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Friday, September 11th - Packer Day, Out-of-Uniform (Wear your Green & Gold!)
Saturday, September 12th - First Holy Communion
Tuesday, September 22nd - Picture Retakes
Tuesday, September 22nd - Cafe Zupas Fundraiser
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Family Prayer
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Forgive your neighbor’s faults, and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven.
- The Book of Sirach is concerned with anger and quarreling.
- If we refuse to forgive, then who will forgive us?
- Refusal is a deliberate choice and it shapes a sinner’s life.
Whether alive or dead, we belong to the Lord.
- We belong to God, not to ourselves.
- We live not be our own power, but by the creative power of God and the mercy given us through Christ’s Resurrection.
- We have no right to judge one another.
- Judgment belongs to God alone. By God’s mercy we have been granted the power to forgive.
I did not say to forgive seven times but seventy times seven.
- Vengeance must not be multiplied, but instead forgiveness should be multiplied.
- God is forgiving; we are made in God’s image.
- God will judge us by the measure of our forgiveness of one another.
- Our mutual forgiveness will reveal how the image of God lives in us.
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A Message from Mrs. Laidlaw Otto
Dear SJE Families,
A crucial part of our fall back-to-school meeting is the introduction of our parent committees. These committees are the backbone of our school - they support learning by helping to plan for programming, ensuring consistency in our school policies and funding classroom and special activities. If we had met in person, representatives from these committees would have stood up and spoken about their work, asking for help from our school parents on their various projects.
With that in mind, I am asking our families to review the goals of our Home and School Association today. This group of hardworking parents have a twofold mission:
- To support our school mission statement:
“We are St. John the Evangelist, a community modeling and nurturing Catholic values and academic excellence in partnership with families.”
The Home and School Association works to plan and execute events that provide fellowship opportunities for our school families. Pre-pandemic, we would have started our year with a September tailgate party for families, celebrated Halloween with our popular annual Trunk or Treat event, and then moved on to our V.I.P. day in conjunction with our celebration of All Saint’s day. We don’t know when we will be able to celebrate together as a school community, but our Home and School Committee continues to meet and plan for these events.
2. To raise funds supporting programming for our students and families.
Fundraising is a crucial part of the mission of our Home and School, and is more of a challenge than ever due to the pandemic. Our calendar raffle will be coming home soon, and we continue to research other ideas for easy, no contact fundraisers.
This hardworking committee meets monthly. They are in need of help planning and executing events and fundraisers that will engage our families and support our school. If you could spare some time, and would be able to help this group, please contact me via email: principal@sje.school, for more information.
Have a great week!
Mary Laidlaw Otto
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Congratulations to our 3rd graders
who will be receiving
First Holy Communion on Saturday!
Justine C.
Isabella C.
Geoffrey C.
James C.
Giuseppe G.
Francesco G.
Conor J.
Margaret M.
Adam P.
Juliana R.
Scott S.
Joshua S.
Noah S.
Dirk W.
Henry Z.
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School Communication Updates
As we move forward with our implementation of Google classroom, we have some changes to announce to you. Our teacher emails have been updated onto the google platform. All teaching staff are now using email addresses comprised of first initial last name, @sje.school.
Example: rheise@sje.school
For the foreseeable future, our old email addresses, @sje.k12.wi.us, will be forwarding to the new addresses. You can help by updating your address books to the new, sje.school addresses.
Thank you!
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Covid-19 Update
Thank you to all of our families for your support as we implement the state mask mandate. Our students, with plenty of reminders, do a good job of wearing their masks in school. Please make sure that you are laundering masks regularly, and that your student’s masks fit reasonably well. Masks that are too large, too small, or have been worn for several days are uncomfortable for students and cause them to remove or play with them throughout the day. A well-fitting mask easily covers both the nose and the mouth, and stays on without constant adjustment.
Remember, our goal is to keep our students and staff healthy and our school open. Wearing masks supports this goal.
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Thermometers
We anticipate at sometime moving to a system where we will require our parents to take their children's temperature at home before coming to school, instead of school personnel doing so in the morning carline. We have been given a limited number of thermometers from the Greenfield Health Department. If you do not have a reliable thermometer at home, please let Mrs. Kaminski know and she will send one home.
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Prizes needed!
We are in need of prizes for students who have completed the SJE summer reading challenge. Prizes do not need to be elaborate or expensive. Our students enjoy art materials, small football or soccer balls, and locker accessories.
Gift cards to Target, Half-price books, or Walmart in $10 denominations are also extremely popular.
Donations can be sent to the office marked “summer reading rewards”.
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Summer Reading Program
If your child completed the summer reading challenge, they will be eligible for a prize drawing to be held later this month. The deadline to turn in the summer reading logs is Monday, September 14th.
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Our music program needs your help!
Our music program is in need of some supplies. We are looking for 20 plastic buckets. They can be anywhere from two gallons to five gallons. They do not need to be new, but they must be clean. If you are able to donate a bucket or two, please send them to school with your student.
Thank you!
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St. John the Evangelist School
414-321-8540
Fax: 414-321-4450
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