March 24, 2010

JUST CHECKING IN ~ MARCH 24, 2010

“From the depths we cry to thee, God of sov’reign majesty! Hear our prayers and
hymns of praise; bless our Lent of forty days…” ~ Heinlein

EASTER BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOURS! As we approach the end of our Lenten journey and the start of Holy Week on Palm Sunday, as a school community we pray that your time in Lent may have been personally fruitful for you and that you and yours can anticipate the joy and blessing of Easter and the promise of Resurrection it holds for you.
Next Wednesday our students will spend some time in retreat with appropriate prayer and activity time, celebrate Seders, and close their day in church as the 8th Grade performs the traditional Living Stations which will be repeated for the parish on Good Friday.
This will be our last envelope until April 7th, the Wednesday after Easter. The April calendar is enclosed and we remind you that school will close for Easter at our 3 PM dismissal on the 31st and re-open on Easter Monday, April 5th. Please make note that April is a full month of school with the exception of noon dismissal on Wednesday, April 14th, for Confirmation which takes place later that afternoon. In addition, optional summer uniforms may be worn starting on April 15th.

SUMMER SCHOOL AT SCS We are able to offer a Title I summer school program here this year. Students in Grades K to 7 who are Title I eligible received letters for their parents today about the program which begins June 28 and runs through July 29 four mornings a week. Commitment is time-sensitive and so a response is needed by next Monday.

THANK YOU TO OUR HOME & SCHOOL Both our Board and its different committees have been meeting, planning, and hosting the many different activities that they sponsor from Bunny Brunch for little ones to Ladies’ Bingo and Casino Night for adults to Special Lunches and Ice Cream Days for all our students. We thank these people in a special way for giving of their time to make such events possible. No matter how full our plates are, each of us should look for ways to help in some ways—big or little. That feeling of being connected is a special one.

EASY? CONFIDENTIAL? Easy? “Ten questions, ten minutes” is one of the slogans for this year’s Census. Questions are few in number and easily answered. It might not even take ten minutes to finish the questionnaire and drop it in the mail.
Confidential? By law, Census Bureau information cannot be passed on to employers, banks, law enforcement and immigration agencies or anyone else at all. It’s used to create a statistical profile of the United States. Period. Census data is sealed for 72 years so that this year’s individual information won’t be available to anyone else until the year 2082.

PEOPLE AND EVENTS We congratulate both of our cheerleader squads for each bringing home the Bronze in the competition. Once again our Varsity also won the Spirit Award. What a great season both these Varsity and JV girls had and we are very proud of them all
Parents interested in Spring or Summer SAT Workshops for their high school students or Learning Skills Programs for 6-8th Grade students can call us for a brochure or go online to www.drpaceseminars.com for more information about these programs.

CRITICAL THINKING 101 Nick Azzarano (1-31) had his correct entry drawn for this week’s $10 Gift Card of Choice certificate. The answers were 1. lose/close, 2. air/hair, 3. over/cover, 4. wish/swish, 5. hide/chide. For next time, “At the giant Easter celebration in a town, each participant was able to dye six eggs. If there were 500 participants, how many dozens of eggs needed to be purchased and how many were left over?”