Our school is participating in the Ronald McDonald House Charities “Read for the House” program, marking 26 years of St. Peter’s School being a part of the success of this incredible endeavor to help ease some of the burdens of families coping with a critically ill child.
SPS utilizes a Continuous Enrollment model for our re-enrollment process. Students are automatically re-enrolled for the upcoming school year unless the School receives an Official Withdrawal Form by a deadline of the third Friday in January, which falls on January 15, 2021.
An overview of our School’s decision to provide periods of virtual instruction for our students, which reflects advice from the SPS Multidisciplinary Advisory Committee and with the support of the Board of Trustees, to proactively respond to worsening viral spread in the broader community.
All St. Peter’s School community members must work together to uphold the School’s health and safety procedures to protect our fellow community members. To meet our goal of providing an in-person educational experience for as many students as possible as safely as possible, and to reduce the risk to those here at school and in our community, we must all share the responsibility for keeping our community safe.
After a brief hiatus this fall, the SPS Arts Blog is back! Enjoy a weekly peek at the inspiring works of studio, musical and theatrical arts our students are creating and performing.
The online apparel sale is now closed. Purchased items will be shipped directly to you by early November.
Based on the current recommendations and the trends we see in the data collected in our area related to transmission, we have decided to stagger our opening and return each grade level to in-building instruction in a slower and more deliberate approach. Schools around the country that have followed this approach have found success in maintaining the safety of the students and faculty. Additionally, we appreciate the need for students and families to return to a school routine, in the building or through a remote learning model, which is so important for children.
The Administrative Team has been working since earlier in the spring to determine what school might look like in September. Unfortunately, we simply do not know right now exactly what to expect because of all the changes and therefore we must continue to make plans for the most likely scenario. One thing that has never changed is that we will only resume normal operations in our school building when it’s safe to do so
On June 19th, we celebrate Juneteenth which is also known as Freedom Day in America – when the final enslaved people were informed of their freedom from slavery more than 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
The past few days have been filled with an unreal amount of sadness and uncertainty in an already unbelievable time for us all. The ongoing violence in Philadelphia is hard to watch and, for many of you living so close to the events, hard to live through. We are constantly challenged in ways we don’t always understand, and this experience is no different.