Travel with your family for Spring Break (or other time)

Travel outside the USA – student needs to do a 14 day quarantine and have proof of negative Covid test before coming back to school. CDC Executive Orders are followed.

Travel outside of Minnesota – Discouraged –  However, if this does take place, you need to contact the prinicpal and work out a plan for safe return to school. MN guidelines are followed. Families are asked to make prudent decisions about where they travel and by what mode. Families should assess the risk of exposure while on the the trip. Possible quarantine and negative covid tests may be required. Test five days after returning with a virual PCR test not a rapid antigen test. Students must have zero symptoms to return to school after travel.

If parents travel alone leaving kids at home, this does not affect school attendance decisions unless the parent has been exposed to a positive person, has any symptoms, or has tested positive for the virus. For these situations, the parent must have a negative PCR test – following the MDH Decision Tree.

Mask Check!

Once again this is a good time to remind everyone to do a mask check of their kids.  As the kids grow – some of their masks are getting too small – especially seen in grades 3-7.  Some kids need to move away from a child size and wear an adult size – just shorten the ear ties.  Noses must be covered and the sides must not bow out fitting snuggly to the sides of the face. If their nose pokes out or over the top of the mask when talking, then the mask is not the correct size.

Masks must be two ply fabric with straps that go behind the ears covering the full mouth and nose. This is what we have in our safety plan.

Bandanas and gaiters on airplanes are not accepted but some kids need this accomodation in school. If your child has been allowed the accomodation of a gaiter – please make sure they are made of 2-ply fabric –  and please check their posture.  We see some kids with gaiters walking with their neck out forward like turtles to keep it on/up – shoulders bent inward, backs hunched over, and neck extended forward – this really cannot be healthy for growing kids!

The State of Minnesota has given all students in K-8 another new mask. We have these in the office and we will be distributing them to the students this week, so you know when you see the new mask coming in a backpack.

Remember to wash the mask everyday – and each student needs a back-up mask. Neck lanyards help so much as well to keep track of masks.

Paper masks are given out to any child who needs one at any point during the day. We also have a limited supply of shields. You are welcome to have your child wear a shield in addition to a mask if you would like the added protection but not instead of a mask.

SWS will continue to follow MDH/CDC and Archdiocese guidlines for masking at this point

So ——— When can we dail back a bit ?

As time moves forward and as we find that the covid positive cases are lower in our community and the number of people getting immunizations are higher, then we can slowly makes changes in school.

1. Within the next few weeks we will include some singing to be added back into some of our music classes.  We can do this safely with the children.  We may also include some student led singing at our Wednesday Masses.

2. Coming up towards the end of March or after spring break, we will make a few of our clusters larger, allowing various classes to play with each other on the playground and/or participate at various points throughout the day where they can be more social.

Covid Update as of 2/15/21
Number of positive staff cases = 0
Number of positive student cases = 0
Number of staff quarantined = 0
Number of students quarantined = 1

 Summer Preschool and Summer Club House
(For preschool and grades K-5)

Preschool – Mixed class of 3-5 year old children. Open 7:00-5:00 with academics 9:00-3:00 (same as school year)

Club House – Open for Kindergarten – Grade 5 students
7:00-5:30

Registration forms are now available on the school website.

Starry Night Class Baskets

Buy an item or two for each of your children’s grades. We combine all into some fabulous baskets to bid on.

2021 Class Basket Themes
Pre-K:  Get Ready for Summer!
Kindergarten:  Favorite Toys – Magnatiles/ Legos & LOL
1st grade: Favorite Toys: Nerf & Calico Critters & Hatchimals
2nd grade: BBQ/ Grillers Delight
3rd: Cupcake Fun & Chocolate Bombs
4th: Blossoms, Bees & Birds(gardening & Birds)
5th: Family Night In
6th: Outdoor Adventure (camping)
7th: Trojan Gear
8th: NP Strong (Small gift cards and merchandise from local businesses.  Purchased by parents not donations from the businesses)

Thank you for helping to make “A Starry Night 2021” successful.

Pot-O-Gold Tickets are now being sold.
Here is your chance to win $20,000 in cash!

Tickets are $100 each and only 650 will be sold.  
Drawing will be at our summer golf event on June 11.
1 = $20,000
4 = $1000
2 = $500
Total of $25,000 cash prizes

We appreciate if each family would consider buying 1 ticket!  Send a check in and we will send your stub home.

Can you help sell 3-5 tickets?  We will not send blank tickets home with the children.
Contact sherry.hartman@swsaints.org to arrage to pick up tickets.

Reminder for Fundraising and Volunteering

Required fundraisers for families (3 required):
Marathon, Sweepstakes, Fish Fry

Required volunteer activities (2 shifts or 2 events required):
Fish fry, Starry Night, Golf tournament

All other fundraisers are necessary but not required. We appreciate all participation and hope most join in.

All other volunteer activities are greatly appreciated. This year those opportunities are very limited.

Enrollment for students in Grades 1-8 for next fall.

We will have an automatic re-enrollment again this year.

The registration fee is required and will be automatically charged to your TADS account on March 1st.  Registration fees are $50 per student.

We will assume your child/ren is/are returning to SWS in the fall unless you make arrangements directly with Kim Doyle. Please contact Kim before March 1 to work out any details. kim.doyle@swsaints.org