Note-to-School Notepads Available

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Rushing out the door in the morning?  No paper handy to send a note into school?  The HSA has got you covered! This year the HSA is once again offering Note-to-School Notepads to help make life so much easier for you, your child’s teacher, and the office staff!  Purchase a notepad and always have a quick and easy way to send a note to school.  

 The notepads cost $5.00 each and are printed on blue paper to make notes easily visible in your child’s take-home folder.  Notepads will be for sale all year long.  You can order one (or more) by sending payment into the school office or stopping in at arrival/dismissal.  If sending in payment please indicate your child’s name and homeroom so your notepad(s) can be sent home with your child.

 

Scholastic Book Fair: Parent/Grandparent Volunteers Still Needed

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The HSA will be hosting the annual Scholastic Book Fair from Monday, October 2 through Thursday, October 5.  Proceeds from the book fair (up to 50% of your purchase!) go towards funding new books and equipment for the classrooms and the school library.

Volunteers are needed to help set-up/clean-up the book fair and to work at the fair by helping students make selections and serving as cashiers.  Please note that in order to volunteer you must have completed VIRTUS training and a Background Check. 

If you are able to help, please click HERE to access the Volunteer Sign Up Genius.  Any questions can be directed to Alicia Poth (aliciapoth@gmail.com).

Any time you can give would be appreciated to help us make this year’s book fair another huge success.  Thank you!

Arrival & Dismissal Reminders

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Thank you to all our families for helping us get off to a safe start to the school year with regards to morning arrival and dismissal.  A couple of quick reminders (please share with everyone who drops off/picks up your child as these are things we noticed in the past couple of weeks):

* Do not park in front of/block our neighbor’s driveways under any circumstances;

* Remember the front of the school is for Drop and Go only from 7:30am – 7:50am (parents/guardians must remain in the car in this area);

* Students should exit the car onto the sidewalk side of the street only.  Park Street is extremely busy in the mornings, please do not let your child hop out into the street.

* When driving on Park/Otis pay attention to the crossing guards at all times and do not turn onto Otis Street when the crossing guard is standing in the road.

* Please cross with the Crossing Guard (do not run your student across Park Street).

The safety of our students, parents, and staff is our top priority.  Please communicate this information to other members of your family that help with transportation.

Cherrydale Ticket Turn-in Tomorrow

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Tomorrow – Friday, 9/15 –  is the second “Ticket Turn-In Day” for the Cherrydale Fundraiser.  Students who have achieved additional tickets during the past week (or those who forgot them last Friday) should bring any applicable tickets (signed by the parent/guardian) to school tomorrow in a baggie or envelope.  Please be sure to label that with your child’s name.

St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish Presents: Discovering Christ

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Discovering Christ is a seven-week experience where anyone and everyone is invited to enter into or renew a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, experience the love of God the Father, and be empowered by the Holy Spirit to live as God’s children.  More information can be found in THIS FLYER.

CHET Dream Big Scholarship

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For anyone interested, below is a scholarship opportunity from CHET – The Connecticut Higher Education Trust 529 College Savings Program.  We had a couple of student winners from SJS last year AND our school was selected to win a bunch of technology equipment!

Here is a link to the contest information:  https://www.fidelity.com/about-chet/dream-big-competition

Participants are asked to submit an entry based on specific grade-level topics. Students can submit an original essay, video or artwork (painting/drawing or illustration):

K-4th grade: What is something you could do to make your community or neighborhood better?

5th-8th grade: What is something you could do to help make the lives of others better?

3 Grand Prize winners receive $20,000 (one student from each age group), 24 winners receive $6,000 (eight students per age group), 336 winners receive $500 (112 students per age group), and 10 randomly selected participating schools will win $7,500 in tech equipment

MAP Testing Starts Tomorrow

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Please note that SJS 3rd – 8th grade students will take the first round of MAP Adaptive Assessments first thing in the morning tomorrow – Tuesday, September 12th.  Testing will also occur on Tuesday, September 19th and Tuesday, September 26th.

Please pay particular attention to ensuring your child/ren get to bed on time the evening before each testing day and that they have a nutritious breakfast each morning.  Also, it is important that students get to school on time each day as testing will begin right after morning announcements.

Any student coming in tardy on a testing day will have to wait in the office until the testing period is over and will have to make up that test at another time.

For middle school students – please make sure your child comes to school with their Chromebook fully charged tomorrow!!

For families new to SJS this year and/or our 3rd grade parents (who may have disregarded this last year) here is the information that went out last year about MAP testing:

Parent Letter from the Superintendent

Additional Information – MAP Assessments

Hot Lunch Notice

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For K-8 families:  You may have noticed that our Hot Lunch Menu for September listed a Cereal Meal under the “alternative lunch options.”  Please note that the cereal meal is NOT going to be offered going forward – instead a Tortilla Meal option will be provided in addition to the Bagel Plate option.

XC Practice Tomorrow

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As a reminder, there is Cross Country practice after school tomorrow (Tuesday) and again on Thursday this week.  Please ensure runners come to school with running clothes/sneakers and a water bottle.

Instrumental Music

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As a reminder, Mr. Corcoran will hold a parent meeting this evening – Monday, September 11th – for any grade 4 – 8 parents whose student(s) are interested in joining the SJS band for the first time this year.