Thursday, December 11, 2014

Weekly Parent Newsletter, December 11, 2014


                                                  All Saints Academy, St. Cloud Campus
Weekly Parent Newsletter
December 11, 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.

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

1. All Saints Academy's 5th grade will be celebrating mass at St. Joseph's Church, Waite Park - TOMORROW, Dec. 12th at 9:00 am everyone is invited to join the 5th graders and the Waite Park community at St. Joseph’s Church. Students will be bussed to St. Joseph's.  We hope many of you choose to join our 5th grade. We will also be having our regular school mass at St. Paul’s Church.

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

2. FunZone Registration Over Christmas Break – Please note that FunZone registrations for days during Christmas Break are due in today. If you haven’t gotten yours in please e-mail it now. Staffing, art projects and activities are based on the number of children signed-up. It is very important we receive your registration by the deadline.

3. Christmas Program – The K-6th grade Christmas Program will be held on Tuesday, December 16th at 6pm in St. Paul’s Church. Please mark your calendars.

4. Band Concert  - The Band Concert will be held on Sunday, Dec. 14th at 3:00 pm.  It will be held at Holy Angels at Cathedral High School.  All are welcome to attend and enjoy the Christmas music.

5. Christmas Family Project - As a school, we have “adopted” 4 families in need of assistance and we want to reach out to them during the Advent season with gifts and household items.  Most of these 8 families live right here among us -- in our own neighborhoods -- and this is one of the ways that our school tries to live out its mission to be of service.   We have our Giving Tree set up in the school entryway with ornaments on the trees.  Each ornament will name an item desired by one of the families.  Anyone wishing to purchase that item should sign their name on the master list and take the ornament.  After purchasing the item, please attach the ornament to the item and return it to school.  We ask that you do not wrap the item.  You may use gift bags or send wrapping paper along.  Bring your items to school by 8:00 am on Dec. 16th. 

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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!

11. 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.
    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.

12. Recess Volunteers – We are greatly in need of parent volunteers now that the weather is getting colder. Please contact the office to let us know when you will be available. Two parents are needed each day.
          Monday, 12/15: French, Cordie
          Tuesday, 12/16: O’Hara, Schroeder
          Wednesday, 12/17: Bendinelli, Horn, Schultz
          Thursday, 12/18: Buckentine, Schoenborn
          Friday, 12/19: Schoenborn, 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.

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

Calendar Dates 
Dec. 8-12: Prospective Kindergarten Week
Dec. 16: St. Cloud Campus Christmas Program, K – 6th grade
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

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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