Tuesday Tidbits for September 5, 2017

Mr. McLaughlin's Tuesday Tidbits Overview

Mary's Corner

CYO Tennis Sign Up

Our NEW Lunch Vendor

New Track It Volunteering Website

Advertise your business in the school directory!

Principal's Update

Dear Parents,

As promised, here are the links to the introductions from Back to School Nights.


	Back to School Night Middle School Faculty Introductions


Back to School NightElementary School Introductions

The next PTO meeting will be held on Sept. 15, 2017, at 8 a.m. in aftercare room and the first Pastor/Principal Coffee is also scheduled for Friday, 9/15 after Mass in the aftercare room.

Starting next week, Mrs. Rutledge and I will be discussing the topic of harassment, and all of its forms, with our 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students next week. If you prefer that your child not participate in this session, I ask that you please email Mrs. Moses.

I'd like to thank Mrs. Driscoll and Mrs. Pattison for all their work on our Wine and Cheese event and the welcome back coffee, thank you both so much for your efforts in making both events so successful. On behalf of our staff members who serve in carpool everyday, I'd like to thank Mrs. McClure for providing each staff member with a florescent vest and stop signs, to keep everyone safe and better control the traffic. Thanks again for your generosity Mrs. McClure!

A special word of thanks also to Mr. Pattison and Mr. Foster for presenting to our middle school science classes and sharing their knowledge of extremely interesting STEM based topics. These presentations are helping motivate our students to pursue various STEM experiments for this year's STEM Fair. We also appreciate both parents service to our school's Technology Committee.

A reminder that students will be participating in the first round of their Scantron standardized testing, starting next week. We will be sharing the results with you after the three week testing window has closed.

We are currently working on the annual parent directory and would like to know if you prefer to have your contact information left out of this year's directory. If you prefer to keep your information out the directory, I ask that you please contact Mrs. Tara Irons @ tirons@sttimothyparish.org.

Thanks to all of our parents who have sent wonderful ideas on how we can help the hurricane victims in Houston. Our Service Committee is currently evaluating all of the great ideas and will be communicating our plans to help the victims in next week's Tuesday Tidbits.

The High School Placement Test is required for all students who plan to attend a Diocesan high school. It is part of the admission process, and the results are used to place students in their courses as freshmen. This year the test is on November 30, and is given here at STS. For several years, we have partnered with Test masters to provide an online HSPT prep course. Through this arrangement, St. Timothy School students are given a discount for a course that prepares students for success on the HSPT. If you are interested in learning more about the course and signing up, please contact Mrs. Rutledge.

S aint Timothy Catholic School remains committed to providing our students with an individualized, supportive, faith based learning environment. I greatly appreciate your active support of our wonderful school.

As always I welcome your comments, questions and suggestions.

God Bless You,

Mr. Joseph M. McLaughlin

Principal


	First Mass! Sing to the Mountains Recessional Hymn! School enthroned to the Sacred Heart of Jesus & Immaculate Heart of Mary!

We look forward to taking good care of your children. Please remember to submit a VA School Health Assessment for all new students and a Confidential Student Health History Update for all returning students.

Medications : If your student requires medication (i.e. EpiPen, inhaler, etc,), a parent must bring the medication to the health clinic along with all completed medication forms. Specific medication forms can be found on our school website under Nurse's Notes. Please bring medications to the clinic as soon as possible.

Permission for Emergency Care: Please access the Parental Portal on Power School to complete your child's permission for emergency care. It is located at the very bottom of the Demographic Page, right after the Date of Last Tetanus Shot. It is important to have your consent (Yes/No) in case of an emergency.

Upcoming Health Events: STS Annual Vision and Hearing Screening

Vision and hearing screening will be held on Wednesday, September 20th. This screening is offered to all 7th and 3rd graders, and some Kindergarten students. More information about this event will be sent home today. All consent forms must be signed and returned to the health clinic by Friday,

September 15th. The Lions Club kindly sponsors this annual event.

Many Blessings,

Julianne Duffy, RN, BSN

Mary K. Rogowski, RN, FNP, MSN

Mrs. Kurtis' literature room celebrates Back to School Night with a special ribbon cutting ceremony!

New Saint Timothy School Volunteer Program

Track It Forward

The one place to sign up and log your hours!

You asked for it and we have delivered! We have streamlined our Volunteer Program for the upcoming school year.

Thank you to everyone who has already created an account and logged hours on our new Volunteer Program website. Please take a look at the event calendar as we have both Virtus and Non-Virtus opportunities to help with the Race for Education, Original Works, Cafeteria, and the Room Mother's Tea.

We hope that that these changes help make it easier to communicate volunteer opportunities, for parents to find opportunities that work in their schedule, and for families to log and track their volunteer hours!

We will no longer be using a Points for Parents program, and will move to a Volunteer Hours Program - 12 hours are still needed to fulfill your Volunteer Program Requirement (6 hours for preschool only families).

We will be adding more opportunities that haven't been available in the past to help earn your hours. For example, coaching an STS sports team can now earn you half or all of your total hours for the year.

To create an account log onto Track it Forward and get started.

If you have any questions about volunteering or how to create an account on Track it Forward please feel free to reach out to Carrie Ladowicz.

PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB!

Do not miss this amazing opportunity to work with professional photographer Greg Piper!!!

Mr. Piper will be sharing his love of photography with students in 5th-8th grade. He will be working with students to learn the various elements of photography such as camera operation, lighting, and post productions inside the classroom as well as taking students out on weekend field trip photography shoots! The club will need a commitment of 1-2 evening classroom club meetings a month as well as a few field trip photography shoots. We will be visiting local to parks, monuments, and churches! Visit our signup page for more details http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0b4aaeaf23aaf85-saint

Check out Mr. Piper's amazing artwork! http://gregpiperart.com/

Join in the fun during our After School Activities! Clubs are enrolling now and will begin Mid-Late September! Click here to sign up for the Silver Knights Chess Club, STEM Club, Ecology Club, Craft Club, Mission Commission, Choir.

More information coming in next week's Tuesday Tidbits!

Our 6th Annual Race for Education Will Be Here Soon!

Save the Dates:

November 2nd and 3rd - Preschool

November 3rd Kindergarten - 8th grade

Pre-kickoff information will be going home with your oldest child this week, please check their backpack.

Many hands are needed prior, during and after this event. Please sign up to volunteer.

Hospitality Committee

The Hospitality Committee is in need of volunteers for the room mom's tea. Please see the sign up genius for details. We'd like to extend a very special thank you to all the parents who volunteered to help with the Wine and Cheese event as well as the Back to School breakfast. We truly appreciate all your support.

The PTO has a new spirit wear vendor: The Dress Code. Together, we've designed new items such as T-shirts, sweatshirts, a quarter zip, and head gear. Principal McLaughlin has graciously agreed to allow grades K-5 to wear the quarter zip in place of the sweater. Almost all spirit wear can be personalized!

To order, please follow this link and for a limited time please use the code: 2017 St. Timothy SWAG 10% OFF to receive 10% off the purchase of a quarter zip. For questions, please contact Sara Cinotti .

Tiger Closet will be open Frida ys

from 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Now is a great time to stock up on uniforms for the coming school year. If you have any uniforms to donate to the closet, kindly drop them off in the school office. Thank you!

Join Cub Scout Night

Wednesday, September 6th

7 p.m. (outside the cafeteria)

We'll be building water rockets (how cool is this?!)

And providing information about the Pack.

Boys Kindergarten through 5th grade are encouraged to attend. For additional information please contact Mr. Tim Cline, Cubmaster for Pack 146 at timothytcline@gmail.com.

Saint Timothy & American Red Cross