Marquette's Elementary Program

Spiritual Formation

Our school exists to transmit the values, principles, teachings, and traditions of the Catholic Church. It is Marquette Catholic School policy that all students, including non-Catholics, attend religious instruction, liturgies, and all religious ceremonies and prayer services.

A school liturgy (Mass) is celebrated daily and planned by students and teachers working with parish priests. Prayer services are also planned and celebrated by individual classes and the school as a whole. Parents/Guardians and the parish community are encouraged to attend and participate in all school religious celebrations.

Prayer begins each day as students and teachers direct their minds and hearts to God and offer Him their daily activities.

Academic Formation

Curriculum is the learning plan that identifies the student’s interaction with content, materials, resources, other learners, and procedures for assessing the attainment of educational outcomes. The curriculum reflects the mission and goals of the school community, the needs of the learners, and positive educational practices that enable all students to be confident and competent learners and citizens. The curriculum reflects an awareness and appreciation of the cultural diversity in the local community, the state, the nation, and the world. It reflects current research on learning, learning styles, and the stages of human development.

The curriculum and instruction of Marquette Catholic School follows the Standards of the Diocese of Duluth and meet or exceeds all applicable requirements of the State of Minnesota. A comprehensive guide to curriculum outcomes is provided on the diocesan website www.dioceseduluth.org/curriculum-outcomes

Core classes:

Language Arts

Math

Science

Social Studies

Religion

Human Formation

Human Formation enables students to embrace who they are, made in God’s image and likeness. Solid moral character develops as students learn to understand the innate dignity of the human person.

Marquette Catholic School integrates human formation throughout the academic, co-curricular, and extracurricular programming. Special care is given to nurturing each student's vocation, particularly their universal call to holiness.

Weekly instruction is provided in the areas of Music, Art, STEM, and Physical Education.
School wide service projects each month
Virtue based behavior matrix
School wide virtue program

Marquette students are taught the four cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance. More simply put for students in their daily lives, MCS students (and staff) strive to develop the following good habits that will lead to these virtues. They are:

To show empathy, compassion, and caring towards others

To be helpful

To exhibit good manners-being thankful, forgiving, and polite

To show kindness and respect always, both in words and actions

To work consciously to avoid selfish urges and to develop good habits

To try to overcome bad or unproductive habits

To always follow the rules for good behavior, even when you think no one is watching

To be responsible, dependable, and reliable (quality work done on time)

To always show a good attitude, even when you may feel disappointed, angry, or frustrated

To work hard to control yourself, both in your words and your actions

To never be neglectful of your spiritual life from whom the help to grow in virtue comes.