Co-Curricular Program

The Co-Curricular program is a vital complement to the academic program; it seeks to enhance the whole self, teach positive developmental and social values of team effort and educate to a growing awareness of life skills.

Student Governance

Student Council - The Student Council at the Academy of the Sacred Heart strives to create an atmosphere of respect and concern for others. The Student Council serves as a channel for student expression, assists the administration in planning and carrying out student activities and strives to develop positive student-faculty, student-student relations.

Membership consists of the President, Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer, 4 Class Presidents, 16 Representatives and the Dean of Students. Student Council Professional Affiliations - National Association of Student Councils, Louisiana Association of Student Councils, Greater New Orleans Association of Student Councils, Southern Association of Student Councils.

Examples of Student Council Functions, etc. (governed by their constitution):

• Assist admissions with recruitment
• Assist with Prospective Students Open House
• Big/Little Sisters (grades 9 and 12)
• Organization of clubs
• School assemblies
• Service Projects
• Leadership workshops
• Faculty Appreciation Week
• Dean for the Day
• Student of the Month
• Brother/Sister Barbecue
• Spirit Day
• High School Dances
• Open Forums
• New Students Welcome Party
• Welcome Week for Freshmen
• Work assignments - lounge and dining hall
• Planning the celebration of special holidays
• All school congé
• Assisting the Dean of Students to monitor order in the High School
• Any new activity properly proposed that would benefit the High School (may vary from year to year)

Class Officers - President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, 4 Student Council Representatives

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Class Activities

Disciplinary Council - The Discipline Council is designed to acknowledge the rights and responsibilities of students. The goals of the council are to help students cope maturely with value questions surrounding behavior, to assist students in understanding the causes for her inappropriate behavior, to engage the resources of the student in accepting responsibility for actions and in redirecting behavior more positively and to promote the habit of considering, in advance, possible consequences of behavior and, based on that consideration, making sound decisions on how to behave. (D. Ostroth, D. Hill, "The Helping Relationship in Student Discipline")

Membership of the council consists of the High School Principal, the Dean of Students, 2 faculty members, 1 school counselor, and 8 students elected by the student body. Congé Committee - A Congé is a day of celebration for the entire school in honor of a special person. This day is planned by the high school; the Congé committee is responsible for its organization. Membership of the Congé Committee consists of 3 officers, 4 non-officers per grades 10, 11, and 12, 2 faculty members and the Dean of Students.

National Honor Society - Juniors and Seniors are selected for membership in the National Honor Society based on exemplary scholarship, leadership, service, and character.

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Student Ministry

Campus Ministry works to encourage the prayer/faith life of students and their service to the wider community. Students plan Eucharistic liturgies; prayer, chapel, and reconciliation services; and retreats. They also take part in outreach activities such as walks, Habitat for Humanity, Learning Partners, tutoring students at Bauduit School, work for affordable housing for the poor, give service to the elderly, the homeless, and needy youths, and collaborate with other Catholic schools on social issues. Each student is required to participate in one of the outreach activities mentioned above.

Community Service is a required activity in the Junior year. Each Junior must complete fifty hours of community service, write reflections on her experience, and share them with her class. Possible Community Service activities include participation in Learning Partners or the Archdiocesan Witness Program, work at centers for abused children or the handicapped, and service at day care centers or hospitals.

Peer Support, now in its fifteenth year, consists of approximately twenty Junior and Senior students who are selected and trained by the professional staff to meet in small groups with eighth graders on a weekly basis during school time throughout the school year. They discuss issues of contemporary teen interest as they arise in the lives of the group members. Peer Support leaders, because of their natural inclinations towards helping others and also because of the training they receive, are peer helpers to whomever they encounter through their routine interactions in their daily lives.

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Clubs

Clubs are chartered by students at the beginning of each year. The following clubs have been previously chartered.

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Performing Arts

• Fall and Spring Plays
• ISAS Fine Arts Festival
• Piano Recitals

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