ANNOUNCEMENTS • UPCOMING EVENTS • NOTEWORTHY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Announcements
Change in Academic Calendar 2022-2023
Parking Issues around SVDP
Recently our neighbors have asked us for consideration of their driveways especially during afternoon pickup. Please do not park in a way that prohibits a neighbor from entering their alley or driveway, even just for a few minutes. Call the school office if you need help or suggestions on how to change your pickup routine if you need additional ideas on parking. It is important for us to be good neighbors to the houses around us!
Make Up Dress Down Day
In light of the snow day, we will be making up our “Hats off to Teachers” dress down day on TUESDAY, February 8th. Students may come in free dress (according out of uniform guidelines) and are encouraged to join in the theme of wearing any hat.
Open House – Very Successful
Thank you to our band of volunteers who helped to make our Admissions Open House so successful. Parent recommendations our most powerful marketing tool. We have a record number of admissions applications at this point in the year, so thank you for your support of SVDP School and for sharing the good news with your friends and neighbors.
Tuition Assistance
Saint Vincent de Paul School is blessed to receive support from several sources in order to provide tuition assistance to those families who request the assistance.
More detailed information will follow, but at this time, we encourage you to complete your 2021 tax return as soon as possible. Your 2021 adjusted gross income is required to determine qualification to apply for several of our funding sources.
The Speaker Series continues
Our next Speaker Series will be Tuesday, 2/15 at 6:30 in the gym. This event is open to the public so please invite your friends! Chasing Childhood is a feature length documentary that explores how free play and independence have all but disappeared from kids’ lives, supplanted by relentless perfectionism and record high anxiety and depression. What’s lost goes well beyond our idyllic conceptions of childhood past. Free play, unsupervised by adults, is critical for developing essential life skills: grit, independence, and resourcefulness. Many young adults appear more accomplished on paper, but by the time they get to college they are struggling, and lacking the emotional tools to be appropriately independent.
Watch the trailer here, and please register HERE if you would like to attend! Contact Caroline Iannucci with any questions.
Yearbook Orders
It’s time to order your yearbook online! Visit www.ybpay.com, and be sure to use our school code, 4357122.
Yearbook Photos
Spring Used Uniform Sale
The Spring Used Uniform Sale will be a bit different this year! Instead of having an in person sale, we will be using a Google Form to collect your orders. Once your orders are received, we will put together the requested uniform items for your children. All orders must be submitted electronically by February 11th. Please come to the school lobby to pick up your items on February 14th between 3:00 and 4:00 pm.
Toiletry Drive for Blessing Bags
SVDP Serves is coordinating a Toiletry Drive for Denver Christ in the City*. The drive will run for the month of February. SVDP students will use the donated items to fill blessing bags on our next All School Service Day in April. Please contribute what you are able. All donations are welcome and appreciated. Suggested TRAVEL SIZE donations by grade (but if you have extra of any item, please just donate what you have!). A description of what a blessing bag is will be coming home with your children in February!
PreK/Kinder – chapstick or soft granola bars
1st/2nd – travel size deodorant
3rd/4th – travel size shampoo/conditioner
5th/6th – handwarmers or socks
7th/8th – travel size toothpaste or toothbrushes
Additionally, if you have drawstring bags in surplus at your home, please donate!
*Christ in the City is a Catholic program dedicated both to forming young adults and the greater community to be lifelong missionaries and to knowing, loving and serving the poor. The missionaries walk the same routes and, over time, build friendships with the homeless. In this way, Christ in the City is addressing poverty at its core by showing the homeless that they are seen, known, and loved.
Athletics/CSAL
Baseball Camp
CSAL is offering two baseball camps on Saturday, February 26th, 2022. Two sessions are available to players: Early Session (8:30 am to 10:30 am) and the Late Session (11:00 am to 1:00 pm). The cost to attend is $40 and the camp is limited to 40 players per session. The camp is available to students in grades 4-8.
The camp will focus mostly on hitting and may include throwing, defense, pitching, and catching. The camp will be hosted at HitStreak Baseball Academy and will be lead by Coach Matt Darr, Varsity Baseball Coach at Regis High School.
To register, go to www.csalden.org. Contact Coach Darr with any questions at mdarr@regisjesuit.com
Regis Flag Football League
Regis Jesuit is excited about their 2nd Annual Next Level Flag Football League at Regis Jesuit High School. This league is for K-7 graders. The teams will be coached by Regis Jesuit’s high school athletes. Games are played on Sunday afternoons. The league will start March 6th and run through May 8th. Practice will be one hour before their game, no practices during the week. Teams will have 10 players and we play 5 on 5 flag football. All games will be played in the Regis Jesuit football stadium. Register and play with friends or be placed on a team of your own grade level. See the website for more information and registration. Come out and join us for some faith, football and fun.
Volleyball
Registration opens January 15th and will close February 15th on the CSAL website: http://www.csalden.org/
Tryouts held in the school gym as follows:
Monday, February 14th
7th and 8th grade girls — 3:00-5:00 pm
5th and 6th grade girls — 5:00-7:00 pm
There are no tryouts for 3rd and 4th grades
Practice begins the week of February 21st and games begin March 21st.
If you are interested in coaching, please email the the Athletic Director, Dave Strawbridge at davesvdp@yahoo.com. Parent volunteers are important for the success of volleyball, as we have very few outside coaches that can help this time of year. Thanks for your consideration.
Baseball
Registration opens January 15th and will close February 15th. If you have a team please let Dave Strawbridge know (davesvdp@yahoo.com). There are no individual signups as we have not had a team at SVDP for the past five years.
Catholic Family Night with the Nuggets
Save the date! Saturday, February 26th at 7pm is Catholic Family Night at the Denver Nuggets. Click HERE to purchase tickets to the game! The night will also feature a number of pre-game court activities including an 8th Grade Game (1:45-2:25pm girls and 2:30-3:10pm boys). Boys and Girls currently playing for a CSAL Basketball team have a chance to participate in playing a basketball game on the Ball Arena court. There will also be a basketball clinic for students in grades 4-8. Go to www.csalden.org to register (select AA Basketball Clinic). Space is limited to the first 50 players registered! To participate in the pre-game court activities, tickets must be purchased by the participant and anyone wishing to watch the activities. Contact Nick Burns at burns_irish@yahoo.com with any questions.
Home and School
Home and School February Newsletter, click here to read!
Dine Out
Dine out with us in February at Birdcall on Tuesday, February 8th from 11am-10pm. Use code svdp3 either online or in any BirdCall Location and we will receive 35% of the days’ sales!
SVDP Mother Mary Statue – Currently on Tour
Our school has three Mother Mary statues, and you can have the privilege of having the statue visit you and your family for an entire week. Remember, when Mother Mary visits your home, she wants you and your family to pray the rosary, especially for peace. Click here to sign up.
Gala 2021-2022 – Saddle Up!
Looking for Chefs for “Mondays of Meals” (SVdP’s Famous Live Auction Item!)
Do you enjoy cooking and have one great meal you can deliver one Monday next year? We need your help! 30 Mondays of Meals is in its 5th year. It’s a group of St. Vincent’s home cooks who each sign up to bring the winning family one meal (winners get 30 Mondays of taking the night off from cooking). We ask that the meal be complete (not just a lasagne thrown on the porch), with salad, sides, dessert, and some extras – maybe wine, a cocktail, breakfast muffins for the next day, your favorite cookbook – and a recipe from the meal you deliver.
In the last 4 years the item has made our school over $30,000! It’s a small effort that goes a LONG way. Keeping our cooks fresh helps, so if you are new and want to learn more, reach out to Kate Crisham at mcgreevy@gmail.com or 202-907-4875.
Need another Denim Day shirt or one of those SVdP Gala Hats? Now is your chance! The store will be open to purchase more red shirts ($10) or hats ($25) now through Feb 18th! Just in time for the March 30th Denim Day – one your kids don’t want to miss!
Click HERE to place your order! Store code: KDYN9
Submit Your Gala Class Parties
Ready to submit a Class Party? – Click Here for the 2022 Gala Party Submission Form
Upcoming Gala Committee Meeting Schedule
All are welcome to attend! We’ll meet in the Cabrini Room (down the hall from the cafeteria).
Feb 25 8-9am
March 25, 8-9am
Save the Date for SaddleUp! SVdP Gala – April 30, 2022
Community Opportunities
Supporting those affected by the Marshall fires
There are many ways we can be supporting our neighbors in Boulder county after the terrible fires last week. Please see this article from Denver7 for specific ways to help out, as well this invitation from our Archbishop to donate to a special relief fund for families in need.
