We continue to pray for you and your families as we move toward November together. We have had an exciting week together to end this month! The excitement for Halloween fun today being interrupted by our Wednesday power outage from the first nor’easter of the season put us all in a race to stay on pace Thursday and Friday. The students and teachers jumped right into their lessons and carried on.

We hope this fall season is wonderful for you and full of the beauty of nature around us on Aquidneck Island. Our students reflect each morning in prayer on the many blessings God has provided, and the many opportunities we have each day to reach out to others. Our Student Council, led by Eighth grade officers Katie, Iñaki, and Quebel, are encouraging the school in our annual canned food collection for those in need. As recess monitor, I have witnessed daily acts of kindness in including others in play. Students moving quietly in the halls and helping others in class contribute to our kind school culture. We live our values of courage and hospitality.

Let's get into the spirit of the season! On Friday, October 29, students may dress out in the colors of black, orange, and purple! Individual classes will inform you of the party arrangements! On Saturday, October 30, we have a TRUNK OR TREAT idea!

This week our Feinstein Kindness tree is being created in the front lobby. Each class is contributing leaves on which acts of kindness are recorded, and they are filling up the branches! This month’s value of courage, and our daily prayers, inform our students to reach out to others with kindness and compassion. The daily stories of the saints inspire us to make our world a better place! You are always in our prayers and praise!

This week has brought some firsts to our student’s learning at All Saints. Our students brought in loved pet pictures for a first St. Francis blessing of the pets in photographs. Our first band lessons were taught this week. We had our first fire drill of the year, and all classes cleared the building in under three minutes. And, our Eighth-Grade students presented their officer candidate speeches to the voting classes for the first time this year. We applaud all of our students who have the courage to try something new, to make a new friend, and to believe they can achieve their dreams. At AS²A, every student is called to try a “first”!