Our mandatory Parent Info night is next Monday, September 27, starting at 7:00 pm. It will take place in room 6B.

Sign-ups are open to all 6th-8th graders. Students received hard copy registration information in class, and details also were emailed home to grade 6-8 families. Registration for 2021-22 is $75 and payment may be made HERE.

Any questions - please contact: speechlead@stlouiseschool.org

Two special evenings only for parents are set for Tuesday, September 28, and Tuesday, October 26. ON each night at 6:30PM in the parish hall, the Parents' Club is sponsoring "Parent Education Classes" for all St. Louise School parents - with friends and neighbors whose children attend other schools also welcome to attend. Click here to register!

Deacon Eric Paige – the director of the Seattle Archdiocese’s Office of Marriage and Family Life - will give presentations and answer your questions both nights on how to deal with unique struggles parents have with their kids.

As an extra incentive to attend, we will be handing out "Free Dress Coupons" at the end of each evening. You can go home that night to hand your child the gift - a coupon that grants them a free dress the next morning (either Sept. 29 or Oct. 27). Regular "free dress rules" apply.

We thank parents in advance for preparing for Friday, October 1, when the school building will be closed but all grade K-8 students will still be learning - albeit from home.

October 1 is our Remote-Learning Day, as St. Louise wants our teachers, students, and parents to be prepared in the event later this school year we have to close school for an extended period of time due to a snow storm or a forced quarantine. We expect all our grade K-8 students to be learning all day at home, while our PreK students will take the day off, and our Kids' Club will be closed.

Parents will be receiving an email from Mr. Fuerte explaining the preparations needed to be taken at home between now and October 1, to make sure your technology is set up for your children to successfully be able to learn remotely. Your children's teachers will also be contacting you with specifics of the day, such as the class schedule for that Friday, which begins as usual at 8:30AM for all K-8 kids.

Thanks again for your cooperation! If we do a good job planning for the unexpected, then when the unexpected hits our school, St. Louise will be ready to quickly transition to virtual classes for an indefinite period.

The fall testing period is approaching. From September 27 through October 8, our 2nd through 7th graders will be given computerized tests that will take them approximately two hours over a two day period. The two content areas we test are mathematics and reading/language usage (grammar and writing).

After we receive each child’s MAP Growth test score results, teachers will be sending the results sheets home to each parent, and will be able to address questions at the November Parent/Teacher Conferences. MAP scores are just one data point that teachers use to determine how a student is performing. We do not “fret” over these scores but use them as one of many ways to assess how your child is progressing in the areas of math and reading/language. There are so many other ways to assess your child’s progress – daily homework assignments, quiz scores, end-of-unit tests, teachers’ comments at conferences, etc. Plus, the MAP test does not assess your child in the areas of science, social studies, physical education, religion, the arts, or in the all-important areas of social skills and faith formation development.

If you would like more information on Map Growth, check out the article “Answers to the Top 6 Questions Parents Ask About the MAP Test”.

If you have questions about St. Louise’s protocol for handling illnesses and absences, please contact me - or school nurse Jane Reynolds, RN, or secretaries Mindy Morgan and Tracy Brown. The following information follows directives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State Department of Health (DOH).

We are excited to announce plans to hire a School Counselor position for the 2021-22 school year at St. Louise Parish School. The School Counselor will be a newly added position who teams with the administration and teachers in supporting all students' personal growth, spiritual development, and academic achievement as each St. Louise student works at being a faith-filled person who has a unique role in building the Kingdom of God.

The candidate must hold or be applying for a professional license issued in a counseling field and must be a practicing Catholic who lives the Catholic faith in both words and lifestyle. To apply, please send a letter of interest and resume to principal Dan Fitzpatrick at danf@stlouiseschool.org. Interested candidates must also apply through the Office for Catholic Schools website at https://mycatholicschool.org/careers-employment/

We are thrilled to be bringing back our annual school musical, with the play to be performed this April being Into the Woods, Jr., a fractured fairytale that comes to life in the woods.

Grade 5-8 students are eligible to try out for cast or crew roles in this musical, with their audition packets due by September 27 to Mrs. L.B., and audition tryouts on September 29 and 30 from 3-5PM. For more information, please contact Mrs L.B. at TerryL@stlouiseschool.org.

Half pint cartons of 1% milk are purchased only through a pre-pay process for the entire year. It is $75 for an entire school-year's supply of milk. If your grade K-8 child (or PreK extended-day child) will be drinking milk at lunch this year, please pre-order and pre-pay online HERE. We ask you to please pre-order milk and pre-pay for the entire year by no later than the end of September.

Additionally, sudents have the option to pre-order school lunches from a school lunch company contracted to provide lunches to St. Louise students – Lunch Ladies. Find out what they serve and how to order HERE.