Weekly Bulletin 3-9-22

St. Brendan Weekly Bulletin

March 9, 2022

The mission of St. Brendan Catholic School, in partnership with parents, is to empower our students to act as leaders and Disciples of Christ, use their God-given gifts in service to the Church and community, and achieve academic excellence.

From the Principal

Dear St. Brendan families,

Today you received an auction ticket in your Wednesday envelope. We are thrilled to bring this event back in person this year. This is truly one of my favorite events of the school year as our community comes together to support our school in so many wonderful ways. I encourage all of our families to attend this event. Please get your ticket orders in early this year! We have more parents than we do seats and we are expecting this event to reach capacity.

This Friday we will not have school as it is an Archdiocesan Mental Health Day for all of our teachers and staff. I am grateful to our teachers and staff for their unwavering commitment to our students and our families. I thank them for their tireless efforts to provide students with rich learning opportunities even amid the many new health and safety protocols of the past few school years. We know from Sacred Scripture that after a period of apostolic activity, Jesus invited his apostles to a time of rest and renewal with himself: “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” (Mark 6:31). We hope our teachers and staff enjoy this well-deserved day off.

This month we will welcome spring. Oh, glorious spring! The weather will soon get warmer and the days will get longer. As we continue through the second half of our school year, and into spring, we continue our work to support positive socialization and positive school culture with our students. School environments sometimes see unexpected behaviors rise during the spring of the school year - the so called "spring fever." Any school teacher can tell you that "spring fever" exists, and student behavior and attitudes at school sometimes begin to shift. This Lenten season is a good time to reflect and refocus on who we are as a Catholic school community. It is a good time to take notice of how we are treating others, and to make resolutions to be helpful and kind to one another. Parents are partners in this work and we trust that you are supporting your child's growth in living up to our school values and the virtues we practice each month. If ever you hear about or see something that does not live up to our school norms and expectations, please reach out to your classroom teacher, as this will allow us to work with students to reteach and support growth.

As a reminder, in accordance with the guidance from the King County Department of Public Health, St. Brendan Catholic School will transition to optional mask-wearing starting next week. This applies to all students, staff, and visitors. We recognize that there are going to be individuals who are in favor of wearing masks, and there are going to be those who are ready to remove the masks. We understand and support both decisions. The school, like you, is eager to strike the right balance between safety and normalcy for our students and staff.

Thank you for all that you do to support our students and staff!

Blessings,

Catherine Shumate

Catholic Corner

Last month’s guessing jar was focused on the display of the virtue of Cheerfulness by St. Philip Neri. The jar was appropriately filled with “Jolly” Ranchers. Anela in 3^rd grade had the closest guess of 115 candies to the actual number of 118. Congratulations Anela and best of luck to the other 96 guessers this month!

This month’s virtue is temperance: enjoying things in a proper, balanced way. Our saint of the month is Venerable Matt Talbot. Matt is a perfect saint for March since he is Irish (St. Patrick’s day!), and perfect for Lent as he exemplified prayer, fasting, and acts of penance! Matt Talbot spent 15 years of his life as an alcoholic, drinking daily and sometimes stealing to feed his addiction. However, he eventually “took the pledge” to become sober, and stayed sober for the rest of his life! If you know someone who struggles with alcohol or drug addiction, Ven Matt Talbot is a perfect saint to pray to for his intercession! Click to read the guessing jar story. Practice the virtue of temperance at home with THESE suggestions.

Venerable Matt Talbot, help me to use and enjoy in a balanced way the good things God has given, with gratitude for His generosity and respect for His creation. Please pray for me and for my friends, that we will be strong in the virtue of temperance, and turn to God for help in times of temptation. Amen. Venerable Matt Talbot, pray for us.

St. Patrick’s Day Snake Hunt

Legend says that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, and that is why there are no snakes in Ireland to this day!

In honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, on Thursday, March 17, we will re-enact St. Patrick’s work by driving the snakes out of St. Brendan School!

Please encourage your child to join us on the playground during recess. Hundreds of snakes (all fake!) will be hidden all over the playground (big toy/swings area).

If you would like to earn some easy volunteer hours, please join us on Thursday, March 17^th, at 11:00 AM to help hide the snakes; then stay through recesses to help monitor, count, and re-hide the snakes. This fun and student favorite day can only happen with several volunteers! If you are able to volunteer, please contact Eileen Warner at eileenw@school.saintbrendan.org.

Middle School Invention Convention Results

The Middle School team would like to say “thank you” to everyone who stopped by to check out our first Invention Convention! The energy and creativity was absolutely contagious, and we are so appreciative of all of the community’s support! The students and teachers are beyond proud of the hard work and dedication that went into the event, and we are already looking forward to next year’s big project!

The Invention Convention winners are as follows:

Class Winners: Voted for by Kindergarten-5th grade students and their homeroom teachers:

6th Grade: Landon Wahlin -

Dawgy Depoo

7th Grade: Chiranjay Dutta Gupta -

The Plower

8th: Te’a Simonson:

Walk Time Collar

Overall Winners: Determined by averaging the scores of the judges:

3rd place: Brady Davis - The Flipper

2nd place: Sophia Ames - the Dog Tugster 9000

1st place: Cecilia Mayans - the Multi-Hat

Lego Robotics Expo Results

Congrats to our 2nd and 3rd graders at the FIRST WA FLL Explore Festival!

2nd graders earned the "Creativity" Award, and

3rd graders earned the "Coding" Award!

So proud of these kiddos! Go Irish!!!

Watch the video highlights here!

Spring Trimester Lego Robotics starts up on Friday, March 18^th! Club meetings are right after dismissal on full Fridays.

Registration for Spring Trimester Lego Robotics is open! Click the following link to register:

https://sites.google.com/view/stb-lego-robotics/why-sign-up-for-fll

6th - 8th Middle School Dance

Friday, April 1st

St. Brendan School is excited to bring back middle school dances! Our first middle school dance of the school year will be Friday, April 1st, in the school gym from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (please note that we do not have school that day). Due to the pandemic of the past two years, this will be the first middle school dance for all of the current middle school students! We are excited to provide them with this opportunity to socialize and dance in a fun and safe environment. This dance will be for St. Brendan middle school students only. The cost of the dance is ten dollars. More information will be sent home soon.

Dance Chaperones Wanted

At this time, we are recruiting volunteer chaperones for the dance. You do not need to be a middle school parent to chaperone. Volunteers would arrive by 6:30 p.m. to help set up some tables and chairs. If you have 6th-8th grade students, they are welcome to help with this too. The dance will start at 7:00 p.m. Below are the volunteer jobs we will need help with.

Volunteer Roles:

Check In – collecting payment, permission forms, cell phones and coats
Selling Concessions
Monitoring Exits
Monitoring students on the dance floor and periodically checking bathrooms
Clean up – putting away tables and chairs and sweeping the floors. The dance will end at 9:00 p.m., so expect to stay until about 9:30 p.m. Please do not leave until everything is cleaned up and put away.

Please contact Mrs. Lambert, christenl@school.saintbrendan.org, if you are able to chaperone the dance on April 1st. We are looking forward to a fun night!

Student-Led Mass

Our students lead Mass during the school week on Fridays, and now we have extended our student-led Masses to one Sunday a month for the whole parish and school community. This is one of the ways we are working towards community building and engagement, and growing as a faith community. One class each month will do the readings and will also sing at Mass with a student-only choir. Here is the schedule for the rest of the school year. This will be for the 10 AM Mass.

March 27 – 5^th Grade

April 10 – 6^th Grade (note: this is also Palm Sunday)

May 22 – 7^th Grade (note: this is also First Holy Communions)

Ms. Sims will prepare each grade to sing and the teachers will prepare the students to do the readings.

Lenten Rice Bowls

Rice Bowl's Lenten program is an opportunity for families to join together in as a community to participate in the Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Through Rice Bowl, CRS provides families resources to strengthen their faith while learning ways to fight food insecurity around the world.

Along with with resources for prayer, fasting and learning, Rice Bowl has a recurring fundraising component. 75% of donations raised though this go to funding Catholic Relief Services’ agriculture, health and educational projects overseas. 25% is distributed as grants in Western Washington for local anti-hunger projects.

Upcoming Birthdays

March Birthdays

Happy Birthday to:

3/10 Brayden Yarbrough 2^nd Grade

3/13 Avery Goldwire 8^th Grade

3/13 Maya Goldwire 8^th Grade

3/13 Charlie Miura 1^st Grade

3/16 Brooke Bonser 7^th Grade

More birthdays will be announced in the next Weekly Bulletin

Scrip Gift Cards

Lunch Program

Thank you to the volunteers who helped out at Breakfast for Lunch and who regularly help with lunch throughout the week. The lunch program greatly benefits from awesome parent volunteers. Thank you!

Please check your lunch balances. Please keep in mind that the lunch program uses the money from ordering lunches to buy food and supplies for future lunches. Please try to keep a positive balance and avoid allowing your student(s)’ accounts to consistently run in the negative. Thank you for your support of the lunch program!

The lunch menu is located on the school website and will be updated monthly. You can reference it here: Lunch menu.

Lunch this Week:

Thursday 3/3: Uncle Peteza's Pizza

Friday 3/11: NO SCHOOL

Monday 3/14: Teriyaki Chicken w/Fried Rice

Tuesday, 3/15: Cheeseburgers w/Smiley Fries

Wednesday 3/16: Baked Potato w/Toppings Bar

To add money to your child's account, https://www.schoolpaymentportal.com/

Who do I contact for questions?

Please contact Eileen Warner at: lunch@school.saintbrendan.org .

Summer Camp at St. Brendan School

Overtime Athletics (OTA) Summer Camp Registration is open!

St. Brendan School Families receive $50 off per week 😊.

Discount Code is: SB Family 22

Contact Information

Sean Myler

Overtime Athletics Seattle

Franchisee Owner/Operator

Email: sean@otathletics.com

Direct: 206.305.0869

Website: www.otathletics.com/seattle

CYO Track & Field Registration

Track and Field Registration is open for students in K - 8th grades.

Click here to register for this season of Track and Field:https://www.teamsideline.com/sites/seattlecyo/current-programs

Standard Registration

03/09/22 through 04/20/22

$35.00 (K-3rd) $65.00 (4th - 8th)

Late Registration

04/21/22 through 05/05/22

$45.00 (K-3rd) $95.00 (4th - 8th)

Season Meets:

Preliminary Meet:

May 7th

Relay Meet: May 14th

Qualifying Meet:

May 21st

8th Grade Pentathlon:

May 22nd

Championship Meet:

June 4th

To ensure proper coach player ratio, volunteer coaches will be needed please contact Track and Field Coordinator with questions about coaching opportunities. All players and coaches will need to register using Team Sideline Website (https://www.teamsideline.com/sites/seattlecyo/home).

Contact Coordinator: Nathan Phillips (nphillips3200@gmail.com)

CYO Track and Field Coaches Needed

Do you need volunteer hours? You could receive up to 20 hours for CYO Athletics. Do you like to encourage children to live healthy lifestyles? Be an assistant track coach for grades K-8th!!

The events are: sprints, relays, softball throw, javelin, shot put, high jump, long jump and mile run. Click here to register as a coach: https://www.teamsideline.com/sites/seattlecyo/current-programs

CYO Volleyball

6th/7th Grade Volleyball

5th Grade Volleyball

The long awaited volleyball season is here! After being on hiatus for two years, we're back! Practices have began and you all will have the opportunity to check out our 5th grade and 6th/7th girls in action!

CYO Volleyball

5th Grade Girls Schedule

Sat 3/12, 9:00 AM vs. St. Catherine

Sat 3/19, 9:00 AM vs. Holy Rosary Edmonds

Sun 3/27, 1:15 PM vs. St. Joseph Seattle (B)

Sat 4/2, 9:00 AM vs. Villa Academy

6th/7th Grade Girls Schedule

Sun 3/13, 1:15 PM vs. Family Kirkland

Sun 3/13, 6:15 PM vs. ASB

Sat 3/19, 11:30 AM vs. Holy Rosary Edmonds

Sat 3/26, 10:15 AM vs. St. Mary Magdalen

Sun 3/27, 4:00 PM vs. St. Catherine

Sat 4/2, 11:30 AM vs. ICOLPH

Good Luck 5th Grade Girls Basketball!

Our 5th grade girls formed a basketball team through the Mill Creek Y. They have been competing in a 13-team league of 5^th and 6^th graders. They ended the regular season with an undefeated record (7-0-1). They will play in the 5th/6th grade championship game this Friday, March 11th at 5:45 PM at Heatherwood Middle School. Good Luck Irish girls!

Sarah Binish

Maxine France (not pictured)

Jordy Golla

Sloane Henderson

Alondra Herrera Kuehn

Hayden Johnson

Giselle Juarez Oropeza

Ali Lambert

Marianna Munoz

Connelly Petras

Callie Taylor

Mary Warner (not pictured)

Coaches: Christen & Ryan Lambert, Aaron Petras, & Micah Tutt

Archdiocese of Seattle CYO Summer Camps

Registration for Camp Don Bosco is now open. Resident and Day programs will operate with the most update to date guidance provided from the State and County. Our number one goal is and always will be the safety of our campers. Camp Hamilton programs are still being worked on and will be offered based on staffing availability.

CYO SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION

March Madness - Gonzaga Day

Calling all Gonzaga Fans! The winner of the Apple Cup Competition from the 2020-2021 School Auction was the Gonzaga University fans. That means that the Gonzaga fans get to decorate the school for March Madness. The school will be decorated March 16 with Wednesday, March 16th being a Blue and Red free dress day at school in which students will be allowed to wear Gonzaga logo-wear and team colors.

Decorating is scheduled for Tuesday, March 15th beginning at 3:10 PM.
Any Gonzaga fans (parents and students) can help decorate the school at this time, even if you were unable to participate in the auction.
Please contact Mrs. Lambert if you plan to come and decorate: christenl@school.saintbrendan.org.
Fans will be providing their own decorations. Decorations can include flags, pennants, balloons, posters, banners, streamers, etc. Please come with these items already created and ready to be hung up. Fans are welcome to the school’s butcher paper, markers, tape, helium tank, etc. If you are bringing any personal items, please label them with your family’s name so we can return them to you.
Fans are welcome to decorate both interior and exterior spaces. The approved spaces are carpool, main school entrance, main office and the principal’s office.
Contact Super Zag Fan, Mrs. Lambert, if you have any questions: christenl@school.saintbrendan.org.