Our students are blessed to be enriched daily with experiences that go above and beyond our core curriculum. As part of our mission to nurture the mind, body and spirit, we strive to enhance our students’ learning experience with a variety of opportunities that include:

Liturgies and Religious Events:

The cornerstone of the education for students at St. Anastasia Catholic School is their faith formation as Catholics. This formation takes place through daily prayer, religion classes, sacramental preparation, all-school masses and prayer services, feast day activities, school “prayer tree” and prayer book, priestly guidance and church celebrations.

Spanish:

The St. Anastasia Catholic School Spanish curriculum is a diverse program that teaches children about Spanish in a fun and creative manner. Beginning in Pre-K, the Spanish program encompasses speaking, comprehension and vocabulary developments as well as grammar and cultural involvement. Students learn by singing, playing and written reinforcement to review concepts with a large variety of supplemental materials including games, music, videos and more. In seventh and eighth grade, Enrichment Spanish is offered. Students who are eligible to participate in Enrichment Spanish has the opportunity to earn high school credit in Spanish. Students are selected for this program based on GPA in sixth grade and the Language Arts and Spanish teacher’s recommendation.

Library

The St. Anastasia Catholic School state-of-the-art Media Center’s goal is to support and enrich the school curriculum and objectives through assistance to both the individual student and to the faculty. The library seeks to encourage and nourish a lifelong love of reading for all. The new Media Center opened in 2006 and contains a library collection of over 10,000 print and non-print resources to facilitate student learning and research. The teacher resource room provides professional materials of print, video and software to enhance weekly lessons and promote professional development. Weekly scheduled classes for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade provide the opportunity for structured story time, independent/choice reading and expanded reading skills through literature discussion. Students of all ages use a computerized catalog system to locate and checkout materials for independent use. Grades three through eight library activities include opportunities to integrate and apply technology and research skills in a variety of learning activities and projects that are both library-based and collaborative efforts between the classroom and the Media Center. Other motivational reading activities include The Library Book Club, The Florida Sunshine Titles/Battle of the Books Program, Read Across America and two Scholastic Book Fairs.

Other Media and Technology Opportunities:

Accelerated Reader – A software program available to students from first through eighth grade allowing them to progress at their own pace in reading.

Accelerated Math – A software program available to students allowing them to progress at their own pace in math.

Sunshine Math – Available to all students, Sunshine Math is a math enrichment program which utilizes students’ critical thinking skills.

Computer – Beginning in kindergarten, students participate in computer classes weekly. In kindergarten to grade two, the focus is academic skills. In third to sixth grade, the focus shifts to production such as keyboarding, word processing, desktop publishing and multimedia presentation. In grades seven and eight, the students attend computer class as part of an elective wheel where the focus is graphic design.

Graphic Design – Graphic Design class is offered for our seventh and eighth graders taught by an instructor from Indian River State College. In this course students operate a computer aided design system (CAD) know as SolidWorks. Students create 3-dimensional models in a virtual 3D environment. Through this process students have the opportunity to apply some of the mathematical and science based lessons they have studied.

St. A Live – St. A Live is an elective program for middle school students which produces the school’s morning news show that provides the Pledge of Allegiance, prayer and prayer intentions, announcements and coverage of campus events. The St. A Live Studio is located in the Media Center.

Newspaper – The Ram’s Chronicle, the quarterly newspaper published by students in the eighth grade, focuses on the many different activities happening on campus, in the classrooms and faculty, staff and student biographies. The newspaper class is an elective and students have the opportunity to tour a newspaper facility.

After School Care and Clubs:

St. Anastasia Catholic School provides safe, affordable and fun after school activities for our students including: strategic games like chess, computer classes, Double Dutch Jump Rope club, art classes, Homework/Library club, Aerobic exercise class, athletics and free play.

Guest Speakers:

Students at St. Anastasia Catholic School have the opportunity to learn from experts and guest speakers on a variety of topics. Many of the guest speakers provide insight to future career choices for our students. Some of the guest speakers and visitors to St. Anastasia have included: police officers and sheriff’s deputies, firefighters, emergency medical personnel, dental hygienists, nurse practitioners, politicians, scientists, military personnel and religious.