STES Weekly eNewsletter

St. Theresa School's eNews Announcements

October 21, 2015

Welcome to the St. T's eNews Weekly Announcements. The eNews and past editions may also be viewed on the school website: http://stesonline.org/st-t-enews.html. To make submissions please email your principal approved information to the office at info@stesonline.org. Submissions must be received by Tuesday, 12 noon. Thank you!

The Middle School enjoyed a great field trip to the Science Center in Hartford.

Letter from the Principal

Dear St. Theresa School Parents,

This Friday, October 23rd, a professional filming crew will be in our school to make a promotional video for the Bishop Scholarship Fund and Catholic Charities. Saint Theresa was chosen to be a part of the video that promotes the strengths and benefits of Catholic education. In this edition of the e-News, you can read more about the video and access the opt-out form, if desired. This is a wonderful opportunity for our school and our students to receive some well-deserved credit and recognition. We ask that all students are dressed in their full, winter school uniform for Friday; no gym uniforms or birthday dress downs, please.

This Friday we are also hosting the Trumbull Read Aloud day sponsored by the Trumbull Rotary Club. Please remember to be gracious and welcoming to our guests.

We are in the process of forming committees to work on the first seven standards of our re-accreditation. These standards include, Mission, Governance, Enrollment, Program, Experience of the Student, Resources to support the Program, and Early Childhood Education. If you have a specific interest or strength in any one of these areas and would like to serve on a committee, I would ask that you contact Mrs. Veronica Larsson or Mrs. Liz Tamarkin by October 30th to be considered.

In preparation for our re-accreditation visit in the spring of 2017, I have volunteered to be on the visiting team to re-accredit St. Mary's School in Milford. This means, however, that I will be away through tomorrow. Please feel free to utilize Mrs. Stratton or contact me via e-mail with any pressing issues or concerns.

Thank you, as always, for making our school a positive and vibrant community.

Sincerely,

S. Vittoria

Walk-A-Thon 2015

Congratulations on raising $10,000 for our school!

Dear Parents, Students, Teachers and All Volunteers who helped and attended the Walk-a-thon for 2015,

THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH WORDS TO EXPRESS THE GRATITUDE FROM THE HSA FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND PARTICIPATION IN THIS YEAR'S WALK-A-THON FOR 2015. We made it to $10,000.00! The reason this is so impressive is we have no assessment credit to work off this year and these pledges truly came from the heart...

Same for all the wonderful volunteers: The Lieby Family, The Greene Family, The Gallardo Family, The Ennis Family, The Mezzanotte Family, The Connellys, The Barahona Family, The Hernandez Family, The Nunez Family, Mr. John, The Godo Family, Gladys Harris, and LJ Kreussling Theilman, James Turotsy, Liz Tamarkin, Lucy LaFrenierre, Mr. Agostino, Mrs. Stratton, and anyone else who supervised the children, helped clean up, carry tables and chairs etc.

Thanks also to our priests for leading us in prayer and I would be remiss by not thanking Mr. Jim "The Paws" McMahon and the St. Theresa Cheerleaders for greeting everyone yesterday and initiating the first lap of the walk. We look forward to our next event and thank you all again from the bottom of our hearts.

Susan Turotsy

Chair

2015 Walk-a-thon

RSVP extended to today. Please send in your responses so we can provide an amazing evening of fun!

Click here for the Halloween RSVP Form

School Calendar

All students are reminded to wear your full winter uniform this Friday. No gym uniforms or Birthday dress-down days please. November 3, will be a half day. This was formerly a day off.

HSA Update

We'd like to thank those parents who came out for the HSA meeting this past Monday night and Chris Lieby for the thorough presentation on the school's 5 year strategic plan.

Tuesday, October 27

Basketball Tournament Information Meeting

St. Theresa School

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Please email Mary Ellen Lieby at HSA@stesonline.org if you plan to attend or if you cannot attend but want to volunteer. It is important that we know by Tuesday how many people we can count on to make this happen.

This is an IMPORTANT meeting if we are going to be able to host our annual Basketball Tournament. The Tournament brings in about $10,000 to the HSA that is used towards our contribution to the operating budget of the school to help keep tuition down. We have a few volunteers already for key pieces of the tournament, but need more if we can successfully offer a tournament, without these additional volunteers we will have to officially cancel the tournament. You do not have to have a child on a basketball team to be a part of the tournament. The tournament has been a tradition at St. Theresa for 28 years ... let's not be the families that let it end! Please come to the meeting to learn more about what is involved and to see what piece you can help with (even a little help can go a long way).

Monday, November 16

HSA Meeting

St. Theresa School Gym

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Childcare available upon request.

Topic: Health & Fitness

We will have Coach Heidi Langan speaking with us on the topic of health and fitness. Heidi is a personal coach specializing in running and group fitness for adults and children. With the cold weather at our door, it will be nice to learn ways to keep active during the winter. We will offer childcare for this meeting by request. If you plan to attend and need childcare, please email HSA@stesonline.org so we know how many children to expect.

If you'd like to volunteer for any of these events, please email Mary Ellen Lieby .

Email Volunteer Coordinator

School Directory - Updates and Permissions

Dear Parents,

The Home School Association (HSA) will be putting together a school directory. The directory includes Home School Association information and class lists by grade. We believe the directory will be very helpful for all parents. We would like the directory to include each student's name, address, phone number, and parents' names and email address.

If the information is on file from last year and there are NO changes to address, phone number or email address, you do NOT need to return this form.

If there are changes to your address, phone number or email address(es) please indicate changes at the bottom of the form and return it to school by Friday, October 23, 2015, or by responding to this email.

We would like to include all the students in the directory. However, if, for any reason, you would wish to NOT have your child's information published in the directory, we ask that you kindly return the form below to school by Friday,October 23, 2015. If we do not receive a response, the child's information will automatically be included

We will have the directories available to all parents by the end of October, via HSA email. If you would like a paper copy, please indicate below and return the form to school.

If you have any questions or concerns. Please contact the HSA secretary, Suzanne Donofrio, at HSA@stesonline.org.

Thank you.

Electronic Form: Directory Update and Permissions

Meet the Home School Association Officers

Co-Vice President, Erik Langelius

Erik is the proud father of 6th grader, Jeffrey, who has been attending St Theresa's since 3rd Grade. They live in Trumbull where Jeff is an Altar Server at St Theresa's.

Erik has been the HSA Co-Vice President since 2014 and works on the Advanced Analytics team for the Nielsen Company in Wilton.

He can be found volunteering at many of the HSA events including the Ice Cream Social, Breakfast with Santa and the Family Fun Nights. On free weekends Erik & Jeffrey love to snowboard in VT.

Thank you from the Third Grade!

A big thank you goes out to the Jarvis and Greene families for donating two comfy new, blue beanbag chairs to the third grade classroom! The students were very excited and can't wait to use them in their reading area. We are very thankful for their generosity!

Mrs. Mulford and the Third Grade Class