April 1, 2020

Dear Parents,

I miss seeing your children’s smiling faces each day at school!

Thank you for working with us to keep your children learning during the school closures. With the extended school closure in order to count our days as educational and not make them up, we need to provide educational opportunities for the children and track what we are doing. Thank you for your participation in our efforts. The system we had already put in place meets the Department of Education guidelines, so we will continue as planned. Please have your children work on their learning 1-2 hours a day on average. Do what works best for your family! Complete the work to the best of your child’s ability, but don’t stress over it!! Please contact your child’s teacher, Mrs. HB or myself with questions or concerns. We are here to help!

 

School Office Hours During COVID19 

• The school office will be open each day from 7:30 -11:30 AM. 
• The school office will be on Good Friday and Easter Monday.

 

Holy Week

Join St. Paul’s for the Holy Week Triduum on the parish Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/stpauldisciples/?ref=br_rs . Bishop Zinkula will be celebrating those services at St. Paul’s. Watch live on the parish Facebook page.

 

Yearbook Announcements

St. Paul's 2019-2020 Yearbook - Available to Purchase!

Yearbooks are available to purchase for $25 each (for the first two and $20 for each additional book).  The yearbooks are 100 pages worth of full-color pictures that highlight each grade, specials class, activity, and sports!  This is the only time the yearbooks are available for purchase (they were not purchased at registration in August.)

Please see the attached order form below to get your yearbook ordered now!  Checks or cash, along with the order form, can be dropped off or mailed into the school office. Or yearbooks can be purchased online at https://stpaulcatholicparish.weshareonline.org/ws/opportunities/St.PaulCatholicSchool2019-2020Yearbook

The Yearbook Committee Needs Your Help!

The yearbook committee is hard at work getting the yearbook finished for the 2019-2020 school year and we are extremely excited to see the finished product!  We have SO many special events throughout the school year that we enjoy highlighting, but we are lacking a few after-school team and group pictures.

 If you have any of the following pictures, please email them to Miss Frideres at frideres@st-paul.pvt.k12.ia.us with the name of the group/team/troop grade in the subject box.  We truly appreciate your help in getting these last few pictures!

1. Scouts (troop pictures and activities)
2. Girl Scouts (troop pictures and activities)
3. Girls Volleyball - 7th grade team picture and action shots
4. Girls Basketball - 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade team pictures
5. Boys Basketball - 6th Grade Gold team

Yearbook Sponsorship

If your business would like to purchase a sponsorship in the 2019-2020 yearbook in order to advertise your business to all of the St. Paul families, please fill out the form (attached), send a check written out to St. Paul the Apostle School for a minimum $25 donation, and send in to the school office by April 24th to get your business’s logo in this year’s yearbook. 

 

Still Relevant

Classroom Requests

If you would like to make a classroom request, please email me and I will send a form to you. I would like all requests by  Monday, April 13, 2020.

 

Remote Learning Survey

Thank you families for completing the Survey sent out on Monday. Your feedback has been a great help to the teachers and me! Here is the link https://forms.gle/A2JykRLbSXrGkQu67

 

Remote Mass and Prayers

Join Fr. Tony and Fr. Scott for daily and Sunday Mass on the St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/stpauldisciples/?ref=br_rs

Along with Mass you can join different parish families for a Rosary at noon and at 7:30 PM different parish staff and leaders will be sharing a reflection.

 

Panther Perks

Panthers perks will be suspending processing ANY physical card orders during the government directed school closing & social distancing. However, we encourage ALL families to utilize the Escrip . Please not , not all retailers and restaurants have this feature! 

Enroll today ( enrollment code is BD28ALA135L9 ) 

https://www.myscripwallet.com/ - /home
Thanks for your understanding and Stay Safe!

 

Facebook Live Morning Prayer

I am enjoying touching base with families each morning through our Facebook Live Prayer and Morning Announcements. I am on at 8:00 AM each morning. You don't have to have a Facebook page to watch. I will make the video streams public. Go to https://www.facebook.com/SPSCatholic/

I may not be exact on timing, so if I don't begin right at 8:00 AM, stay tuned for a few more minutes. The videos will remain posted so you can tune in later if you like to sleep in.

 

​Stay safe and healthy!

God bless you all!