Dear Parents,

Last Friday, October 6th, we celebrated our Grandparents' Day. It was a joyful time spent with our SCSS grandparents and extended family community. Our day began with a beautiful Mass followed by photos and classroom visits. This day will be a wonderful memory that the children will have forever. The hard work and commitment of many people in this community is why we are able to put events like this together.  I am truly thankful to everyone for all their support in making this day a huge success.  We now have many new books through the Adopt A Book Program for our school library. We are so very blessed by the generosity of all our grandparents! 


Quote from Pope Francis: 

"Children have the right to a healthy and secure family environment."

Grandparents play such a huge part in keeping the family environment safe, healthy, and secure. Many grandparents help to care for
their grandchildren.  I greet many of them everyday as they come to St. Catherine's to drop off, pick up, read, and to volunteer.  It truly is a wonderful thing to see how God has blessed us with our grandparents and families. 
 

Faithfully Yours,

Miss Giaquinto
 


Grandparents' Day

Thank you to Annette DeMoura for all her time and effort in organizing this wonderful day. Thank you to all the volunteers that helped along the way.  (Some are missing from the picture).

We appreciate all you do for SCSS!  

Grandparents' Day is a beautiful memory that the children will have for a lifetime. 



Important Dates:
  • October 13th- Class Picture Day with Full Winter Uniform
  • October 17th- Genevieve's fundraiser pick up in the Church Hall from 11:30 am - 3:00 pm
  • October 19th- Service Team Project 2:30-3:30 pm Church Hall
  • October 20th- Wear your Pink Dress Casual Day for Breast Cancer $2 per student-$5 per family
  • October 25th- Trumbull Read Aloud Day 
  • October 27th- Walk-A-Thon 12:30 pm
  • October 29th- Trunk or Treat 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm 

  • November 3rd- First Friday Mass 9:00 am 
    Early Dismissal 11:50 am 
  • November 3rd First Marking Period Ends
  • November 7th- NO SCHOOL Teacher Professional Development 
Save the date- November 5th Ladies Night Out Fundraiser

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Fundraising News

Butter Braids: Our Butter Braid and Cookie Dough Fundraiser flyer will be going home today. 40% of your sales goes towards your assessment. Return orders are due by Oct. 26th. The delivery date is Nov. 10th. If you have any questions please contact Tracy Alibrandi at: tracy.alibrandi@gmail.com

Boxtops for Education: Please continue to send in your Boxtops as you accumulate them. There will be a flyer in the Thursday Folder for the children to attach their Boxtops. Thank you.

Shoparoo: Download the app from the itunes App Store or Google Play Store and start snapping and earning $ for SCSS. If you have not already signed up, please do so and use referral code "stuh1594" or "russ2509" for bonus points. You can earn additional points by participating in surveys posted on the app and also by scanning bar codes of specially marked items on your receipts. Visit  www.shoparoo.com 
for more details. 



Walk-A-Thon News

The last of the campaign letters have gone out. Thank you for sending in the list of names and participating in this part of the process. Our goal is for each walker to raise $100. Each student who has reached the goal will receive a prize. For every $50 a student raises they will receive a raffle ticket to be put into a drawing for a gift card. 

Anyone who would like to volunteer for this event please contact 
Tracy Ferreira or email me at egiaquinto@scsstrumbull.org

We would like to thank the following people for sponsoring the 
t-shirts for this event:

Branca's Auto Center
BTX Global Logistics
JP Rizzitelli Financial Advisors
Knights of Columbus Council 5806
Long Hill Tree Service
RWS Residential Waste Systems


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HSA Corner News

Wednesday, October 25th at 7:00 pm is our next Home School meeting. Our first meeting was a big success. Please consider joining us. We will discuss upcoming events and new ideas too.


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Art Smart Studio
Painting & Printing Workshop

Art Smart Studio will be having a painting and printing workshop for students in grades 1-4 after school with the Fall theme of "Lovely Leaves" on Wednesday, Oct. 18th. Please see the flyer sent home today to register.

Halloween Bash

There is still time to join St. Catherine alum and
2018 Barnum Festival Ringmaster John Vazzano
at his Halloween Bash
for St. Catherine students in grades Pre-K3 through 4 at Vazzy's 19th Hole in Fairfield on October 27th from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm. 

Flyers for this event were sent home. Returns are due to the office tomorrow.  












Be who God meant you to be,
     and you will set the world on fire."

                                 ~St. Catherine of Siena