The Choice of School Spirit

During School Spirit Week, we celebrate making smart choices by participating in activities related to being kind, healthy, and proactive, by wearing school colors and competing in special spirit week activities. St. Mary’s Spirit Week is held during the last week of October to celebrate Red Ribbon, Unity Day/Bullying Prevention, kindness, and making healthy choices.

In the United States, we celebrate Red Ribbon since 1985, to affirm a commitment to live drug-free. We celebrate those who live without drugs as well as those who choose to leave drugs behind and live drug-free.

Unity Day is the signature event of National Bullying Prevention Month and has been recognized in the United States since 2011. To participate in Unity Day, individuals, schools, communities, and businesses wear or share orange to unite for kindness, acceptance, and inclusion to prevent students from being bullied. At St. Mary’s, we teach and promote kindness, as well as encouraging our students to be upstanders instead of bystanders when they are in the presence of words or actions that are not Christ-like.

It's estimated that the average person makes about 35,000 remotely conscious decisions each day. Each decision, of course, carries certain consequences with it that are both good and bad. We know and anticipate that our children will need to make important decisions in their lives, but also at every moment of the day when they make a decision to be kind, to be healthy, to be positive, to be thankful, etc… St. Mary’s guidance and counseling focuses on making students aware of their choices and encourages children to use the power within each of them to be a positive change in the world - no matter how old or where we are. Our choices begin in our thoughts and are reflected in our actions. At St. Mary’s we make the choice to be the good and the light of the world, by being Christ to one another.