At Sacred Heart, we prepare minds for the future and souls for eternity by providing excellent academics while supporting parents in teaching the beauty of our Catholic Faith.
Each Sunday the school families get a voice message about the upcoming week. The call usually goes out about dinner time and the first thing that families hear about is the virtue of the week. This year we are using education in virtue in the building to meet the state requirements for social/emotional learning and anti-bullying curriculum. Each virtue is aimed to help us focus on attaining the habit of doing good and establishing a culture that will be a means to a good, happy life while having a relationship with God our Father. Can you imagine if all schools used Jesus' teaching as basis for growing social skills and human development?
Research has shown that the four fundamentals of balance, resilience, insight and empathy allow the brain to be open and receptive to a learning environment - these four mirror the Cardinal virtues of temperance, fortitude, prudence and justice precisely. Practicing things like humility, industriousness, foresight, and affability develop those four fundamentals.
