Catholic Schools Week kicks off at BCS!

January 31, 2023

Butler Catholic School had an incredible start to Catholic Schools Week Jan. 29! Students and teachers celebrated the annual event with a cereal drive—and collected over 500 boxes!

Led by Student Council under the guidance of faculty members Kristen Singleton and Carol Dorcy, classes collected unopened cereal boxes from Jan. 23 through 30. The drive resulted in 576 boxes school wide, roughly 60 boxes more than last year’s collection!

“It was impressive!” Mrs. Singleton said. “It really was.”

Per tradition, classrooms competed against each other to collect the most boxes of cereal. Jennifer Friel’s fifth grade class won the distinction this year and earned a special ‘Donut Day,’ with Mrs. Dorcy’s eighth graders coming in second place.

Once the cereal drive was over, students celebrated the fruits of their labor with a special Cereal Spiral event! Student Council spent the morning building a dominoes maze in the BCS gym with the donated cereal boxes. Students were invited to watch as a representative from Mrs. Friel’s class started the topple, setting off an intricate design across the gym floor.

“They were really excited,” Mrs. Dorcy recalled.

After the boxes fell, students helped members of St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank pack them up to be taken and distributed to local families in need.

Madalyn Krill, a sixth grade student representative for Student Council, was thrilled to help set up the cereal maze for the student body to see.

“It was so much fun!” Madalyn exclaimed. “I kept thinking I was going to knock it over. It was nerve-wracking.”

Preparing for the excitement of Catholic Schools Week, students also got to wear PJs to school Monday in order to enjoy classroom movies during the afternoon. Tuesday included a grade-on-grade kickball tournament. On Wednesday, students completed special STEM projects leading up to the annual school talent show Thursday and all-school Mass Friday.

Catholic Schools Week might be drawing to a close, but we continue to celebrate the virtues and qualities of a Catholic education every day as we watch students develop as vibrant, thriving reflections of Christ.

Livestream recordings of the cereal box dominoes and all-school Mass can be viewed on the BCS Facebook page.