
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Prayer composed by St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron of Students, Teachers and Catholic Education.
“A close examination of the various definitions of school and of new educational trends at every level, leads one to formulate the concept of school as a place of integral formation by means of a systematic and critical assimilation of culture. A school is, therefore, a privileged place in which, through a living encounter with a cultural inheritance, integral formation occurs.
This vital approach takes place in the school in the form of personal contacts and commitments which consider absolute values in a life-context and seek to insert them into a life-framework. Indeed, culture is only educational when young people can relate their study to real-life situations with which they are familiar. The school must stimulate the pupil to exercise his intelligence through the dynamics of understanding to attain clarity and inventiveness. It must help him spell out the meaning of his experiences and their truths. Any school which neglects this duty and which offers merely pre-cast conclusions hinders the personal development of its pupils.”
—the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, “The Catholic School” (paragraphs 26-27)
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccatheduc/documents/rc_con_ccatheduc_doc_19770319_catholic-school_en.html