Dear St. Louis Families,

 

I am preparing to drive to Harrisonburg, VA tomorrow to see one of my collegiate daughters, right into the heart of Shenandoah Valley!  What a blessing it is to be with loved ones, and what a perk it is to appreciate the glory of God through nature. I look forward to coming back with a bushel of apples and a breath of fresh air!

 

As you saw from our code yellow email earlier in the week, we are always taking extra precautions to keep our students and staff safe. We make sure that we are prepared for anything through our various drills and code practices. Next week, we will be having a Code Red Drill, which we do three times a year, to practice our classroom procedures if we were to have a dangerous person IN the school building. We practice that lock down procedure with special care and conversation with the students as well as good preparation and assurance that it is only a drill. It is our goal to teach them the seriousness and importance of safety while also understanding that they are children. We will send home an email message letting you know when the drill is held so that you can talk with your child about it when they come home that day.

 

We have spent the past month focusing on the virtue of charity, and our students as a whole have worked together to collect money during their lunchroom trips for Hurricane Relief. I am so very proud of their efforts, and I look forward to sharing with them the total collected. Many blessings as we head into October and begin our focus on the virtue of friendship!