Parent Information Nights – This week!

Monday PM meetings, Sept 13
6:00 ­ Preschool
6:30 ­ Grade 3
7:00 ­ Grade 6
7:30 ­ Grade 4
8:00 ­ Grades 7 and 8
8:30 ­ Grade 8 stay on for confirmation and DC info

Tuesday PM meetings, Sept 14
6:00 Grade 1 – Dalsin
6:30 ­ Kindergarten
7:00 ­ Grade  1 – Fahey
7:30 ­ Grade 2
8:00 ­ Grade 5

 Google Meet Links were sent out on Friday

Marathon Donation Link

Easy for obtaining donations from friends and family.

https://saintwenceslaus.ejoinme.org/Wildcat2021

Masks on busses
If your student rides the bus – please send a mask or have them keep one in their backpack. We are giving too many masks out each day for bus riders!

Also we notice the minute 99% of the kids sit down on the bus they remove their mask. We have no control over this behavior as we see the bus drive away so we ask you to please talk to your own child about this expectation.

Birthday treats
Birthday treats must be individually sealed and each individually sealed item is further sealed inside of a larger box or bag. – Example box of fruit snacks that is sealed and inside the box are 12 sealed packets. This is so teachers can easily handle treats and serve with sanitized hands. Students may not distribute snacks.

No boxes of bakery donuts, cookies, or cupcakes, please.

What is the difference for instruction and homework?

Covid illness or forced quarantine: The school will follow one of the plans outlined in our safety plan for instructions and homework.

Child ill with other aliment: Homework given upon return to school due one day late for each day ill.

Vacation: No work given ahead of time unless the teacher initiates. Work is given upon return and due one day for each school day gone, no distance learning provided. Parents – please do not ask or expect a teacher to provide work to your child for vacation periods. This is excessive work for the teacher in most cases.

SWS Parent Association 

All parents are welcome to be a part of the School Parent Association!

This group works to help make our school a great place by bringing joy to the staff and the students with programs, incentives, and recognitions. The group is also there to help where needed throughout the school year.

We meet monthly. This is a great way to meet new people and to become an involved member of our school community. We would LOVE to have you join us.

Contact
lisa.langfield@swsaints.org
kim.doyle@swsaints.org

Wanted: Person with a truck to pull trailer
We need a new parent or two to commit to driving the empty pop cans to Mankato Recycling Center. This takes place once each month or two.

Clarence and Joannie Tupy have been doing this task for many years and want to pass on the information for the next generation to collect and recycle the cans. A very special thanks to Clarence and Joannie!

Our school has a pop can recycling trailer in the back parking lot. We make money for the school with the project and it’s great for the environment.

Wanted:  Fleece cutting Moms or Dads!
The school was given a room full of fleece as a donation. We want to turn this fleece into blankets to give to the elderly and poor this winter. 

Kim is organizing parents who are able to spend time cutting fleece so the children can tie it. We want each child to make a blanket so we will be cutting 200 plus fleece blankets getting them ready for the next step.

Ideally parents can work in pairs or teams to lay out the fleece and cut it.  You can choose the best time to work each week – but we know that on Friday AM the gym will be open and we can set up working tables.

Contact Kim if you are able to cut fleece. State the best time or day for you to come in and she will set up teams of fleeece cutters! All you need to bring is a sharp sissors to cut fabric.

kim.doyle@swsaints.org

School Mass – Most Wednesday’s at 8:00 AM

We welcome all school parents to join us for our weekly liturgical celebrations. Students will sit with their classmates and teachers.  Parents are welcome to take a spot behind the students towards the back of the church.

Please do not sit up front or intermix with the students – even if your child is doing a reading or singing.  The classes have assigned spots.

Catholics that have previously received communion in the celebration/sacrament of First Communion can receive Holy Communion during the Mass.

All younger students and anyone non-Catholic is welcome to approach the front at the distribution of Communion and receive a blessing – To do this, place your arms in a cross on your chest. This will indicate to the minister that you will get a blessing.

Mass in September:

Wednesday, Sept. 15
Wednesday, Sept. 22
Tuesday, Sept. 28 – Feast of St. Wenceslaus

Saintly Service
This year St. Wenceslaus School staff members are excited to incorporate the example of seven saints into the ways we interact with students, parents, and each other – through Saintly Service: Wisdom for Growing Catholic Community. This is philosophy that our school already embraces, but one that we want to be especially intentional about welcoming and embracing others.  We are looking for a great year of building community!

Thanks to the Catholic School Center of Excellence, we’re uniting with other Catholic schools and putting words and faces to our traditions and practices by using the following saints and their charisms as guiding examples in our relationship-building:

St. Benedict – Offer incredible hospitality

St. Teresa of Calcutta – Be assertively friendly

St. Ignatius – Assume positive intent

St. Therese of Lisieux – Pay attention to the little things

St. John XXIII – Foster a culture of joy

St. Joan of Arc – Take action and initiative

St. Francis – Be the change you wish to see