September 28, 2022

• October 5: 8:30 All School Living Rosary in the gym
• October 7: 3:00 Pet Blessing on the playground (date change)
• October 11: PK3 picture day and PK4-8 picture retake day 
• October 12: Grandparents Day/Grand-Friend Day (8:30 Mass in gym; open house until 10:30)
• October 14: 11:30 Early Release - Teacher In-Service
• October 21: 5:00-7:00 Fall Fest
• October 25: 4:00-8:00 P/T conferences 
• October 27: 11:30 Early Release - 1:00-6:00 P/T conferences 
• October 28: No School

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE BOOK FAIR!

What a wonderful week of books! We loved the excitement from kids of all grades as they shopped at the book fair! We saw kids using wonderful manners, helping each other out by counting coins, lending each other change to get exact amounts, and getting excited about books! What a success! And speaking of success....we had another record-breaking book fair making over $10,000 in sales. This means we will have over $4500 in Scholastic Dollars coming back to our school to benefit our school library and classroom libraries! Thank you for supporting our school and our students!

3rd-8th grade Basketball Registration

Basketball Registration is NOW open! If your son or daughter is interested in playing basketball for Notre Dame of DePere (grades 3-8 ONLY), please click the link below to register. Registration will only be open for two weeks. All registrations MUST be in by Friday, October 7, 2022. No late registrations will be accepted. Any questions can be directed to Rebecca Ludtke at [email protected]

7th and 8th grade season:  Games start approximately first week of November

5th and 6th grade season: Games start approximately last week of November

3rd and 4th grade season:  Games start in February

NDDP 2022-2023 Basketball Registration

Sept. 29: Fall Sports Pictures

Fall Sports Pictures have been scheduled for Thursday, September 29 starting at 2:30pm for cross country, with volleyball to follow around 3pm. Football pics will start at the DPHS practice field at 5:30pm.

Parents: Are you donating through United Way of Brown County this year at your workplace? Did you know you can "designate" your United Way donation flows through to GRACE as a 501(3)(c) nonprofit?

Here is what to look for on your United Way communication:



Donating is easy: Click the link below and complete the pledge form. 

• Give directly to your local United Way (i.e., your pledge goes to the United Way based on your work location);
• Select from a list of specific organizations in your area; or
• Designate any qualified 501(c)3 charity.
• Enter Amount  $ XX

Dear Notre Dame Families,

As the school year begins, so do the opportunities to get involved at the school! We have many wonderful activities throughout the year. Some are fund-raisers to meet our Third-Source Funding Goal of $135,000, some are FUN-raisers to bring our families together, some are in support of our Athletics Department, teachers and staff, and some to support Home and School. ALL are to support Notre Dame of De Pere! We would not be such a fantastic school without the volunteer support of our school families!

As a reminder at Notre Dame of De Pere, all K-8 two-parent families are expected to fulfill 20 school service hours. Single parent families are expected to fulfill 10 school service hours unless you opted to “buy out” your service hours during the enrollment process. It is requested that half of the service hours (10 hours for two parent families, 5 hours for single parent families) will be dedicated to one of the Priority Activities.

 All hours are to be tracked electronically. The Google form can be found on the Notre Dame website under the Family Involvement Tab: Service Hours Tracking

In addition to service hours, all K-8 Notre Dame of De Pere families are expected to purchase scrip annually to earn a minimum of $250 in profit/rebate unless you also opted to “buy out” your scrip requirement during the enrollment process.

For more detailed information on both Service Hour requirements and Scrip Requirements, please check out the 2022-2023 Fundraising Handbook - NDFundHand2022-2023.docx

For more information on volunteer and fundraising opportunities, please visit the Fundraising page of our school website: .

The Events/Volunteers page of the Notre Dame website will give you links to all of the volunteer events: Volunteer Events

For any questions concerning Fundraising Activities or Volunteer opportunities, please contact Jill Murphy – [email protected] 

There has been a growing interest in getting a Chess Club going at Notre Dame of De Pere in the near future! Do you have knowledge of the game or would like to learn the game while helping organize and manage students in a club setting? Please reach out to Steve Serio if you are interested in helping get our Chess Club started.  [email protected]

ND STAFF MEETING SNACKS

Hello ND Families! One of the Home & School Committee activities is to provide our teachers with snacks at their monthly staff meetings. This is yet another way to earn .5 hours of volunteer time for each food donation. All snacks should be dropped off in the school office the morning of the meeting dates listed in the sign up form. Reserve your spot today - slots are limited. Staff Meeting Snack sign-up 

SCHOOL WORKER CELEBRATION DAYS

Each year, the Home & School Committee coordinates small tokens of appreciation for those key people at our school who keep things running. Click the link below to sign up.

School Worker Celebration Days sign-up 

TEACHER BIRTHDAY CARDS

Home & School loves to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the teachers and educators who spend five days a week with our kids! Each teacher receives a card and a small gift. Sign up here and find further instructions. 

ND FALL FEST OCT. 21ST

• Fall Fest is right around the corner, and we are looking for some amazing parent volunteers! Middle school students have lots of options for clocking service hours. Check it out! Click here for volunteer opportunities

HOME & SCHOOL OPENINGS

• Home and School has THREE openings to be filled on it's committee! These are flexible positions focused on administration, people management, and good communication. Volunteer hours will be clocked hourly. Openings are for the Secretary, Communications Coordinator, and Volunteer Coordinator. For questions and job descriptions, please email the Home and School president -  [email protected].

NATIVITY PEG DOLL EXCHANGE

Welcome NDDP moms! You’re invited to participate in a Nativity Peg Doll Exchange taking place in the Fall of 2022! 

WHAT ARE NATIVITY PEG DOLLS? 

Nativity Peg Dolls are wooden peg people designed and painted to represent a specific person who was at the Nativity of Our Lord. Nativity Peg Dolls can be used for children’s play, as liturgical decorations in the home, in an Advent calendar as gifts, etc.

WHAT IS A PEG DOLL EXCHANGE?

It could be extremely time consuming to design and paint an individual peg doll for each Nativity Peg doll you may like to have for yourself or your family. Rather than painting 20 or more different individual Nativity pieces all by yourself, each person in the exchange chooses one historical figure and paints 20 of that one specific Nativity peg doll. Then, on the day of the exchange, you trade with fellow participants and end up having 20 different Nativity peg dolls! It really is a genius idea. It is much less time consuming to paint one peg doll assembly-line style than it is to do that many different peg doll all by yourself.

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?

It’s easy! A list of figures who were at the Nativity for this exchange can be found in this Sign-Up Genius. Simply choose which peg doll you would like to paint and sign-up with your preferred email address! Design & paint your peg doll then bring them to the exchange, where you will enjoy fun and fellowship with the other participants. 

Please click here for the NDA - September News

DP Diggers Tryouts Oct. 2