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Dear Parents-
Today, we celebrate the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron of our beloved friars! St. Francis was born into wealth and spent much of his youth enjoying innumerable vices and pleasures. Francis’ conversion took many years and he is credited with rebuilding San Damiano Church in Assisi, and founding several religious orders, starting with his first followers, today known as the First Order, established in 1209. Later, the Second Order, known today as the Poor Clares, was founded when Clare of Assisi joined Francis, and sought to live a similar life. The Third Order, better known to our SJS/SJC community as Franciscan, T.O.R, is now an international community, with our friars part of the The Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Loretto, Pennsylvania.
A great BIG SAINTS THANK YOU to the Knights of Columbus for their generosity in sponsoring our ice cream celebration in honor of the Feast of St. Francis. The Knights are wonderful partners bringing much joy to the kids!
On Friday, Oct. 7, we will reach the halfway point of Trimester 1. Parents are strongly encouraged to log into PowerSchool and access student grades. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to your child’s teacher. There is still plenty of time to make any necessary improvements before final trimester grades and report cards.
We are experiencing quite a bit of hi-jinx in the boys bathrooms. In the bathroom by the 2nd grade, students in the restroom took to spilling the contents of the soap dispenser onto the floor and adding a substantial quantity of water to that soap. The floor was a slippery wet mess, and completely unsafe for anyone to walk on. Our custodial staff would be called to that bathroom multiple times a day to mop up and dry the floor. In the boys bathroom outside the gym, students have taken to wetting and wadding up paper towels and throwing the wet paper towels at the grated transom over a door in that bathroom. Again, custodial staff is called multiple times to clean up the mess.
As we celebrate our school custodians this week, please consider discussing the bathroom situation with your students, with a reflection on how these hi-jinx are not only vandalism behaviors, but they are also disrespectful of our school custodians who have to take the time to clean up these entirely avoidable and unnecessary messes.
In our on-going efforts to ensure the safety of everyone in our building, and at the same time keep the building accessible, we are in the process of switching out the door locks on all the classroom doors. Doors are locked all day, and while that is safe, it is cumbersome for teachers and staff to unlock doors every time they need access to a classroom. The new door locks have keypads, allowing easier access to the classroom throughout the day. Pin numbers are unique to each room.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Refreshed, revived and renewed by "faith, love and hope." (1Thess. 1:2-3)
Denise Rutledge
Principal
Building Wisdom and Faith Through Service to God
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