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Greetings,
As you well know by now we've had to postpone our State of the School Address. We are recording the address next week and hope to have it out soon after for you to watch. One of the things we traditionally do during the State of the School Address is announce tuition for the upcoming year. But, in light of enrollment opening up soon we wanted to get our tuition price out for you. Last year, we rolled back prices due to a number of factors. It is the goal of school administration and our finance committee to make the school as affordable as we can for all families. As you'll see below we have increased the cost for K-6 and 7-12 by $100 per level.
The cost for 2019-2020 K-12 tuition will be:
K-6 $3575
7-12 $5575
The primary reason for the small increase is that we are transitioning next school year from our outdated Blackbaud and EdEdge information systems to a new system call FACTS. This small increase will help us achieve excellence in many areas. You'll see improvements in communications, parent alerts, gradebooks, up-to-date grade reporting, a new web-site, and a single sign-in for parent/guardians to access school information. There will be many other key efficiencies gained internally as well. We will have much more information to come out regarding FACTS including some videos with information in the State of the School Address. This is an extremely exciting opportunity and move for the school. Some of the key areas I've mentioned are areas I received the most feedback on the past few years.
For our high school parents you'll notice we have trimmed back some of our activities for Snow Week so we can gain back classroom instruction time. We are still planning on a few activities though and the high schoolers will still have dress up days next week for snow week. We are looking forward to a great week in hopes we actually have a full Snow Week without any snow days, it you catch my (non-snow) drift.
For the rest of the year, we will carefully balance our schedule to make sure we pick back up instruction time where there may have been other activities planned. No decision has been made on make-up days and we'll certainly monitor what ISD 77 does. Thank you for your patience through this past month of unprecedented weather.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Adam Bemmels
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K-12 CONFERENCES: THURSDAY, 2/21 & TUESDAY 2/26
K-6: click
here to sign up; 7-12 is open house format
The Book Fair will be open both nights
FAMILY TOUR/SHADOW DAY: Friday, 3/8. If you know of a family who would like to see what Loyola is all about, encourage them to call to reserve a spot!
2019-20 CALENDAR
BLOOD DRIVE
The Loyola Key Club is sponsoring a Blood Drive Tuesday Feb. 26. It will be held in the Loyola gym from 9am- 2pm. Please call 1-800-733-2767 or visit
www.redcrossblood.org and enter: LOYOLAHSKATO to schedule an ap
pointment. Due to the weather the Red Cross is very much in need of all blood types. Please consider becoming a donor. If you have any
questions contact Sue Goebel
sgoebel@loyolacatholicschool.org
SPRING ENRICHMENT AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES
The "Loyola After School Enrichment Classes and Events" Spring edition booklet is filled with after school class descriptions, registration instructions and Spring events. We have expanded the offerings and hope your child finds something of interest. The registration process is included in the booklet and I encourage you to sign up early as many classes will fill up quickly. Click
here to view the booklet.
FEBRUARY IS I LOVE TO READ MONTH
Loyola will be celebrating with dress up days, spontaneous drop everything and read moments, and we will be hosting a Family Reading Night.
Dress up days (PK-12)
Dress as your favorite book character on February 28
Loyola Reads Night 6-8pm- POSTPONED TO 2/27
In observance of I Love to Read Month, Loyola Prayer Partners gathered this week to share their favorite books with each other.
Our theme this week in recognition of I Love to Read Month was 101 Reasons to Read. Elementary students were challenged to read 101 minutes in class with the promise of Mr. Bemmels kissing a pig at the end of the week if that goal was met. Loyola students went above and beyond that goal, so we had a very special visitor today! Special thanks to Darcy & Jon Roemhildt from St. Clair for bringing Jeff the pig.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
SUMMER CLUBHOUSE
Monday - Friday hours ranging from 7:00 am - 6:00 pm, No weekends, no evenings. Must be at least 16 yrs old to apply. Click here for application.
VIRTUS TRAINING
Safe Environment Re-Certification Training:
In February and March, the diocesan Safe Environment Office will launch
Keeping Our Promise Alive 3.0
, a VIRTUS online re-certification training for anyone who completed the "VIRTUS live training" in 2014 or earlier. Employees and volunteers of DOW-R parishes or schools that are due for re-certification will receive an email from VIRTUS Online with credentials to login and complete the training, which takes 30-40 minutes and can be done at any time of the day. Please click here for the flyer.
The SCRIP order dates for the next year have been updated on the Loyola website- click
here
for a complete list.
WEATHER RELATED SCHOOL CLOSING POLICY
Reminder: we follow District 77's decisions on school closings related to weather. Please be sure to pay attention to local media outlets for closing information. The District 77 letter can be found
here.
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Advancement Department News
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SAVE THE DATE- CRUSADER GOLF CLASSIC
Don't let winter get you down!
Crusader Golf Classic
Monday, May 13, 2019
SAVE THE DATE- ROCKIN' ON THE HILL 2019! 
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Athletics/Activities/Clubs News
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SPRING SPORTS MEETING
Wednesday, March 6th in the Loyola gym. This is for grades 6-12.
Track and Field- 5:45pm
Baseball 6:30pm
Golf and Softball meetings- date and time TBD
ACADEMIC ALL STATE HONORS
Congratulations to
Grace Dehen
and Sid on being named Academic All-State!
7-12 SPRING BAND CONCERT
Tuesday, March 5 at 7pm. Report time is 6:30pm in the band room.
GRADES 7-12 CONCERT ATTIRE:
Men: Black shoes, black socks, black pants, white button down dress shirt, solid black tie.
Women: Black dress shoes (flats are preferable), black skirt or pants (skirts must go down past the knee), white dress top.
SAVE THE DATE: 7-12 CHOIR CONCERT: April 4, 7pm
SPEECH
This weekend the Loyola Speech team competed at the Scarlet Invitational. Below are the indvidaul and team results
Brayton Matuska and Nic Goebel placed 1st in Duo Interpretation
Brayton Matuska placed 1st in Humorous Interpretation
Sara Gartner placed 7th in Prose Interpretation
Cyemone Nusser placed 4th in Storytelling
JD Jentges placed 6th in Informative
Marina Kerekes placed 3rd in Extemporaneous Reading
As a team Loyola placed 6th
PACK THE STANDS- BASKETBALL
DRAW THE CIRCLE WIDE CONCERT
Over 200 students will unite in song as choirs from Mankato
Loyola,
East, and West, High Schools and the Mankato Children's Chorus join musical forces for a collaborative concert benefiting The REACH and the Quentin Shevy family. The concert will be held February 24, 7:30pm at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, 105 N. 5th Street. Free will donations accepted.
McDONALD'S BAND/CHOIR TRIP FUNDRAISER
McDonald's Band and Choir Fundraiser has been re-scheduled for Tuesday February 26. 4:30 - 7pm.
Be sure to check our Activities Calendar for upcoming events and activities! Come out and show your Crusader pride!
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