Benefit Fundraiser for Andy Dalsin (Graduate from SWS who was seriously injured with a spinal injury causing paralysis)

Please come out to support Andy. His needs are significant, and your support will make a huge difference in helping with the expenses of his recovery and adjustments to his new normal.

Saturday, November 11
6:00-11:00 PM
Silent Auction and cash raffle
End Zone Bar and Grill in Elko

Drop off and pick up line etiquette for parents/others in cars

There are some safety issues to note.  (Please share this if you have grandparents or other persons picking up your child by car)

1. Pull up straight in line in the driving zone, leaving the parking lot against the school open for kids to get out and reach the sidewalk. – do not pull into the parking area in that location.  At the beginning of the year, we used orange cones to guide you. We are trying to get away with not using the cones, but people need to follow the same rules.

2. All kids should get out and enter cars on the school side only.

3. If you have to get out of your car to let the child out or into your car, then you should park in the outer lot, and the child should cross with the teacher’s crossing guard. The drop-off/pick-up car line is for quick-action cars. Some kids are slow – you should park and wait for them and not go through the car line.

4. Kids must enter and exit cars directly in front of the school – not while your car is down in the driveway or by the parish garage.

5.  BIGGEST PROBLEM – DO NOT TRY TO BYPASS CARS WAITING IN LINE. Those who do this cause a very dangerous situation for walking children and for potential crashing of cars. Please count to 60 before getting too hyper and wanting to pass up the cars in front of you.

6. Please inform the grandparents and others who pick up! We have seen kids dangerously cross in front of traffic to get to the waving arm of the grandpa or grandma. Once they start running, we cannot stop them.

Bus Behavior

We recently viewed videos of the SWS students riding the bus from our school to the middle school. This is a 5-minute ride to their take-home bus.

The SWS students are misbehaving, and it is dangerous. Please talk to your child about staying seated, not yelling, not pushing, and having safe behavior. They know what to do!

We will also be dealing with the kids seen in the few videos viewed, but we cannot view videos every day. We will start to do spot checks for behavior.

Food Shelf Collections

Let’s fill the food shelf for Thanksgiving.  We will do an all-school food collection on Wednesday, November 15. Every student is asked to bring a few items in a grocery bag to take to the food shelf.  NO glass, please!

Cans of fruit and vegetables
Boxes of dinners and cereals
Plastic bottles of condiments, syrup, ketchup, etc.
Paper products such as tissue and toilet paper, paper plates, paper cups, and so on.
Spices, and kitchen staples such as flour or sugar.
Boxes of cake and canned frosting or other dessert mixes.
Personal hygiene products, soaps, shampoos, and the like.
Cleaning products for the home, such as dish soap and laundry soap.

You can send your bag of items to school early. Each child will carry their own items up to the altar at the Mass. on the 15th.

Basketball Referees are needed.

Male or female – if you know basketball, we need you. Our boys team of grades 4-7 will have 6-8 home games beginning on 12/5. All games start at 4:00 or 4:30 PM.

We need a ref to play. Open to high school or college students, parents, grandparents, or any relative/neighbor. You do not need to be a professional. Our games are simple and are learning experiences for our players.  

Those parents with younger students at SWS – please consider!

Sick Kids
Please make good decisions about sending kids to school when they are not feeling 100% well.  The school prefers kids to stay home when they have anything that spreads to others.

Covid and the flu are here. These viruses warrant a bit longer out of school. For other illnesses, a day or two at home resting will help the children and the teachers stay healthy.  If your child has a bad cough, is very congested, and has symptoms – STAY HOME until these are better.

Children should not be in school if they do not know how to cover their cough or blow their nose sanitarily.

Children must be fever-free without medication for at least 24 hours to come to school.

Children must not have vomited or must not have had an episode of diarrhea for 24 hours before coming to school.

If the child is sent home from school 24-hourdue to illness, they need to stay home the following day until they are significantly better and have met the 24 hour rule.

End of Day routine changes for your child
If your child has a change at the end of the day, such as going to Club House, getting picked up instead of the bus, and so on – then please contact the office by NOON.  We cannot get this message out to the teachers or children when calls are made at the end of the day during dismissal.

Preschool Lunch
Don’t forget to put lunch into your child’s lunch account if they eat the hot school lunch. You will be notified when the account gets low.

Art Room Projects – Donations wanted