Extracurricular Activities
St. Elizabeth School offers after-school opportunities for students to develop talents and friendships beyond the classroom. Such activities include: Basketball and Cheerleading, Track, Golf, Student Council, Prayer Group, Girl Scouts, and Boy Scouts. Students from St. Elizabeth School also participate in parish ministries such as the Junior Youth Group, the Children’s Choir and the Altar Servers.
Spiritual Development
Spiritual Development is encouraged outside the curriculum with class Liturgies and Prayer Services, as well as with classroom visits from our parish priests. Preparation for First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion is included in our second grade curriculum. Community awareness and dedication to Gospel Values are demonstrated in monthly Mission projects and visits to local hospitals and nursing homes. Mission projects include: Christmas Gifts to Needy Schools, Little Sisters of the Poor, Gifts to Nursing Homes and troops serving abroad.
Service Projects:
• Christmas Gifts for inner city Catholic Schools – 43 children sponsored 2008
• Christmas Packages for the Troops in Iraq
• Christmas presents for elderly religious
• Food Collections for the Little Sisters of the Poor – Thanksgiving and Easter
• Mission money to the Holy Childhood Association – support for children in developing nations
• Tomorrow’s Children Foundation – Hackensack Medical Center
• Habitat for Humanity (Domestic and International)
• Catholic Relief Services (Hurricanes Katrina and Rita/Asian Tsunami)
• Desda’s Grate (home for women and children – educational support)
• Creation of quilts for the homeless
• Knitting blankets for babies (Several Sources Foundation)
Community Awareness
We encourage our school community to make a difference in our world. Students realize and respond to the needs of the less fortunate locally, nationally and globally. Projects include food collections for the Little Sisters of the Poor and monetary contributions to Habitat for Humanity. Students participate in annual projects, such as our Christmas Mission which provides clothes and toys to children in an inner city and care packages to our troops overseas. Our students are also taught the importance of responding compassionately to world emergencies and have raised funds for the Catholic Relief Services and the American Red Cross. After Hurricane Katrina, we partnered with St. Paul School in Pass Christian, Mississippi, sending monetary donations and much needed school supplies. All of our service projects combine prayer and action, preparing our students to be compassionate citizens of our world
