Student Spotlights – May ’22

Our Seton Sister’s have been busy! The Fourth graders helped with recycling at our parish fish fry. Second grade baked homemade dog treats, then donated them to a local animal shelter.

For the second year in a row, a Davidson High student was selected as President of the Alabama JROTC. Carter Barros, a junior in the EPIC program, will follow his classmate, Hannah Bishop, who served as president this school year.

Congratulations to Maggie Byrne, Jack Baldridge, Samuel DeVilbiss and Garrison Hatcher for meeting the qualifications for the St. Thomas Aquinas Scholars program at McGill-Toolen Catholic High School. We are proud of their academic accomplishments at Corpus Christi Catholic School.

Thank you to Evan, Council Traditional School’s Red Ribbon Leader, for planning and organizing a very successful community service project.  The entire Council family supported him and donated snacks and beverages to our neighbors at Allen Memorial Rehabilitation Center.

Mobile Bay Keepers came to Mrs. May’s 7th grade science classes at Dunbar Magnet School of Creative and Performing Arts to present on how human impact affects our local waterways with an emphasis on solutions to problems.

The Upper School Theatre Guild was developed because of the desire of our students to perform on stage! This organization made up of students in grades 9-12 puts on two main stage productions each year. The second production of the 2021-22 school year was The Worst High School Play in the World. We are so proud of Mrs. Delaney and the entire cast and crew on a job well done. Cast and Crew: Levin Sconyers, Ridge Tanner, Maddox Lavelle, Mary Webster Burke, Grace Lyons, Landon Tanner, Ryan Walton, Garrett LaCoste, Mariah Smith, Will Kaufman, Joseph Taylor, Hayden Salter, March Tremayne, Hufton Parker, Shep Fountain, Rebekah Chappell, Addison Faggard, Braxton McMurphy, Edwin McCorquodale, Charles Saucier, Walker Busbee, Baileigh Whiddon, Mallory Duncan, Hayley Cleaton, Walker Busbee, Creighton Fowler, Mara Smith, Rohan Wallace, Luc Cave, Mallory Duncan, and Will McNair.

Craighead Elementary teachers Gwenevere Jones (left) and Jennifer Murphy-Feagin (center), were named the grand prize winners for elementary schools in the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge and were recognized at the National Science Teaching Association conference recently. The Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge competition recognizes innovative science educators for their exemplary approaches to science lab instruction utilizing limited school and laboratory resources. The prize includes a lab makeover support package valued at $10,000, as well as trip expenses for the conference. They’re pictured with MCPSS Science Academic Supervisor Dr. Melody Tucker.

We are so proud of our four archers, Maahir Patel, Graham Langham, Sid Patel, and Dylan Jones, who competed in the Alabama State Archery Tournament in Montgomery. Thank you to our amazing coaches Michelle Peterson and Cecelia McInnis.

Clark-Shaw Magnet School had three students submit entries for the academic paper category in the History Day competition held at our school, and all three went on to the state-level competition on April 8th. We are proud to say that our students swept the junior division awards for academic papers! Eli Weatherford placed 1st in the state, Asia Lyons placed 2nd, and Lexington Bush placed 3rd. Eli and Asia will have their submissions move on to the national History Day competition in June sponsored by the University of Maryland. All of these students and their elective teacher, Mr. Brian Roberts, are to be commended for their achievements!

Pictured are Asia Lyons (7th), Eli Weatherford (7th), and Lexington Bush (8th).

Bryant’s Jailyn Swink, left, won first place in the Mobile Optimist Club Oratorical Contest. Joshua Slater of Faith Academy (middle) placed second and Mary G. Montgomery’s Bradley Andersen (right) finished third.

Author and speaker, Meg Hunter-Kilmer, was in Mobile recently and was gracious enough to come to Little Flower Catholic School not once, but TWICE to speak with our students. She focused on Saints and how they are sometimes surprisingly like us (not always quiet and “holy-holy”). She has written 2 books about Saints and left a few for our students to enjoy. We are grateful for her presence and her presents (the books).

The Barton Academy School for Advanced World Studies recently held a “Book Tasting” event created and hosted by the Media Specialist, Mary Alice Pouliot, and made possible by the excellent partnership with Head Chef Gabi Wilson and her Bishop State culinary arts students, as well as Chef Rachel Baxter and her W.P. Davidson high school culinary arts students. There were new books to sample (students read selected passages from them off the different room “menus”) as well as an appetizer, entrée, and a dessert sample, all from the 1930’s, which matched the time and setting of the books introduced. A fiction and non-fiction text were introduced in each space as well as a food item. All of the books also tied in with the different grade level’s Project Based Learning essential questions and themes for the quarter. It was a delicious way to connect great learning, be introduced to new literature, foster a love of reading, and consider the culinary arts pathway as one that would ignite the students’ entrepreneurial spirits as well as their passion for food (from preparation and flavoring, to service, to food displays and food art).

Middle school students at Little Flower Catholic School put on a Black History Living Museum as a presentation to the student body. After studying their chosen person, they created a visual aid and helped to bring the historical personality to life for those visiting their display.

The 3rd grade Impalas earned a standing ovation for their recent product of “Off Their Rockers”! The talented class portrayed elderly people rocking and rolling to the beat of the music in their nursing home rocking chairs. It was a fun filled afternoon showcasing God given talents!

St. Patrick’s Day at St. Ignatius is so much fun! There was a leprechaun on the loose at St. Ignatius school! Some of our students set up traps in their classroom but the tricky leprechaun outsmarted them! Although the leprechaun left a big mess in their classrooms he also left sweet treats for his Impala friends!  The students also got to learn about St. Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland.

Annie Dinkel and Allyson Ho will represent Cottage Hill Christian Academy and the Historic Mobile Preservation Society as ambassadors with the Mobile Belle program. This program instructs high school students in historic preservation and provides them with the skills needed to confidently serve as guides at the Historic Oakleigh House Museum for the 2022-2023 year.