St. Agnes School
Family Newsletter
March 30, 2011

Mission Statement of Saint Agnes School
Saint Agnes Elementary School strives for excellence in providing a Catholic education that inspires and empowers our students to embrace the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ as compassionate and faithful Christians, who continue to pursue their spiritual journey, their highest academic potential, and stewardship to others.

Junior High Play: St. Agnes junior high students present the musical comedy, "Mirror Image" this Friday and Saturday evening, April 1st and 2nd at the Notre Dame Academy Theatre at 7pm. The deadline to buy pre-sale tickets is tomorrow (Thursday). Ticket information is attached or you can contact Annie Talkers at artalkers@yahoo.com.  Tickets will also be sold at the door each evening for those who could not purchase pre-sale tickets. Please come, enjoy the musical, and support our junior high students!

Spiritwear/Reds Day: Tomorrow is spiritwear day. Students may wear either a St. Agnes spiritwear shirt/sweatshirt or a red shirt tomorrow in honor of Red’s Opening Day with gym uniform pants/shorts or regular uniform pants/shorts.

Eucharist Day of Retreat: The second graders will have their Eucharist Day to prepare for First Communion this Saturday morning. First Communion is Sunday, May 1st.

Congratulations! Kelsey Sucher competed in Lexington this weekend in the State MathCounts Competition. She did great! Kelsey placed 38th in the state out of about 150 children from all across the state. Great job, Kelsey!

DARE Graduation: Congratulations to the fifth graders on completing their DARE course. The DARE graduation was this afternoon. We are grateful for this drug and alcohol resistance program! We are grateful for the Ft. Wright Police who sponsor this program each year.

Prayers: Continue to pray for Elizabeth Smith, Simon Fieler, Jessie Russo and all our sick who count so much on our prayers and support.

Passion Play: The eighth graders will perform the Passion Play on Friday, April 8th at 1:30 in church. If you haven’t seen our version of the passion play, you will want to. All are welcome to come and pray with us on Friday, April 8th.

Attention Eighth Grade Parents: All Camp Joy money is due on Thursday, March 31. This has been announced several times, and we are now responsible for exact numbers and a down payment, so we have to have all money in on Thursday. We will be sending medical forms and other permission slips and information about the Camp Joy trip this week, and they are due next week….but all moneys are due tomorrow, March 31! Thank you.

School Calendar 2011 – 2012: Important Dates include:

First day of school – August 23
Christmas break – December 22 through January 2
Spring break – April 5, 6, 9, 10, 11
Tentative last school day – May 25
There will be an in-service day (students are free; teachers attend) on September 30, November 1, November 23; and a holy day on December 8.
We will be adding minutes to each of our school days to “bank” some hours for snow days. The new school time will be announced at a later date.

Health Screenings:    
     Scoliosis Screening for Grades 6-8: The scoliosis screenings will be on Monday, 4/4 for students in grades 6-8. Permission slips will go home in your child’s folder today, and will need to be turned in by Friday, April 1. Please make sure your daughter wears a bathing suit under her uniform that day if she is being screened.

     Vision Screenings for Grades 1, 3, 5, and 7: We are also doing the vision screenings on 4/25/10 for the odd grades. We will need volunteers for that day, so please watch for the volunteer form coming home with your child. Permission slips are coming home today for the vision screening as well. Thank you.

Recycling: Recycling just got easier! We now have the opportunity to recycle more than paper. We have added a Rumpke’s recycling dumpster so we can recycle plastic, glass bottles and jars, aluminum cans, paperboard, telephone books, magazines, cardboard (broken down in 3’x3’ pieces. We can continue to recycle paper in the green dumpster as always, but now we have the opportunity do more. Please be alert to make sure the right things go in the right dumpster! Thanks!

Library Books: Just a reminder that all library books are due back by next Wednesday, April 6th. Thank you!

Bus Driver: Mrs. Shelly Sandfoss, one of our morning bus drivers, will be having knee surgery on April 4th. She will not be driving the morning bus. Mrs. Dee Morris will be her replacement for most of the month of April. The students who ride Mrs. Sandfoss’ morning trip have been introduced to Mrs. Morris. I just wanted you parents to be aware of this. Thank you. We wish speedy recovery and an easy surgery for Mrs. Sandfoss!

Virtus Reminder from our Parish Office:

School Field Trips: If you are planning to attend a field trip during May, please be current in the safe environment training (Virtus).

Monthly Bulletins: March bulletin posted on March 6th and is due before April 5th. Another round of suspensions will be taking place soon, please make sure you have all your bulletins read. If you do not, you will be suspended and remain suspended for three months, which means you will be unable to volunteer.

PTO News:

Volunteers Needed for the product survey April 12th: Thanks to everyone who has signed up so far, but we're only 38% of the way to our MINUMUM attendance goal. Please e-mail rene.cooper@hotmail.com  if you would be available for 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, April 12th to take a product survey. We have the potential to earn $$ for our SCHOOL and all it will take is 15 to 30 minutes of your time. We will have to cancel if we don't get a minimum of 75 people. We need 48 more!!! If you have questions, feel free to call me at 859.816.0929 or e-mail rene.cooper@hotmail.com.  We missed the fall session, so PLEASE help our school earn the maximum amount of money for the product survey. The survey will be held in half hour increments from 5 to 8pm. Let me know when you can come. The 5 and 5:30 slots are full so if you can make it at 6, 6:30, 7 or 7:30, that would be ideal. Thanks for your support!

Market Day: Don’t forget to get your order in before spring break. Order cut off is tomorrow the 31st. Pickup is at 5:30 in the cafeteria on April 5th.

April Eat Outs: Mark your calendars now for the following Eat Out Nights this month.
Skyline - Monday, April 4 from 5:00p to 9:00p. See attached coupons.
Sub Station II - Wednesday, April 20 from 5:00p to 8:00p. See attached coupons.
PeeWee's Place - Monday, April 25 from 5:30p to 9:00p. See attached coupon.

Cov Cath Colonels Middle School Football Signups: Signups for Cov Cath 7th/8th grade football will be Sunday, April 3 at 5 pm in the Cov Cath school cafeteria. Boys who attend any grade school in the Diocese of Covington and who will be in the 7th and 8th grade in the fall are eligible to play. A Q&A session will be held, along with sign ups. We run the varsity plays and play our games on the high school turf field. We are the only school with two teams. The 8th graders play in the large school division and were the Division Champions for the second straight year. The 7th graders play in the small school division. Come join Colonels football! Any questions, contact Head Coach Ted Edgington at coachedgington@yahoo.com.  (P.S. 5th/6th grade signups will be at a later date.)