Looking Ahead

September of 2021 marks our 20th year as a Catholic school.  To begin our next twenty years of academic excellence as a community rooted in our faith, I have collaborated with parents, teachers, Monsignor Citino, and Flynn O’Hara to create a new uniform. As soon as we have samples of the uniform, I will post them on the new school website.   Please visit Flynn O’Hara to see samples and to purchase your children’s uniform.  This will be a two-year transition to the new uniform for SSPP students.  If your child has not grown out of their uniform,  a two-year period will give everyone time to transition.  In September of 2023, the entire student body will be transitioned.  Pre-school students will be wearing the gym uniform as their daily uniform.  

Monsignor Citino and Father Monica led the second graders in their First Reconciliation on March 22nd.  It was a lovely service and we are grateful for the visiting priests who helped with the sacrament. Thank you to Mrs. D’Alessandro and Mrs. Lyons for planning and organizing both sacraments. They were beautiful days for the second and seventh graders.

Congratulations to Mrs. Poole for leading her team and ECatholic for creating our fantastic new website that launched on April 7th. Please take a moment to view the new site at https://school.sspeterandpaulrc.org/

Congratulations to our teachers and staff! We have been focused and dedicated to our Middle States objectives every year since 2017.  Every seven years our school seeks reaccreditation from the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools.  It is a rigorous self-evaluation in which we carefully evaluate every aspect of the school community and create objectives that will lead our school to a higher level of excellence. The Mid Term Report was submitted to the Middle States Commission before Easter break. We have successfully met all criteria and objectives for the last four years. This was a huge goal for the school in addition to facing the new challenges of teaching in a pandemic.

Go to  https://sspeterandpaulhsa.org/shop/ to view of buy raffle tickets for the fundraiser. All proceeds go to the school for student laptops and new Smartboards for the classrooms.

Saints Peter and Paul School is pleased to announce a new and improved website for the school. The new site has been updated for ease of use across all platforms, including phones and tablets. One of the best things about the website is that it will continue to evolve to better serve the needs of our families and those looking to find out more about our wonderful school!

Please check us out and bookmark us at www.school.sspeterandpaulrc.org

We welcome your comments, suggestions, and feedback!

Crusader Times post 4/8/21

From the Nurse’s Office:

Happy Spring everyone! We know this year has brought so many challenges for so many and we are thankful for your continued diligence and compliance as we continue to navigate safely through this COVID pandemic. We so appreciate all the generosity of the lunches for the faculty and staff that we have been included in! Just a couple of housekeeping issues as we move in to the warmer weather: please make sure your child has a water bottle with them each day & a spare mask to replace those that get wet/sweaty.  For our younger students - please have a full change of season appropriate clothes in their cubby/classroom for the occasional accident.

Thanks for your cooperation to make sure our students were up to date with their Immunizations, Physicals and Dental Exam Reports! If you had some doctor’s appointments over the break or coming up soon, please send in those reports. Any examinations dated from August/September 2020 on will suffice for next year’s requirements. The State of Pennsylvania requires that all required immunizations must be documented within the first 5 days of the start of school. The West Chester Area School District requires that the required Physicals and Dentals from a licensed Health Care Provider are received within the first 60 days of the start of school. If the plan is not followed, the student will be excluded from school. Please note that The Archdiocese of Philadelphia does not permit religious or philosophical exemptions from vaccination. Below are the requirements:

Preschool students must receive all immunizations for which they are eligible (by age)

Kindergarten through 8^th grade students must receive:

4 dtap (diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis) with the last dose given after the child’s 4^th birthday

4 IPV (polio) with the last dose given after the child’s 4^th birthday

3 Hepatitis B

2 Varicella (chicken pox)

2 MMR (measles/mumps/rubella)

**Students must be up to date with all immunizations by the 5^th day from the start of the school year. AOP and Saints Peter and Paul do not permit students to be on a delayed immunization schedule unless medically necessary. In this case, a note from a licensed doctor must be provided to the school nurse prior to the 1^st day of class.

7^th grade students must receive the above plus the following:

Meningitis vaccine

Tdap booster

Physical Exams are required for Kindergarten and 6^th graders, as well as any new students, regardless of the grade they are entering.

Dental Exams are required for Kindergarten, 3^rd and 7th graders, as well as any new students, regardless of the grade they are entering.

If you have any questions, please contact Laurie Hopton, Staff Nurse (M, W-F) lhopton@wcasd.net and Megan Foytack (Tues) mfoytack@sspeterandpaulrc.org at 484-473-8308 or Colette Dugan, Certified School Nurse at 484-266-2006 or cdugan@wcasd.net.