November 1, 2022

Dear Saints families,

Happy November! It once again amazes me that we are beginning the holiday season and getting even closer to completing the first semester of our 22-23 school year! This past week, we welcomed 8 Accreditation team members onto our campus. They continued to marvel at our community of saints! It is an honor and a privilege to serve our saint family and community to walk alongside this staff, the children and all of our families! We are so very blessed that the Lord led us here to StJPII and thank you all for being a part of this amazing Catholic School. 

Today our kindergarten students paraded in the GSC dressed as Saints and helped us all celebrate ALL Saints Day Mass - not one person was not smiling with joy! 

As we transition into the holiday seasons and start this new month, we will be studying the virtue of humility, accepting your limitations and God given talents. Our Patron Saint John Paul II reminds us, “Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness,”

Here at StJPII Catholic School, we are on our path to holiness, thank you for your support as we live out our mission and guide each other to sainthood!

In Him,

Principal

Weekly Mass Schedule

Optional daily Mass will be on Friday, November 5 to fulfill the first Friday devotion. There will not be a daily mass on Wednesday, November 2 this week due to our Holy Day of Obligation Mass on Tuesday. Mass starts at 7:10 a.m. and ends at 7:40 a.m. in the All Saints Chapel. Please enter the building through St. Jude Hall. Students do not need to wear full dress on November 5. 

Dad's Club and Mom's Club

The Dad's Club will meet for Faith and Ale TONIGHT, November 1, 6-8 p.m. at Watson's Pub.

The next Mom's Club meeting will be Wisdom and Wine on Thursday, November 3, 7:30 p.m. at Sylvia's on Eldridge. 

Please join us!

November Service Project

Fourth Grade will be collecting items for the homeless from November 1-18. Men's and women's socks, large and medium undershirts, and underwear for men. Men's and women's deodorant, hairbrushes, twin-size fitted sheets, twin-size flat sheets, and twin-size blankets – newly purchase items only, please. Thank you! The donations will go to the Star of Hope.

*Click on the button below for more Faith Focus information. You can find the monthly virtue, Saints of the month, and service projects.

Cafeteria Menu Change 

On Wednesday, November 2, the cafeteria will serve Hamburgers or Cheeseburgers instead of the scheduled Beef Lasagna for the Kid Pick. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please make sure your student has efficient funds in their lunch account.  

StJPII Open House

Do you know a family that is interested in Catholic Schools? If so, St. John Paul II Catholic School, invites all prospective families interested in Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade to our Open House on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. Register by using the button below for more information.

Veterans Day 2022

This year the Student Council would like to honor our veterans by sponsoring Veterans Day on November 11. A Veterans Day handout will be going home today in the Tuesday folders. It will give students the opportunity to share veterans from their families with our community. 

On the handout, students will share a picture of a veteran in their family and what branch of the military he or she served in. They also need to have their name and grade level on the handout. They will return the handouts to their homeroom teachers. Please feel free to decorate the handout and/or print a colored copy to use. You can download a colored copy below. These will be on display throughout the month of November.  

Annual Fund 

Our annual one-day giving event is coming soon! Please save the date, spread the word, and join us on SaintsGiving to raise money for our school and help us reach our Annual Fund goal! Stay tuned for more details!  

Thank You!

Thank you so much to all of our Trunk or Treaters! Thank you to all the families who came out. A very special thank you to those who decorated a table/area of the gym instead of their car at the last minute! We could not have done it without you. Trunk or Treat 2022 was a successful event because of all of you. Thank you for giving your time and generosity. We greatly appreciate you!

Wear LSU TIGER Shirts ONLY - 11/9

Get ready for "Ultimate Fan Duel" week! Thanks to the Breaux and House families who earned naming rights in last year's gala, next week we all get to be part of the LSU Tiger community. On Wednesday, November 9, Students may wear LSU shirts (or a StJPII spirit shirt) with their regular uniform bottoms (shorts, skorts, skirts or pants). Want to fly your alma mater's school colors next year? Be on the lookout for this package in the upcoming Bidding with Bernie Online Auction!

Mother and Son Bowling

Buy your tickets TODAY for this special evening for StJPII moms and their sons. Mother and Son Bowling will be Friday, November 11, at Bowlero Houston from 6-8 p.m.

Grandparents Day

We are looking forward to celebrating Grandparents & Special Friends Day the Friday before Thanksgiving, the morning of November 18. Invitations have been mailed, so please tell Grandparents and Special Friends to be on the lookout in the coming days. If you need an extra invitation to forward, you may download and share an invitation, which can be found by clicking the button below.  

8th Grade Parents

High school visits begin next week. Have you submitted the online permission forms for your student? Please see the attached letters below; one is specific to boys, and the other letter is for girls. In each letter are links to permission forms for each high school that we will visit. Please click each link and fill out these forms so that your child may attend these high school visits the week of November 7-15.  Must have forms completed by Friday, November 4, to attend visits. 

PTO Meeting

Please join us for our next PTO meeting scheduled tomorrow, Wednesday, November 2 at 8:30 am in St. Jude Hall. All are welcome! Please contact Amber Leech at pto@jp2.org if you have any questions. Go Saints!

Halloween Skate Party

Thank you to everyone who came out for the Halloween Skate party at Dairy Ashford Roller Rink! Fun was had by all - skating, cupcakes, costume contest, & raffle prizes! 



Costume contest winners: 

1st Place Overall - Andrea Osorno

2nd Place - Faith Nguyen

3rd Place - Dashne Salinas

Runners Up - Lex Dharamsingh and 

Fabianna Centeno, Haley Jones, Abby Rennie, & Sole Wright  

Guest Speaker - December PTO Meeting

Please join us for our next PTO monthly meeting on Wednesday, December 7 at 8:30 a.m. in St. Jude Hall. We will have a special guest speaker, Carole Polzer MA, MS from Gratia Plena on the topic: "Let's Talk About Anxiety." She will be sharing some very simple and effective techniques to support our children in today's modern world. 

Poinsettia Fundraiser 

It’s time for the 3rd Annual StJPII PTO Fundraiser! We are accepting pre-orders now! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to purchase beautifully grown Brookwood poinsettias! Buy them for your home or gifts. All the proceeds benefit Brookwood and the StJPII PTO.

If you would like to know more about the Brookwood community please visit, https://www.brookwoodcommunity.org/about/

Middle School Athletics

All of our Fall sports teams made it to the GHCAA playoffs! Cross Country had their Championship on Oct 18th and despite the 8th graders being on their DC trip, the team did really well!

Our Lady Saints Varsity Volleyball team lost to St. Vincent de Paul in their playoff game, then our Varsity Football team suffered a loss to St. Anthony in their Championship game. Our Varsity Soccer team had a heartbreaking loss to St. Teresa. All of our Coaches told their teams that a loss does not define them as an individual or as a team, they are by far an incredible group of athletes and in the end we are all ONE TEAM! We are all on the SAINTS team!

Middle School basketball tryouts are Wednesday 11/2 & Thursday 11/3, girls are from 3:30-5:30 and the boys are from 5:30-7:30 pm. Girls will come directly to the gym at dismissal, boys will need to go home and then come back at 5:30 pm. You must have a physical on file before tryouts, and we also ask for parents to abide by the "closed door" policy. Proper workout attire and a water bottle is all you need. Teams will be posted on the Athletic website on Thursday night. 

Elementary School Athletics 

We are coming to the last few weeks of soccer. Team pictures are this Friday 11/4 after school. I tried to make the practice time slots coincide with the picture time slots, so please do your best to be on time. Once you arrive your Coach will gather up your team and walk them to the pavilion. We are asking that no parents come onto the waiting area or the Mary Garden area as well. Parents are asked to enter through the gate by the big tree, the black iron gate by the gym doors will be locked. 

WHCSA Basketball Registration opens up Nov. 7th! Kindly register EACH child separately, one athlete at a time.  

Share Your Photos

We love to see your photos of our saints in action! If you get a great shot at practice or a game, please share with StJPII! Your photo(s) may be featured on social media or in The Spirit yearbook. Please upload them directly using the button below.

Family Fridays

YOU are a vital member of our saints community and we are so excited to get to know you better. If you haven't done so already, please submit a family photo so we can showcase our shared "We are ONE...we are StJPII" theme this year. Photos can be sent to: communications@jp2.org 

Hello Friends, here is our library news for October. Look for a few things on Ms. Lamb's Google site linked below...there you will find Research Lessons, Public Library Information, Study Skills Toolbox, and Author birthdays! Bookmark this so you can visit it often, it is updated at least twice per month.

The Book Fair is just around the corner! Our Scholastic Bookfair arrives November 3 to open on November 4. We will run through Friday November 11 and will be open 7:30-4:00 each day. Families enjoy the simplicity of e-wallets instead of having students carry cash. This year a new feature-families can share the e-wallet with other family members like grandparents! So, even better right? You can sign up for e-wallets very soon! The link to the Bookfair is also included below.

SJV CARES!

Join us on Saturday, November 12 from 8:00 a.m - 12:30 p.m. for a day of community beautification at St. John Vianney. We will meet at 8:00 am on the SJV basketball court. From there, we will send teams out to help clean the yards in homes of the elderly in our surrounding neighborhoods. We will return to SJV around 11:30 am to enjoy lunch. Free tee shirts to the first 150 participants (or, until supplies run out by size). 

All volunteers must sign up ahead of time. Adults and older children (with parental supervision if under 16) are invited to participate. A waiver will be available upon check-in. Please click on the button below to sign up.

Sacred Relics of the Saints 

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Epiphany of the Lord Catholic Church

1530 Norwalk Dr.

Katy, TX 77450