Weekly Newsletter: October 13, 2019
This Week's Schedule
Wednesday, Oct. 16
  • Fall Open House
  • The EDGE
Thursday, Oct. 17
  • XC Meet 4pm - Lourdes

Friday, Oct. 18
  • End of First Quarter
  • Early Dismissal 1:40pm (lunch and ASE available)
From the PTO
FallFest is right around the corner on October 26, from 5pm-9 pm. Your SBCS PTO has fun planned for the whole family. There will be carnival games, moon bounce, a costume contest, and trunk or treating for the kids and for mom and dad, we have A BBQ dinner and tasty beverages for sale. 

New this year, parents are invited to participate in the chili cook-off! If you think you have an award-winning recipe please sign up to participate today. The best chili will win a $50 gift certificate to ZZQ in Scott's Addition. Sign up through the Sign-Up Genius link below.

Don't forget to dress everyone up in their Halloween spookiest!

Meal Tickets go on sale this Wednesday.

We have two dinner options available:

Pulled Pork BBQ or 1/4 lb All Beef Hot Dog. Prices are $10.00 and $5.00 respectively when you PREORDER before 10/23/19. All meals come with a choice of two sides, a drink & dessert.

We will also have beer & wine wristbands available for purchase.

Keep an eye out in your email for ticket sales.

Volunteers are still needed to make this event a success. Please see the link below.
Grandparent's & Grandfriends Day is Friday, November 15th from 9am-12:30pm

Our Grandparents Day tradition is a sweet morning where these special people in our lives spend the morning with their grandchildren at school. 

The day starts at 8:30 am with a continental breakfast, followed by classroom activities, Mass and a Veteran's Day Tribute performed by the students. 

We need your Grandparent's information so we can send them an invitation with all of the details. W e would like to send invitations to all grandparents and special friends even if they cannot attend. Please visit the following website:


Please complete the form by Monday, October 21st. Please note that this information needs to be provided every year as we do not store it from year to year. Invitations can only be sent to grandparents & friends whose information is collected this year. 

Printed invitations will be sent out the last week of October with the details of the day as well as instructions on how to RSVP. 

If your child's grandparents are unable to attend, they are invited to send a letter for their grandchild to school to be presented to the child on that day.   Letters should be received by November 13 and addressed to:

St. Benedict Catholic School 
ATTN: (Your grandchild's name and grade) for Grandparent's Day
3100 Grove Ave.
Richmond, VA 23221

For more information, please contact Beth Middleton at middletonb820@gmail.com.
Box Tops
I am glad to see that we are getting more receipts scanned in for our Box Tops program. I have seen our number rise through out the school year and hopefully by now everyone has down loaded the App and is using it.

Our first collection of year is fast approaching so keep clipping those coupons. I will be collecting all the Box Tops on October 24th. Make sure you put the house name that you children are in so their house gets credit towards the house system as well as the prize to the house with the most Box Tops turned in.

The winner will be announced sometime in November. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at j amesphillips07@verizon and I will be happy to try and help out.

Thanks,

James Phillips (Grandfather, Aubrey Phillips 4th Grade)
100 Acts of Service...
SHOE DRIVE THIS WEEK!
What if the shoes you no longer want could help create jobs people need? They can! That’s why we’re excited to announce that we have joined forces with the non-profit Soles4Souls and are launching a shoe drive THIS WEEK to help Wear Out Poverty.

Drop off your new and gently-worn shoes to the collection box in the lobby from October 14 - 21st and help us help others in need!

A few of our 8th graders helped package shoes this summer at the Soles4Souls facility here in Richmond! Way to go Comets! Let's do this!
Don't Miss Your Grade's
Coffee with Mr. Cruess
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Thank you to all of the parents who turned out for our recent Coffee with Mr. Cruess! We met with our new families in September to help them get settled into their new school, and this month we focused on our middle school parents.

We talked with our 7th & 8th grade parents last week about researching and planning for high school, how the process works, and what you need to know now to stay on track for graduation. Our 6th grade parents met this past Wednesday and Mr. Cruess and Mrs. Cisik discussed all things middle school...research papers, exams, managing lockers, workloads and much, much more.

These are always helpful conversations and help to keep us all on the same team - working for the success of our students! Next up is November's Coffee for our 5th grade parents where we will talk with Mr. Cruess, Mrs. Cisik and Mrs. Herrity about helping our children to get ready for making the transition into 6th grade next year. 
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Ministry & Events
St. Benedict Parish Religious Education for grades Kindergarten through 5th takes place on Sunday mornings from 9:45am-10:45am at St. Benedict Catholic School.

The next several classes are Sundays October 13, 20, and 27
Edge, St Benedict Parish Middle School Youth Ministry and Religious Education, takes place on Wednesday nights in St. Anselm Hall from 6:30pm to 8:00pm.

The next several meetings are Wednesdays October 9, 16, 23, and 30.
Contact Rob Hamrick at  rhamrick@saintbenedictparish.org  for more information on K-5 Religious Education or Edge
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