Friday Forecast : Week Ending November 22

• ANNOUNCEMENTS • UPCOMING EVENTS • NOTEWORTHY ITEMS OF INTEREST 

Announcements

Out of Uniform Friday November 22

In celebration of St. Cecilia, who is the Patron Saint of the Dominican Sisters, and whose feast is celebrated November 22nd, the students and staff are invited to dress down – FREE DRESS DAY.  (Note: Students who are not dressed within the out of uniform guidelines will not be able to participate in the next free dress day).

November 22nd was the scheduled day for the AR point exchange free dress day.  This will be moved to Monday, November 25th so that these students still receive the extra prize of a free dress day for the efforts in earning all of their AR points.  Please hold onto these passes over the weekend and use them on Monday!

Report Cards Published November 22

Report cards for Grades 1-8 will be published online for families on the afternoon of Friday, November 22.  This is our first go-around with the FACTS platform, but hope this part of communicating grades to families will be seamless.  Please note that if you have a child who will have a D or an F on a trimester report card, the teacher should have already been in contact with you to let you know what is contributing to the insufficient performance.  Please work with the teacher, not to change the first trimester grade, but to ensure all supports are in place that will enable the student to be successful in the second trimester.  Kindergarten report cards will be posted on Tuesday, November 26th.

Strategic Plan Process Update – You Are Invited to a Focus Group Session

Thank you to all who have participated in a focus group for the strategic plan.  We have gathered wonderful feedback from the community and are in the process of consolidating the feedback to identify potential strategic priorities.  We are on target to finalize the initial list of suggested improvements by the end of the year, and distribute a community wide survey in early 2020 to identify the top priorities to incorporate into the strategic planning process.

We will hold two final focus groups open to the community.  The sessions will be offered at 8am on December 3^rd and 6:30pm on December 4^th which last approximately 30-40 minutes. If you are interested in attending, please complete the google form below.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z2ULns7JbAPZu-paWfpdVIxQIxsG2PMMqx6YnSJOfNc/edit

Advent Lessons and Carols

Join us in the Church on Thursday, December 5th at 7:00PM for “Advent Lessons and Carols.” The program will feature seven Scripture lessons, telling of the birth of Christ.  Each lesson will be followed by a hymn or carol sung/played by one of SVDP’s many choirs!  A Christmas cookie reception will follow in the cafeteria.

3v3 Basketball Tournament January 4th

CSAL is excited to announce the inaugural 3v3 Basketball Tournament scheduled for Saturday, January 4^th, 2020 hosted at St. Thomas More Catholic School.  The tournament is available to boys and girls in 5^th through 8^th Grades.  Advanced registration is required through the CSAL website.  Go to www.csalden.org, select “Register Now”, then click “CSAL 3v3 Basketball Tournament”.    Students in grades 5 and 6 will compete against each other and students in grades 7 and 8 will compete against each other-this is a coed tournament.  The cost to participate is $15 per person and is payable at the time of registration (refunds will not be provided).   Registration is now open and will close on December 20^th.

Students registering will be able to request their teammates, and those names will need to be inputted at the time of registration.   Teams will be made up of between 3 to 5 players.  Participants who do not have a full team, or who will be registering as a solo player,  will be placed with other individual players, or on teams that don’t have 5 players.  Teams do not need coaches.

Many details of the tournament will be based on the number of participants, please note the following information:

• Saturday Jan 4^th 2020.  8am start – end TBD (maybe as late as 8pm)
• Two levels. Coed. 5^th/6^th grade & 7^th/8^th grade:  Ideally, if we get enough, we will run one level in morning & one level afternoon/evening.
• Cost $15 per person includes 4 games min.
• Teams wear their school team jersey
• 3 players min & 5 max. 3 on the court at once
• Deadline to register Friday December 20^th.

If you should have any questions, please contact Greg Johnson at gregj@stthomasmore.org.

Forming Young Men through Athletics – Attention SVDP Coaches

This podcast offers a quality discussion on forming our youth through athletics; it emphasizes the MANY opportunities that naturally present themselves to develop needed qualities in our youth.  At St. Vincent de Paul School, our first goal for any program we offer is the full formation of the human person.  Especially for our coaches, please listen to this podcast if you get a chance as it will support you in identifying situational opportunities in practices and games where young athletes can learn to build grit, to persevere, to fail with success, to manage difficult emotions with poise and respect.

Gala 2020

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