The Good Shepherd Academy
610 N. San Antonio Avenue
Pomona, CA 91767
admin@thegoodshepherdacademy.org
(909) 817-3313
To Know, Love and Serve God
Four Day School 2022-2023
Homeschool Academy 2022-2023
The Good Shepherd Academy is an independent, coeducational K-12 school located in Pomona, CA. It was founded by parents as primary educators and seeks to lead students to know, love and serve God through a rigorous classical education aligned with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. It encourages frequent reception of the sacraments, reverence for the Mass, and Eucharistic adoration. It also emphasizes the development of the virtues, discipline in learning, and appreciation of beauty.
The Good Shepherd Academy has both a four day school (Monday through Thursday) and a one day a week (Friday) homeschool academy. It is planning to have a summer camp in the summer of 2023.
WELCOME WEDNESDAYS (FOUR-DAY SCHOOL) AND WELCOME FRIDAYS (HOMESCHOOL ACADEMY)
The Good Shepherd Academy encourages parents who are interested in enrolling their children in the school to make an appointment to visit and are welcome to include their children in the visit. During-the-school day Open Houses are held for the four-day school every Wednesday from 9:30 to 10:30. On Fridays, parents and children interested in the Homeschool Academy are invited to tour the campus and preview classes from 9:00 to 12:30, and are invited to meet with the Head of School from 12:30 to 2:00. The Open Houses are open to all interested parents and their children but advance appointment is required.
May: Month of Our Lady
The Good Shepherd Academy honors Our Lady especially in the month of May. We sing her praises as we crown her Queen of our hearts, and of heaven and earth. We venerate Our Blessed Mother under her many titles and virtues in the Litany of Loreto and pray the rosary in our May Crowning ceremony.
Upcoming Events
May 8 Turn in enrollment packets - pay registration fees
May 10 TGSA welcomes Fr. Robert Barcelos, OCD 11am assembly school hall
May 13 First Communion at St. Madeleine Church 9am pictures/10 am Mass
May 18 Holyday of Obligation 8 am Mass then Park Field Day 9-1pm Claremont Park
May 25 MINIMUM DAY to allow time to rest before the Spring Concert
May 25 Spring Concert and Donor Appreciation 6:30 pm (NOTE DATE CHANGE)
May 26 Last day of classes for the TGS Homeschool Academy
May 29 Memorial Day - NO SCHOOL
June 1 Last day of instruction
June 8 Closing Day event Feast of Corpus Christi
Reminders
- Fr. Robert Barcelos, OCD will join us for a school wide assembly on May 10 at 11:00. All TGSA and HA community invited to listen to Fr. Robert’s talk on devotion to the Blessed Mother. Fr. Robert is a Carmelite priest assigned to El Carmelo in Redlands and often at St. Therese in Alhambra.
- First Communion Mass will be at St. Madeleine Church on May 13. First Communicants are asked to please be in the St. Madeleine hall at 9am for individual and class pictures. Mass will begin at 10am, lineup will be at 9:50am. ALL TGSA students are expected to come to this Mass to sing in the Schola and to pray with their brothers and sisters in Christ as they receive our Eucharistic Lord for the very first time. Come in dress uniform. We will create another beautiful TGSA tradition on this day!
- Park Field Day (as promised for the FEED the NEED grand prize) will be on Thursday, May 18. This day is Ascension Thursday and a holyday of obligation. We will begin our day in Holy Mass at 8am at St. Madeleine. Then proceed to the Claremont Park for a day of fun games and activities until 1 pm. Both TGSA and TGSHA students and families are welcome to join the fun!!
- NOTE DATE CHANGE: Spring Concert and Donor Appreciation Evening will be on Thursday, May 25. The concert will be held in the sanctuary at St.Paul’s and will begin at 6:30pm. The reception following will be a potluck dinner to share with our families and the many donors that we will honor that evening. PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE, the teachers requested more time to prepare students for this grand finale Concert!
- There will be a minimum day on May 25 to allow rest and change of clothes before the concert.
- May 26 will be the last day of classes for the Homeschool Academy. Parents make sure to enroll your children for our Fall classes. Fall 2023 class and course offerings/descriptions along with pertinent parent information available online. Registration forms will be accessible online on Tuesday, May 16 or copies available in Mrs. Gutierrez’s office.
- June 1 will be the last day of classes for the TGSA 4 day program.
- June 8 will be the Closing Day events: Mass, Eucharistic Procession and last assembly. Yearbooks and potluck reception follows the final Assembly. All TGSA and HA students and families are welcome!
https://www.sbdiocese.org/EucharisticCongress/Home.html
“What a blessed moment it will be for us to proclaim the Holy Eucharist as the center of our life in faith!”
“You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.” – Deuteronomy 13:4
Please support our corporate sponsors that generously supported the FEED the NEED project.
Raising Saints Women's Book Club
Hosted by The Good Shepherd Academy Moms
Come together in fellowship to discuss great books with fellow Catholic moms.
Third Saturday of each month.
Introducing our new Mother’s Book Club beginning Mar 18, 2023 in the school Hall 2pm
Affiliations
The Good Shepherd Academy admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.