A Message from the President

As we begin the 2022-23 academic year, let's take an opportunity to focus and reflect on an extraordinary feature of the Notre Dame Academy experience: the NDA community. Last spring the NDA governing bodies authorized the Vision Statement that can be found with all our mission documents on the NDA website. The statement proceeds as follows:

Notre Dame Academy believes that a Catholic community transforms people.

NDA’s education challenges students to grow intellectually, spiritually, socially, and morally in order to take on the responsibilities of leadership which prepares them for college and life.

Key to this process of growth and transformation is an awareness of living and growing in communion with Jesus through Christian discipleship.

Notre Dame’s diverse community emphasizes the responsibility that faith calls forth from each individual to care for others as talents are discovered, applied, and shared for the common good in careers, communities and family life, as well as on the road to eternal life with God.

The community dimension of a Catholic high school is one of its essential features. Together we learn, we pray and worship, we grow, and we reach out in service.

In engaging the upcoming year, please reach out to the school and each other to build your NDA experience on the firm foundation of community life. The Triton Parents Society, the many support organizations associated with teams and activities, the student community events and relationships with faculty, staff and each other create strong future memories as students grow.

We are called by our mission and vision to grow in community, to lead and serve as Christian disciples, and to forge a common purpose grounded in the Gospel. 

May our journeys become touchpoints to share together.

Tom Kiely, NDA President

School Day

The school day begins at 7:55 a.m. daily. Students need to be in their first period classroom before 7:55 a.m. Students who are not in the classroom by 7:55 a.m. will be considered tardy to school. Students who are 10 minutes late for a class are considered absent from that class. The school building opens at 7 a.m. daily. 

The school day ends at 3:17 p.m. Seniors with Senior Privilege (8th hour off) may leave after the 7th hour. Seniors who remain on campus during their Senior Privilege time must be in the Commons or Library. The school building closes at 4 p.m. on regular school days Monday through Thursday and at 3:30 p.m. on Fridays. After school, students may congregate in the commons.

Students who have scheduled activities after 4 p.m. may remain in the atrium until the start of their activity. Otherwise all students without a scheduled evening activity need to leave the building when it closes at 4 p.m. (Monday through Thursday) or 3:30 p.m. (Fridays).

Attendance Reminders

Tardies to First Period: NDA emphasizes being prompt to school as this is a necessary habit for success in life. If your student is tardy to their first period, and it should be excused due to circumstances out of the student’s control, please contact the Main Office at 429-6104 by 9 a.m. to excuse your student. 

Students who are tardy to their first period must report directly to the Main Office. Students are permitted two excused tardies to their first hour per semester. All tardies thereafter will be unexcused and the student will receive school consequences for their tardiness. All tardies are considered unexcused until the student’s parent contacts the Main Office to have them excused.  

Since we value the individual parent communication for each student, only the student’s parent/guardian can excuse his/her tardiness. This applies to carpool situations also. In a carpool, each student’s parent must contact the Main Office to excuse his/her student.

Tardiness of more than 10 minutes will be considered an absence. Please call the Main Office for special circumstances.  

Appointment Process for Students to leave School: Off-campus appointments during the school day are discouraged. If an appointment is necessary and unavoidable, permission to leave school for the appointment may be requested by phone at 429-6104 or in writing to the Main Office. Please contact the Main Office prior to the appointment, preferably 24 hours in advance but at a minimum at least 2 hours so that all appropriate passes may be issued. The time that you provide to our Main Office staff is the time that the student is dismissed from class. Please add approximately 3 minutes of time for your student to go to their locker and check out of the atrium. Students must pick up a pink pass from the Main Office. Your student presents this pass to their teacher that indicates the time that they are to leave class. When leaving for a scheduled appointment, the student must check out at the atrium desk and give the Atrium Receptionist the pink pass. Upon returning to school, the student must report directly to the Main Office and present official verification of the appointment. Official verification is a signed note from the appointment destination. Students will need this note to be eligible to participate in extracurricular activities.

Anticipated Absences: If an absence of multiple days is known in advance, the student must present a signed parent note to the Main Office three to five days prior to the absence. This allows for adequate time to complete the process. The process is designed to facilitate communication between your student and his/her teachers. The student will then be given a green form to notify each teacher that the upcoming absence is excused. The student will have each teacher sign the form. After all the teachers have signed the form, then the parent/guardian must sign the form. The form will need to be on file in the Main Office one day prior to the absence.



Attendance Records: If a parent/guardian does not notify the office about an absence or a tardy, it is considered unexcused. Student attendance records will not be changed 2 school days after the absence/tardy.

Student Drop Off/Pick Up

The safety and well being of our students is extremely important. All students who are dropped off or picked up from school must access their vehicles in the driveway near the main entrance of NDA. Students are not to be dropped off or picked up on Maryhill Drive. Due to Mason Street and the bus loading zone, Maryhill Drive is reserved for buses to drop off/load buses.

New Student Orientation - August 22

We are looking forward to welcoming our new students on Monday, August 22. Orientation Day is the official first day of school and is mandatory for all freshmen and transfer students.

Check in begins at 7:45 a.m. with the day beginning at 8 a.m. and concluding at 3:17 p.m. Please know all school rules are in effect (cell phone policy, dress code, displaying of IDs, etc.).

Buses will be running their normal schedule and students are asked to pack their own lunch. If you have any questions, please contact Molly VandenHouten at mvandenhouten@notredameacademy.com or (920) 272-6219.

Meet the Teacher Night - September 1

Notre Dame Academy will be hosting a Meet the Teacher Night on Thursday, September 1 at 7 p.m. Please save the date and watch for more information in upcoming News & Notes.

Student Parking 2022-23

Due to continued construction projects on the north side of our building during the 2022-23 school year, the small student parking lot on the northside of the campus (Priory Parking Lot) may not be available for various periods of time. Therefore, the school will not be selling parking permits for this parking lot. Throughout the school year, it may be available for student parking without a permit. 

For more information about student parking permits, parking in the Priory Parking Lot and locations to park near the NDA campus, please click here. Students are encouraged to car pool as much as possible. Students should plan ahead and have several options to park if they do not have a parking permit.

Uniform, Dress & Grooming Code

As members of one community, our policy encourages modesty, neatness, and humility, not drawing attention to the individual.

Please ensure your student is in compliance with the following items that have been part of our Dress Code for several years:

• All hairstyles must be kept neat, clean, professional and a natural hair color. Extreme hairstyles are prohibited.
• Boys must be cleanly shaven. Sideburns cannot extend below the bottom of the ear.
• A boy’s hair can be no longer than collar-length in back, not below the ears on the sides and not below the eyebrow. 
• Face piercing of any kind, other than ear piercing is not permitted. Boys may wear only one earring per ear that is a simple stud. Girls’ earrings may not hang below the chin.
• Visible tattoos are not permitted. 

Please refer to the full Uniform, Dress & Grooming Code before purchasing clothing and sending your student to school.

Wireless Earbuds (Air Pods) & Personal Electronic Devices

NDA values the interpersonal, face-to-face relationships with its students. This relationship and skill development is critical to the learning process and functioning in society. In a world driven by technology, particularly with Personal Electronic Devices like smartphones and air pods, we can easily lose these necessary skills and relationships by focusing inward into our devices when we are called to focus outward beyond ourselves. NDA’s Personal Electronic Device policy (pages 17-18) is designed to help train our students to look beyond themselves or their device, to use their device safely and appropriately, and to foster an environment free of distractions so the students can maximize their experience and their parents' investment in their education.

For the 2022-23 school year, our Personal Electronic Device policy has been updated and wireless earbuds (air pods) are considered a Personal Electronic Device. Students who violate this policy will have their device confiscated and turned into the office. When students are in violation with earbuds, the faculty & staff will confiscate both the earbuds and the cell phone together. Students with multiple violations of this policy are subject to lose the privilege of carrying these devices on them throughout the school building for a period of time.

If students need to use earbuds for their laptop or chromebook and they have lost the privilege of using wireless earbuds, they must have wired earbuds. The atrium desk has wired earbuds for sale at a nominal cost. Please refer to the full policy in our Student & Parent Handbook, click here, on pgs. 17-18.

Students are not allowed to text or check messages during the school day. Please do not expect your student to check their text messages during the school day. Students may go to the Main Office and with permission, check their messages and voicemails. If you need to contact your student during the school day, please contact the Main Office at 429-6100 and we will give your student the message. Please refer to the full policy in our Student & Parent Handbook on pgs. 17-18.

Calendar Raffle

The Athletic Booster Club is selling Calendar Raffles as a fundraiser for all of our athletic teams. You can win $2000. Drawings will be held a few times a week beginning in October and through November. 

Each calendar sheet is $10 and can be picked up at Notre Dame Academy High School. Completed calendars and payment are due by September 26th. 

For more information please contact athletics@notredameacademy.com.

FRCC Online Ticket for Ashwaubenon and De Pere

If attending an athletic competition at either Ashwaubenon or De Pere High Schools, tickets must be purchased online; both locations have chosen to go cashless. 

Click here  for more information and to purchase tickets online.

Job opportunity at The Konop Companies, Inc. – Warehouse Order Picker

Flexible Options-Great Opportunity for Late Afternoon Job Seekers

Join the team at The Konop Companies and experience a fast-paced productive work environment in a fun atmosphere fulfilling warehouse orders

Responsibilities: Fulfill beverage orders by means of picking and packing warehouse items, restock products as needed, maintain a clean and safe work environment, all other duties as instructed by the warehouse manager

Requirements: Must be able to lift, stack, push, pull (medium/heavy weight), good organization and communication skills, communicate effectively with supervisors and coworkers, ability to work independently with strict attention to detail, read & understand delivery tickets, basic computer knowledge

Benefits:

Free break-time food, discounted snacks and beverages

Starting pay rate: $14.50 p/hour

To apply for position: Send resume to tglodowski@konopcompanies.com (Indicate Warehouse in subject) OR apply in person at Konop, 1725 Industrial Dr., Green Bay, WI 54302