Friday, January 18, 2013
On tour for his young-adult series, Curtis Jobling dropped by St. John of the Cross on Thursday to talk animation and fantasy, give a reading and, of course, sketch Bob and friends.
If the words “Bob the Builder” bring any image to mind, it’s likely an image sprung from the mind and pen of Curtis Jobling. “Everything you see on Bob from day one, I designed it,” he told a group of St. John of the Cross Parish School fifth-graders Thursday in a fast-talking, oft-irreverent book-tour appearance. “Everything that Bob has to interact with—it could be a book, a spade, a hand grenade. If we need it, I draw it, we build it and we animate it.” If a hand-grenade episode exists, it's apparently been lost to history, though Jobling did screen his Nickelodeon UK “Curious Cow” shorts as Chuck Jones-style kid-friendly black comedy. He also discussed different types of animation, showed a trailer for his new show Raa Raa the Noisy …
Saturday, October 6, 2012
The governor, accompanied by Dan Lipinski and Jim Durkin, visited Western Springs on Friday to congratulate the private school on receiving the Blue Ribbon Award
Governor Pat Quinn, along with Congressman Dan Lipinski and State Rep. Jim Durkin, spoke to students at St. John of the Cross Parish School on Friday morning to congratulate the school on receiving the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award denoting “exemplary high performance” in academics. Durkin and Lipinski are both Western Springs residents, and Durkin is a SJC parent and parishioner. "The governor stressed the importance of continuing to achieve well academically," wrote Director of Advancement Jennifer Miller in a press release. "It was quite an honor to have the three elected officials in the building." St. John of the Cross was selected to receive the Blue Ribbon last month and will be officially presented with the award at a ceremony in …
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
St. John of the Cross Parish School is one of 14 Illinois elementary schools and 50 private schools nationwide to receive the prestigious award in 2012.
St. John of the Cross Parish School in Western Springs has been awarded the National Blue Ribbon award from the U.S. Department of Education, a prestigious recognition denoting SJC as among the “state's highest performing schools, as measured by state assessments or nationally-normed tests” of language-arts and mathematics skills. SJC is one of 14 Illinois elementary schools to win the award in 2012, and one of 50 private schools nationwide. Schools must be nominated to apply for the award; private schools like SJC are nominated by the Council for American Private Education. Criteria for the award included test scores of students over the past five years as well as current students, the school said. “We thank our parish for its generosity …
Monday, May 28, 2012
For the 10th anniversary of the popular event, the school had its second- through eight-grade students write their memories of writing and printing their own books.
For students at St. John of the Cross Parish School, Author's Day is really memorable—memorable enough that, to celebrate 10 years of the event, the school asked its entire student body who have had an Author's Day to write about it, and they did. Essays of their memories hung on the walls of the school lunchroom on Friday afternoon, where 60 first graders were having their own Author's Day experience: showing off the eight or so laminated, bound books that they wrote over the course of the year, and cheerfully signing autographs for their parents, friends and friends’ parents. “I’m having a lot of fun signing autographs and stuff… signing all the autographs and having lots of fun,” said first-grader Conor Zech, who also wrote a mystery …
Darren McRoy
6:32 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
That's actually a basket that had Wereworld-themed buttons. :-) more ›