🙏 The Messenger - February 25, 2022 🙏

February 25, 2022

Dear Families of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School,

Today, your student (Kindergarten – 8th grade) is coming home with their Middle-of-Year NWEA Testing results. This testing was completed in early February. The report coming home will allow you to track your individual student’s growth since his/her September testing. Once again, our students performed very well. We are thrilled that in every category at every grade level, our grade level averages exceeded the national averages. Additionally, in all but one section, we exceeded the average scores of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. You can see this information in the charts below:

(Note that the numbers displayed are RIT scores developed by NWEA.)

As parents, you can also visit https://www.nwea.org/the-map-suite/family-toolkit/ to better understand the test, reporting and ways to help your student. If you have questions about your student’s results, please reach out to his/her teacher.

Only by His Grace,

Veronica Tucker

Principal

ALL-SCHOOL NEWS

WEATHER CHANGES

If we need to reschedule the Family Movie Night due to rain, we will notify all school families by email on Saturday, Feb. 26th. Please check your email for updates.

Thank you for helping make this annual joint event with the Knights of Columbus a success!

PARENTS: There are opportunities to bring in baked goods for selling at the Fish Fry. You may track 1 Paduan Point for donating items to the Fish Fry. Additionally, if you volunteer at the Fish Fry you may track 1 Paduan Point per hour.

Please individually package cookies, bars, brownies for individual sale. Items will be sold for $1 each.
Cakes, cupcakes, and pies will be sliced and packaged for individual sale, or sold whole.

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS: There are opportunities below to assist the Knights during the fish fry at the baked goods table. Middle School students who volunteer are eligible for service hours.

SIGN-UP GENIUS: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f45a8af29a6fc1-stations3

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS FISH FRY | 5-7 PM | Each Friday during Lent

Dinner Plate includes: 2 Fried Catfish Filets, French Fries, Hush Puppies, Cole Slaw, Tartar Sauce and Lemon. Cost per plate dinner is $14.00. School Fish Fry is March 4th.

Thank you sincerely to Tessa Stuckey for speaking with the parents of St. Anthony! If you were unable to attend, we highly recommend making it a priority to attend her upcoming local speaking event.

April 13 | McCullough Jr. High School, The Woodlands | 6:30 PM (date correction!)

Ms. Stuckey was able to speak with our middle school students this week for Internet Safety Week. She was also kind enough to share a list of resources to help with parenting in a tech-obsessed world.

Parent Resources:

Books:

For the Sake of Our Youth: A Therapist’s Perspective on Raising Your Family in Today’s Culture by Tessa Stuckey (Amazon Link)
Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras (Amazon Link)

Websites/Social Media:

Documentaries:

Childhood 2.0- found on YouTube and Amazon Prime (https://www.childhood2movie.com/)

PHOTO SHARING

Do you have great photos of Athletics or school events that you'd like to share for use in our yearbook or in school media? Please upload photos to our school Dropbox at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/FempJtk0mApnkMAr3OjV. Photos can be uploaded at anytime before the end of the school year. Thank you for helping us showcase our students! If you have questions, please contact Mrs. Tressel at advancement@staopcs.org.

NURSE'S NOTES

We will continue to work closely with our local Health Department officials and the Catholic Schools Office to ensure the safety of our students and staff should the school experience a positive case of COVID-19. Please see the attached document regarding screening of your students and on-campus requirements should someone test positive for COVID-19.

Parents, please call or e-mail attendance@staopcs.org and Mrs. Pavlock (lpavlock@staopcs.org) if a child is out for illness.
REMINDER: Students must stay home if a household member is being tested for COVID and must remain out until results have returned.

ON-CAMPUS REQUIREMENTS

SCREENING QUESTIONNAIRE (updated 12.29.21)

DNN - Feb. 25th

PADUAN PARENTS

STAFF LUNCHEON - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

Our Paduan Parent Coordinators are organizing another staff luncheon for the faculty of STAOPCS and they need assistance with providing desserts, chips & drinks! Thanks for volunteering!

STAFF LUNCHEON - MARCH 9TH

LIBRARY VOLUNTEERING

The library is a great place to help out around campus! Volunteer opportunities include helping with shelving or weekly assistance and checkout with classes. All help is appreciated. In compliance with the Archdiocesan policy on volunteerism, ALL volunteers must complete Safe Environment Training (https://ap.school/safe-environment-training). Click the Sign-Up Genius link to sign-up for volunteering the rest of this year. Some of our Library times have changed. Thank you! Any questions, contact Mrs. Morgan, Library Manager, dmorgan@staopcs.org.

LIBRARY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

RUN FOR THE ROSES GALA

AUCTION DONATIONS & REGISTRY

We need your help to make our gala baskets and auction AMAZING!! To ensure proper recognition at the auction and on our Gala website (apschool.givesmart.com), please submit your donations no later than March 11, 2022.

WINE, BEER, LIQUOR DRIVE - March 7-11

Help us stock our auction with bottles of quality bourbon, wine, and craft beer and/or gift cards to Spec’s or Total Wine.
Gala Committee members will collect in carline March 7-11.

To make shopping even easier, our gala committee has put together an Amazon Gift Registry (https://www.amazon.com/wedding/share/runfortheroses) featuring many of the items we would like to include in our auction baskets/themes. Items may be shipped directly to the school or dropped off at the front desk anytime during school hours. Please include your family's name with your donations/gift cards so that we can provide proper donation acknowledgment.

AUCTION BASKET THEMES

AMAZON REGISTRY

GALA PARTIES & SOCIALS

We are excited to announce more Gala Parties & Socials!

UPCOMING PARTIES & SOCIALS:

Friday, March 4th - LEGO PARTY - 1st - 4th Grade Students (SOLD OUT)

Tuesday, March 22nd - PICNIC WITH FATHER JESSE - 2nd Grade

Friday, March 25th - GLOW SKATE PARTY - 5th Grade

Thursday, March 31st - TIE-DYE PARTY - 3rd-8th Grade

Friday, April 1st - WILDLIFE PARTY - 3rd Grade

Sunday, April 3rd - POLO PARTY - Adult (SOLD OUT)

Saturday, April 9th - KICK IT WITH NAEHER - 4th Grade

Saturday, April 9th - CRAWFISH BOIL - Adult (SOLD OUT)

NEW - Saturday, May 7th - CINCO DE MAYO FIESTA - Adult

To purchase multiple party spots visit: PARTIES & SOCIALS.

GALA HOTEL ROOM DISCOUNT

The Woodlands Resort has provided us a discount on rooms that are reserved for our April 23rd Gala. To book a room using this code, follow the instructions below:

1. Go to Woodlandsresort.com

2. Put in dates of stay (April 23, 2022).

3. Click Special Rates

4. Type in Group Code P5

5. Click Update and proceed to book the room.