Marathon Donation Link
This is an easy way to collect donations for your childl
Send out the link to family and friends and the money will start to come in. 

Donors fill out the form and will be asked before logging out which child to apply their donation to for the marathon goals. Your child will get the credit towards their goal amount.

https://saintwenceslaus.ejoinme.org/Wildcat2021

SWS Parent Association 
1st Meeting in Tuesday, Sept  7 at 6:00 in the staff workroom by the office.

We are looking for some more parents to become a part of the School Parent Association. Frist meeting is Sept. 7.

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

Parent Information Nights
Join in a Google Meet with your child’s teacher next week. An invitation will be coming to your email.

We are spreading out the schedule in 30 minutes meetings on Monday and Tuesday evening. Each class of parents will meet with the teacher/teachers of that grade.

Teachers will talk about the following things.
Ways to communicate with the teacher.
Homework and grades
Expectations
Rewards and discipline
Special events
Field trips
Routines
Q and A

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

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 is also good 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 parent’s 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’s – 8th,15th, 22nd
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