2024 Christmas Candy Sale Runs Until Nov. 22
Our 2024 Christmas Candy Sale — in partnership with locally-owned Betsy Ann Chocolates — is underway now! Get a jump on your holiday hosting and gift-giving by ordering your holiday chocolates through ASAP, and have a portion of proceeds donated back to our preschool program.
Orders are due by next Friday, November 22. Candy will be delivered to our preschool on Monday, December 9. Current preschool families should return their orders to school on Thursday, November 21 (for 4-year-olds) or Friday, November 22 (for 3-year-olds). Order pickup will be on Monday and Tuesday, December 9-10.
Former students and friends of our program can contact Mrs. Duncan at 412-367-0381 to place an order.
Below, we have provided convenient links to this year’s candy brochure — featuring all your seasonal favorites — and a printable order sheet. Checks should be made payable to “Amazing Scholar Academy Preschool.” Thank you for your support!
Preschool Families Support Neighbors in Need
This fall, our collective preschool family teamed up with McKnight United Methodist Church — which sponsors and hosts our preschool — to support those in need in the broader community. During the week of October 7-11, our preschool families contributed food, household goods, clothing and more to support the work of Global Links, Clean Closets for Campers, the United Methodist Church Union Daily Bread Feeding Program for the homeless, and the food bank at Christ Lutheran Church in Millvale. We are grateful to and proud of our preschoolers and their parents for opening their hearts and helping out our neighbors in need. Together, we can make a difference!
It’s Not Too Late! Limited Roster
Spots Still Available for 2024-2025!
Registration remains open for the 2024-2025 school year. It’s not too late to get your preschool-age child into our program, as a few class openings remain. We are welcoming new and returning and students into our kindergarten-readiness programs for 3- and 4-year-olds. Don’t wait. Email us at amazingscholaracademy@gmail.com or call 412-367-0381 to arrange a tour and get your questions answered.
WELCOME TO AMAZING SCHOLAR ACADEMY!
Our preschool program in Pittsburgh's North Suburbs creates a warm, loving and caring atmosphere in which each child is given the opportunity to experience social, physical and academic growth. Children graduate from our program with all the tools to help them succeed in kindergarten and beyond. Local school districts regularly report that our students are among the best prepared.
Our program began in 1980 as Mount Assisi Academy Preschool, a sponsored ministry of the School Sisters of St. Francis. Over nearly 40 years, we have had the honor of serving multiple generations in some families. Even the children and grandchildren of some of our earliest students have come through our program! So as the School Sisters aged and their need to repurpose the space occupied by our program intensified, we set out to find a new home to continue to serve our preschool families.
In 2018, we moved to the grounds of McKnight United Methodist Church in Ross Township and are now known as Amazing Scholar Academy Preschool. We brought along with us to our new home the same curriculum, approach and lay teaching team, as well as gratitude to the MUMC community for welcoming us. We are excited to have many of our current preschool families come along with as, and we are delighted to welcome new children and families to our quality program.
Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser a Saucy Success!
We can't thank everyone enough for being as "into" our spring spaghetti dinner fundraiser as we were! It was wonderful to see current preschool families, alumni, friends, and churchgoers from MUMC offering their support on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Thank you, as well, to all of our helpers and donors. The event was a wonderful success.
ASAP ‘Rocks Its Socks’ to Support Friends with Down Syndrome
ASAP students and teachers wore their most colorful and crazy socks to school on March 21 — World Down Syndrome Day — in support of students with Down Syndrome. We joined folks worldwide to raise public awareness and advocate for the rights, inclusion and well-being of those with Down Syndrome, including our own student, Rhys. The idea was created because chromosomes are shaped like socks, and people with Down Syndrome have an extra chromosome. Our teachers also wore special Rock Your Socks T-shirts, and our preschoolers crafted their own crazy socks in a colorful art activity.
Our teachers show off the colorful Rock Your Socks
T-shirts they wore in support of Rhys.
Sharing Some Special Springtime Spirit
Some of our teachers, students and graduates visited Mt. Assisi Place personal care home in Ross on April 4 to deliver “Bubby Bags” for each elderly resident. As we were formerly known as Mount Assisi Academy Preschool and located at Mt. Assisi Place, our program remains a friend to the personal care community and to the School Sisters of St. Francis who still live there. The bags — affectionately named in memory of late Ross resident Cheryl Buchlmayer — were generously filled by our preschool families with puzzle books, snacks, toiletries and other fun items for the residents. Thanks to everyone who contributed to help make the Easter season just a little sweeter for some special seniors.