Weekly announcements to help parents and students stay informed about important news and events.
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Dear Parents and Students:
Please keep these dates in mind:
- Parent Feedback Sessions - This Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. in the Library: Each class division will have a member of the leadership team facilitating the session.
- Re-Registration for the 19-20 school year: An email will be sent by the Registrar's Office, Mrs. Rochlin, on Monday, April 29; the registration fee is due by Sunday, May 12.
Welcome to the month of April! What a busy and exciting time April is for our community at SJND! In a few weeks, Mrs. Taylor will be leading a delegation of students and chaperones to the Galapagos Islands, where our own SJND students will have the opportunity to explore the very islands where Charles Darwin performed his experiments which led to his theory of evolution. Our SJND students will have the same opportunity to conduct research as part of their voyage of discovery.
Travel and exploration - and it doesn't have to be an airplane ride to the Galapagos Islands - is another form of education beyond the classroom; in fact, it extends what is learned in the SJND classroom. All of us can get in a car, hop on a BART train, or take a bus or train into a local art museum, historical site, or famous destination and learn from exploring and seeing with your own eyes what you may have learned in the classroom.
For example, this past weekend, after Sunday mass, my wife and I drove the kids to Stanford University in Palo Alto. I wanted to see the Department of Psychology and the site of the “infamous” Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Professor Philip Zimbardo back in the 70s. My daughters also had the opportunity to walk the campus of one of the premier universities in our world.
I am proud that SJND offers, through various vendors, educational travel opportunities to expand the learning beyond the classroom. Mr. Rosso’s Close Up Trip and the Summer Service Immersion Trip are two other opportunities for our SJND students to experience history and the ability to serve others through their travel.
As always, thank you for all that you do! Go Pilots!
Mr. Jennings
Principal
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Upcoming Events & Deadlines
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- Senior Parent Prayer Service and Breakfast: Saturday, April 6, 9:30 a.m.
- Senior Parent Meeting: Tuesday, April 9, 7:00 p.m. in Notre Dame Hall
- International Student Host Family Information Night: Monday, April 29, 7:00 p.m.
- Spring Festival of Art: Tuesday, April 30, 7:00 p.m.
- Spring Festival of Music: Thursday, May 2, 7:00 p.m.
- Re-Registration Form and Fee Due (Returning Students): Sunday, May 12
- You will receive the online form on April 29.
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- REMINDER - Upcoming Senior Parent Events
- Senior Parent Prayer Service and Breakfast on Saturday: Senior Families are invited to this special event honoring the Class of 2019 this Saturday, April 6 at 9:30 a.m. If you have any questions, please contact Julie Guevara at jguevara@sjnd.org.
- Mandatory Senior Parent Meeting: All senior parents are required to attend this meeting in Notre Dame Hall at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9.
- Save the Date - Host Family Information Night: Interested in learning more about becoming a host family to a SJND international student? Please join SJND and our partners at the Cambridge Network for a Host Family Information Night on Monday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m. at SJND (exact location TBA). Interested members of the local community are also invited to attend. Please RSVP to Gabi Lippi at glippi@sjnd.org so we can plan accordingly.
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- Parents Association Service Scholarship: Any SJND student who has demonstrated a commitment to service is invited to apply for the SJND Parents Association Service Scholarship. Scholarship winners may earn up to $1,000. Submissions are due April 15, 2019. Apply now!
- Parents Association Lenten Service Opportunity: The Parents Association offers opportunities throughout the school year to get involved in community service with your family and meet other SJND families. One of the components of the Integral Student Outcomes is in being a Moral Individual:
“Work and make decisions to foster the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of self, family, community, and the wider world.”
You and your student (and family) can make a difference by helping with the East Bay Regional Park District's
Earth Day event on Saturday, April 20 from 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline
on Doolittle Drive (between Alameda and the Airport). If interested in serving with the SJND Parent Association, please sign up via the link below.
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If you are unable to join us at MLK Regional Shoreline, there are Earth Day event sites at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline in Richmond and at Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve on the same day. We can make a difference all over the East Bay! If you want to volunteer at another site, please
click here
to reserve your space or call 1.888.327.2757.
- Ray Ratto Scholarship - All Senior SJND Athletes: Senior Athletes are invited to apply for the Ray Ratto Sr. Athletic Booster Scholarship Award. Mr. Ratto was born and raised in Alameda, and graduated from Alameda High School in 1945. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was a lifelong farmer and part of the 100-year-old family business, Ratto Bros., which is still in existence today. In his earlier years, he volunteered with the Boy Scouts and was a member of St. Joseph High School's school board. Ray truly embraced the community of St. Joseph's as an usher and active parishioner. More than anything, Ray cherished his family and friends. He was a loving, caring, generous and wonderful man with a welcoming heart. After Mr. Ratto's passing in November of 2011, the SJND Booster Club started a scholarship for graduating senior athletes in his honor. From all of the applicants, one male athlete and one female athlete will be chosen to receive an award of $500 each. The application deadline for the Ray Ratto Sr. Athletic Booster Scholarship Award is May 1st 2019. Click here to apply.
- Junior and Senior Students - Join the Junior Chamber!
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- Counseling:
- Ms. Yee will visit junior English classes this week for her final Counselors in the Classroom college counseling session on College Applications and Essays. Juniors will learn about the various applications, deadlines and essays they may need this fall. Individual college counseling meetings continue.
- Seniors should continue to check all scholarship opportunities posted on the front page of Naviance.
- Check out local information sessions and college fairs for prospective students here.
- Ms. Yee will be off-campus April 3-5 for a counselor fly-in program at Loyola Maryland in Baltimore.
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Looking for summer activities for children entering grades 3-9? Registration for SJND Summer Discovery and Summer Academics are now open!
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