Registration for all Religious Education programs and Sacramental Prep programs

for grades K-8 for the 26-27 school year.

Open Registration for new families will be June 1st from 4:30-6:30 pm

Religious Education Programs Kindergarten- 8th Grade

Parents are the first and most important teachers and examples of our Catholic beliefs and so we are counting on you to be involved in your child’s faith formation.

Religious Education begins when a child enters the 1st grade and continues through Confirmation.

Continuous participation in religious education classes through and beyond the sacrament years will nourish their spiritual growth in our faith.

Children who are finishing Kindergarten this year should enroll for the 26-27 school year.

Classroom Program

Space is limited

Grades 1-6

Pick a Day

Monday or Tuesday

  • September- April – Once a week, a total of 17 meetings (we follow the Utica community Schools calendar regarding days off for holiday breaks.)
  • 5:00-6:30 pm
  • Family Enrichment programs for the entire family throughout the school year. We will schedule them on Monday nights from 5-6:30pm and no class will be held.

Classes starts the week of September 28th , 2026

& ends mid April, 2027

Home-Based Family Program

Grades K- 6

Great opportunity to share your faith with your children at your own pace and on your own schedule.

  • Monthly turn in dates for work completed.(October-April)
  • Each child receives a grade-specific workbook and a syllabus. 
  • Link to online help for each chapter.
  • Work with your child to focus on Bible stories and vocabulary words.
  • Family Enrichment programs for the entire family throughout the school year. They will be on Monday nights from 5-6:30pm.

Books will be picked up at a later date.

For information or questions about our Kindergarten through 6th grade program email Michelle Kustarz mkustarz@sjvshelby.org

We follow the Utica Community School calendar regarding days for holiday breaks, so when they do not have class we do not.

In person Program

7th grade and up

Confirmation is a 2 year program to help prepare your child with the knowledge of the Catholic faith and how they can live out their faith in their daily lives. 

Which program do I register for?

  • You will register for year ONE if…
    • Your child is in 7th grade.
    • Your child is in 8th grade and has not completed Year One.
  • You will register for year TWO if…
    • You have completed year one of the confirmation prep. 
    • Your child completed 7th grade religious ed in another parish. 

Year ONE Students: 

  • Confirmation students are in person only. We do not offer a home study program for the Confirmation program. 
  • Year 1 is run from September-May. 
  • From September -January students will meet weekly on Monday or Tuesday.
    • Students will choose either:
      • Monday from 5-6:30 or Tuesday from 7-8:30.
    • Once they choose a day, that will be their day from September-January. 
  • From February-May we will have a once a month parent/student night.
    • If you have a child in year 1 and in year 2, these meetings will be the same meeting, meaning you can attend the parent/student night with both of your children, the one in year 1 and the one in year 2. 
    • The day is yet TBD for the parent/student night but we will offer two options to attend. 

Year TWO Students: 

  • Confirmation students are in person only. We do not offer a home study program for the Confirmation program. 
  • Year 2 is run from September-May. 
  • From September-January students will meet weekly on Monday or Tuesday.
    • Students will choose either :
      • Monday from 7-8:30 or Tuesday from 5-6:30.
    • Once they choose a day, that will be their day from September-January. 
  • From February-May we will have a once a month parent/student night.
    • If you have a child in year 1 and in year 2, these meetings will be the same meeting, meaning you can attend the parent/student night with both of your children, the one in year 1 and the one in year 2. 
    • The day is yet TBD for the parent/student night but we will offer two options to attend. 
  • April/May Students will attend a Confirmation retreat.
  • May-August students work on their a Red confirmation journals at home. 
  • They will make their Confirmation in the Fall of 2027

For information or questions about our Grade 7/8 program email Carly Fleury at cfleury@sjvshelby.org

Shine Program (Special Needs)

For those children who are unable to learn with a traditional structured curriculum and have received a special needs diagnosis, we offer an “adaptive curriculum” for Religious Education as well as sacramental prep.  Please email Michelle Kustarz.

For information about our Religious Ed program,

email Michelle Kustarz at mkustarz@sjvshelby.org