Meet our New Alumni! Congrats Grads!
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Reopening Team Update
I am pleased to announce that plans for reopening school are advancing rapidly. The School Board and Father John David have spent the last week reviewing our plan and offering comments. Over the next week we will finalize our plan for submission to the Diocese, VCPE, the Virginia Department of Health, and the VDOE. Once we have made our submissions and have Diocesan approval we will publish our plan to the community. In anticipation, we have scheduled a town hall to review the plan and answer your questions on the first week of August. We will have a date and time confirmed shortly to share with you, so you can plan to be available. Enjoy the rest of your summer!
Reminder: Registration Packets!
Returning families, at the Summer Send Off you received a packet of forms (in a bright yellow envelope) for you to update and return by July 1.
(Registration - 1 per student, Health Clinic - 1 per student, Testing form - 1 per student, Family Information - 1 per household, Parent Involvement Program - 1 per family). We are holding off on the Handbook and Transportation Forms until we have completed more of the planning for the fall - please don't turn those in now. New students will also need to submit a Demographic Form (available on our website
HERE
).
You can drop off the forms in the mailbox at the bottom of the front stairs at school. If you have not yet returned your forms,
please do so as soon as possible
. Thank you!
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Classroom Supply Kits
If you don't want to have to go school supply shopping this August, make sure to order your child's School Supply Kits from our PTO!
Deadline to do so is THIS Friday, July 24th.
Below is the link for each grade level:
PTO Updates
The PTO would like to welcome both Courtney Donner & Kevin Clark to the Board. Courtney will be serving as our Secretary and Kevin as Member at Large. Thank you to both for serving our school community in this capacity!
We are still searching for a parent to help coordinate our fundraising efforts with community organizations including Kroger, BoxTops for Education, Amazon and others.
This passive form of fundraising has the potential to bring in thousands of dollars per school year when utilized to its fullest!
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Welcome New Families and New Siblings!
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NEW FAMILY ORIENTATION IS WEDNESDAY, JULY 29TH on Zoom from 8-9am!
Please plan now to join us. We'll review all that you need to know to get ready for Back to School this fall! The Zoom link will be sent to all new families on Monday of that week. The session will be recorded and emailed out, in case you are not available. In the meantime, here are some helpful links to:
Should you have any questions, please reach out to Gretchen at admissions@ saintbenedictschool.org who will be happy to help!
Junior Kindergarten Uniforms
Reminder! Junior Kindergarten students will now be wearing standard school uniforms beginning this Fall. Please refer to our uniform guidelines on our website
HERE
.
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Summer Reading
We want our students to enjoy a relaxing summer
and
we want to make sure that they are reading good books and practicing their math facts along the way! Our Middle School students will also have a keyboarding certification to complete.
Be sure to check out what you will need to do over the summer now, so you can plan your time accordingly! Our summer reading is available on our website
here
.
Back to School Dates for your Calendar
Monday, August 24th
will be our Welcome Fair (Re-imagined!)
Tuesday, August 25th
will be the 1st Day of School for all students! 12pm dismissal for JK & K, full day 1-8
Wednesday, August 26th
- 12pm dismissal for JK & K, full day 1-8
Thursday, August 27th
- full day all students
Yearbooks ARE still available!
Yearbooks have arrived! To purchase a yearbook, fill out the google form - see link below. Please fill out 1 form per yearbook.
There are 3 ways to get your yearbook:
- pick up from the side porch of the church
- have it mailed to your home address ($5 shipping fee)
- receive it in the fall from your homeroom teacher
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SBCS hopes to offer several sports this fall, including elementary soccer and middle school flag football and cross county. Our ability to do so, however, will depend upon forthcoming diocesan health guidelines. In the meantime, please fill out the parent survey so we can gauge community interest in our usual sports offerings. This is a survey to measure interest only; should we get the go-ahead from the diocese, we will follow up with formal registration.
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Important Admissions Update
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Because of the understandable uncertainty at public schools and the challenges they are facing with re-opening plans for this fall, private schools - including ours - have been very busy taking admissions calls. We have been receiving MANY referrals this summer from SBCS families, and we are so grateful! Several of our grades are on the verge of being waitlisted (and a few already are)!
If you refer a friend, you'll receive a $75 tuition credit! How it works: You will receive a $75 (2020-21) tuition credit on the first day of school for every new family that starts the school year
and
who listed you as having referred them to Saint Benedict. Only one $75 referral credit will be awarded for each new family. If the new family mentions multiple families on their application, only the first family listed will get the credit.
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Please keep them coming!!
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As a parent and as a special education teacher, I appreciate the way that you all don't just give up on kids or toss them aside when they don't fall right in with the routine. You all are willing to work with them, pray for them, and support them, and that is something that is absent from many school systems, unfortunately, and that is what I appreciate the most. - Tamara, Mom of Rising 7th Grader
We've been so blessed to receive such kind words of support from families! With school being closed,
please know how important it is for us to be able to continue sharing those testimonials with the broader community.
If you have a minute and can send a few words about what your family appreciates about St. Benedict to Gretchen at
admissions@saintbenedictschool.org
it would be VERY appreciated and you will receive
1 PTO Volunteer Hour for the 20-21 school year!
That's an easy hour and does SO MUCH GOOD for your school in this time! THANK YOU!!
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Principal - Sean Cruess
(scruess@saintbenedictschool.org)
Administrative - Pam Autry
(pautry@saintbenedictschool.org)
Financial/Technical - Elizabeth Hanson
(ehanson@saintbenedictschool.org)
Admissions/Development/Communications - Gretchen Ridgely
(gridgely@saintbenedictschool.org)
If you need to stop by the school, PLEASE CALL THE OFFICE FIRST
at 254-8850 or email pautry@saintbenedictschool.org.
Our school is a construction site right now and our office hours vary based on work currently underway.
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Nurses Corner...Get Ready for Fall!
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It is a state requirement that
all students
entering Kindergarten and new to the school in grades 1-8
have a physical, including up-to-date immunizations, completed by their local doctor within the year. There is a state-mandated form (
found on the school website here
) that needs to be completed by the doctor at that visit.
We will need an immunization record from a health provider for
all incoming JK students
.
All students entering 6th grade
are required to receive a Tdap booster and must provide the clinic with a copy of this immunization update.
And a reminder to all students with emergent/as needed medications kept in the clinic, such as Epipens and inhalers, the required medication administration forms, found on the
school website
, need to be completed by a physician within the year.
All of the above forms are required for the first day of school (but turning them in sooner is greatly appreciated). Stay healthy!
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Time to get ready for next year!
The Business office is in the process of setting up incidental billing.
As a reminder you will have two FACTS accounts, one for tuition and one for incidentals. FACTS is our student accounts system of record and all charges and payments are recorded there.
Incidental charges (including ASE and Early Arrival) will be entered in FACTS and be due on 5th of the month. Unlike the tuition account, the incidental account can be changed so payments are not automatic.
Incidental invoice emails will contain a payment button that allows you to make payment without logging into to your FACTS account. Consequently, the email can be forwarded to allow someone else to make payment if you desire.
For 2020-2021, families who are paying tuition in one lump payment will pay $10 to have both a tuition account and an incidental account. Families who are paying tuition monthly will pay $45 to have both a tuition account and an incidental account. Families who need a second incidental account will pay $10 the additional account.
If you make a partial payment, it is applied proportionally to charges that are due. If you need the payment applied another way, you should make the payment by phone with a FACTS representative or send in payment to the school office.
FACTS Payments:
If you need to adjust a payment date you have the following options:
1. Log into FACTS and
-- for payments on the tuition plan, move the payment up to 10 days yourself
-- for payments on the incidental plan, you can turn off automatic payments
2. Email
ehanson@saintbenedictschool.org
. You will normally get a response within 3 hours, but you should allow 24 hours. Be as specific as you can with your request.
(Please be advised, that if you call FACTS, the first thing they will ask is if you have reached out to the school.)
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