For the Love of Family

This week’s challenge:

Ask families to discuss the areas in their lives where they’re most struggling—perhaps school, a friendship, or doing chores. During the week, families can symbolically or physically visit the location where each person is struggling and pray for the person and situation. If it’s possible, make a prayer walk or visit to the location. If not, use an item in the home, such as a friend’s photograph or a textbook, as a prayer prompt.

Spring Concert and Living Rosary- K-8 families

Our spring concert will take place on Thursday, May 4.
Here is the schedule, in case you want to tell your family and make plans.

Guest Morning – Invite a guest.

9:00 AM – Living Rosary in the church. (Students can sit with guests to pray) Students should bring a Rosary to school if they have one.

9:30-10:00 AM – Guests go to the gym. Students go to their classrooms.

10:00 AM –  Morning Concert for guests in gym.

6:30 PM – Evening Concert for parents and other family in gym.

Special Guest Day for – PreK families
Friday, May 5
Students get dropped off as usual in the classrooms by 9:00 am.
Guests arrive and go directly to the gym at 10:30 AM.
(The back parking lot doors will be open to you at 10:20 so you can park in the back and enter there.)
Activities for guest and preschoolers 10:30-11:30 AM

Students can remain in school for the remainder of their normal day or go home at 11:30 with their special guests.

Uniform Survey for Parents in Grades 5-7.
A link has been sent to the 5-7 grade parents.
We appreciate your opinion.

We will be switching to a standard uniform for the students in grades 7 and 8 for a minimum of one day per week (Mass days and other special occasions) with the possibility of adding more days per week based on survey results.

Grades 7/8 uniforms will be chosen to be comfortable for students this age. The style and color will be determined.

Currently our uniform policy does have an option for grades 7 and 8 on special days and occassions. You may see this in the parent handbook, located on our website. We are revising the 7th/8th portion only. Grades K-6 will remain the same.

Final Call for Coins for our Lenten collection
All of the coins will be donated to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. 

Please turn in your sold Pot-o-Gold Ticket stub with the $100 raffle ticket cost asap.

Pot-o-Gold raffle for $20,000 prize.
Each family was given one $100 ticket
Drawing on June 9.
We have 650 to sell in total.

We still have more tickets in the office to sell.
Call or stop in if you can sell an additional ticket.

Volunteer Requirement
Most of our school families are all set!  Thank you so much for volunteeering this year. We cannot manage to do all of the amazing events without a great volunteer crew. Your help and involvement continues to be greatly appreciated.

Those who were unable to help out or have selected to opt out, will see the buy out assessment on your TADS account in the next few weeks. If you find this assessment in error, please contact our school office.

NWEA Spring Testing

Final standardized testing to see your child’s progress this year will take place during the last week of April. Tests consist of one session in math and reading with an additional session in language for students in grades 3 and above.  Each session takes approximately 45 minutes. Teachers will inform you of the specific days and times as we get closer to the testing week.

Set up your TADS account for 2023-2024
You need to set up your payment plan for the following school year (2023-24).   See the email from TADS  instructing you to set this up. We give it to you early so you can spread payments out for a full 12 months.

Financial Assistance
If you have applied to TADS for Financial Assistance, please be patient. You will be notified in early May. If you still are going to apply, please do this by April 15.