Build a tower, build a team

AP Biology learned about teamwork and creative problem solving by competing in "The Marshmallow Challenge"! Our winning structure (free-standing after 18 minutes of construction) was 43 cm tall! We followed up the activity with The Marshmallow Project TED talk by Tom Wujec.

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Good to be back in the Lion’s den! #happyfirstdayofschool

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How to survive your first day of high school: attend Orientation with the most supportive of peers- our Reach Out Leaders. Roar Lions!

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Bishop da Cuhna paid a surprise visit to football practice today for a blessing and to wish the team well. Good to see you, Bishop, and Roar Lions!

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As second-year students, the Class of 2022 recognizes that they are called to love and serve as Christ did. Thank you for having us Happy Hope Factory!

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Miss Smith had a full classroom of incoming Frosh on this rainy summer day to review The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore. Students will have another opportunity for discussion on Thursday!

Members of the Class of 2023 are invited to review and discuss summer reading material with English Teacher, Ms. Smith on August 13 or August 15 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM.

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Members of the Class of 2023 visited Happy Hope Factory, in, Pocasset. They assembled Happy Hope Bag activity kits for hospitalized children. This is our first time partnering with the Happy Hope Factory and we look forward to visiting them again on August 14 with volunteers from our sophomore class.

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JPII has partnered with Bishop Stang High School to develop and export a popular and successful dimension of JPII’s marine science program, created and taught by Science Department Chairperson Mr. Jim Remillard (pictured with cooperating teachers). Thanks to the generosity of the Carney Family Charitable Foundation, "Tracking the Seas: Middle School Ocean Analysis” will bring a new understanding of oceans and ocean data to middle school students through the collection, analysis, and presentation of ocean data. JPII and Bishop Stang students will lead middle school students as they observe, identify, and photograph living phytoplankton and zooplankton, learn how to measure and analyze real-world data (temp, oxygen, salinity, pH, etc.), and present that data in a structured format to tell a story of our seasonally-changing ocean.

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Helping Others and Making New Friends Members of the incoming freshmen class met at Capabilities Farm in Dennis to work on the farm and in the greenhouse weeding and harvesting produce. This was the first of 3 Christian Service Projects organized by our Holy Cross intern, Maggie Flaherty.

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Members of the Class of 2023 met at JPII to make sandwiches to bring and serve at the Salvation Army.

http://www.sjp2hs.org/thebluegold Welcome to the first The Blue & Gold letter of the new school year. Each month, The Blue & Gold will feature a letter from me highlighting matters of interest to our whole school. You will also find important information in the SMPS Tides, SFXP Currents, and the JPII Insider newsletters prepared by Mrs. Hutchison (SMPS Principal), Mrs. Kelley (SFXP Principal) and Ms. Valentino (JPII Principal).