Enrichment Programs

Reading Buddy Program

The Reading Buddy Program pairs up Kindergarten, First and Second graders with Sixth, Seventh and Eight graders to enhance reading skills for the younger students and nurturing skills for the older ones.

Spelling Bee

Students in grades 2-8 compete with students in their own classes. Winners move on to a school-wide competition

Young Authors Competition

Young Authors is a program sponsored by the Courier Journal. it gives the students and opportunity to use the writing process to complete a creative piece of their own. Once the piece is collected, students are judged at the school level, archdiocese level, and city level.  The school winner advances on to a regional competition.

Mad Science

Mad Science of Kentucky has partnered with St. Andrew Academy to provide hands on class room experiments. Structured as an in-class field trip, a Mad Science workshop is a convenient way to offer students a hands-on science experience without leaving the school. With professional lesson plans, unique equipment and animated instructors, Mad Science workshops offer preschool to sixth grade children truly engaging learning experiences.

Mad Science also offers an after-school program at St. Andrew. These hands-on, one-hour science sessions are themed around a particular area of science and include such topics as rocketry, magnets, polymers and even the science of toys. Children engage in exciting hands-on activities, watch spectacular demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions and take home things that they have made themselves like model rockets, periscopes, Mad Science putty and more. Mad Science after-school programs offer children a chance to see just how cool science can be!

Junior Achievement

The Junior Achievement program is geared toward 3rd, 5th and 8th grade students. The hands-on experiences help young people understand the economics of life.

The 3rd grade program, Our City, introduces students to a variety of occupations, how workers apply their skills to their jobs and how businesses contribute to a city. Students become aware of the importance of education to future career development.

Exchange City is a program that is sponsored by Junior Achievement and Sam Swope. 5th graders become active members of a city. In this city the students have jobs and receive paychecks. With these paychecks they open a bank account and are able to purchase goods and services in the city.

Finance Park - This program prepares 8th graders for the future by teaching them how to manage their finances. In the classroom, they learn about debit and credit cards, savings accounts and stocks and bonds, different kinds of taxes and planning a budget. Then they spend a day at the Junior Achievement Finance Park where they are assigned a career and a salary. They are required to plan a budget, purchase a home and care, set up utilities and make a savings plan.

http://www.jaky.org/

4-H

The 4-H Program provides St. Andrew students the opportunity to showcase their talents and interests in arts, crafts, sports and other hobbies. They also have the opportunity to polish public speaking and demonstration skills with an annual project coordinated with the faculty liaison.

The 4-H Program is built into the 4th and 5th grade curriculums. Participation is optional, but encouraged for students in 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The Program also provides scholarship opportunities for qualifying students.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/agcollege/4h/about4h