St. Agnes School
Family Newsletter
May 4, 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.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms.!!! Enjoy your special day!!!

MATHCOUNTS: St. Agnes School achieved the Silver Level Status in the MATHCOUNTS Club Program this year. The MATHCOUNTS Club Program is a middle-school math enrichment program designed to inspire excellence, confidence and curiosity in U.S. middle-school students. In order to achieve Silver Level Status, the students in the school must complete five monthly challenges. We congratulate and thank the Math Counts Coach, Tim Pangallo, on this achievement!!!! We will display our trophy proudly in or academic trophy case. Congratulations to all!!!

IOWA Standardized Test Scores: Students in grades K, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 took the IOWA tests in March. The scores are in and your child’s individual test scores are coming home today in an envelope. Please look for them. If you have questions about the tests or the scores, or would like a further explanation, please email me at lgroh@saintagnes.com, or call the office for an appointment. Teachers can help you also.

Faith for Generations Update - Our Faith for Generations capital campaign has now had all eleven Advanced Commitment Dinners that have been scheduled. This phase is sometimes called the "pace-setter phase" or "silent phase" of a capital campaign. As the name suggests, parishioners who are a part of this Advanced Commitment Phase of the campaign are asked to set the pace and make their commitments to the campaign in advance of Commitment Weekend (May 21 & May 22) when all parishioners will be invited to come forward with their commitment card and place it on a table before the altar.
     To show our gratitude for significant contributions to Saint Agnes Church and School during our Faith for Generations campaign, we have created opportunities for individuals, families, and organizations to establish permanent commemoratives. These commemorative opportunities can be viewed here.
     As we head into these last weeks, we are at a very crucial phase of our Faith for Generations campaign. Please pray for the success of our campaign and ask God to please bless all the gifts that people offer. This campaign is crucially important for our school. Our school facilities, mostly built in the 1950's, are in great need of upgrading and repairs. We do not want to fall further behind.
-Father Mark Keene and Faith for Generations campaign leadership

Library books: Wednesday, May 11th, will be the last day that students will be able to check out books from our school library. If your child still needs to get AR points for this quarter, please encourage them to do it now. Don’t wait before it’s too late! All books need to be returned by Wednesday, May 18th. Thank you for your help and understanding!

PTO News:

Wildcat Bash: The annual Wildcat Bash will be held on Friday, May 20th. Details for the bash are at the end of the newsletter.

Market Day: It’s not too late to order from Market Day. Order cutoff is Thursday, the 5th and pickup will be on Tuesday, the 10th at 5:30. If you have been working towards the Frequent Buyer Reward, this is your last month to participate in order to earn the 3 drawer storage cube. We will be having Market Day sales over the summer months of June and July. Many thanks… to all of you who have supported our program over the year. We have had such a successful year, bringing in over 5K for our school! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Used Uniform Sale: The Used Uniform Sale will be Wednesday, June 1st from 6 to 8 pm. More details about the sale will follow.

365 Lotto: The May 365 Lotto winners will be drawn this week at school. We did not draw this past Sunday due to First Communion commitments. The winners will be posted on the school website by the end of the week. Any questions, please email Tish Bright at tish.bright@insightbb.com.  Thank you.

Parent Volunteer Celebration: All Parent Volunteers Welcome.....Volunteer Celebration will be Thursday, May 12, from 7 to 10 pm at The Gardens Arbor Room (lower level). Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be provided. Cash bar for bottled beer and wine. Please come to help celebrate this wonderful school year!

2011 Fall Girls Volleyball Registration Information: Girls volleyball is offered to all interested incoming 3rd through 8th grade students at St. Agnes School. Registration begins Thursday May 5th and extends through Thursday May 19th. Registration must be received by May 19th to be guaranteed a spot on a team. League deadlines are due before school is out, therefore, no exceptions to this policy! Cost to play is $45 per player with a maximum rate of $100 for three or more players from the same family. Access general information re: Girls volleyball and the registration form here.

NDA Junior High Art Camp 2011: Any junior high student interested in building some basic art skills is welcome to attend this camp at NDA this summer. Session A is June 27 through Friday July. Session B is August 8 through August 12. For more information, call or email our school office for a flyer, or email eckerlem@ndapandas.org.  

Summer Dance Camps: Studio Dee is offering summer dance camps. Go to their website at http://studiodeenky.com/ for more information and online enrollment. Thank you!

Kenton County Reading Programs: It’s spring…the sun is finally shining and we have super programs at the Covington Library coming in May for youth and families. Please see the attached newsletter for information. There will be lots of fun with reading, prizes and gearing up for summer!!

NDA LaCrosse and Softball Nights for Grade School: Click here for information about NDA LaCrosse night and NDA Softball night for grade school students.

Wildcat Bash 2011

Wildcat Bash is an all day celebration of our great kids and their great school year!

When: Friday, May 20th during school hours

Where: St. Agnes field and gym

The cost per child: NOTHING! Donations and sales of our Wildcat Bash buttons paid for 100% of the event last year!

What we need from you:

Any unused kid’s items (games, toys, books, cds, dvds, gift certificates etc.) for raffle prizes.

Volunteers for the bash and the dances (a separate email to follow).

Desserts for cakewalk-(cookies, brownies, and treats for this VERY popular booth)

Kids play games and, instead of trinket prizes, win tickets to drop in the raffle bags for any and all general raffle items they are interested in.

There are two sessions with games and activities. One half of the school will participate in Session One while the other students watch an age appropriate movie. Then lunch is served for the entire school. After lunch, for Session Two the participants in the games or movies switch!

A hot dog lunch will be served. Cost is $2 per person.

At 1:50, we will have an assembly with end-of-year slide show and give away the great raffle prizes in the gym.

The day will culminate with a dance for 3rd-6th grades after school until 4:30.

From 5:00-8:00, we will have a “thank you” dance for the 7th and 8th graders who will be manning the booths throughout the day.

And, as always, Wildcat Bash buttons will be sold before school the week building up to the bash with daily drawings for candy and prizes.

Activities during the day include:

Hair-styles
Face Painting
Nail polishing
Dessert walk
Corn Hole
And loads of Carnival Games
Relay Races
And many more….

This is such a fun day for the kids. They enjoy a day when the parents can come and be a PART of the festivities.
Please join us for any or all of the celebration if you can!

Thanks, and hope to see you Friday, May 20th!

Lisa Horney 578-0988      lisa@icucom.net
Joelle Michels 344-8045  jmichels_1999@yahoo.com
Jacquie Bauereis 466-5798 bauereisj@yahoo.com
Joan Moore 291-2709