Thursday, December 18, 2014

Weekly Parent Newsletter,December 18, 2014

All Saints Academy, St. Cloud Campus

Weekly Parent Newsletter
December 18, 2014

Every Thursday school is in session you will be receiving a link to the “Weekly Parent Newsletter”. Please read carefully. This will contain All Saints Academy, St. Cloud news for you and your family.

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

There will be no Weekly Parent Newsletter on December 25, 2014 and January 1, 2015 due to the Christmas Break.

1. Support Place of Hope - 6th grade is taking up a collection at our mass TOMORROW, Dec. 19th, for Place of Hope. We encourage parents to help their child earn some change by helping out at home.  Anyone wishing to write a check, may write it directly to Place of Hope.  After mass the 6th graders and their teachers will be heading to Place of Hope to volunteer for the day and it would be nice if the school community could show their support for the homeless and those in need in our community through this effort.

All Saints Academy thanks our “Pearl of Wisdom” Sponsors. 
Today we’d like to thank Michelle Kenric Hair and Spa for helping to make progress like this within our programming and curriculum.

2. FunZone Registration Over Christmas Break – If you find you are in need of care for your child over Christmas Break, or your child just needs some time away from home with school friends, please feel free to contact FunZone at 320-237-2463 or at sc.funzone@allsaintsmn.org. We cannot guarantee a spot will be available, but you are welcome to contact us about a spot for the following days: Dec. 22, 23, 29, 30, 31.

3. All Saints Academy Behavioral Policies -  At All Saints Academy, we’ve been working to add some additional tools to our behavior policies: the Behavior Framework, Saintly Behavior notice, and Behavior Reflection. These tools will be put to use when faculty, staff, and students return from Christmas break.
Our goal is to interrupt and discourage unacceptable behavior and just as importantly, recognize and celebrate positive behavior.
There are two pieces that you could potentially see coming home: the blue slip for "Saintly Behavior”, and the pink slip for the "Behavior Reflection".
Teachers and staff will be working together to encourage and recognize positive behavior. As students make positive choices, teachers will give out the blue "Saintly Behavior" slip.
The pink "Behavior Reflection" will be given out to those children who are not displaying the attitudes and behaviors expected of students here at All Saints Academy. Parents are required to sign and return the "Behavior Reflection" to school. 
On the back of each pink and blue slip you can find the All Saints Academy Behavior Framework and the list of expected attitudes and behaviors. Teachers and staff will circle/highlight the attitudes and behaviors for each incident.
Please review the material and contact me with any questions you may have.

4. The Yearbook Needs Your Help – The yearbook committee would like Fall and Winter sports team pictures for the yearbook. If you have submissions please e-mail them to Mary Orth at mary.orth@allsaintsmn.org.

5. Lost & Found - Are you missing any sweatshirts or jackets? How about a pair of mittens or a hat? Please come visit our Lost & Found bin and table in the hall just outside the office. We have a lot of things that are unclaimed by our students which have been gathered in our lunchroom, playground, gym and hallway. Please take a minute and look through the items we have.

6. Lunch Schedule – Recess is after lunch now. Please note that the times for Kindergarten and 2nd grade have switched. The times below are correct. The lunch schedule is as follows:
      11:00 – 5th grade
      11:05 – 6th grade
      11:10 – 4TH grade
      11:20 – 1st grade
      11:25 – 2nd grade
      11:30 – Kindergarten
      11:35  - 3rd grade
*Please note that parents volunteering for recess should check-in at the office and then meet with Mary O’Hara in the lunchroom at 11:15am. Recess ends at 12:15pm.

7. Spiritwear Sale - We hope many of you took advantage of our online store for ASA spiritwear.  If you missed the ordering window, we have a few items for sale in the office.  You are welcome to come shopping in the main office. Every Wednesday is Spiritwear Day and we invite students, staff and adults to wear their spiritwear on Wednesdays.

8. St. Peter's Dinner Theater Children's Chorus Members Needed - We are looking for children grades K-7 to be part of our children's chorus for our production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on February 13th and 14th.  Chorus members would practice once a week with additional practices the week prior to the performance.  The tentative practice day and time would be Sundays 11:45-12:45 unless we find that most of the children are unable to attend then.  For more information contact Meaghan Baynes (meaghan.baynes@gmail.com) or Joyce Baumann (baumannjteacher@yahoo.com).  Come join in the fun of Joseph!

9. Bulletin Board
    All Saints Academy has recently developed a new way to keep all parent/child contact information up-to-date and accessible to all teachers and office personnel. In order to ensure we have proper contact info for you, if you have any changes in address, phone (including home, cell and work), e-mail or names please send these changes to anna.barzeyrobinson@allsaintsmn.org. It would be helpful if you have had any recent changes that you believe were already given to us, to resubmit them to me so I can be sure it is updated.
    Tech Youth Wrestling Club for K-6th Grade begins November 18th at 6pm for grades K-2 and 7pm for grades 3-6. Please see the office for a flyer.
    St. Cloud Area Youth Basketball begins January 10, 2015 for grades 1-8. Please see the school office for a flyer.
    Birthday Treats – If your child will be sharing a birthday treat with his/her class this year, we encourage you to be health conscious and peanut/tree nut safe when sending these treats to school. Some healthy snack ideas include grain products (crackers, pretzels, cereal bars), fruit, vegetables, milk products (cheese, yogurt, pudding) or meat/protein (sunflower seeds and cold cuts). If you have questions regarding allergies of students in your child’s class, please contact the teacher or Mrs. Gjerde.
    Sign Up for REMIND - The St. Cloud Campus would like to invite parents/guardians to sign up for REMIND.  REMIND is a safe, free and easy way we can connect with parents through texting.  It allows us to communicate with all parents instantly.  Signing up is done through a unique code to Mrs. Bristow.  Please text to 612-260-4578 and in the message enter @ef392.  It is that easy.  You will be added on to the parent list.
    Write or email your letter to Santa and help make wishes come true. Bring a stamped letter to Macy’s addressed to Santa at the North Pole, and drop it into their special letterbox, or create and send your letter online at macys.com/believe and Macys will donate $1 each to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

10. Recess Volunteers – We are greatly in need of parent volunteers now that winter is here. Please contact the office to let us know when you will be available. Two parents are needed each day.
          Monday, 1/5: Downing, Czeck
          Tuesday, 1/6: Schoenborn, Schroeder
          Wednesday, 1/7: Layne, we need another parent here
          Thursday, 1/8: Ellingson, Swanson
          Friday, 1/9: Kedrowski, we need another parent here
          Monday, 1/12: we need two parents here
          Tuesday, 1/13: Terhaar, Schroeder
          Wednesday, 1/14: we need two parents here
          Thursday, 1/15: Ellingson, Kedrowski
          Friday, 1/16: Janzen, we need another parent here
*Please note that parents volunteering for recess should check-in at the office and then meet with Mary O’Hara in the lunchroom at 11:15am. Recess ends at 12:15pm.

11. Thank You – 
…to all the families who have donated gifts to the Christmas Family Project.

Calendar Dates 
Dec. 19: Christmas Vacation Begins, Regular Dismissal
Jan.   5: School Resumes, Full Day of Classes
Jan. 19: Martin Luther King Day, Retreat Day for Staff
Jan. 20: SCAPA Workshop Day for staff
Jan. 22: Open House for 2015-2016
Jan 25 -30: Catholic Schools Week

Our Mission
… is to deliver an academically excellent, Catholic education that develops the whole person and inspires a Christ-centered life in a global community.
This parent weekly update is published each Thursday school is in session.  Anyone with questions, comments or articles they wish to be considered for inclusion should send an e-mail to Anna Barzey-Robinson at anna.barzeyrobinson@allsaintsmn.org no later than Monday, 3 PM for that week’s update or drop it off at school.

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