Friday, August 21, 2020

 

Friday Newsletter 8-21-20

 

THE WEEK AHEAD:

Mon – Emergency Drill

       Fundraising Parking Lot Mtg – 6:00 pm

Tues –

Wed – All School Mass (5/6 Ministry)

Thur – 2-8 School Mass (5/6 Ministry)

Fri –   Dress Down Day

2018-2019 YEARBOOK ORDERS are in! If you ordered a copy (2 years ago), your order should be in today’s folder. Many, many thanks to Kathleen Haeffner (former OLOS teacher & school parent) who took on the task of creating a memory book so far after the fact. If you see her, thank her, she did a great job!

2019-20 YEARBOOKS will be in progress soon, and when they are complete, an order form will be sent home. Dwayne Blackwell will be once again be taking school photos, and he has also agreed to laying out the 20-21 yearbook, so we are looking forward to that. This should also help so that we do not experience such a delay.

SCHOOL PORTRAIT DAY! School pictures are tentatively set for Tuesday, Sept. 8th. Order forms are in today’s folder. Please return these to school by Monday, Sept. 7th.

SELF-STUDY – rescheduled – Our 19-20 self-study accreditation process was put on hold due to the early Covid shut-down last spring. It is now on the calendar for October 14-16, 2020. More information on the day to day schedule for the self-study will be forthcoming as we receive more information from the diocesan school office.

FUNDRAISING PARKING LOT MEETING: In lieu of Fantasy Night, the committee is planning a pork-steak drive through carry out meal. A planning meeting is scheduled for this Monday night, August 24th, at 6:00 pm, following social distancing guidelines. Anyone interested should attend to discuss ideas for his fundraising event.

EMERGENCY DRILLS: We will be rotating through emergency drills in the next few weeks. Teachers will discuss these drills with their students, but you may choose to discuss these with your child at home to alleviate any fears or apprehension they may have. Practiced drills are fire, earthquake, tornado, and intruder.

 SCHOOL SHIRT/HOODIES ORDERS: We are expecting shirt orders this week. Orders for hoodies will be delayed another week. The collared school shirt, which is included in your sustaining fee payment and was ordered through your online enrollment packet, will be used for Wednesday Mass. When we get these collared shirts in and distributed, we are asking that your child wear them on Wednesdays, so that we may present a uniform and unified school to our parishioners and visitors at Mass. (These replace the Reading Counts shirts, a program we are no longer participating in).

 HOME & SCHOOL MEETING – Our first meeting will be on Tuesday, Sept. 8th at 6:00 pm. Please make plans now to attend this meeting. Due to the need to practice social distancing and the need to wear masks, we ask that no children attend. All families attending will receive a bonus dress down pass for their child. There will be no meal/snacks.

 REMINDER REGARDING SCHOOL CALLS: Please limit calls to school IF your question/concern can be handled through email. We are asking, due to the current situation (needing “all hands on deck”), during the lunch prep/service time – 10:30 – 12:00, that you try to limit calls to emergency only. Thank you for your consideration.

TEACHER PLAN TIMES:

          Eickhoff – 12:20 – 12:50

          Grellner – 9:45 – 10:25

          Groose – 11:50 – 12:20

          Vandike – 9:05 – 9:45

          Voss – 8:45 – 9:05

          Werdehausen – 10:25 – 11:05

 PRINCIPAL HOURS: Please feel free email Mr. Akin  @ jakin@olosschool.org if you need to address concerns or issues.

 


 FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK...

8/21/2020

 

Dear OLOS School Families, 

 

Thank you all for such a wonderful start to the school year. I appreciate all the cooperation with new policies or guidelines regarding COVID Best Practices. These are in place to provide OLOS with a safe learning environment. Also, we may be stricter than other schools, but it is our belief that if we all work together and do our part, we should be able to stay in session safely. Please contact the office if you have any additional questions or concerns about our current procedures. Please make sure you are reviewing information sent home in this folder because they tend to have important information or forms to fill out. I will try to insert information about what is happening in our school weekly. Please follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/olosschool and look for updates also on our website https://ourladyofthesnows.diojeffcity.org/. 

 

Sincerely, 

 

Jacob Akin  


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