Summer is here! It's a wonderful time of year for creating lasting memories with family and friends while you soak up some sun and enjoy the time off. We would love your help in building a Stuart family photo album so our new and current families can get to know everyone better. Send your group photos - parents, children, pets - wearing your Stuart gear, and we'll send you a little gift! Send your photos to news@stuartschool.org and we'll share photos on our social media and website.

In Sacred Heart tradition, all three divisions commemorated the school year with Prize Days, and the Early Childhood students celebrated a closing ceremony and Teddy Bear Picnic. Prize Day is an opportunity to honor our students for their intellectual and personal growth throughout the year and showcase their incredible talent.

After studying butterflies all year, the EC 3s class took a trip to The Watershed Institute in Pennington for their "Butterfly Magic" program, and it was a great experience! The children demonstrated their knowledge of butterflies and learned even more about these amazing creatures. Ms. Michelle from the Watershed took them on a walk along the fields around The Watershed Institute.

After watching and waiting for many days, the EC Butterflies class got to watch as the Painted Lady butterflies finally emerged from their chrysalises! The children got to see the whole process happen right in front of their eyes! Last week, the boys and girls gathered to sing their friends a special goodbye song as they released them into the sky.

NJ.com recently announced the girls track and field All-State and All-Area teams for 2019, and three of our athletes were honored.

Congratulations to the Stuart Class of 2019! It was a beautiful day to send this incredible class on its next journey beyond our green brick walls. Special thanks to our graduation speaker, Dana Jordan, former English faculty at Stuart, for inspiring our students with the wisdom of Jane Austen to live "fuller, richer, more vibrant, and more meaningful" lives. Additional speakers were Sophia Sumaray and Gillian Carmien who delivered meaningful reflections on the graduates' strength as a class and the lasting impact of Stuart and the Sacred Heart Goals. We are also pleased to share the list of senior awards given before graduation.

Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, the all girls independent day school for PS-12, is pleased to announce that Ari and Janine Soroken of Princeton, NJ have established the Soroken Faculty Excellence Fund at Stuart to support the school's greatest assets: faculty and students. Through the extraordinary gift of $500,000, Stuart will be able to invest additional resources in recruiting, retaining and developing its exceptional faculty.

Our outstanding faculty and staff lead and mentor by example every day at Stuart. Each year those who truly exemplify a specific Sacred Heart Goal and its Criteria are nominated by their colleagues and selected by the Board of Trustees to receive an award. We applaud these men and women who live and breathe life into the words that make up our Sacred Heart Goals.

Summer is here! It's a wonderful time of year for creating lasting memories with family and friends while you soak up some sun and enjoy the time off. We would love your help in building a Stuart family photo album so our new and current families can get to know everyone better. Send your group photos - parents, children, pets - wearing your Stuart gear, and we'll send you a little gift! Send your photos to news@stuartschool.org and we'll share photos on our social media and website.