The Department of Catholic Schools strategic plan identifies key actions and goals for the transformation of Catholic elementary schools. Key areas of the document, “Faith in Tomorrow,” include Catholic identity, organizational structure and leadership, finances, academic excellence, marketing and communications, facilities and transportation, and health and human services.

Holy Angels Academy will celebrate its 150th anniversary by giving birth to a middle school. The North Buffalo institution announced on June 7 that it will expand into teaching sixth, seventh and eighth grade girls under the name of Holy Angels Prep beginning September 2012.

On Easter Monday morning at 4:34, 15 Notre Dame students and three staff members boarded an Amtrak train in Buffalo bound for the Romero Center in Camden, N.J., for a five-day Urban Challenge program.

KENMORE — St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, located at 845 Kenmore Ave., will hold summer sports camps.

Philosopher, poet and humanitarian George Santayana said, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” That notion has led students at Mount St. Mary Academy to take a class focused on something so horrific they hope it will never be repeated – the Holocaust.

Archbishop Walsh Academy has just become a world-class school. The International Baccalaureate Organization has designated the Olean school as an IB World School authorized to offer the Diploma Programme in the fall of 2011. With this award, Walsh will be one of only 2 percent of the high schools in the United States certified to offer this program.