ANNOUNCEMENTS • UPCOMING EVENTS • NOTEWORTHY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Announcements
Monday, August 24 and Tuesday, August 25
Grades 5-8 arrive at school between 7:35 and 7:50 (bell to begin prayers rings at 7:55)
Kinder arrive 7:55-8:05
Grades 1-4 arrive between 8:50 and 9:00 am
Dismissal for August 24 – noon dismissal and no extended care
Dismissal for August 25 – afternoon staggered dismissal between 2:50 and 3:10. See reopening plan for your child’s times and these will be re-printed next week in the Friday Forecast.
Special Instructions for Supply Drop Off
Because parents will not be able to help carry school supplies into the classrooms this year, Home &School is organizing bins for each grade in which you can drop all those supplies that your child cannot carry themselves in their backpack. This will be perfect for those items such as wipes, paper towels, hand sanitizer, etc….
Bin Instructions – Please have supplies labeled with child’s name and teacher’s name in a bag that can be easily dropped into a bin
Drop your supplies in the bin and we will have them delivered to your child’s classroom
Bin Locations – Bins for grades K-8th will be labeled and located outside of entrance gate during the first week of school from Monday to Wednesday
The bin for Preschool/Montessori (K) will be located near the front entrance during the first week from Tuesday to Friday.
SVdP Grounds Clean up Day (August 22nd)
Come one, come all! Home & School is looking for adult volunteers to help spread mulch, pull weeds and do a general clean up of the school grounds on Saturday, August 22nd, from 9:00am -11:00am. Please bring your shovels, rakes, brooms, wheelbarrows, gloves, and any other tools you feel may help get the job done. We will meet on the lower playground. Please contact Marissa Ogden at: marissaogden08@gmail.com if you are available.
New? Need To See Who is Your Child’s Homeroom Teacher?
Our student information system (FACTS) has the information. Log onto the Family Portal and click on your child’s name. You will find the information under the Student Home tab.
New Family Welcome – August 31st
If you are new to the school, please mark your calendar to come by the garden patio area (across the street from the school by the church) from 7:30-8:30 am or 2:30 pm-3:30 pm. Home and School will be there to give you a welcome gift and answer questions.
MASKS – Important Information on what children should wear
Please click here for important information on acceptable school masks. These guidelines on masks are from Children’s Hospital which is serving as a good resource for schools and for families. Please make your best decisions based on the information available here and from other reliable sources. Click here for their website for more specific information.
Student Medications
If your child needs medication during the school day, Mrs. Cave will be outside on Monday, August 24th at the front door by the lobby at 11:30 am to receive the medication and paperwork. Click here for the required medical forms.
Electronic Forms
This year we are completing our forms in a google form format:
Click here to complete the Walker Form – if you would like to give permission for your child to walk
Click here to complete the School Technology Form – all parents please complete
Click here to complete the Parent Student Handbook and Covid 19 Return to School Acknowledgement Form – all parents complete
2019-2020 Yearbooks still available for purchase
If you would like to purchase last year’s yearbook, please email Mrs. Cave at Acave@svdpk8.com in the Front Office. They are $20 each. Checks can be made payable to SVDP.
Ordering Lunch and Milk
Lunches will be individually packaged and ordered through Boonli
You will need to know your child’s homeroom teacher. Order two days in advance and the orders will be taken for the month. Click here if you need information on ordering for the first time.
Meadow Gold will be delivering milk again this year. We will be getting a sign-up out to the families, but for now, if you have a student that would like milk at lunch will be provide one per student.
Back to School Night Plan
SVDP School is modifying the back to school night plan as follows:
Video link to all information pieces that are of school-wide interest including comments from pastor and principal, Home and School Association, Gala Chair, etc.
Video link from your child’s homeroom teacher (on September 4) introducing themselves, explaining academic expectations and general operations of the classroom
Zoom “Open Mic” Q&A – each homeroom teacher is available from 6:30pm- 7:30pm for your questions and answers. You will already have watched the video link on school wide information and specific classroom information. Now you can pop into your children’s homeroom teacher’s zooms to ask a question, usually via chat. Because this is an open forum and other parents are on the call, private comments need to be reserved for email, or private phone call or zoom call.
School Pictures for 2020-2021 School Year
Picture Day will be the second week of School
Wednesday, September 2nd: Preschool Saints, Montessori, K-3 Grades
Thursday, September 3rd: Preschool (Angels), 4-8 Grades
This can be a non uniform day but attire should be a dress up/Sunday best. Please mark your calendars. Please place your orders online (due to COVID 19) at www.mylifetouch.com The school picture code is: EVTVB7HZN
Gala – Fall Raffle Fundraiser
Keep an eye out for your raffle tickets this upcoming week, which will be sent home with your youngest child. We will again be offering incentives for raffle ticket sales and timely return. Check your ticket envelope for details.
Please read required tuition contract addendum.
A required addendum for all archdiocesan schools’ tuition contracts has been issued by the Archdiocese of Denver Office of Schools. It outlines terms and conditions in the event of school closures and online instruction due to COVID. The addendum was released in late May to be included with contracts for the upcoming school year. These need to be completed promptly. Would you kindly use this here to acknowledge and sign the addendum? Save and email the document back to info@svdpk8.com. at your earliest convenience. Thank you to the families that have completed the addendum. We appreciate it!
Our business office will reach out directly to any family who has not completed the form.
Athletics
Note the following CSAL updates for Athletics:
- Coed Volleyball has been cancelled
- CSAL will offer 1 Cross Country meet this year, Saturday, October 10th at Mullen High School. This Cross Country meet is only available to 8th grade students.
- Flag Football will play as scheduled.
- Golf Camp is scheduled for August 21st and is available to students in grades 4-8. Registration is available at www.csalden.org.
Basketball planning will begin in September. Local guidelines will be followed and protocols will be developed and communicated before the start of the season.
Please note the following calendar change for coming school year 2020-2021.
October 5, 6, 7 will be regular school days
October 8, 9 will be parent teacher conference days
The Google parent calendar is marked correctly
If you have already scheduled a vacation during this time, thinking that it would be a fall break, please do let your child’s teacher know at the beginning of the year. When the calendar was first set, the teachers/staff were going to use three professional development days this week, but we have cancelled (or delayed) those plans. Those three days will need to be inserted into the calendar as non student days, but we think it is wise to see if they could be used strategically should restrictions re-emerge.
