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The Faculty and Staff wish
all families a safe and blessed summer!
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Dragon Tales
Weekly Newsletter
May 25, 2017
Dear St. George Families,
As I look out my office window on this beautiful sunny spring day, I am reminded how grateful I am to be principal of St. George Catholic School. This past school year has been full of a multitude of blessings and challenges. I wanted to take this opportunity to share some of those blessings with you.
We had just begun school in August when our community was hit with devastating flooding. Through this tragedy our school and parish community rose to meet the challenge of helping others, teams of families got together to serve others in the form of human labor, helping families clean out their homes, providing donations of clothing, cleaning supplies and monetary gifts.
In October, our St. George Parish Fair was blessed with beautiful weather and record income. Thanks to the generosity and dedication of the hundreds of school volunteers, our community came together and held an amazing event. Mr. Scott Johnson and his dedicated steering committee are to be commended for their work. It won't be that long until it's fair time again!
In November St. George Catholic School received national recognition by being named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Only 50 non-public schools across our nation were recipients of this prestigious award. We received this honor in our nation's capitol.
Shortly after the New Year, our St. George Auction, led by Catherine Alford, was an amazing celebration of the spirit of our St. George community. Again, we had record profits. And shared in an evening of fun and camaraderie.
Early in the spring, our students demonstrated that hard work and perseverance pays off. Our ACT Aspire Standardized Test Scores rank our school in the top 15% of all schools in the nation.
We recently received our ACRE scores.
Fifth and 8th grade took the test, one hundred percent of our students were ranked either advanced or proficient. Yes that is correct 100%! This is even more outstanding when the national average for all catholic schools is 71%.
Later in the spring we dedicated our new church with Bishop Meunch presiding. Shortly after, we celebrated our first school Mass. Our new church is a testament to our community and has raised the faith at St. George Parish.
Yes, we are proud of our students, teachers and staff and we have much to be grateful for. But we are not resting on our past accomplishments. The coming school year is sure to provide us more blessings and challenges.
We will be implementing a one-to-one Chrome book learning environment in our middle school by the end of the first nine weeks. Students will have access to their own device during the entire school day and will be able to access their documents and projects via the cloud 24/7 from anywhere in the world via an Internet connection. Students in grades 4 and 5 will be working in a two student per device learning environment increasing their access to technology significantly. Our students will begin to access more digital learning opportunities.
There will be a Chrome book parent evening in the fall to show you some of the new and innovative ways that students will be using this technology. I will keep you informed as we move forward with this new initiative.
I hope that all of you have a wonderful summer, and some time to rest, relax and connect as a family. Don't forget to go to Mass! May God continue to bless you and your family.
Peace,
Jack Nelson
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PLEASE NOTE:
◊ Last Day of School: Tomorrow, May 26th
◊ NO EBR Bus Service
◊ Students will be picked up from homeroom classrooms at dismissal (10:30am)
◊ No Aftercare Service ~ All students must be picked up by 10:30am
◊ REPORT CARDS AND AWARDS NOT PICKED UP ON LAST DAY OF SCHOOL: Any report cards, awards, items not picked up on Friday will be available for pick up beginning Wednesday, June 7th.
◊ Summer office hours are Monday - Thursday, 8:00am - 12:00 noon. School office closed Monday, May 29 - Friday, June 2.
◊ School Supply Order Deadline: Wednesday, May 31st. Order Here. School supplies will be delivered to your home the week of July 17th.
◊ Yearbook Ordered? If not, please remember that tomorrow, Friday, May 26th, is the last day to order yearbooks
(https://yearbookforever.com)
◊ Moving? Please be sure to change your address in RenWeb: School Information / Web Forms / Family Demographic Form. Address changes will be communicated to EBR over the summer so that bus routes will be accurate.
◊ Summer Reading Information: Find details on our website HERE.
◊ Planning to volunteer for school events, field trips, class activities? If you have not already done so, please complete the volunteer certification process HERE.
◊ Used Uniform Sale: Saturday, June 3rd, details HERE.
Looking ahead to 2017-2018:
6th Grade Orientation Monday, 8/7
New Student Orientation Monday, 8/7
Back-To-School Bash Monday, 8/7
DK/K Parent Orientation Tuesday, 8/8
School Supply Drop-off Tuesday, 8/8
First Day 1st-8th Wednesday, 8/9
½ DK/K class attends Thursday, 810 & Friday, 8/11
All DK/K students Monday, 8/14
1-5 Parent Orientation Wednesday, 8/16
6-8 Parent Orientation Thursday, 8/17
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USED UNIFORM SALE
Saturday, June 3, 2017, 9:00 AM- 11:00 AM
- UNIFORM DROPOFF: Friday, June 2, 2017, 5:00PM - 7:00PM
- MONEY/ITEM PICKUP: Saturday, June 3, 2017, 1:30PM - 2:00PM
- St. Luke Center (Cafeteria)
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The St. George Used Uniform Sale is taking place this June 3rd from 9:00 to 11:00 am in the St. George cafeteria. It is a wonderful opportunity to get some great deals on uniforms and get your shopping out of the way and enjoy the rest of the summer worry free!
We need volunteers to help this sale be a success so please consider signing up to help on Friday June 2nd with set up and/or on June 3rd at the actual sale. It is also a great way for incoming 7th graders, 8th graders and high schoolers to earn service hours .
Thank you and lets get selling!!
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H
ome and School Assistant Special Events Coordinators
We are please to announce and welcome our two new Assistant Special Events Coordinators for Home and School for 2017-18. Welcome
Jenny Allen and
Melissa Terrell. We appreciate your willingness to volunteer on the board and look forward to the 2017-18 school year.
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KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON
IN ST. GEORGE CHURCH PARISH?
Keep up with the happenings around St. George by reading the St. George Catholic Church Bulletin
HERE .
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Join us for the Kendra Gives Back party on Thursday, June 15th
5:00pm - 7:00pm
20% of all proceeds from this event will be donated to our
Dragons for St. Jude Team benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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