CHS Newsletter

Last Tuesday, Sophomores spent the day at a retreat hosted by Enliven, our faith and service club, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish. During this Advent season of waiting, students reflected on Saint John the Baptist’s call to prepare our hearts to receive Christ. Through bonding activities, competitions, time for prayer, and bible study groups, they grew in friendship with each other and with Christ.

Led by Ms. Amy Anci, the seniors in the Medical Gateways Academy visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art this week for a specialized field trip exploring the connections between art, science, and medicine. Students observed paintings and sculptures from different time periods and cultures to learn how anatomical knowledge influenced art and understand the historical context of medical practices.

On Tuesday, Sophomore students from Mr. Doyle’s Finance and Marketing class traveled to Midtown East to participate in Junior Achievement’s financial planning program called Finance Park. The program emphasized and reinforced the themes that the class has been working on this year through a simulation experience!

Juniors in our Medical Gateways Academy visited the University of Mount Saint Vincent for a tour and a visit to the SIM lab in the Saint Joseph’s School of Nursing! In the lab, they practiced taking vital signs, hooking up IVs, and more using simulated patients.

Thanks to the generosity and partnership of Rock the Street, Wall Street, CHS students visited Värde Partners, an alternative investment firm, for an on-site, educational experience. The students toured the offices, listened to a career panel, engaged in workshop sessions on topics such as saving and investing, and spent the last hour of the event practicing networking skills with the firm’s finance professionals.