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November 18, 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!
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Boy JV Basketball wins the St. Jude's Tournament!
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The last collection day is tomorrow!
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Dear Parents,
With your generosity we can help St. Margaret Shrine accomplish this task.
Students have been assigned a food item(s) to put in their classroom boxes. If you would like to donate more than we request, all items are deeply appreciated. We hope to have our boxes overflowing with food this year, as we have always done in the past!
We are also asking that each child donate a dollar or two so that each teacher can purchase Stop & Shop gift cards to purchase the turkeys, hams and any other perishables they may need to meet their requests. They also maintain a pantry all year for people in need, so we know they will use all that we can give.
Please send in your child's nonperishable assigned item(s) and your monetary donation to school by Thursday, November 19th as the food shall be picked up on Friday, November 20th. Thank you, as always for you generosity as we help others less fortunate than ourselves. It also makes the children feel good and we love to see that on their faces.
Sincerely,
St.
Theresa Teachers
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You are cordially invited to the K-2 Thanksgiving Festivities
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This Monday at 2:15 join us for:
- Thanksgiving songs by the Kindergarten
- The Goofy Gobbler jokes by the First Grade
- The First Thanksgiving play by the Second Grade
We look forward to enjoying this time of thanks and smiles with you.
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Got support? Extra Help schedule reminder
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Tech Support - 1:1 Devices
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Several families have inquired about a 1:1 device for their student at St. Theresa's. While the school does not currently recommend one device in particular, we can guide you with some system requirements and what we will use the devices for.
Education: there are several types of small 1:1 devices:
Chromebooks are basically the internet available on a device.
There are also computers that are the same size that can store documents and run programs. Finally, there are tablets. At this time we do not recommend tablets alone, because not all of the websites that we currently use have an app for full use and not all work on Safari.
- The diocese tech team recommends 4 GB DDR3L SDRAM (this is the active memory, allowing the device to preform several tasks at the same time).
- Battery life of more than 6 hours (the most recent Chromebooks we purchased have a 9 hour battery).
- We use Google apps for Education. Whichever device you choose, make sure it can run the Google Chrome browser for the most supported use of Google's tools.
- Please remember to consider a case to keep your device protected and a wireless mouse to make work easier.
Please feel free to contact me if you would like more support.
Take Care!
Mrs. T
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HSA Meetings NEW FORMAT!
Heidi Langan. Owner, H4 Fitness -- Kicks off New HSA Meeting Format!
The St. Theresa School HSA meeting took place on Monday, November 16th. This one hour format with speaker is brand new for HSA meetings. We were thrilled that Hedi Langan owner of H4 Fitness joined us as the guest speaker. Heidi's motto for H4 is "a healthy heart makes a happy heart"! Heidi spoke about fitness, health and nutrition. She gave us tips on how to make good choices. Here's some examples: 1). make exercise fun by racing your child to the mailbox; 2). encourage your child to drink water as his/her beverage of choice and make juice or soda a treat but not a habit. These are choices that our children will model after us in their lives. Heidi helped us kick-off a series of topics that we believe will enrich our parent community.
Also, a drawing component was added to the meetings just to make it fun! A $50 Stop & Shop card was drawn as a prize. The more you come, the more chances you have to enter in the grand prize drawing of a $200 Stop & Shop gift card at the end of the school year. Please email us at hsa@stesonline.org to share topics that you would find interesting. We have nearly 300 families enrolled here at St. Theresa School and less than twenty four (24) parents regularly attended the meetings. We know that time is scarce in our daily lives and our goal is to keep the meetings to an hour; and have childcare available to make it as easy as possible for all of us.
Other items of note from the HSA:
Look what just arrived! Our new H.U.M.A.N vending machine will offer healthier options in both beverage and snacks to keep our athletes and after school participants happy.
Also in December we will be having a Christmas Store for the kids to purchase small gift items for family and friends. Kids Kastle will be supplying us with the items. A portion of the proceeds will go to help support the other events we offer to the children and families.
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Multicultural Potluck Family Fun Night
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To date we have the following countries being represented by culinary dishes: Hungary, Slovokia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Columbia, Puerto Rico, Costa Rico, Armenia, and Brazil. Plus, we will have a few cultural entertainment surprises! If you have a talent you'd like to showcase, please send us an email at
HSA@stesonline.org
. Please note, HSA will supply plastic table cloths; you can use outlets around the gym but the kitchen will be closed; please feel free to bring your own decorations. Beverages, paper plates and plastic ware will be supplied by HSA.
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We've got something special just for you.
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Please join St. Theresa School's 60th Anniversary celebrating with dinner, dancing and a silent auction. Great food, music, a silent auction loaded with fabulous items and door prizes make this a must attend event! All proceeds will benefit St. Theresa School.
Purchase your seats today!
We'd love to see you and a table full of your closest friends, relatives or classmates. Each table can accommodate ten (10) people. Go to
http://stesonline.org/celebrate60 to purchase your seats now! Tickets are $75.00 per person until March 31, 2016 and $85.00 per person thereafter.
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Retake / Absentee Day / Faculty Group
Photo Day
December 3rd
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Who should get their photo taken on Absentee/Retake Day:
- Any student not satisfied with original portrait - Return your complete package minus the class picture to the photographer on retake day.
- Any student who was absent on the original day whether you are purchasing a package or not.These photos will be used in the school yearbook.
- The faculty group photo will be taken on December 3, as well.
Any student who did not purchase on the original day and would like to purchase a package. Order forms are available in the school office approximately one week prior to retake day. Or online at mylifetouch.com -- picture day id: EJ065549Q1
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Meet the School Advisory Board
Board Member & Director of Advancement - Chris Lieby
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Chris Lieby is married to Mary Ellen Lieby, current co-president of the Home School Association. Together they are parents of three St. Theresa School students: Olivia (6th grade), Ciara (1st grade) and Caitlin (1st grade). He and Mary Ellen are very active volunteers in the school and parish as well as in the local area. Chris also serves as the Advancement Director for St. Theresa School.
Currently Chris supervises the technical support staff at Sacred Heart University. In the past he has also managed IT teams in the financial services, franchising, technology, real estate and marketing industries. Prior to that Chris was a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco, a religious order of men serving boys and girls in schools, parishes, camps and recreational centers. In that capacity, Chris taught three years in a boys' high school in Boston and ran programming for several camps and centers.
He looks forward to applying his past experience to helping St. Theresa School be the best Catholic School and community that it can be.
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Students receive awards for the Police Coloring Contest!
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Trumbull Rotary presents Dictionaries to the Third Grade
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We'd like to thank the Trumbull Rotary Club for their wonderful support!
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Seventh Grade Cell Projects Shared with Third Grade Buddies
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Our 7th grade class has once again demonstrated their creative and innovative abilities in their Plant and Animal Cells projects. This year materials ranged from recycled materials, to edible parts and Styrofoam balls were used by several students. We invited our 3rd grade buddies to experience the creations through a science fair type setting in our classroom. The third grade students rotated around the exhibits to hear the 7th graders present their individual cell projects. Everyone learned something new! Congratulations 7th graders on a job well done!
The projects are displayed in the lobby until
Friday
, so stop by and see what our 7th graders have created; you may even learn something
new!
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By Anissa Pathammavong & Mia Gonzalez
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Advice Column by Maria Tarantino
. Header By Jillian Nunez
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Fifth Grade Book and Movie Review
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JV BOYS
I am proud to share the Boys' JV won the St. Jude's tournament today defeating St. James 39-38 in overtime!
VARSITY BOYS
The boys' varsity basketball team came out with tenacious defense
on Sunday
night to beat St Andrew 42-29. Great defense led by Luca who wore out the point guard with 5 steals and had 2 points and 2 rebounds. Kyle picked up his defense and contributed with 5 steals and 15 points. Along with Shane, who had 3 steals and 3 points with 1 assist. Savyon hustling off the bench to get 1 steal, 1 rebound and 1 point. Eamonn came in battling and had 2 rebounds along with Gianni and Eric putting pressure on the ball. Lucas ripped down 4 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 block shot with 4 points. Leading scorer and rebounder was Jarrett who pulled down 7 rebounds, had 2 blocks, 2 steals and 17 points. A great team wins with everybody contributing in different ways!! Keep up the great work boys!
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Students from the Sewing Club complete their Draw String Bags
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