Help Home & School Make Staff Appreciation Week Awesome!

Home and School is working on plans for Staff Appreciation Week, Nov. 7-12, and looking for businesses who would like to help us provide a lunch for our hardworking Regina staff during that week. We’d love to be able to do more than one! There are also opportunities to give smaller donations such as snacks or items for our prize drawing baskets.

Please contact Sofia Livorsi (slivorsi@gmail.com) or Anne Adam (anne.loethen@gmail.com) if interested.

Join Us at 6:40 PM tonight at the Homecoming Pre-game Activities when the Regina Foundation Recognizes the 2022 Regina Alumni Award Recipients!

The Regina community proudly recognizes alumni and individuals who have positively impacted the Regina Catholic Education Center, provided outstanding service to their local community, and modeled exceptional leadership in their professions. These individuals clearly demonstrate Regina’s most cherished values. Please join us in honoring them at the varsity Homecoming football game on tonight. Recipients will be introduced as honored guests just prior to kick-off, at 6:40 pm.

Booster Club - Updates

Friday September 23rd

• Arrive at the game for the Homecoming pre-game activities around 6:30 pm in your Coach D shirts for the Hall Of Fame induction ceremony for Coach John DeMarco. 
• Chili Supper was a great success! Thank you to everyone who volunteered and attended! Booster Club has limited delicious chili available for sale through the Spirit Store. Get your frozen 1 lb rubbermaid containers for just $30 HERE.
• Rent Out the Pancheros Patio for the best seats in the house for you and your friends/family during a Home Football Game! Click HERE to view the details!
• Booster Club is looking for a concession stand chair for the concessions committee. This person would be in charge of concession stand and operations along with a committee of 3-4 others. If interested reach out to Betsy Hoffman at reginabooster.secretary@regina.org. 
• Booster Club is also looking for a parent representative for each grade level (Pre-School-12th grade) to serve as a liaison between the Booster Club & the families in your child's graduating class. Click HERE to sign up.

Questions? Contact Betsy Hoffman at reginabooster.secretary@regina.org

Regina Teachers Receive Professional Development

Thursday, September 22, Jamie Larson from Grantwood AEA provided teacher professional development for Regina K-12 teachers. This professional learning supports our district priority of aligning K-12 curriculum. Teachers will begin working on curriculum maps to highlight their units taught throughout the school year.

Contact Kelly Starr, Regina K-12 Director of Teaching & Learning, at kelly.starr@regina.org with any questions.

­Iowa Substitute Teaching Authorization Course (Initial Authorization)

Have you heard? There is a NEW, simpler way to become an Authorized Iowa Substitute Teacher. This is a self paced course to obtain an initial Iowa Substitute Teaching Authorization. This authorization makes you eligible for districts to hire as a substitute teacher.

Click HERE to learn more.

Regal Rewards Needs Volunteers

The Regal Rewards program needs your help! They have volunteer opportunities in school (mornings), work at home, and runner route shifts available. They would also like to recruit for a Coordinator to start the 2023-24 school year.

If you are interested in helping out or learning more please contact Michelle or Tammy at regalrewards@regina.org.

Run For The Schools

Just a reminder to sign-up for this year's Run for the Schools!

October 23, 2022

1/2 mile, mile, 5K, and 10K distances

Early race registrations are being accepted until Friday, October 7. T-shirts are guaranteed if you register by that date. For more information and how to register Click HERE.

Questions? Contact Grace Stufflebeam, Regina Communications/Events Intern at grace.stufflebeam@regina.org.

Regina Benchwarmers

Thank you to everyone who is participating in the Regina Benchwarmers Raffle.

The following people are Week #2 Winners, Congratulations!!

Regina Gala Save the Date!

Join us in supporting Regina Catholic Education Center at the 2023- Black & White Gala!

Saturday, February 4, 2023

The Heights Rooftop | 901 Melrose Ave, Iowa City

Live In Person | Live Music | Live Auction

Tickets for the 2023 Black & White Gala will go on sale in December.

Ways To Give:

• Donate: Click HERE to view the Classroom Gift Baskets
• Sponsor: If you’re interested in being a sponsor for the 2023 Regina Gala please contact Event Chair Jamie Venzon at jamievenzon@gmail.com or 319-331-9393.  

The Regina Gala is a chance for the community of parishioners, parents, friends, alumni, and staff to come together to celebrate Regina while raising funds to help support the valuable work of providing our children with a solid, faith-based education. The Gala offers an evening of fun and fellowship that includes a formal dinner, spirited silent & live auctions, and – back by popular demand – live music! 

Questions: Contact Regina Special Events at 319-358-2455.  

Regina Student Health Forms

In order to attend K-12 school or licensed child care, Johnson County Public Health requires every child needs one of the following documents kept in their health file:

• Certificate of Immunization
• Provisional Certificate of Immunization
• Certificate of Religious Exemption
• Certificate of Medical Exemption



Our school will be audited for our immunization records this fall so, we need updated immunization records turned in to your school office before October 7th. This impacts any new all Kindergarten students, any new students in 1st-12th and also there may be required immunizations that your 7-12th grade child needs to have. Contact your doctor's office to find out. (Please do not call the school office to find out if you are up to date - they do not have that information!) If they are already up to date most doctor's offices will fax the form directly to our main office at 319-887-3817 or they can mail it to:

Regina Junior/Senior High School

2150 Rochester Avenue

Iowa City, IA 52245

Attn: Kara

Regina Elementary

2120 Rochester Ave

Iowa City, IA 52245

Attn: Michelle

OR

If you have the updated copy you can email it to Kara in the Jr/Sr High office at kara.batcheller@regina.orgor Michelle in the Elem office at michelle.harney@regina.org.

Rosary

Come join us each Wednesday morning at 7:30 AM in the Regina Chapel or online to pray the rosary. Click HERE for the online Google Meet Link.

Please contact Doug Vollstedt at doug.vollstedt@regina.org or Matthew Staab matt.staab@regina.org  with any questions that you have!

Classroom Contact Parents needed for S.A.W.

Can you be the contact parent from your child’s classroom for Staff Appreciation Week? This will involve getting the parent email list from the teacher and then using it to pass along email communications about SAW without the teacher being included (so that some things can be a surprise!). Suggested email wording will be provided to you by the SAW co-chairs but you can customize and add your own ideas if you want. We need one from each elementary classroom to make this work. Please sign up HERE!

Questions? Contact Sofia Livorsi (slivorsi@gmail.com) or Anne Adam (anne.loethen@gmail.com).

October Elementary Service Mission

Next week, Oct. 26-30, is the Penny Wars Service Project led by the 3rd Grade Classrooms at Regina! We are in a race to collect the most coins per grade level. We will put out the bins starting on Monday and collect all week until Friday! This goes along with the Run for the Schools event happening in October.

Home & School Chocolate Sale

September 29-October 14: Official dates of fundraiser

Click HERE for full informational flyer.

September 29: Kickoff Assembly: World’s Finest Chocolate sales rep and the Chocolate Fundraising Committee will present to students how the sale works, safe ways to sell, and reveal prizes for top performers both individually and grade level.

September 29: chocolate will be distributed to each student to take home with them. Kids will be given bags to carry the cases of chocolate labeled with name and class.

October 14: All payment, money collected, and unopened cases of chocolate will need to be returned to school or turned in to a chocolate sales committee member.

6th graders Creating With Chromebooks

In Mrs. Knights classroom, after a written assessment of their first English unit, each 6th grade student is now working on Google slides. Students were asked to pick one lesson from the last unit and pull information from their notes or textbook. Each sixth grader will create a slide to share what they learned about that lesson and show examples.

Junior High PE

What happens in PE when you get a large ball stuck in the basket?? Team-building skills emerge!

Regina Dance Team Fan Apparel Store

Click HERE to view all the new items in the online store!

Deadline to order is October 31st!

Regina Jr/Sr High Counselor Corner

Questions regarding any of the information below can be directed to Regina Jr/Sr High Counselor, Lynne Zoulek at lynne.zoulek@regina.org.

College/Career Representatives Visiting Regina

September 27 at 12:30 PM– St. Johns/ St. Ben’s

September 28- at 12:30 PM--St. Louis University

PSAT--October 12th--Interested Sophomores and Juniors are invited to sign up in the high school office to register for the PSAT. The PSAT exam allows sophomores and juniors a chance to practice their test taking skills. This is also the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying test for Juniors. Cost is $15, cash or check can be brought to the High School Office. Scholarships are available. Last day to register is Friday, October 7th.

Sync Activities Calendar to your own: Click HERE for directions on how to sync the activities calendar to your own calendar.

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