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.

                                                           

    March 8, 2011                                                                        
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Fat Tuesday/International Food Day

Thank you to parents for donating food and items to make this event FUN for the students! This is an event our students always look forward to having.

Ash Wednesday/Retreat

Students will attend Mass at 9:00 a.m. and receive ashes after Mass. Please have students wear their complete uniform, no shorts. Students will be in retreat in preparation for Lent.

PTO General Meeting

Our fourth general parent meeting will be tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the parish hall.

Parking Lot & Merton Ave Closed

This Friday, March 11 our parking lot and

Merton Ave.

will be closed all day.

St. Dominic School receives a donation for the parking lot rental.  

Family Mass

Join our second grade families for 5:00 p.m. Mass this Saturday, March 12. 

St. Vincent de Paul Clothing Drive

The third and fifth grade would like to invite the school families to support our service project by donating clothing that is clean, usable, and in fairly good shape. You may drop off clothing in bags to our classrooms

(3/7-3/11) or you may bring them to the truck on March 13 in the Church parking lot.

Kindness Club

The second recipient of the Kindness Club Award is the Student Council: Third grade

has notices that they show kindness by: Leading us in prayer, this helps us to be closer to God; acting out skits, so we learn to do good things; having fundraisers to support charities and groups in need; saying the announcement, tells us about important things; are in charge of pep rallies, which are fun activities that make us laugh and be happy; being happy and energetic, they

show that they are ready to lead us; being role models to show younger kids to do the right things.

Yearbook

We are in need of photos for our 85^th anniversary yearbook. Do you have any sport, holiday or event photos that you can spare? Please send them to the class room teacher or to the school office ASAP. The photos will not be returned to parents.

Testing for Kinder and New Students

Testing will start Monday, March 14 to Friday, March 25. Kinder testing will take 15-20 minutes. Grades 1-7 testing will take approximately one hour.

Testing will be at 9:30-10:30 a.m. and 2:00-4:00 p.m. Please call the office to make an appointment for your kinder student.

Academic Decathlon

Congratulations to our winners:

Tiffiny Vega an 8^th grade student placed 9^th in English

Gabriel Alpuerto a 7^th grade student placed 4^th in Literature

We want to thank Isabeau Reyes, Danica Tagupa, Tiffany Vega, Melissa Morado, Gabriel Alpuerto, Ryan Ventigan, Christopher Bonnin, Ryan Austin Nufable, Alexander Gonzales and Lily Phaneuf for competing in the academic decathlon.

Our parents were awesome! They set-up tents, chairs, food and drinks for our families. Thank you parents for your support!

Casino Night

We would like once again thank Mrs. Congote for the successful Casino Night Event.

I apologize to the Casino Night Committee members that were not mentioned in the memo last week.

We want to thank Mr. Duke, Mrs. Palacios, Mrs. Cazian, Mrs. Regalado, Mr. Ponce, Mr. Corletto, and Mr. Alex Perez for their great work during the Casino Night event. With your support and efforts the event was  successful.