We congratulate our new SMA Student Council members!!! SMA Student Council Officers for the 2018/2019 School Year Rylee Joyce ~ President T.J. Silvestro – Assistant President Savanna Hayden – Secretary Pete Hoffman ~ Treasurer SMA Class Representatives 5th Grade Sofia Adamo Autumn Johnson Matthew De Stefano Alternate Jameson Long 6th Grade Jake Scott Calleigh Joyce 7th Grade Noel Crespo Gabriel Scarborough 8th Grade Aiden Kelly Andrea Duran Congratulations to all the candidates for a fine job!

SMA Security Update - PRACTICE DRILL Dear Parents/Guardians, Greetings! At 9:15 AM today, 9/19/18, SMA School practiced a Lockdown Drill, “Hostile Intruder Alert Code Red”. This is part of our SMA SECURITY SAFETY PLAN. Students and staff did a great job. SMA School has and will practice several different types of drills during the school year. (Fire – SIP- Lockdown). The safety of our children is of utmost importance to SMA school! Thank you. God's light! Mr. Stephen D. DiCicco Principal

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Greetings!!! Check out our SMA website at www.sma-pa.org for the latest info! A voice message is going out today at 3:00 PM. If you do not receive, please email me at sdicicco@sma-pa.org. to get you on the School Messenger list. Great news! We are now an official Google School. We also won two Connelly grants - Young Audience Music Assembly and the Peace Program for the 3/4 grades. The 4 grade also won a Kimmel grant. We also will receive an extra $10,000 in NPIS monies and our foreign language program K- 8 grades is renewed for the next three years. Our Bishops Tuition Transfer Grant is going strong. 4th graders will receive iPads so that all students in Grades 4-8 will each have one. (All staff have an IPAD, Smartboard, apple internet TV device, and doc reader/projector. New! SMA School will receive this year additional Title IV monies of $1000.00. Finally, we just upgraded our entire Internet SMA WIFI network to run faster. We also won an achievement of excellence award for outstanding growth in our Terra Nova scores. It’s been a busy summer. God is good! TY! God bless, Mr. "D".