The
Pulse
of St. Pius X
St. Pius X catholic School
7734 Robin Rest Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78209
Address Service Requested
Pastor • Father Pat O'Brien • pobrien@stpiusxsa.org
Principal • Tom Deming • tdeming@stpiusxsa.org
Visit us at www.stpiusxsa.org/school
Save the Date
Please make plans
to join us for
The Gold and
Silver Gala
April 1, 2017
Fifth-grade class uses the Promethean
Board for live math races. Our English classes
also use this technology to review their latest
novels via online quizzes before a major test.
Football Returns
to St. Pius
The original number 11, Doug Piper '62,
meets the current number 11, Matthew Cuellar,
as St. Pius' football program begins
again after a 20-year hiatus.
Randy Frerich, grandfather of a current St. Pius
student, played SPX Football B-team in 1969.
t
hanks to the generous support of our St.
Pius X community, we have furnished our
faculty and staff with 20 new-to-us refurbished
computers to better serve our students. Our
previous computers were running Windows
XP and our new computers will allow us to
update our computer programs and enhance
communications for our school.
We have 30 new Atlas 12 laptops arriving soon for
our student mobile lab. These laptops will allow
our students to embrace 21st century education.
Discovery Streaming, Britannica Encyclopedia
Online, and Ebsco Research Online are just a few
of the online resources available for our students
to use during classroom time. With your help,
we are excited to have the opportunity for more
classroom programs in the future.
Our middle school technology teacher uses a
Promethean Board and students are allowed
to participate with their cell phones or tablets.
A Promethean Board is an interactive display
connected to a computer that allows the teacher
or students to communicate online and in-person.
There is also an audience response system that
allows our students to actively participate in
a real-time quiz where they can answer the
questions by input on a tablet or cell phone,
instead of raising a hand. All students have an
equal chance to respond and, therefore, learn.
Students learn differently, and our Promethean
Board adds to the enjoyment of lessons and
uses the main three senses, auditory, visual, and
kinesthetic, to aid in the learning process.
New techNology eXPANDS
clASSroom oPPortuNitieS
