CORRECTION 🙏 The Messenger - May 17, 2019 🙏

May 17, 2019

Dear St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School Families,

Today, your students will come home with their Iowa and CogAT test results. As you recall, our 1st – 8th grade students took these exams in April. The Iowa tests are nationally normed standardized tests that offer educators a diagnostic look at how their students are progressing in key academic areas. The CogAT measures reasoning skills with different types of verbal, quantitative and nonverbal questions. At St. Anthony of Padua, the faculty/staff have looked at the overall performance of all of our students. Then, in grade level meetings, teachers and administration have more closely studied individual scores as we look for trends, celebrate successes and look for areas for improvement. As a school, we are proud of our results. Our goal is to have all scores in the top quarter percentile. We reached this in ELA averaging 81.25%. In Math, we are just below this target at 72.5%. While we are happy with the scores, we are never satisfied --- always hoping to improve. We are committed to the success of our school and our students. Please make plans to attend our Parent Meeting on Wednesday, May 22nd at 8:00 am where you can learn more about the testing program and what the scores mean. Please congratulate your students on their strong performances!

Only by His Grace,

Veronica Tucker

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

Urgent Prayer request for Deacon Ryan Stawaisz

Note: Ryan served his pastoral-year at St. Anthony during the 2016-2017 school year.

"May I ask a favor of all to join me in praying a Novena for Deacon Ryan Stawaisz, whose Ordination to the Priesthood is this June 1, for the Archdiocese of Galveston Houston. He received some upsetting news last week.

Deacon Ryan had hip cancer surgery followed up by chemo several years ago. The cancer was removed and now his doctor found a 3 cm mass in his lung which is inoperable. Dcn. Ryan and his parents met with the oncologist and heard the results on Wednesday. The Dr. has advised for him to begin chemo treatments this coming Wednesday. We are beginning a Novena to St. Peregrine on Monday, May 13th – Tuesday, May 21st and it would be great if everyone would sincerely pray the novena for Dcn. Ryan’s complete healing. St. Peregrine was an Italian monk who had a cancerous sore on his leg. They planned an amputation for Peregrine. The night before the operation, he prayed in front of a crucifix and saw Jesus come down to touch his leg. He woke the next morning completely healed. Therefore, he is the patron of those with cancer.

O great St. Peregrine, you have been called "the Mighty" and "the Wonder-Worker" because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you. For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favored with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady, the cure of these sick persons whom we entrust to you. Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now and for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness and mercy. St. Peregrine, your faith changed the lives of thousands. Help my faith to grow until it, too, becomes a force for good in my world. And, please offer your prayers in union with ours that Ryan is healed of this infirmity. Amen.

Praying the Lord will grant mercy & healing for this young man!! Please share with any other prayer groups! Thank you!!"

From "Thuc" Dominic Nguyen , who will be ordained a Transitional Deacon this Saturday 5/18 - Thuc served his pastoral-year at St. Anthony during the 2017-2018 school year.

ALL-SCHOOL NEWS

PARENT MEETING - IOWA TEST RESULTS

Wednesday, May 22nd at 8:00 am

Join us for a presentation about understanding your child's IOWA test results.

CHARACTER COUNTS NOMINATIONS

May-Fairness

1st-3rd Grades

Luca Veach

Alexis Stamps

Nicholas Girotto

Luke Toma

Jake Waller

Mary Frankovitch

Andrew Oghena

Sammy White

Elsie Enia

Benjamin Martinez

4th-8th Grades

Jesse Hunter

Cameron Piefer

Lia Nelli

Sara Bong

Agustin Mora

Madeline McCollor

Chloe Borrello

David Nelli

Ted Naeher

Catherine Laher

PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION PARENT WORKSHOP

MAY 21 | 6 - 7 PM | AMR (Adult Meeting Room)

If you are a parent of 5th-8th grade student playing sports next school year, please make plans to attend! This is a great program for our families. See the letter for more info.

SPORTS PHYSICALS

May 22 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM | Gym Hallway

St. Anthony of Padua & Memorial Hermann will be offering sports physicals for the upcoming 2019-2020 school year. This is a great opportunity to get these out of the way early!

Play Like a Champion Letter

Athletics Physicals & Form

NURSE'S NOTES

From 5/10/19 to 5/16/19:

05/13/19 | 2A | Pink eye (possible)

05/16-19 | 8A | Pink eye

05/17/19 | PK4B | Pink eye

USED UNIFORMS

If you have used uniforms in good condition from Risse Brothers you may donate them to our Used Uniforms cabinet for use by other school families! Thank you to Mrs. Veach for managing this volunteer project. Please note we are accepting Risse Brothers uniforms only and donations may be brought to the school front desk. THANK YOU!

4TH QUARTER STEWARDSHIP PROJECT

Reminder: This quarter our stewardship project will benefit the Honduras Mission Trip. Students may donate white t-shirts, navy basketball or uniform shorts, and/or lightly used or brand new tennis shoes to donate to the trip.Thank you for supporting this school-wide stewardship project.

INTERNET SAFETY REMINDERS FOR SUMMER BREAK

A reminder to parents to please be diligent over the summer break on what your child is viewing on social media through their devices.

What can parents do? :

Spend time online together to teach your child appropriate online behavior.
Keep an eye on your child’s internet usage.
Consider age appropriateness for child’s use of technology, time spent on social media and overall reminders of family expectations for making good choices.
Ask your child if they know about dangerous online challenges and engage in conversations about safe technology use.
Children should never respond to unidentified messages on social media and parents should advise their children never share personal data, photographs, phone numbers on the internet including creating usernames or IDs with real names/locations
Keep the computer in a common area where you can watch and monitor its use, not in individual bedrooms. Monitor any time spent on smartphones or tables.
Bookmark kids’ favorite sites for easy access.
View the sites your child has access and look for any pop-ups or unsafe advertisements.
Research online apps that monitor your child’s search engine and usage.
If a child is spending the night at a family member or friends ask about their home internet safety measures and usage.

PADUAN PARENTS & VOLUNTEERING

NEW FAMILY AMBASSADOR

Help us welcome new families to our school community and make new friends! You can also earn Paduan Points over the summer!

New Family Ambassador Sign-Up

2020 GALA COMMITTEE

Are you interested in learning more about getting involved with our 2020 Auction Gala?! Join us on Tuesday, May 28th at 2:30 p.m. in the AMR for an informational meeting and learn more about the commitment for next year!