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Eagle News - November 7, 2019
Important Dates for November:

November 8 - Sports Team Accessory Day
November 10-15 Book Fair Week
November 10 - Book Fair Kick Off - Story Time 9:15 am
November 11 - Red, White and Blue Accessory Day
November 12 - Arctic/Winter Accessory Day / Food Truck Night @ Book Fair 4:00-7:00 pm
November 13 - 6th Grade Field Trip / Fall Sports Pictures
November 14 - 1st Grade Grandparent's Day / K-4 School Mass
November 18 - Prospective Student Tour Day
November 20 - Reconciliation 6:00 pm
November 21 - All School Mass / 1st Grade Field Trip / 4th Grade Retreat / Spotlight Performance 6:00
November 22 - PreK Grandparent's Day / K Thanksgiving Feast 1:45 pm
November 25-29 Thanksgiving Holidays
Important Details
Annual Fund Update

Sincere thanks to all parents, grandparents, and faculty and staff members who made a gift or commitment to this year’s Annual Fund. Because of your generosity, we will definitely make substantial improvements to technology on the STM campus. Our students will benefit directly from these gifts!

We will include a list of all participants and a total of all gifts and commitments in next week’s newsletter. Later, we will provide a full financial accounting of the technology resources obtained through Annual Fund donations.

If you have any questions about the Annual Fund, please direct them to Dr. Greg Brandao ( greg@stmchurch.org ). Many thanks!
November Service Project - Baton Rouge Food Bank

For our November Service Project, STM will be collecting canned goods to benefit the Baton Rouge Food Bank. We would like to support our local food bank during November as they prepare for Thanksgiving and the winter months. Please prayerfully consider contributing to our food drive.  The drive began on November 1 and will end on November 22.  There are food bank boxes spread about campus for students to place their donations. Thank you for your support!
Scholastic Book Fair
Arctic Adventure... Snow Much to Read !
November 10-14

Come shop during our open hours:

Sunday, November 10 - 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Monday, November 11 - 7:30 am - 3:30 pm
Tuesday, November 12 - 7:30 am - 7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 13 - 7:30 am - 3:30 pm
Thursday, November 14 - 7:30 am - 3:30 pm
Friday, November 15 - 7:30 am - 1:00 pm

Special Events:

Sunday, November 10 - 9:15 am - Story Time
Tuesday, November 12 - Arctic/Winter Accessory Day / Food Trucks 4-7 pm

Food Trucks: The Lemonade Bus, Geaux Cuban, Big Cheezy, and Taco De Paco

Volunteers are needed for our annual book fair.
CLICK HERE to volunteer.
Fall Sports Pictures - November 13

Barberito Photographers (BPI) will be at St. Thomas More on November 13th to photograph all Fall Athletic individuals and team portraits (Cross Country, Girls Basketball, and Football).

BPI will be ready to take individual and team portraits at 3:00 in the gym. Parents, this is a pre-paid portrait program. Therefore, only students who turn in a physical order form on the athletic picture day will be photographed for individuals. Order forms will be distributed prior to the fall sports picture day. A Barberito Photographers' representative will be onsite with extra order forms.

Please send your child  with the  appropriate athletic attire according to your coach /school .  They will have time to change after dismissal.   Pictures will conclude at 4:30 pm.  Please pick them up outside of the gym. Teams will be photographed in the order in which the entirety of the team is available. Uniforms will be turned in after pictures.

If you have questions, please call Barberito Photographers at 504-455-6818. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on picture day!
Spotlight Performance: "The Mystery of the Missing Ring"
Thursday, November 21 at 6:00 pm

STM's Spotlight, Sr. Drama Club, will perform,
"T he Mystery of the Missing Ring ", a good old-fashioned "Who Dunnit".
Guaranteed lots of laughs!
Angel Tree Project - Volunteers Needed

The Angel Tree Project is very blessed to have the volunteers who have signed up to assist with a task to help make this project a success. We are still in need of volunteers for multiple things. Please take a look at the signup genius below to determine if you are able to be part of this amazing project. May each of you be blessed.  

Reminders
Uniform Reminders

  • Students may wear STM logo sweatpants in lieu of uniform shorts, pants, or skirts with the regular school uniform on any day other than a Mass day from November 1 - February 29. Regular uniform with the sweatpants includes shirt, sweatshirt, socks, navy or white tights or leggings, and shoes.

  • School Mass Uniform - Out of respect for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, Girls must wear their jumpers, skirts, skorts, or long pants. Boys must wear long pants with the uniform shirt tucked in. Boys are required to wear pants to Mass from October 1 - April 30.
The STM Spirit Shop closes tonight, November 7, at midnight.

To order sweatshirts, sweatpants, and spirit shirts, visit  bsnteamsports.com  
and use access code STMSWEAT2.
Grandparent's Day - Request for Information

We are updating our database for communicating Grandparent's Day events throughout the year. If you have not already done so, please click on the link below to submit the Grandparent Form. CLICK HERE
STM Directory

Within Plus Portals, is the STM Directory. We hope that all families will "Opt In" to the directory. The link below is a short video of how it works. I did it for my child, and it took one minute.

Why should we do this as parents? 

This is how your child will be invited to birthday parties! This is how your room parent can communicate with you! This is another way to stay connected at STM!


Please take a moment to join now.
In-Parish Tuition

Just a friendly reminder about the $400 annual donation to STM Church in order to be considered in-parish for tuition for next year. The deadline to make this donation is December 31, 2019.
Holiday Camps
Holiday Camps

Holiday camps will be available on the STM campus for Thanksgiving break, Christmas break, Mardi Gras break, and Easter break this year. All enrolled students at STM in Grades PreK3-8th will be eligible to attend the holiday camps.

The camps will be run by STM Extended Care Director, Kelly Coreil, through her KidCam Program. These holiday camps are not STM camps and registration will occur through KidCam. STM is the host site for these KidCam camps, and only STM students will be invited to register.

More details will be sent out soon, and all questions about holiday camps may be directed to Kelly Coreil via e-mail at  coreilk@stmbr.org . 
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