Please watch this video message from Principal Jeff Matthews regarding the announcement made today by Governor Gregg Abbott stating that all Texas schools will remain closed throughout the remainder of the school year.

Don’t forget to Save-The-Date for our first ever Virtual Auction! It will take place starting Thursday, April 30 ^th  – through Sunday, May 3 ^rd . A link will be sent out to register to bid the week of the virtual auction and there is no registration fee required to bid. Please feel free to also pass this along to others you may know who would want to support this very important event for our community – grandparents, former St. Cecilia parents, St. Cecilia Alumni, etc. Also, if you registered to attend Auction and have not already done so, please make sure to fill out the Auction ticket update form and let the school know if you will be making your ticket purchase a gift to the school, or requesting a partial or full refund.

Yearbook is in need of any and all 2019-20 school year pictures. Please email pictures to Kimberly Lowrey.

Any academic pictures (egg drop, Greek fest, mystery dinner, etc.)

ORDER YOUR 2019-20 YEARBOOK TODAY! Yearbooks can be purchased HERE. Not sure if an order has already been placed? Click HERE to find out.

Fr. Preston Quintela, our Parochial Vicar, is praying the Holy Rosary nightly via Facebook Live. Send him a friend request to join him.

We know that “Zoom” has been in the news recently and wanted to make sure you were aware of the measures we are taking to protect our students on zoom live lessons.

1.        Zoom links are posted only within a limited access document on google classroom, never on a public page.

2.        Zoom meetings are password protected, and new links are generated for each meeting.

3.        Zoom lessons are utilizing the “Waiting room” feature, admitting students one at a time to ensure that no unauthorized person has access to the zoom call.

4.        Chat functionality between students has been disabled. Students may message the teacher.

5.        Starting this week, multiple teachers are in all Zoom meetings to aid in monitoring. This may reduce the total amount of zoom meetings available.

To help us ensure the safety and security of our students, we are asking that students always join Zoom meetings with their real name so that we can accurately know who we are admitting to the meeting. We will not admit unknown users. We also ask that students have the video enabled so that we can see that we are indeed talking to our students. If your students miss a Zoom lesson, recordings of all Zoom sessions are available through google classroom. We would also like to remind our students of our video conferencing expectations, as outlined HERE .

Heads Up! BrainPOP will be unavailable for use this weekend as it is making improvements to the program. Thanks in advance for your patience. Please check back Tuesday of next week for use and access.

As we continue to embrace everything virtual during this crazy time, we are going to try virtual cheerleading (for the time being)! If you have any interest in CHEER for the 2020-2021 school year, please watch  this video presentation about the St. Cecilia Cheer program. You can also find a PDF of the presentation here (file attached on this email) with important dates at the end of the presentation. Please reach out to Abby Miggins at ASAP if you are interested in Cheer and are not already getting information from her. Try-outs will be virtual this year and Abby can send you all the necessary information to complete your virtual try-out by April 17, 2020.

The St. Agnes/Strake Jesuit Mixed Chorus will hold auditions online this year due to Covid-19, and we look forward to finding the next beautiful voices that will grace this fantastic group! The choir has over 130 students from both St. Agnes Academy and Strake Jesuit. We participate in a wide variety of performances and competitions, including the annual Christmas  Messiah  concert and All-State. Choir members earn the opportunity to go on tour each Spring. Tour 2021 will take us to Boston.  Click HERE  for more information on Mixed Chorus.  Click HERE  for full details on auditions; you will need a gmail account for the online auditions process. Questions may be directed to Asst. Director Mrs. Kimberly Mendoza . Follow this link to hear the choir in action on tour 2019.

We ask for your prayers, to lift up Cindy Candelario and family as they care for her ill father, Ralph. It has been a challenging time to face the difficult decisions to best manage his care and to keep him safe from the coronavirus.