Powerhouse Parents and Guardians

Powerhouse Parents and Guardians

A Recap of the Dynamic School Year with the Parents’ Association

With heartfelt appreciation, the Parents’ Association (PA) recognizes the remarkable efforts of all the volunteers and donors who helped make the 2022-23 school year at St. Anne’s-Belfield an outstanding success. Their commitment truly made our school an even more enriching environment for every student and teacher. Take a look at the incredible impact achieved through family involvement within the PA this year:

Arts Boosters

• Provided refreshments for the Lower School Music & Movement Folk Dance, Middle School concert, the Lower School Moon Party, All-School Art Show, and International Thespian Society inductions

• Organized and sold concessions at the Middle and Upper School theater productions

• Organized an art activities station at Fall Family Festival

• Underwrote the purchase of frames to professionally hang and display student artwork around the School

• Sponsored visiting artists, Yevgeny Kutik and Anna Polonsky, at performances and workshops with Grades 6 – 12 students

• Supported costume design for the US Winter Musical, “High School Musical”

• Held the annual April Plant Sale

Saints Athletics Club

• Hosted and provided activities for the Fall Family Festival including a raffle

• Executed the lettermen jacket sale

• Organized and staffed the concessions stand for home football games, plus other occasions

• Hosted a vintage sports uniform sale

• Presented athletics educational programming for parents and guardians

• Created social media content for the Saints Athletics Club Instagram page

• Partnered with the Upper School Student Life Committee

• Hosted a coaches and athletics staff appreciation event

• Underwrote the CCC lobby pictures, equipment in the weight room for Coach P’s programming, speed machine, hi-res camera for Athletics Department, the athletics team uniform storage buildout, and a part of the forthcoming speaker system on the Frank G. Addonizio Field football and boys’ lacrosse turf.

Parents’ Association

• Personally welcomed 134 new families to the St. Anne’s community last summer

• Shared 340 cups of coffee at parent and caregiver coffees throughout the year

• Provided $4,000 in funding for Wednesday Wellness programs

• Chaperoned field trips so our kids could connect their classroom learning to the wider world

• Contributed 172 volunteer hours reshelving books in the library

• Showed our appreciation for our 220+ faculty and staff all year long with pies, potluck lunches, breakroom snacks, flowers, and messages of thanks

• Welcomed more than 400 grandparents and special friends to visit Pre-School and Lower School classrooms

• Delivered love to families with over 30 baby onesies, meals, flowers, and stuffed Saintys through the Saints Cares committee

• Sold 1,755 uniform pieces at the Saints’ Closet, raising funds to further the PA’s mission of bringing families together and supporting our faculty and staff. Thank you!