I wish to begin by sincerely thanking the amazingly hard working and dedicated women who organized and ran the Ladies Luncheon, held last Friday at St. Paul of the Cross.  It was a truly beautiful event filled with community and support for our school.  Every detail of the event was planned perfectly so as to appear effortless.  We all know how much planning an event like this takes.  I thank Father Tom LaFreniere, who allowed our school to hold this event at St. Paul of the Cross with little cost to our school.  It was a lovely location that reminded us all of our faith and why we were there.  I thank all the attendees that contributed to the support that raised the money for the Home and School Association as well as represented the love for our children and school. Thank you the dads/husbands who bartended with friendliness abounding.  I cannot say enough wonderful things about this event.  God has certainly blessed us with loving families!

I also wish to thank Ms. Simione and her 7th and 8th grade students who headed up an amazing Earth Day Expo last Thursday.  It was inspiring to see our students excited about environmental issues and share this excitement with our lower grade students.  Both the middle school and lower grades were so engaged and eager to learn.  What a great day!  This is another example of planning and hard work resulting in a great event.  Thank you to all those who helped behind the scenes as well.

This week is an extremely busy week.  We kick the week off with the Spring Book Fair.  The theme camping has excited the children for the week.  Wednesday is our family evening with a campfire themed dinner of hotdogs and baked beans.  Our Drama Club also has its presentation of Aladdin Junior this Wednesday and Thursday evening beginning at 6:00 pm. This club has worked extremely hard to display its members' talents.  I am so excited to see this fun production. To ease in our school evening commitments, the Home and School Association's Annual Meeting will be held just before the drama production on Wednesday, beginning at 5:30 pm.  Plan for Wednesday being a great opportunity to be involved and informed, beginning with Book Fair and dinner, heading to the gym for the meeting, and staying for this amazing production of Aladdin Junior. Hope to see you all this week. 

This year's Iowa scores will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday, May 17th at 6:00 pm in the gym.  We are still waiting on some comparison scores.  We continue to work hard at analyzing this data to best serve our students to maximize student learning and growth, as a class and individually.

Have a wonderful week!

Yours in Christ,

Jill Broz

Principal