Friday Newsletter 9-3-15

THE WEEK AHEAD:

Mon –  NO SCHOOL – LABOR DAY

        Picnic Clean-up

Tues –

Wed –

Thurs- ALL School Mass (3/4 Ministry)

        JV Volleyball @ St. Francis Xavier, Taos – 6:00 pm (vs. St. Joe, Westphalia)  

Fri  -  September “Dress Down Day”

DRIVERS NEEDED:  The 7^th & 8^th graders will be visiting Helias High School on the morning of October 12, 2015, from 9:00 – 10:45 am, with lunch afterward. This is a state holiday. If you would be able to transport students, please contact Rosie in the office. There are fifteen students in 7^th & 8^th grades. Nancy Kliethermes has volunteered to drive, so we need room for nine more students.

BILLINGS:  Today you should find August billings for lunch, preschool, extended care, and beginning of the school year fees (if you owe on these accounts). Please remember that OLOS School policy states that payment is to be made IN ADVANCE for these services. This allows us to stabilize and meet our monthly bills. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Rosie in the office.

VOLLEYBALL PRACTICE TIMES for this Monday, Sept. 7^th, will be determined after the game on Thursday evening. Please see your coach for details.

GRANDPARENTS’ DAY:  Spread the word – on Thursday, September 17 OLOS School will be hosting Grandparents Day. All grandparents or grandparent “subs” are invited to share Mass at 8:00 am with their grandchildren, and then come over to the gym for refreshments and bingo. The book fair will also be available for grandparents to shop.

OPTION C LOG IN: Today parents are receiving Option C log in usernames and passwords. Please keep these sheets and refer to them for log in. Option C provides you online access to your child’s grades and payments, as well as Parent Alert Options. Please see enclosed PARENT ALERT FLYER for directions on setting up your alert preferences. If you do not, all alerts will go by default to the home phone number and the home email address. You can opt to have text messages delivered to your cell phones, voice messages to other phones, and emails to other work accounts if you so wish. So check it out to make sure you are getting the alerts where you need them. You can choose any or all ways of communication. We want to once again remind everyone that this convenience is brought to us through Option C by Mary’s Home Bank, a facility of Bank of St. Elizabeth. We do so appreciate it!

HOME & SCHOOL MEETING: Mark your calendar now for the first Home & School meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at 7:00 pm. Father will be presenting this meeting and strongly encourages at least one parent from all school families to attend. There will be no homework assigned that evening, and all families represented will receive a dress down pass for their students. We will begin the evening with a CARRY IN DINNER at 7:00 and have the meeting shortly afterward. We are looking for a great turnout!

DEADLINE FOR FRIDAY NOTES: Thursdays, 9:00 am. All non-school related flyers need to be copied ahead of time on paper (the school cannot afford to supply paper for outside events). Upon approval by the principal, the information will then be placed in the Friday folder as a courtesy. It is not appropriate for the school to send out extraneous information that can be handled other ways. Also, if you have items for the Friday notes, please write these items up, send them in, or email them to rosie@radiowire.net (call to let me know you have emailed please). I don’t mind doing a little editing and rewording, but the bulk of the item should be outlined with details.

PICNIC WEEKEND!!! As we all know, this weekend our parish hosts its annual Parish Picnic. Please pray for good weather (cooler) for this, our biggest fundraiser of the year, and perhaps a little rain to settle the dust beforehand (?). Please see that your children all get to their assigned jobs and remain on duty the entire time they are scheduled. May God bless us all and bless all of our guests on this working holiday weekend! Happy Labor Day everyone, and we’ll see you back on TUESDAY!