School Staff Appreciation Week is this week

This week will be filled with special treats from our School Parent Association to our staff.

This is a great time to teach your children to appreciate their teachers and other school staff members.

Have them write a thank you note to the people who work with them, say some prayers in the evening for our school staff, or tell them to come to school one day and personally thank a staff member with kind words.

NWEA Spring Testing

Final standardized testing takes place this week.

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 for testing week.

Testing results help our teachers know if they  are on target with our curriculum so it is good when students give us their best effort.

 Financial Assistance

Your applications are still being processed and you will be notified if you qualify for a discount. Please wait to get an email or a letter directly from Kim Doyle telling you of your status.

We had many more people apply this year than usual. Since this program is for families with the greatest financial need, we are looking very carefullly to help those who qualify.

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.

Please turn in your sold Pot-o-Gold Ticket stub with the $100 payment 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.

For the Love of Family

This week’s challenge:

Give each family member a super-sour gum ball to take home. At home, ask them to think about something they said recently that they wish they could take back. As they remember those words, have them chew the puckery gum and think about the sour effect of harsh words. Challenge family members to see how many days they can each guard their mouths and ensure that everything they say is true, kind, and necessary.

Regional Science Fair Winners
Congratualtions to Mabel Barten and Charlotte Jirik, 5th graders from SWS. They entered their science fair projects into the MN Regional Competition at MSU in Mankato and each came home with a purple first place ribbon

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. Setting up early helps you spread your payments out over more months.