Parent Newsletter
All Saints Academy, St. Cloud Campus
September 30, 2021
No Bussing Tomorrow
There will be no bussing available on Friday, Oct. 1 st . District 742 schools have a Digital Learning Day. ASA parents will need to transport their children.
Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences in October
Conferences for the first trimester of school will be held Thursday, Oct. 7 th and Tuesday, Oct. 12 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. All conferences will be virtual. 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.
Vino & Hops Wine Tasting
Come out and support the Cathedral Dance Team at Vino & Hops! Vino & Hops is a 21+ wine, spirits & beer tasting fundraiser featuring local vendors with their newest flavors of the season. Along with the wine, spirits & beer tasting, there will be hors d’oeuvres, a 50/50 raffle & liquor raffle. This is all to benefit St. Cloud Crusaderette Dance Team.
Each ticket will allow one guest entry to taste the season’s newest wines, spirits, beers, hors d’oeuvres and a commemorative Vino & Hops wine glass for the first 150 guests. Please refer to the flyer attached to the email and School Speak newsletter.
Workathon 2021
On October 30, All Saints Academy will conduct its annual Workathon. This allows students, faculty and parents the opportunity to share their gifts and talents with the community, while upholding ASA’s core values of care deeply, share generously and serve willingly. The Workathon benefits both the St. Cloud community and our school while providing a service experience for our students. The students and/or their parents ask people to donate an amount of money for the work that they do on Workathon Day. We ask students to bring in 10 addresses of family and friends to begin our letter writing campaign starting the week of October 4th, your child is welcome to bring in more addresses too. (It would be greatly appreciated if your child brings addressed business envelopes or addressed address labels.)
More information about the Workathon will be in the Thursday folder and also located on SchoolSpeak.
Paperwork Folders
If you haven’t done so yet, please turn in your completed paperwork to the office from the beginning of the school year.
Drop Off Reminders
When dropping off in front, please park on the opposite side of the road. The front of the school is reserved for bus drop off and pick up.
PreK – 6th – Students may begin arriving at school beginning at 7:30 am. Back doors (Door #4) and front doors (Door #2) will have staff. School begins at 7:50 A.M . Students must be in the building by 7:50 A.M. If they arrive later than 7:50 am, they will be marked tardy. Please remind your child to sign in at the office so that we can have accurate attendance records and lunch counts.
Please have your child bring the following items to school everyday:
· Refillable water bottle
· Shoes for gym class
· Several cloth masks if your child wears a mask during the day
All of these items help us make the school day be a smoother day for your child.
Please keep your child home if he/she has a fever of 100.4 degrees or higher, has vomited or had diarrhea in the last 24 hours. Please watch for additional symptoms (shortness of breath, sore throat, chills, loss of taste or smell, body aches, nausea/vomiting/diarrhea, congestion, fatigue, headache.) Please refer to the Parent Handbook on School Speak regarding Illness, Injuries and Accidents . In addition, ASA has posted several Covid resources on School Speak. If your child will be absent, please contact the office to report them absent.
Student Absences or Late Students
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 10 am. It is difficult for us to make changes to the routine after 10 am 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.
Strings Program & Band Program
ASA would like to invite your child to consider playing a stringed instrument (grades 3-6) or a band instrument (grades 4-6.) ASA offers lessons at your child's school during the regular school day along with large group rehearsals and concerts. Please contact the office or Amanda Steichen for Strings, ( asteichen@cathedralcrusaders.org ) or Sean Jacobson for Band, ( sjacobson@catholiccommunityschools.org .)
Will my child have to be quarantined if they are wearing a mask?
If your child is properly wearing a two ply cloth mask, double layered gator or disposable surgical mask, then the answer is no your child will not have to quarantine. If your child is wearing a single layered mask or gator or a face shield, then the answer is yes your child would need to quarantine. (Face shields are permissible if the child’s doctor provides an exemption for the school.) Parents will be notified if their child has been exposed to a positive case of COVID. If they are not properly wearing a two-ply mask, doubled layered gator or surgical mask then the student will have to quarantine. If the student was properly wearing a two ply mask, doubled layered gator or surgical mask, then parents need to monitor for symptoms but the student does not need to quarantine. Properly wearing means that the nose, mouth and chin are completely covered.
We ask parents to keep your kids at home if they are displaying any symptoms. See link for symptoms: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/materials/symptoms.pdf
This truly is a community effort to keep our kids healthy and in-person at school.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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, please call the office for 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 login and update their profile by Sept. 15th.
Save the Date!
The All Saints Academy Extravaganza will be on January 29, 2022 ! Please mark your calendars for this exciting community event. Deuces Wild is back! Also, if you’d like to join the planning committee, please contact the office.
2021-2022 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 10:25 am – 12:25 pm.
Please contact the office to sign up for Playground Supervision. We need one parent (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.
ASA Parent Activity Committee (PAC) Corner
Hello ASA parents! Let's get to know each other! We encourage all interested parents to join PAC – especially if you are new to the community. It’s a GREAT way to meet other ASA families and get connected, and it’s a lot of fun, too!
PAC meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 6:30 PM in the school cafeteria. Our next meeting will be Wednesday October 6th.
CALLS TO ACTION:
· Join the ASA PAC Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1078832182165102/
· Purchase gift cards from Scrip , and a portion of your purchase will benefit PAC-funded activities! There are gift cards to 699 locations, including Amazon, Kwik Trip, Starbucks, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, Best Buy, Chipotle, and Subway, to name a few. You're bound to find something you can use!
Scrip Login: https://shop.shopwithscrip.com/Login/Enroll Enrollment Code: F7L1BL477L237
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What is PAC?
PAC is made up of ASA parents, and it is an integral part of the ASA community. Our mission is to facilitate and support the development of a Christ-centered environment through connections between home and school. Our vision is to support the growth and development of our youth through fundraisers, volunteerism, and family activities. We also facilitate staff appreciation efforts, parent development opportunities and activities inside and outside of the classroom for our children.
Questions? Email us at pac@allsaintsmn.org .
Aubrey Brown, ASA PAC Co-President
Nicole Cox, ASA PAC Co-President
Karin Loch, ASA PAC Vice President
Lindsay Kephart, ASA PAC Treasurer
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.
Thank you for helping to keep our school safe for all of our students.
Playground Duty – Week of Oct. 4th – 15th
10/4 – Rengel
10/5 – Salner
10/6 - Brown
10/7 – Salner
10/8 – Salner
10/11 – Piernock
10/11 – Mangold
10/13 – Groseth
10/14 – Stevens
10/15 - Loehr
Keep Collecting!
It all adds up! Continue to save the following labels:
Country Hearth and Village Hearth Products (UPCs)
Pop and can tabs
Old cell phones
Empty ink and toner cartridges
BULLETIN BOARD
Blue Chip Insurance has a front office position open and are currently acception resumes for the position. Applicants must have computer experience, be able to answer phone and handle scheduling. Blue Chip Insurance is located in Waite Park. Interested applicants should contact David Gebhardt, 320-252-8222.
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.
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.
Upcoming Dates
Oct. 1: District 742 not in session, no bussing available
Oct. 7: P/S/T Conferences 3:45 – 7:00 pm, Virtual
Oct. 12: P/S/T Conferences, 3:45 – 7:00 pm, Virtual
Oct. 21 & 22: Autumn Vacation – no school for students
Oct. 25: Staff Workshop Day: No School for Students
Oct. 27: Picture Retake Day & Photos of PreK
Oct. 30: Workathon
Nov. 1: All Saints Day, School Mass at St. Michael’s, 9 am
Nov. 2: All Souls Day
Nov. 5: Dist. 742 not in session, no bussing available all day.
Welcome back to a new school year!
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 email 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.
