Dear All Saints Families, 

Last semester's report cards were mailed on Friday.  There are a few students who received Incompletes, "I", for certain subjects due to illness or absences right before Christmas break and work was not caught up before the printing of report cards.  Updated report cards for those students will be sent home as soon as grades are uploaded.  Honor roll has been posted on our website.  This term, honor roll students are being given a "No Uniform Day" on January 27th. We are very proud of all our students.  Effort and attitude are at the forefront of our goals.  As a parent, I fully understand our high standards and dreams for each of our children.  Not making honor roll or not making top grades can often be frustrating for a parent.  Please understand that we are an elementary school and this is the place for our children to stumble and fall for later successes. It is how we treat these falls or failures that will help our children later in life.   We fully appreciate our children are more than numbers on a page, but children of God with gifts and talents.  We need to nourish those talents and help our children overcome their difficulties.  If you feel your child did not do as well as expected, discuss with your child how improvements can be made in effort and preparedness.  Help them be part of the problem solving so that they can develop into independent learners.  Let us celebrate all our children and who they are.  I can testify fully that it is very difficult when our children do not follow the goals or paths we wish for them. 

This Thursday is class picture day.  Having liturgy on this day should help with the mandatory liturgy uniform for class pictures.  However, some classes do have PE that day and come to school in their PE uniform. Except for Pre-Kindergarten, we ask that all classes come to school in liturgy uniform and bring the PE uniform to change into later.  Just to let new families know, we post the class proofs outside the front office for parents to view before they are ordered.  For upper grade athletes, winter sports photos were taken last week.  Moya Photography should have those proofs available shortly.

As said last week, our Open House is this Friday, January 20th at 8:30 AM.  Please spread the word about this wonderful event.  In the past few years this day has been very successful due to word of mouth from our amazing families.  This is the time to shine and celebrate who we are.  Thank you to everyone for making this day important to our school and community. Just a reminder to our existing families, enrollment will be open to new families beginning this Friday.  Please re-register your children as soon as possible to ensure the class spot.  This year we have three grades full and we already have interest in those classes from new families.  I would be so sad for any existing family to miss out on a spot.  If you need help on re-registration, please contact Carolyn Lavelle.

On Wednesday, February 1, we will be celebrating Student Appreciation Day as part of Catholic Schools Week.  We will have field day for all grades that day. During this event we will have 9 (nine) different stations where volunteers are needed. Coach King, our coordinator for this event, states he would like 2 volunteers at each station. Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade will be going out to the fields from 8:30 to 10:00 AM.  Grades 3 through 5 will be going out to the fields from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM.  Middle School teachers will run the middle school.  If you are a cleared volunteer and would like to help on this fun day, contact the front office and get signed up.  However, please be aware that younger siblings will not be allowed with parents that day.  Volunteers will be actively moving around the field and watching all the students in the assigned group.  Supervising a little one and taking care of an activity will be difficult.  Thank you in advance to all our volunteers.