Second graders at St. Francis Xavier (SFX) Catholic School on Tuesday got to learn about the planets in our solar system, as well as our place in the Milky Way Galaxy and the universe during a field trip to Samford University’s Cristenberry Planetarium.

St. Francis Xavier (SFX) Catholic School first-graders received a special “mimetic” lesson about butterflies from first-grade teacher Ms. Julie Cannova and librarian and technology specialist Ms. Kayley Zicarelli.

Saint Francis Xavier (SFX) Catholic School fourth and fifth-grade students took a field trip to Alabama’s capitol on Thursday to learn about state history and government and visit the zoo.

Ms. Erin Meadows’s third-grade class completed their reptile exhibitions and learned about snakes and turtles last week from representatives from the Birmingham Zoo.

Students in Ms. Marie Hayes’s second-grade class showed off their prehistoric exhibition projects on Thursday to over 200 students and visitors in the school cafeteria.

Saint Francis Xavier (SFX) Parish’s Deacon Neal Kay spoke to SFX Catholic School middle school students last week about the intersection between science and the Catholic faith.

Former University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) employee and lay scientist James Lowery spoke to Ms. Marie Hayes’s second-grade class on Tuesday about his multiple trips to Antarctica.