June 2, 2010

JUST CHECKING IN ~ JUNE 2, 2010

“Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen”

NEXT WEEK IS IT—FOR OUR WEDNESDAY ENVELOPES ANYWAY! Please note that as our year draws to a close, so does our envelope communication. However, you should continue to check your teacher’s web pages from now to the close of the year. We will likewise post information on our school website throughout the summer as well as putting information in the parish bulletin as needed. Know that you may contact us through the website or call us with any questions or concerns that you may have—or you might just want to say hello and ask how many days are left until school begins!
TITLE I SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM If your child is signed up for this program, please ask them for the parent information letter they received today to bring home to you.
WHAT DOES A FACULTY DO IN THE SUMMER? Some of our teachers will help with SCS Bible School, some will participate in a Summer Institute Workshop the next week at Holy Family University, some will teach in our Summer Program, some will take courses on-site and on-line, and some will relax. Knowing our faculty, you can imagine that :some” will do all of the above. That’s just the kind of faculty we have. Aren’t you glad?.
…AND WE FORGOT TO MENTION that some of them will be working to update both our faculty and parent-student handbooks. After we finish the parent-student handbook, we’ll be inviting some parents in to read it for clarity and to see if we’ve included everything that we should. For instance, we know that we’ll be including what we’ll do if a student doesn’t look like an SCS student should such as calling for the student to be picked up by a parent if a girl’s skort is too short, or if a boy’s hair is too long, just to name two examples. We’d been counting on parents helping us with this but realize that these parents probably need our input to back them up too. Look for changes.
PEOPLE AND EVENTS Today was a very special day for Madison Coyne (2-4) when she was honored at a special Philadelphia Fire Department presentation here at school. Madison was the winner of the Department’s Spring Contest and we had special guests from the Department right up to the Commissioner on hand to celebrate the day and share some fire safety tips with our Kindergarten to 4th Grade In addition to the celebration itself, Madison will also receive a savings bond from the Fire Department.
Our secretary Gina Lombardi will have a lot to share with us about what it’s like at the Henley Rowing Competition in Merry Old England. The Lombardis will be flying over this summer to watch their son Louis, a St. Joseph Prep Junior, in his role as coxswain for the V-8 boat.
Holy Ghost Prep Forensics Team Wins Two Individual National Championships - Team Named Top Five in Nation The forensics team won two individual national championships at the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Omaha, NE over Memorial Day weekend and the team was named one of the top five schools in the country.. Individual national champions were Junior Dan Marcel and Senior Joe Geoghan in duo interpretation. Junior Joe Gallagher won an individual national championship in oral interp of prose and poetry. Rory Gledhill’s debate team won 4-1 as well moving the team to the trophy. Both Joe G.’s and Rory are SCS alums and we are very proud of them. They certainly are fine role models for our own forensics team. It shows our students that the sky’s the limit.
CRITICAL THINKING 101 Congratulations to Amanda Bowman (6-17) for having her correct answer pulled for this week’s $10 Gift Card of Choice Certificate. Amanda knew that by adding the numerals from 1-9, dividing that total by 5, and then finding the square root of that answer, she’d have 3. For our final critical thinking of this school year, “If you assign a number to each letter of the alphabet, a=1, b=2, c=3, etc., what is the grand total of the entire alphabet from a to z when you add them together? Let’s hope it’s as easy as abc for you to find the answer.”