🙏 The Messenger - February 17, 2022 🙏

February 17, 2022

Dear Families of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School,

This year, we polled the parents of our recent graduates in hopes of getting a more quantitative picture of how our students are doing at the high school level. We know, anecdotally, that our graduates do very well in high school and beyond as we hear of their high school grades, athletics and extracurricular involvement, their college acceptances and more. The purpose of this survey was to best understand how well our graduates are prepared for the first year of high school. We had about 50% of our Class of 2021 parents respond. Students from the survey attend Frassati Catholic High School, The Woodlands 9th Grade Campus, St. Thomas High School, The Woodlands Christian Academy and Magnolia High School. Of those surveyed, it was shared that 84% of our alumni are currently taking AP or Honors Classes with some taking up to 5 advanced courses.

When asked how well their students were prepared for their courses, the following results were shared using a scale of 1 (not well prepared) to 5 (very well prepared).

100% of our students are involved in either Athletics, Fine Arts or Extracurricular Clubs at the high school level. 100% shared that “my 9th grade student was well prepared for academics at the high school level”. 100% shared that “my 9th grade student experienced a smooth transition from STAOPCS to high school”.

Congrats to the STAOPCS Class of 2021 on a great start to their high school careers!

Only by His Grace,

Veronica Tucker

Principal

ALL-SCHOOL NEWS

Thank you sincerely to Tessa Stuckey for speaking with the parents of St. Anthony! If you were unable to attend, we highly recommend making it a priority to attend her upcoming local speaking event.

April 23 | McCullough Jr. High School, The Woodlands | 6:30 PM

Ms. Stuckey will be speaking with our middle school students next week for Internet Safety Week. She was also kind enough to share a list of resources to help with parenting in a tech-obsessed world.

Parent Resources:

Books:

For the Sake of Our Youth: A Therapist’s Perspective on Raising Your Family in Today’s Culture by Tessa Stuckey (Amazon Link)
Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras (Amazon Link)

Websites/social media:

Documentaries:

Childhood 2.0- found on YouTube and Amazon prime (https://www.childhood2movie.com/)

ALTAR SERVER INFORMATIONAL MEETING (for parents)

Is your child (4th - 8th grade) interested in becoming an altar server? We will be having an Altar Server Information Meeting on February 23 from 12:30 – 1:00pm. Drop in to get all the information needed for your child to join this wonderful ministry!

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/96028393396?pwd=NEpHRFQwTENjNFlZY2w4dWpMWisrdz09

Meeting ID: 960 2839 3396

Passcode: dolphin

Questions: Contact Mr. Cayanan, ncayanan@staopcs.org.

Thank you for helping make this annual joint event with the Knights of Columbus a success!

PARENTS: There are opportunities to bring in baked goods for selling at the fish fry. You may track 1 Paduan Point for donating items to the Fish Fry. Additionally if you volunteer at the Fish Fry you may track 1 Paduan Point per hour.

Please individually package cookies, bars, brownies for individual sale. Items will be sold for $1 each.
Cakes, cupcakes, and pies will be sliced and packaged for individual sale, or sold whole.

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS: There are opportunities below to assist the Knights during the fish fry at at the baked goods table. Middle School students who volunteer are eligible for service hours.

SIGN-UP GENIUS: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f45a8af29a6fc1-stations3

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS FISH FRY | 5-7 PM | Each Friday during Lent

Dinner Plate includes: 2 Fried Catfish Filets, French Fries, Hush Puppies, Cole Slaw, Tartar Sauce and Lemon. Cost per plate dinner is $14.00. School Fish Fry is March 4th.

PHOTO SHARING

Do you have great photos of athletics or school events that you'd like to share for use in our yearbook or in school media? Please upload photos to our school Dropbox at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/FempJtk0mApnkMAr3OjV. Photos can be uploaded at anytime before the end of the school year. Thank you for helping us showcase our students! If you have questions, please contact Mrs. Tressel at advancement@staopcs.org.

NURSE'S NOTES

We will continue to work closely with our local health department officials and the Catholic Schools Office to ensure the safety of our students and staff should the school experience a positive case of COVID-19. Please see the attached document regarding screening of your students and on-campus requirements should someone test positive for COVID-19.

Parents, please call or e-mail attendance@staopcs.org and Mrs. Pavlock (lpavlock@staopcs.org) if a child is out for illness.
REMINDER: Students must stay home if a household member is being tested for COVID and must remain out until results have returned.

ON-CAMPUS REQUIREMENTS

SCREENING QUESTIONNAIRE (updated 12.29.21)

DNN - Feb. 17th

PADUAN PARENTS

Thank you to all of our Go Texan Day volunteers! We couldn't run these fun enrichment days without your help!!

LIBRARY VOLUNTEERING

The library is a great place to help out around campus! Volunteer opportunities include helping with shelving or or weekly assistance and checkout with classes. All help is appreciated. In compliance with the Archdiocesan policy on volunteerism, ALL volunteers must complete Safe Environment Training. (https://ap.school/safe-environment-training). Click the Sign-Up Genius link to sign-up for volunteering the rest of this year. Some of our Library times have changed. Thank you! Any questions, contact Mrs. Morgan, Library Manager, dmorgan@staopcs.org.

CAR LINE VOLUNTEERS - Morning & Afternoon

We always need volunteers who are willing to help with car line in the mornings or afternoons! If you can volunteer, please contact Mrs. Bierbaum at cbierbaum@staopcs.org. Thank you for offering to help!

STEPS FOR STUDENTS

Thank you to everyone who participated in Steps for Students!

Congratulations to Grace Hardham, Joshelle Cabriana, and Nicholas Velardo who beat Mrs. Tucker's 5K time of 29:33. They won Homework Passes! Levi & Tate Sloan raised the most money on their individual fundraising pages, so they won an iPad!

Thank you to the Knights of Columbus for manning our team tent and keeping our runners and walkers fueled, and thank you to Amy Janiszewski for coordinating this year's event!

THANK YOU again to Andrea Navarro for designing our team t-shirt & to Doucet Safety Analysis for their sponsorship!

We are still waiting on final fundraising results from the Archdiocese but estimate that we've raised over $7,000 towards purchasing a new iPad cart for classrooms. Thank you again!

RUN FOR THE ROSES GALA

AUCTION DONATIONS & REGISTRY

We need your help to make our gala baskets and auction AMAZING!! To ensure proper recognition at the auction and on our Gala website (apschool.givesmart.com), please submit your donations no later than March 11, 2022.

To make shopping even easier, our gala committee has put together an Amazon Gift Registry (https://www.amazon.com/wedding/share/runfortheroses) featuring many of the items we would like to include in our auction baskets/themes. Items may be shipped directly to the school or dropped off at the front desk anytime during school hours. Please include your family's name with your donations/gift cards so that we can provide proper donation acknowledgment.

AUCTION BASKET THEMES

AMAZON REGISTRY

GALA PARTIES & SOCIALS

We are excited to announce more Gala Parties & Socials!

UPCOMING PARTIES & SOCIALS:

Friday, March 4th - LEGO PARTY - 1st - 4th Grade Students (SOLD OUT)

Tuesday, March 22nd - PICNIC WITH FATHER JESSE - 2nd Grade

Friday, March 25th - GLOW SKATE PARTY - 5th Grade

Thursday, March 31st - TIE-DYE PARTY - 3rd-8th Grade

Friday, April 1st - WILDLIFE PARTY - 3rd Grade

Sunday, April 3rd - POLO PARTY - Adult (SOLD OUT)

NEW - Saturday, April 9th - KICK IT WITH NAEHER - 4th Grade

Saturday, April 9th - CRAWFISH BOIL - Adult (SOLD OUT)

To purchase multiple party spots visit: PARTIES & SOCIALS.

GALA HOTEL ROOM DISCOUNT

The Woodlands Resort has provided us a discount on rooms that are reserved for our April 23rd Gala. To book a room using this code, follow the instructions below:

1. Go to Woodlandsresort.com

2. Put in dates of stay (April 23, 2022).

3. Click Special Rates

4. Type in Group Code P5

5. Click Update and proceed to book the room.