We are holding our Walk-a-Thon on Friday, May 7, and this week begins the donation-colletion phase of this required fund raiser.

·   $95 for 1-student families;

·   $190 for 2-or-more-students families.

Pledge-collecting of donations will be handled electronically, so you and your kids can easily email grandparents, aunts & uncles, and family friends, asking for their support. As soon as you get an email tomorrow that provides you with a link to your child's personal Walk-a-Thon "pledge/donation webpage," you can start spreading the word and sharing the online-giving link for the St. Louise Walk-a-Thon. Note that the general online-giving link, that could also be used besides your child's personal page, is https://app.99pledges.com/fund/2021stlouisewalkathon.

This year, we will be using electronic tracking of laps, so there will not be a need for parent volunteers/spectators to be around the track. This is being done out of covid-precautions for adults. However, we still need help with some of the organizational and clerical needs of helping with prizes and help with setup/takedown of the course on May 7. Please email Walk-a-Thon chairperson, Jim Britt, if you can help.

We have 3 reminders about our carpool/pickup/dropoff procedures that some parents are forgetting, and we would appreciate it if every parent would make sure he/she understands these.

1.

The soccer field in the afternoons is for vehicles picking up 5th graders. Because of the safety concern of cars driving on the field, and because of the need to get cars exiting ASAP, children playing on the field or dogs on the field are not allowed. Please keep the kids and pets in the cars!

2.

When dropping off your child in the morning in the single file carpool lane, as soon as your vehicle stops anywhere in the single file line that runs south to north, stretching from the church to the north wing, please have your child get out of the vehicle and walk to the sidewalk. When cars stop twice, and wait until they approach the north wing before dropping off their children, they backup the line with the cars behind them wanting to leave because their kids already departed a minute ago.

3.

Vehicles are not allowed to exit onto 156th Ave. during the morning and afternoon carpool times. This is especially important for our 7th grade drivers who have parked in the south lot for afternoon pickup. Because vehicles are always entering from 156th in both lanes, after picking up your 7th grader in the south lot you must head north and exit out onto Main Street.

Our Emergency Preparedness Committee is seeking new parent members to join us in maintaining a safe, secure, and prepared school campus.

The purpose of the Emergency Preparedness Committee (EPC) is to ensure the safety of students, staff, and school visitors on the St Louise Campus. This includes reviewing and updating safety protocols, maintaining the necessary inventory and supplies, and preparing the school community to respond to possible threats such as intruders and lockdowns, earthquakes, fires, or other acts of God, through regular training and evaluation of our procedures. 

The EPC requires individuals of varying talents that will meet quarterly (once per trimester and once in the summer, dates TBD by committee members). Below is a list of duties that require parent volunteers to lead or support.

We look forward to hearing from you! Please contact Andrew Weiss to volunteer or for more information on the EPC.

Due to limitations in how many people can fit in church, we have to limit whom we can invite to our annual Mass with Grandparents this year. The April 30th Mass will only have our grade K, 1, and 2 students attending, and thus, only grandparents (or other family members) of these primary grade students are invited to attend and come to church that morning at 9:00.

If any grade K-2 families have grandparents (or other special relatives) who would like to attend Mass as sit together as a family with your primary grade child, please RSVP using the signup link that Mr. Fuerte emailed you.

For all other grade levels, the Mass will be livestreamed here, and you can invite your children's grandparents to view from home. Note that all grade K-8 students are writing love & gratitude letters to their grandparents (or other special relatives), and on April 30th these letters will be handed to grandparents (by grade K-2 students) or brought home to deliver to grandparents.

Unfortunately, this year due to Covid-precautions we will not be holding a reception for grandparents after Mass.

Thank you for your continued support as we navigate this unique year at St Louise! We greatly appreciate the efforts and sacrifices you are making to support your child’s education. We could not do our jobs effectively without you. 

Please complete this End of the Year Digital Citizenship Parent Survey (estimated 15 minutes to complete) so that I can gain a better understanding of Digital Citizenship at St Louise. The details of your responses will be kept confidential. For this data to be an accurate reflection of the St Louise Community, I need as many parents to respond as possible. Which is why I’ll be doing a drawing for a $20 Starbucks gift card once we reach the survey due date of Tuesday, April 27.

Andrew Weiss