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:
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11:00 –
5th grade
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11:05 –
6th grade
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11:10 –
4TH grade
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11:20 –
1st grade
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11:25 – 2nd grade
•
11:30 – Kindergarten
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
