Parent Newsletter
All Saints Academy, St. Cloud Campus
September 26, 2019
There will be no bussing available on Friday, September 27 th . District 742 is not in session. Please make sure to make arrangements for transportation for your children.
There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, September 30 th . All Catholic schools staff will be attending Diocesan Ministry Day.
Grandparents Day is Tomorrow
Grandparents’/Special Friend Day is tomorrow, Friday, September 27th. We love having our grandparents here! The day will begin with hospitality in the gym with refreshments beginning at 12:00 pm followed by classroom time. At 12:30 pm, grandparents go the classrooms of their grandchildren for classroom activities. Afterwards, we will celebrate mass as a community. Refer to the invitation in this week’s Thursday’s folder. We hope your child’s grandparents will be able to join us for this special day. Preschool Grandparents’ Day will be celebrated on Thursday, Sept. 27 th & 28 th at a special time. Please refer to your invitation.
Rocktober Fest is Here!
Join St. Joseph Catholic School for Rocktober Fest this Saturday, September 28 th from 4:00 pm – 11:00 pm in Downtown St. Joseph. (There will be a 5 pm mass at St. Joseph Church.) $10/adult entrance fee; $40 German buffet dinner, seating at 4:30 & 6:30 pm. Craft beer will be available at the outdoor beer hall as well as German fun and games. The Bavarian Muskmeisters will perform at 6 pm and Radio Nation at 9 am. Everyone is invited. Tickets and event information is available on Facebook at Rocktoberfest St. Joseph!
Dismissal Reminders
When driving to pick up your children in back of school, please remain in your vehicle when loading your children. If you are walking up to the building to pick up, please return to your vehicle safely and promptly to alleviate traffic and congestion issues. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Dismissal Procedures at 2:55 pm
K – 6 th without Preschool siblings – parents may meet their children in back of school. You may join the line of cars or park your car in the lot across 12 th Ave. N. and wait near the doors.
K – 6 th with Preschool siblings – parents may meet their preschooler and their K-6 th children by the preschool rooms.
PAC Corner
ASA Halloween Fest Update:
PAC is excited to share with you an update of this year's PAC sponsored ASA Halloween event! PAC has decided to change the event up this year to ensure we are fulfilling the mission of PAC by hosting a fun, safe and family-oriented event where all ASA families can enjoy time with other ASA families, meet new people and allow their children to interact with their school friends! With that mission in mind the event details are as follows. The event is scheduled on Friday, October 25th from 5pm-7pm at the ASA gymnasium and cafeteria. We encourage you to personally extend this invitation to your friends and/or family, but please do not share this event publicly. We'd like to keep it a bit smaller than it has been in years past so that everyone can enjoy the event. There will be food, games, prizes, a "dark hall", and lots of fun!
If you have any questions, please reach out to a PAC member, we will be happy to answer any questions you have. Don't forget costumes and fun are highly encouraged!!
PAC Meetings : Meet 1 st Wednesday of every month at ASA school starting at 6:15pm. Child care is provided during the meeting free of charge.
Join PAC : PAC is open to all ASA parents. If you’d like to become a member of PAC or want to help plan events for our school send an email to pac@allsaintsmn.org
You can help as much as your schedule allows.
PAC Dates to Remember:
*October 2 nd – Monthly Meeting
*October 10 th & 14 th – Teacher Meals during Conferences
*October 25 th – Halloween Fest
*November 6 th – Monthly Meeting
St. Peter's Sunday School:
Sunday school is open to ANY children ages 3-first grade. It takes place during the 10:00 mass on Sundays at St. Peter's church. The children sing songs, pray together, hear bible stories and do crafts. If you have any questions please contact Meaghan Baynes at meaghan.baynes@gmail.com . Registration is online through the parish website under the faith formation tab. The specific link for the Sunday School form is
Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences in October
Conferences for the first trimester of school will be held on Thursday, Oct. 10 th and Monday, Oct. 14 th from 3:45 pm – 7:00 pm both nights . Each conference is a 15 minute, scheduled appointment to meet with your child/ren's homeroom teacher. Parent(s) is/are required to be in attendance at both fall & winter conferences. We are using School Speak to sign up and organize our fall conferences. If you do not know your username/password, please contact Marissa Bristow and she will assist you. On School Speak:
1. Find your child’s homeroom page on the left side of the screen
2. Click on “Fall Conferences”
3. Choose your conference time & sign up.
Our specialist teachers will also be available for conferences on both nights. You may sign up to have a conference with those teachers as well. Music, Art & Spanish conference sign up is located in the School Group, at the bottom on the left side of the screen.
Workathon 2019 – Save the Date: October 26 th
Families will find information regarding the Workathon in next week’s Thursday folder. If you know of someone in the neighborhood that needs assistance with raking or other yard work, please complete the forms that have been provided. We will be having a kick-off with the students in October. Look for more information about the Workathon in future weeks.
5/6 Knowledge Bowl
SC Campus would like to invite 5 th and 6 th graders to be part of our Knowledge Bowl team. Knowledge Bowl (KB) is an academic competition that promotes academic achievement and rewards academic excellence. KB promotes academics and helps develop leadership skills in a fun environment. Paperwork was sent home If you have more questions about KB, please contact Ms. Mary Cheryl Opatz, 6 th grade teacher, marycheryl.opatz@allsaintsmn.org. If you are interested in volunteering/driving for Knowledge Bowl, please let Mrs. Opatz know.
Strings Program
ASA would like to invite your child if they are in grades 3-6 to consider playing a stringed instrument. ASA offers lessons at your child's school during the regular school day along with large group rehearsals and concerts. The program is very quickly reaching full capacity for the year so please contact your school secretary or myself for a sign up sheet. asteichen@cathedralcrusaders.org
Free/Reduced Hot Lunch Program
Parents, it is not too late to send in applications for free and/or reduced hot lunches. You can pick up an application at the office. If you have questions regarding this program, please contact Mrs. Bristow at 251-5295 or marissa.bristow@allsaintsmn.org .
Joy Choir
The Church of St. Paul and St. Peter is offering Joy Choir again this year to all students in grades 2-6. If your child would like to attend please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/HJ2nhaCAMqAzPi5K7 Questions, please contact Laurie Kremer at lkremer@stpetestpaul.org
Save the Date!
The All Saints Academy Extravaganza will be on Feb. 8, 2020 ! Please mark your calendars for this exciting community event. Also, if you’d like to join the planning committee, please contact the office.
2019-2020 Playground Supervision Program
Our goal is to have one volunteer parent to act as crossing guard on the playground every day to assist the school staff during the entire recess period. Recess will be 11:00 am – 12:40 pm.
Please contact the office to sign up for Playground Supervision. We need two parents (All-day Preschool - 6) everyday to assist the school staff during the entire recess/lunch period. There is a calendar in the office for your convenience or you can call Mrs. Bristow to sign up
All families need to volunteer for recess supervision 2-3 times this year for the safety of the children. (Parents of half-day preschoolers are not required to volunteer as their children do not participate in lunch recess time.) If you find your schedule doesn’t allow you to volunteer for Recess Duty, you may opt out by paying $50. (Separate charge from Volunteer Requirement. Recess hours are applied to the 15-hours/year of volunteering.) These funds are used to defray the cost of additional paid recess staff. At the end of the school year, families will be charged $50 if they haven’t volunteered for recess.
Volunteering at All Saints Academy
Volunteering at school is a wonderful opportunity to give back, share your gifts and allows you to see your children and other children in the school setting. It is also an important component to supporting the education delivered daily.
We request that each family volunteer 15 hours/year at school. This can include but not limited to the following: serving lunch, recess supervision, classroom assistance, Picture Day, playing a musical instrument at mass, copying, Thursday folders, Spring Picnic, Junior Achievement (JA), Extravaganza planning, etc.
If your day/year does not allow you to volunteer the 15-hour requirement, families pay $50 per family. Hours are tracked in our office. These funds are used to defray the costs of additional staff or overtime required of staff in the building assisting teachers and school staff daily.
Our talents and skills are meant to be cultivated and shared with others. Sharing our God-given gifts by actively participating in the life of our parish and school is an expression of stewardship. “As each one of us has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace,” 1 Peter 4:10.
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Playground Duty – Week of Sept. 23th – Oct. 4th
9/30 – No School
10/1 – Young/Piernock
10/2 – Makarrall/Stowe
10/3 – Rengel (2)
10/4 – Krueger(Fish)/Hoffmann
10/7 – Piernock/ Need one volunteer
10/8 – Need two volunteers
10/9 – Lee/ Need one volunteer
10/10 – Need two volunteers
10/11 – Hoffmann/ Need one volunteer
Bulletin Board
Thank you All Saints Academy family. The final collection amount from mass last week was $521.59. All proceeds will go towards victims of Hurricane Dorian.
Please call the office to report your child’s absence before 8 am . Also, transportation changes for your child should be made by calling the office before 1 pm. It is difficult for us to make changes to the routine after 1 pm and teachers do not have time to check email messages to make those changes throughout the day. If your child unexpectedly needs to attend FunZone, please call the office by 10 am.
Reminder about arrival and dismissal times
Students in grades K-6 should report directly to the gym when they arrive between 7:30 – 7:45 am . They will be dismissed to their classrooms at the appropriate time. Feel free to drop your child off in the gym. All students in grade K-6 must arrive no later than 7:45 am on Morning Meeting days (first day of the school week.) Preschool students should report directly to their classrooms. Dismissal for the day occurs at 2:55pm. Students will not be released before 2:55 pm.
What is School Speak?
School Speak is an online school management system. It is a secure portal that allows us to provide more information, communicate with parents and offer useful tools for everyone who is a member of our school community.
If you are new to All Saints Academy or have never logged onto School Speak, you will be receiving an introductory email. The welcome email was sent to new parents earlier in July. Due to security issues, the email will only stay in your inbox for a few days. If you need the email resent, please call the office at 251-5295.
Individuals who have used School Speak in the past will not get an email. The username & password you had last year is still the same.
We would like all parents to log in and update their profile by Sept. 15th.
REMIND!
We encourage parents/guardians to sign up for REMIND - a safe, free and easy way we can communicate with parents instantly through texting.
To sign up, text ASA Administrative Assistant Mrs. Marissa Bristow at 612-260-4578 and in the message enter @ef392 .
It is that easy. You will be added to the parent list . If you have signed up in the past, it is not necessary to sign up again.
ASA is Nut-Safe!
Please remember that we are a Nut-Safe building. All snacks and lunches need to be peanut-free and nut-free. There is a safe-snack list on School Speak under Announcements. NOTE: Since ingredients change this list may be updated from time to time – we ask that parents check this list before purchasing snacks throughout the year.
Did you know? Childhood allergic reactions are most likely to happen at school and 50% of reactions were previously unknown to the parents or child. Thank you for helping to keep our school safe for all of our students
Keep Collecting! It all adds up! Last year ASA received over $7,000 from labels and related rewards. Continue to save the following labels:
Labels for Education (UPCs from Campbell's. Swansons, Post, and Prego) Box Tops for Education
Country Hearth and Village Hearth Products (UPCs)
Pop and can tabs
Old cell phones
Empty ink and toner cartridges
Upcoming Dates
Sept. 27: SC Grandparents Day
Sept. 30: Diocesan Ministry Day, No school for students
Oct. 10: P/S/T Conferences, 3:45 – 7:00 pm
Oct. 14: P/S/T Conferences, 3:45 – 7:00 pm
Oct. 18 & 19: Autumn Vacation – no school for students and staff
Oct. 23: Picture Retake Day & photos of PreK
Oct. 25: Halloween Fest, ASA Campus, 5-7 pm
Oct. 26: Work-A-Thon
Nov. 1 All Saints Day, School Mass
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.
Our Vision
All Saints Academy creates and nurtures an environment which supports
students, educators and community in realizing their God given gifts, reaching their full potential and developing their life-long relationship with Christ.
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 Marissa Bristow at marissa.bristow@allsaintsmn.org no later than Monday, 3 PM for that week’s update or drop it off at school.
