Mission St. Dominic, a Catholic faith-filled community, is a parish school that provides quality education which fosters the development of the whole child in a safe, caring, and academically stimulating environment.

                                                           

February 22, 2011                                                                               www.stdominicla.us

Casino Night

St. Dominic’s Casino Night Feb. 26^th. It will be a full night of entertainment from dancing, classroom projects-silent auction, raffle prizes, a door prize, cocktails, appetizers, desserts and of course Blackjack, Roulette, Craps and Texas Hold’em tournament. Please RSVP for Texas Hold’em only 20 seats available and filling fast.

No tickets will be sold at the door.

Want to work for your service hours-please calls Renee Congote at 323-377-8892 (text is fine too) or email: reneefcongote7@yahoo.com. We have a few spots still available for clean up after the event.

Archdiocese Tuition Assistance

All tuition assistance applications are due in the school office by Friday, Feb. 25 by 1:30 p.m.

No late applications will be taken.

All families applying for school, parish or archdiocese assistance must complete the Archdiocese Tuition Assistance application by this Friday, Feb. 25.

St. Dominic Family Pizza Night

PTO would like to thank everyone for supporting our Pizza Night. St. Dominic PTO will receive a profit of $677.33. We would like to extend a BIG thank you to

Eva, who coordinated the event.

Academic Decathlon

Thank you for supporting the team’s efforts during the bake sale. Thank you to Mrs. Nufable, Mrs. Alpuerto, Mrs. Regalado, and Mrs. Spencer for the cookies and coco sale. The monies will be used to provide lunch for the team during their competition on Saturday, March 5.  

Parent Academic Volunteer

In addition to Proctors that each school provides for the Decathlon, all schools are asked to sign up one parent volunteer to help out on the day of the Decathlon. Volunteers will be helping with set-up and tear-down, checking wristbands at the doors, guarding closed doors, and generally helping out with crowd control. If you are interested and would like to help to earn service hours please call the school office by tomorrow Wed. Feb. 23.

Choice Lunch Program

Second grade parents it’s that time for you to volunteer to earn lunch credit for your student. If you are interested in working from 11:30-12:30 during the month of March please call the school ASAP. You need to be fingerprinted and attend a Virtus 3 hour session to volunteer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Yard Duty

Need service hour credit! We are in need of lunch duty volunteers for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Duty would be from 12:00 to 12:40. Please call the school ASAP if you are interested. Parents need to be fingerprinted and attend the 3 hours Virus session to volunteer.

Dr. Kevin Baxter at St. Bernard

St. Dominic parents are invited to St. Bernard this Thursday, February 24 from 7-8 p.m. to hear Dr. Baxter give the rationale for the extended school year.

Providence High School/St. Dominic Alumni

Congratulations to the honor students in Providence High School. Abigail Gutierrez in 9^th grade, Joanne Mateo in 9^th grade, Alexandra Reyes in 9^th grade, Jeannica Tan in 10^th grade, and Zoe Fernandez in 11^th grade.

Book Fair

We want to thank Teri Alpuerto, book fair chairperson, for the successful book fair. Thank you to all the parent volunteers that worked during the Book Fair. Totals Fair Sales were $4051.89.                                                                                          

Jeans Day

We will have a $1.00 jeans day plus accessories ($1.00 per accessory) this Friday, Feb. 25. The money will be used to purchase Fr. John a going away gift from the students.

Used Uniforms

Need service hour credit! We are in need of a chairperson to handle the sales for used uniforms. You would be available once a month in the morning from 8:00-8:30 a.m. and afternoon from 3:00-3:30 pm. If you are interested please the school office ASAP.

Mission St. Dominic, a Catholic faith-filled community, is a parish school that provides quality education which fosters the development of the whole child in a safe, caring, and academically stimulating environment.

                                                           

February 15, 2011                                                                               www.stdominicla.us 

Casino Night

St. Dominic’s Casino night Feb. 26^th. This is a mandatory event for adults only, $75 per couple. If you bring any additional guests, only $25 for additional guests and you get $100 gaming money for each person you bring. It will be a full night of entertainment from dancing, classroom projects-silent auction, raffle prizes, a door prize, cocktails, appetizers, desserts and of course Blackjacks, Roulette, Craps and Texas Hold’em tournament. Please RSVP for Texas Hold’em only 20 seats available and filling fast.

No tickets will be sold at the door. You must purchase your tickets by Feb. 18^th due to our food count. If you can’t find your RSVP card, the office has extra-see Mrs. Oliver. 

Still need service hours, we need the following items (every $15=1 hour) office has donation forms. Orange juice, cranberry juice, grapefruit juice, Grey Goose Vodka, margarita mix, bottled beers: Pacifico, Heineken, Amstel Light, Corona and Bud Light. Gift cards such as: Home Depot, Starbuck, Movie tickets are also needed.

Want to work for your service hours-please call Renee Congote at 323-377-8892 (text is fine too) or email: reneefcongote7@yahoo.com. We have a few spots still available for clean up after the event.

We have over 25+ prizes and just to name a few are; an IPAD, Half court tickets and paring for the Lakers and Clippers and for

8^th grade graduation, VIP 3^rd and 4^th row reserved pew for your family and VIP reserved parking, too many items to list. Please come dressed Casino casual or Casino classy.  It’s up to you just come.

St. Dominic Family Pizza Night

Join us Thursday, February 17, at Shakey’s for Family Pizza Night. Family Pizza Night starts at 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Our school will receive 25% of total receipts for in house or take out orders.

Students who participate may wear jeans on Friday, February 18.

Academic Decathlon

Our Academic Decathlon team will compete against 100+ Catholic schools on Saturday, March 5. Please support your team by purchasing bake goods this Wednesday and Thursday during recess. All items will sale for $.50.

Cathedral High School/St. Dominic Alumni

Congratulations to St. Dominic Alumni; Nilo Dino in 9^th grade, Justin Dominquez in 11^th grade, Joseph Gonzales in 9^th grade, David Guerra in 11^th grade, Brian Jitpatima in 11^th grade, Matthew Nuesca in 9^th grade and Jonathan Pagador in 9^th grade who recently made A Honor Roll.

Choice Lunch Program

Second grade parents it’s that time for you to volunteer to earn lunch credit for your student. If you are interested in working from 11:30-12:30 in the month of March please call the school ASAP.

Registration

Registration for our current students will go home next week in the family envelope. A non-refundable deposit will reserve a seat for 2011-2012 school year.

PTO Closet Cleaning

Need service hours! We need helpers to sort and organize items in closets. Hours will be given for organizing the closets. Please call the school office if you are interested in helping.

Daughter Day

Daughter Day is scheduled for Saturday, March 19, 2011. Save the Date! We are having our first meeting this Wednesday, in the school library at 6:30 p.m. If you signed up to be on this committee or would like to help out on this event please plan to attend. We need your help and participation to make this a successful event for our daughters. Together we can plan a wonderful day of memories.

Mrs. Matas and Mrs. Manning

Mission St. Dominic, a Catholic faith-filled community, is a parish school that provides quality education which fosters the development of the whole child in a safe, caring, and academically stimulating environment.

                                                           

February 8,, 2011                                                                                www.stdominicla.us 

Graduate & Club Photos

Eighth grade students will take individual graduation photos this Friday, February 11.

Students in student council, sports, choir, academic decathlon and altar servers are to wear the correct uniform to be included in the photos.

Jeans Day

Students may wear a white, red, or pink top with jeans for Valentine Day, Monday February 14. Please refer to the dress code in student/parent handbook.

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St. Dominic Family Pizza Night

Next Thursday, February 17, St. Dominic will have a Shakey’s Family Pizza Night fundraiser.

Our school will receive 25% of total receipts for in house or take out orders. Students who participate may wear jeans on Tuesday, February 22.

Knights of Columbus

Knights of Columbus will sponsor a spaghetti dinner on Saturday, February 19 after the 5:00 p.m. Mass. Adults can eat for $10.00 and children for $5.00. Tickets will be available next week.

Trimester Correct

Our second trimester ends Tuesday, March 8 not Friday, February 25.

Casino Night Aiming for the Stars

Casino Night is in the parish hall on Saturday, February 26^th. School parents have an obligation to purchase $75.00. Please confirm if you are attending by February 18^th.

Additional tickets are now available for $25.00 per person. Please RSVP by February 18^th.

Third Grade Service Project

Third grade began one of their service projects this week. The Kindness Club will be awarding people or groups at the school who show kindness through their words and actions. Mrs. Oliver was the first recipient of this award due to her caring heart and good spirit

Goldilocks

We want to thank Goldilocks for the beautiful 85^th anniversary cake, cupcakes, sponge cakes, and $600 Goldilocks gift cards. We appreciate your sponsorship.

Parent Updates

Parent updates for tuition, service hours, meetings and fiesta hours were sent home last week. If you have any questions please call the school office at 323-255-5803. All money up-dates are now due.

Mission St. Dominic, a Catholic faith-filled community, is a parish school that provides quality education which fosters the development of the whole child in a safe, caring, and academically stimulating environment.

                                                           

February 1, 2011                                                                                 www.stdominicla.us 

Catholic Schools Week Mass

Congratulations on our Celebration!

We are proud of our student council and choir, they were great at Mass. We want to thank students, parents and teachers for attending our Catholic Schools Week Mass.

Choir and teacher performances were enjoyed by parents and students.

Open House was well attended. We thank our teachers and students for their great work during Open House.

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Book Fair sold over $1600.00 in books in about two hours during Open House.

We want to thank the parents that assisted during the celebration.

Marketing Team

We want to thank Mrs. Santoro, Mrs. Alpuerto, Mrs. Francine Oliver and Mrs. Domingo for all their great work on our 85^th anniversary celebration.

Thank you Mr. Lanza for donating 85^th anniversary pencils (2000 pencils for marketing the school).

Our food and dance for our 85^th Celebration were paid by a school parent who wants to be anonymous. We want to express our appreciation.

Thank you Mrs. Noemi Garcia, Mrs. Coco Marino and Mrs. Regina Martinez for helping promote our school by serving as parent tour guides during Open House. You were great!

IN-N-OUT Family Day

In-N-Out Lunch will begin at 11:30 a.m. starting with the lower grade students.  

Casino Night Aiming for the Stars

Your invitation for the Casino Night was in the family envelope last week.  School parents have an obligation to purchase the $75.00. Please confirm if you are attending by February 18^th.

Registration

It’s time for current families with incoming kinder or new students to pick up their applicant for next school year. We need to schedule testing time.

Testing fees are $75.00 for new students.

Applications for Tuition Assistance

Catholic Education Foundation applications are available in the school office. This year’s current and completed income tax return or last year’s completed income tax returns plus this year’s W-2s are needed to complete your application. If a family has not worked anytime during the last 12 months, they must provide the school with a formal

and legal notice/action of layoff status, disability, social security benefits, unemployment benefits, and or welfare benefits and court order of legal separation/divorce for spousal or child support.

Applications are due on Friday, February 25 at 8:00 a.m.  Any incomplete application will not be processed. If you have questions please call the school office.

Catholic Elementary Schools Move to 200-Day School

A letter from our superintendent, Kevin Baxter was given out last Thursday to all school families. The letter explained our Catholic elementary schools moving to a 200 day calendar school year for 2011-2012 or the following school year.

The benefits for students are clear-more time in a quality school setting equal greater academic success. The calendar school year would start by August 16 and school must conclude by June 30. An approximate 10% increase in instructional time will result in a 10% increase in salaries for staff, as well as an anticipated increase in tuition cost.

Enclosed is a survey for your input. Please complete the survey by Friday, February 4. Your input is important for planning our school year. Thank you in advance for your support and understanding.

School Choir

No choir this week. All choirs will begin again NEXT WEEK. Easter music has not arrived yet.

Congratulations on Sunday Mass and Open House song.