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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".

Greetings! I was presented at the principals meeting by the new OCE superintendent, an Certificate of Achievement Award for SMA school for outstanding academic growth based on improvements on our Terra Nova scores! Our hard work is paying off! Congrats to our dedicated teachers and staff, our super parents& guardians, and our awesome students! God's light, Mr. "D".

• We ask parents/guardians to acquire the following for each child . • Every student Grade K – 3 must acquire for the language class an integrated USB head set with microphone. (NO PIN) The system recommends Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 . • Every student Grade 4-8 must acquire earbuds for their IPad.

This is another important advancement in our Technology Program at Saint Michael the Archangel Cathoilc School.

SMA Back To School Night! Date: 9/13/18 Place: SMA GYM Time: 7:00 PM We will start with a short presentation in the SCHOOL GYM. Parents/guardians will then go to child’s grade for a group class meeting. Come on out! We look forward to meeting you! God’s joy!! Mr. “D’.

Go to "Calendar" at the top of the webpage. TY! Mr. "D"

Rosetta Stone Foreign Language Program Renewed! Dear Parents/Guardians, Greetings! Great news! I just renewed the contract for our foreign language program Rosetta Stone for the new school year 2018/2019. I also made a three year commitment to the program for SMA School. Originally the site licenses were set to expire the end of July but now students may continue to access their particular foreign language with their site license on any internet ready device throughout the rest of the summer and into the new school year! We also received a grant of $10,000 to defray some of the costs of this awesome program for our school. Thank you! God’s grace, Mr. “D”