Please note, there were some updates to the school calendar published originally in January 2023. Please read the highlights listed below, and please click here for the updated one-page calendar.

The school's Google calendar has been updated with many of the events and information for the school year. Additional updates will continue through the next few weeks. The Google Calendar can be found here and the Google Calendar app can be downloaded to your mobile devices (highly recommended). More information on our various calendar resources can be found here.

Mass Day will continue to be on Wednesday each week, and Spirit Day (and our corresponding Weekly Assemblies) will continue to be on Fridays. Attire for Mass Day is the Mass Dress uniform, and attire for Spirit Days can be a St. Cecilia Catholic School spirit shirt, with either jeans or uniform bottoms. Spirit t-shirts can be purchased at the Back To School Bash on Friday, August 18th, or at our online Spirit Store.

Your child(ren)’s Homeroom information will be available on August 11th to families by logging into the FACTS Family Portal. You will be able to see your child(ren)’s homeroom information, and also do a search for the full homeroom and grade in FACTS. An email will be sent out to all families when the class lists are available to view in FACTS on that day.

The school supply packs for all students will be delivered to school and distributed to the classrooms the week of August 7th. As a reminder, there are extra items for each grade that need to be purchased - click here for the list.

As a reminder, all Summer Assignments for students entering 1st through 8th grade are due on August 16, 2023. Your child’s teacher for the 2023-2024 school year will follow up with your child at the start of the school year for all completed summer assignments. If you have any further questions you should contact your child’s current teacher or Cindy Orlando the Director of Teaching, Learning and Innovation.

Important Summer Assignment Information

Families who enroll in the school’s after school program, Bridges, for full-time use pay monthly for unlimited use during the month. Families who wish to use Full Time Bridges must register in advance by filling out this online form. Only students signed up for our Full-Time Bridges program will be allowed to attend Bridges on Early Dismissal Days. Questions? Contact Bridges

Please review the information below regarding Carpool - tags, applying for HOV Carpool, and Early Dismissal Carpool. For questions regarding Carpool please contact Melissa Mejia.

All school families were assigned and given carpool numbers and tags during the 2022-23 school year. These numbers will stay with your family throughout your time at St. Cecilia Catholic School. If you need replacement car or backpack tags, please fill in the survey below to request what you need. New families will be issued a new carpool number prior to school starting.

HOV is assigned in the order it is requested. With a very limited number of spots available, HOV will be issued on a first come, first served basis, with all 5+ rider's names listed on the application.

Families whose Oldest/Only children are in Kindergarten or below are eligible for Early Dismissal. (New for 2023-2024 school year-1st grade is no longer eligible for early dismissal and will follow the regular carpool dismissal schedule). PK3 and PK4 (pink) tags and Kindergarten (blue) tags will be sent home with students who request Early Dismissal on the application form. Please add the additional tag to the bottom of your regular carpool tag.

For questions regarding Carpool please contact Melissa Mejia.

Ms. Mejia has begun scheduling the beginning of the year Round Tables for students who currently have a Catholic Accommodation Plan. The meetings are scheduled from July 31st - August 3, 2023. A Sign-up Genius was sent out last week for parents to schedule their meetings. Please note, these meetings are only for the students that have the Catholic Accommodation Plans who received the information last week.

If you did not receive the email or you have a conflict with your child’s grade level date, please email Ms. Mejia by Thursday, July 20th, 2023.

If you have items to drop off for the Used Uniform Sale (happening on Tuesday, August 15th), they need to be dropped off the day before. Items will no longer be accepted on the day of or during the sale on August 15th. Drop off for items will take place on Monday, August 14th from 8:00AM to 10:00AM.

All new students and new families joining St. Cecilia Catholic School this year are invited to the school Cafeteria for a welcome reception. Following the welcome reception, new students and families will be taken to their students’ classrooms for the “Sneak-A-Peek” to view their classrooms and meet their teachers.

Students entering grades PK3 through 2nd and their families are invited to come to school and “Sneak-A-Peek” anytime between 9AM and 12PM. Your teacher will be eager to see you and welcome you to the new school year. Upon visiting the classroom, you will drop off any materials or supplies you have purchased for the new school year and pick up anything your teacher would like you to take home before the first day of school. This is intended to be a short visit and parents are expected to stay with their children during the visit. Students are not expected to wear their school uniform.

After the New Family Welcome and Sneak-A-Peek all families are invited to go to the Auditorium to buy used uniform items for their students. The HSA (Home and School Association) will also be there selling St. Cecilia Catholic School PE bags.

Please note the school year starts on a Wednesday, and Wednesdays will be our weekly Mass days throughout the year. Since this is the first day of school, we will not begin having our weekly Masses until the following Wednesday (August 23rd). So, for this first day of school, students wear their normal school uniform to school.

There is no morning carpool on the first day of school. We will have Classroom Drop Off for all students. Parents walk their children to their homerooms.

All parents are invited to the HSA Welcome Back To School Coffee in the Auditorium after doing Classroom Drop Off.

The first day of school is an Early Dismissal day. Also, there is no afternoon carpool, it is classroom pickup (parents pick up their children in their homerooms). Please note there is no after-school Bridges program until Friday, August 18th.

Our first Parent-Teacher conferences of the year are the Hopes & Fears Conferences. Parents will be given the opportunity to sign up for a specific 10-15 minute time slot. All parents are expected to have a Hopes and Fears Conference with each of their child(ren)’s homeroom teacher(s). Students do not need to be in the virtual Hopes and Fears Conference but are always welcome. The purpose of the Hopes & Fears Conference is for the parent(s) to share their hopes and their fears for their child specific to the upcoming school year. The teacher’s responsibility in these meetings is to listen, take notes, and learn as much as possible about each student. The homeroom teachers will be sending an email to parents with a sign up genius to schedule your Hopes & Fears conference after the homeroom lists are available in FACTS.

Regular morning and afternoon carpools will begin on the second day of school.

The second day of school is an Early Dismissal day. Regular afternoon carpool will begin on the second day of school. Please note there is no after-school Bridges program until Friday, August 18th.

Thursday is the second day of the Hopes & Fears Conferences. Please see the Day 1 information listed above for more details.

The third day of school is the first full day of school. Standard morning and afternoon carpools will both take place. Bridges also begins on this first full day of school.

Oldest and Only dismissal for PK3 - Kindergarten

Regular dismissal carpool

The Bridges after school program begins. Please see information in the Bridges section of this email for more information.

Join us for Food, Fun, & Fellowship! The Knights of Columbus will be serving hamburgers and hot dogs in the Cafeteria, and inflatables will be set up in the gym. We will also have some music and beer out on the Pavilion - so come out and let's reconnect and kick off the 2023-2024 school year.

While at the Back To School Bash, families will have the opportunity to sign up for the Booster Club and this year’s Booster Club items. More information will be available soon on the items for this year.

The beginning of the school year is fast approaching, and so is the start of middle school athletics. Parents, if you still need to do so, please fill out the sports interest form if you would like to add your child to a fall sport (Cross Country, Football, Soccer, or Volleyball). Those who have already been contacted for fall sports do not need to fill out this Google form.

Please remember that all our sports require an annual Pre-Participation form filled out by a doctor and parent before your son or daughter may participate in the first practice, including any team tryouts. So please make sure to get this form completed and then scanned and uploaded here as soon as possible.

Please note that our Cross Country team is the ONLY fall sports team to allow athletes to begin in 3rd grade. All of our other fall school sports require students to be in 6th-8th grade. Feel free to email Ashley Gomila at agomila@saintceilia.org if you have any questions about athletics.

If you are experiencing a hardship of any kind please contact the HSA Caring Committee for support or prayer requests. They are here to help!

The HSA Caring Committee is a volunteer group that supports St. Cecilia Catholic School families who are dealing with illness, death, or crisis.