Thursday, January 10, 2013

Principal's Memo

Building Confident Catholic Leaders Through Faith, Community
 and Education
           
Jan. 8, 2013

Cookie Dough
We are selling the following tubs of cookie dough for $10 each:  2 Reese’s Peanut Butter, 2 Monster, 6 Peanut Butter , 3 M&M’s, 2 Lemon Drop, 1 Walnut Chocolate Chunk. The following Pre-portioned tubs are also available: 1 Chocolate Chunk, 1 M&M’s, 4 Oatmeal Raisin, 5 Snicker Doodle, 1 Classic Sensation, 1 Walnut Chocolate Chunk, 3 White Chocolate Macadamia, and 4 White Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry.

Fresh & Easy
Fresh & Easy receipts need to be turned in by January 15 so we can get them in the mail. 
We need all receipts over $20 dated between September 2012-December 31, 2012.
Santa’s Workshop
We want to thank Mrs. & Mr. Duke for the wonderful Santa’s Workshop. The students, teachers and parents enjoyed the great bargain shopping.

Parent Updates
Updates will go out in the Family Envelope the last week of January. The updates will include tuition, raffle, service hours, fiesta hours, and mandatory meetings updates.

Catholic Schools Week
Sunday January 27, 2013 marks the beginning of Catholic Schools Week. Here at St. Dominic’s we start out with Mass at 9:00 a.m. Following Mass, please join us for our Open House from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The Scholastic Book Fair will be open during Open House. Students will have a fun filled week of activities!



In & Out
To end Catholic Schools Week we celebrate with an In & Out lunch. This is a great opportunity to come and have lunch with your child/ren and friends. All lunches need to be pre-ordered by Monday, January 28.  We hope to see all parents at this In & Out lunch.

Yearbook Sale
Lifetouch has replaced Bartolo as our photographer and yearbook provider.  Lifetouch is more expensive so the yearbook will cost $5.00 more than last year. If we do not meet our quota for yearbooks we will have to go with another company for next year. We were notified of the change about Bartolo joining Lifetouch too late to research another affordable company for this school year.  

Enclosed is a preorder form.

Mandatory PTO Date Change
The PTO/Preschool meeting scheduled for January 16 has been changed to Wednesday, Jan. 30. A special speaker, Mike Norman, is scheduled for the January meeting.

School Choir
Rehearsals in January begin on Tuesday, Jan. 22 during the morning at 7:30 only. On Thursday, Jan. 24, choir rehearsal will be at 7:30 a.m. and after school at 3:00 p.m.

New Flooring
New laminate flooring was installed in the four preschool classrooms, kindergarten, and the daycare room during the Christmas holidays. The school offices also had new laminate flooring installed. Funds from our investment account that is used for capital improvements were used.

Parking Rental
The school parking lot will be closed to school parents this Friday, January 11. The Arts & Science Department will be filming “Fifth Third Bank” on Colorado Blvd. Our school parking lot will be rented for production parking.

 
School wide Learning Expectations
These are the Schoolwide Learning Expectations students are expected to review this week.
A student of St. Dominic Parish School will be...

a committed Catholic who:
  • shows respects, tells the truth, and tries to be like Jesus.
  • willingly shares his/her gifts to serve others in the Church and global community.
A responsible and respectful person who:
  • understands his/her innate value and the value of others as beloved children of God.
  • is self-confident and self-motivated and has the inner strength to make moral, compassionate, and healthy choices.
  • is prepared to make a positive difference in the world through his/her words and actions.