Sacred Heart Students helped with Beach Clean-Up

Mayor Pam Triolo and the Sacred Heart seventh grade students after a full day of beach cleanup!

Sacred Heart School fourth and seventh-grade students walked to Lake Worth Beach for the Sacred Heart School 2019 Conservation Beach Cleanup – educating the next generation of environmental stewards!

Lake Worth, Florida, USA – September 23 & 24 – Approximately 65 Sacred Heart School fourth & seventh-grade students, staff, and parents walked from Sacred Heart School (4th and Federal Hwy.) to the Lake Worth Beach to team up for the 2019 Sacred Heart School Conservation Beach Cleanup. “We are preparing our students to be the next generation of environmental stewards”, stated Interim Principal Tricia Duvall.

The group dispersed throughout the beach covering approximately 1 mile of coastline gathering trash and debris. The students noted that the majority of the garbage were bottle caps, bottles, clothes, and many cigarette butts.  In addition, the students found a shark’s tooth and a sand dollar fossil.

Mr. Anthony Austin & Ms. Ashley Huichalaf from the Volunteer Coordinator of Parks and Recreation office came out and presented a talk on the importance of how the trash we leave behind on the beaches affects our marine life.

After the cleanup, the students enjoyed lunch and a visit from the Honorable Mayor, Pam Triolo. The Mayor thanked the students for coming out to keep the beach clean and invited them to continue with their conservation efforts.

The Conservation Beach Cleanup was such a success that the school will continue to have it every year.  The next program in educating the next generation of environmental stewards will be in conjunction with Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. Students will visit the Refuge to take photos and enter the Refuge’s photo contest.

Milka Santos, ACBSW

Advancement Director

Read for the Record

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Sacred Heart School
410 North M Street
Lake Worth, FL 33460
561-582-2242

Contact: Milka Santos
SHS Advancement Director
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santosm@sacredheartfamily.com

Palm Beach Residents and Philanthropists Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo, Gulfstream Resident and Philanthropist Frankie Stevens, Sacred Heart School, and the William B. Finneran Montessori Academy of Sacred Heart School team up with Jumpstart’s Read for the Record to help break the world's reading record for the most people reading the same book on the same day!

Yes, it is that time of the year to Read for the Record!

Lake Worth, Florida, USA – Friday, October 18, 2018 - Read for the Record, is the annual event when millions of individuals come together to celebrate literacy by breaking the world record for reading the same book on the same day. On October 25, adults and children across the United States will read the official campaign book, “Maybe Something Beautiful” by Isabel Campoy.

Sacred Heart School will be hosting a visit from Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo, SHS Grandmother Nancy Marshall, Executive Board Member Frankie Stevens, and Joanne Gill volunteer with the Cenacle Sisters. They will be reading the book to the children.

Sacred Heart School's Organic Garden

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Sacred Heart School
410 North M Street
Lake Worth, FL  33460
 561-582-2242

The William B. Finneran Montessori Academy of Sacred Heart School’s Organic Garden, from seed to table!

Lake Worth, Florida, USA – Friday, July 18, 2018 – School gardens are gaining popularity across the country. This is no different at the William B. Finneran Montessori Academy of Sacred Heart School in Lake Worth, Florida where most of the students take ownership of their From Seed to Table Organic Garden Program. In conjunction with the garden, the school introduced its FREE organic breakfast and lunch program last year.

In 2017, a group of parents and alumni designed and now manage the whimsical storybook themed garden. The garden gives a nod to books such as Dr. Seuss, Jack in the Beanstalk, The Ugly Duckling, and more. The school uses the garden in conjunction with their S.T.R.E.A.M. curriculum. “The garden offers an opportunity for the children to experience what they learned in class. That is why the children call it their outdoor science lab”, detailed Principal Tamposi. The children consume what they grow or take it home in the hope of introducing their parents to healthy eating.

“I believe that eating healthy is a learned behavior, and. Sacred Heart School introduced our organic garden in conjunction with our free or reduced organic breakfast and lunch program and it has been a total success”, stated Principal Candace Tamposi.

Principal Tamposi admits that the process of getting FREE organic breakfast and lunch programs in place was involved but well worth it.

Changing their palate to healthy eating needed to start with what we offered at school. Therefore, Principal Tamposi took the snack machines out and banned processed foods. The children were skeptical at first but halfway through the first year, the children started to use terms like natural sugar foods and low-fat foods.

The children are growing Strawberries, papayas, banana, blue berries, breadfruit, avocado, sweet potato, cabbage, several kinds of tomatoes, lettuce, several kinds of beans, cilantro, basil, rosemary, mint, red & yellow bell peppers, lemongrass, garlic chives radishes, and chickpeas.

“You cannot expect a child to learn on an empty stomach.” Principal Tampo

Child amazed at size of cabbage--