School Showcase

School Showcase

 

Touring the Town
 St. Columba School's Elementary students took a tour of Bloomsburg. Their community walk went to the library, post office, and courthouse. The students received a tour of each building too. They visited the fountain, the Civil War monument, and examined many architectural features throughout the area. Pictured here in the front  of our town courthouse are in the fr...

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Monkeying Around at the Philly Zoo
St. Columba's Middle School took an amazing field trip to the Philadelphia Zoo. Middle schoolers strolled through this massive 42 acre zoo. They observed over 1,300 animals and 340 plus species. Just about every animal you can think of they found on this trip. Bears, penguins, sloths, gorillas, orangutans, naked mole rats, giraffes, pink flamingos, and that is only a few. The weather was ...

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May is Time for Mary's Crown
Students in St. Columba School's 2nd grade honored Our Lady this month with a special prayer service. These students each carried flowers and placed them in a vase in front of a statue of Mary, then Maryn Berger took a crown from the pillow Jonathan Ervin was carrying and placed the crown on Mary's head. The rest of the school joined in and sang the hymn, Immaculate Mary. Picture...

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The Holy Spirit, Saleah, And Confirmation
St. Columba School's 8th grader, Saleah Shannon took her next step in the Roman Catholic Faith. Saleah received the sacrament of Confirmation. She took the name Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. Saleah hopes to go into some kind of animal care as she moves forward in her life. Pictured here from left to right are Saleah Shannon, her father Jonathan S...

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Farmers Make It Happen
Mr. John Esslinger, a member of Columbia County Farm Bureau,sits in with our third graders. Every year they like to visit classrooms in Columbia County and read a book that helps students get a better understanding of agriculture. The book, The Day the Farmers Quit, was enjoyed by all. The story demostrated the impact farmers haver on our country and the world. Mr. Esslinger then did a f...

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Coding an Elephant
Students in Mr. Drumm technology class have been constructing their own Robotis Elephant. Robotics is a creative robot kit for kids to learn various features, functions, and principles of building and coding robots. Pictured from left ot right are Benjamin Parker, and Jonathan Ervin

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Middle School Gets Spiritual
St. Columba's Middle School went to Emmitsburg , Maryland to visit Mt. St. Mary's University the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. This is an exact duplicate of the Grotto where the Holy Mother appeared to St. Bernadette in Lourdes. France. The students had the opportunity to collect Holy water from the stream that passes through the Grotto and participate in the Mass at the Grotto ...

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Living Stations with Our Middle School
Our entire Middle School at SCS presented to the school and parish community our Living Stations. Mrs. Trapane, our music teacher and school secretary, prepared the students for this spiritual presentation. The students gave up many of their recesses to make sure that this year's Living Stations was well prepared. The church was packed with parishioners and parents, and when it was a...

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There are More Bees but this One has Faith
St. Columba School held its annual Faith Bee. The winner will go on to compete against 28 other schools at the Diocese of Harrisburg Diocesean Center in Harrisburg. Sister Suzanne was the coordinator and moderator asking all the questions. The questions challenged student knowledge of their Catholic Faith. Competitors included students from our 7trh and 8th grades including students from St. Colum...

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Downhill Derby
In 5th grade, Mr. Zeares' Science class learned about forces, motion, friction, gravity, air resistance, and aerodynamics. The students were in charge of building a track with supports using Hot Wheel track and K’Nex pieces. Students also had a choice of cars and had to hypothesize which car would go down the track the fastest and slowest  based on its weight as well as shape. The s...

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BTE and the Buffalo Soldiers
Our friends at BTE came through again with another AMAZING production. This year their Theater in the Classroom presentation was called Buffalo Soldiers: Park Protectors. The cast of Brian Bond, Gabe Moses, and Meagan Williams told the little known story of the impact African Americans had in the creation and protection of our National Parks that Americans enjoy today. The actors were energetic,&n...

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Leprechaun Loops Around the Fair
St. Columba School's 12th Annual Leprechaun Loop was a little different this year. This year's Loop was run at the Bloomsburg Fair Grounds. This change worked out well as the runners had a course with varierty and challenge. We had well over 175 people participate and a BIG THANK YOU to coordinatoror Patrice Coombe and all those fabulous volunteers that made this Leprechaun Loop a HUGE SUC...

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Top of the World!
The Diocese of Harrisburg held its Geography Bee with 21 students from various schools in the diocese competing. The Geography Bee is opened to students from grades 4 through 8. Our 4th grader Barrett Smolenak represented St. Columba School and was the only 4th grader in this competition. The majority of the competitors from the other schools were 8th graders. With this type of competition Ba...

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Buzzing Around the World
Saint Columba School's Geography Bee tested students' knowledge of this country and the world. They were asked questions about the states, continents, mountain ranges, oceans, and seas. The competition was fierce with students from the 4th grade through 8th grade went back and forth with hteir answers. After many rounds, and many many questions, it came down to our two final...

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Spelling It All!
St. Columba School held our annual Spelling Bee. Students in 4th through 6th grades battled it out by spelling words that challenged their knowledge. After many rounds of competition Cael Williams came out on top for the third year in a row. He is a master speller. Cael will represent St. Columba School at the Diocese of Harrisburg Spelling Bee competing against 31 other school...

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