June brings the 2009-2010 school year to a conclusion with several academic and extra-curricular events. 

          Final exams will be administered to students in the upper grades beginning the week of the 7^th for Grade 8 and the week of the 14^th for Grades 5 through 7.   The written component of the New York State Science Exam is given to our fourth and eighth graders on June 7^th.  The eighth graders are also taking the State Social Studies Exam on the 14^th and 15^th of the month. 

          All students in Grades 3 through 8 will take the Archdiocesan Religion Exam on June 9^th. 

          Once all of their test-taking is completed, the eighth graders have a number of graduation activities to look forward to including a dinner dance on June 4^th and a graduation Mass and reception slated for the evening of June 11^th.   In addition, there will be a graduation Mass for the entire school followed by a slide show highlighting the events of the past year at St. Margaret School.

 The graduating class will walk through our corridors for the last time as SMS students on June 17^th when the Long Bell rings for them. This is a tradition that is bittersweet for all of us at the school.  We are happy that the eighth graders are beginning a new chapter in their lives, and, yet, we know that they will miss us as much as we will miss them. 

          I pray that once all of us leave St. Margaret's for summer vacation we will feel happy and satisfied with all that we have accomplished during this extraordinary year. 

                             Carolyn M. Slattery

                             Principal