Hope you are having a SUPER week! Thank you for your HARD work and DEDICATION! You are a blessing to us all! Just a few things to share!
Accreditation Team Sign Up
As sent in a prior email, each school employee is required to serve on one of our accreditation teams. Please access the sign-up sheet at Accreditation Team Sign-Up and get your name on a team! :)
Sign Up for Student Surveys in Lab
As a reminder, Mike Smith sent out directions concerning our student survey and your need to sign up for a time to take your class. As he noted, he is more than willing to help during your tech time but he will need you to be there while they take the survey. Please remind students that this is VERY important and that they need to take it very seriously as the information will be used by the team who determines our accreditation status.
HSA Grants
HSA $75 teacher grants have been approved for this year. Dawn now has your balances for each of your accounts for the year! Please see her when you need to place an order for classroom supplies or to be reimbursed for items you have purchased. As a reminder, we will not go beyond what is in your account so please consider supplies you will need at the end of the year. Also, HSA is now working on approval of individual classroom HSA grants. They only have limited funds however for these grants so some may not be approved. PLEASE give these to me before HSA as they require my approval before a grant will be issued. Thanks!
Blogs
Just a reminder that I need you to send me links to your blogs AND you will need to send links to your families as well for them to access. Mike is putting a link on our website but please send out the link to all of your families as well so they can follow you via Google if they like.
Times You Are Available to Meet
I have had MANY complaints that parents do not know when they can meet with teachers. They understand that most of you are not ok with drop-in conferences but they need to have understanding of when they can ask questions or voice concerns. I am including is this week's Colt that elementary teachers are available from 7:15-7:35 AM to meet and middle school is available from 2:45-3:15 PM as well as during each of your planning periods. I will ask that they contact you to schedule appointments but it would be VERY beneficial for you to communicate this yourselves as well. Please help parents feel comfortable with talking with you!
Professional Growth Plans
Thanks so much to Deb Baca, Maxine Hennessey, Jen Gutschick, Erin Corbett, Anneliese Degenhart, Gloria Martinez, Theresa Bruno, Mike Smith, Nichole Gonzalez, Erin Dusbabek, Sheryl Ortiz, Monica Leckey, Barb Maloney, Marcia Gieck, Veronica Nuvolini, Rebecca Wilson, Holly Conlon, Lynsey Rothstein and Paige Chromy for turning in your PGP in a timely fashion! If you are a classroom teacher or specials teacher and your name is not included above, please get these to me ASAP as I need to review them and get them back to you! Please know I may not have marked you off and have it. Please just let me know! Thanks!
Answer Those Questioning Faces! :)
Just a reminder that we have MANY new families and along with that about 5 families with moms and dads that ONLY speak Spanish. Please make sure if you see them looking lost or maybe having a question that you stop and help. They are learning all the ins and outs of our school right along with their children! Please help them through the learning process! :) Patience goes a long way in building trust and really helps with retention of students each year!
Want to adopt a priest for your class?
PLEASE SIGN UP! We need to cover all the priest our school has been assigned! This consists of cards, invites to special events, etc.! Please see Dawn for a list of available priests!
Question On Date for ACI
By November 5 - please let Deb Baca know your vote on the date for ACI next year -Do you want to continue with the two days before Labor Day, the two days AFTER Labor Day or have it the Monday and Tuesday of the week of Thanksgiving (giving you Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off of that week)?
Virtue of the Week NEXT week: Prudence
Announcement Schedule: PLEASE NOTE WE ARE CHANGING THE TIME so all students can be in class to hear them! On all days but Wednesdays we will now have announcements at 8:40 (a few minutes before first period is over) and on Wednesdays at 8:25. As a reminder, please send TWO students to the office just a little before these times so they can practice- October 14-18 - 2nd Grade; October 21-24 - 8A, October 28-November 1 - 8B
Monday, October 14 - Columbus Day - School In Session; Keeping Kids Safe UPDATE Class - 8 AM; Everyday Uniform with Dinner Auction Shirt for K-8
Tuesday, October 15 - Everyday Uniform with Dinner Auction Shirt for K-5; 6-8 - PE Uniform with Dinner Auction Shirt; First Quarter Report Cards Come Home
Wednesday, October 16 - NOON DISMISSAL DAY!
- Everyday Uniform with Dinner Auction Shirt for K-8
- 1st Quarter Awards Assembly for 5-8 Graders - 10:45 AM in the gym
- 11:00-12:00 - STANDARD RESPONSE PROTOCOL Training for Students and Parents - Parents are invited to attend our SRP School Safety plan training with students from 11-12 in the gym - please join us to discuss the ways we keep our students safe in our school!
- Parent Teacher Conferences from 3-7 PM (No School Mass); 8th Grade Bake Sale During Conferences
- 8th Grade Spirit night at Zio's (near Woodmen Rd) 4:30 pm-8:30 pm; K-8 Wear Everyday Uniforms
Thursday, October 17 - SCHOOL NOT IN SESSION due to P/T Conferences
- 8-3 PM - Parent Teacher Conferences
- be looking for sign up forms coming soon! Please make sure you schedule about 30 minutes before or after your conferences to complete our annual school survey!- 6-7 PM - New Family Orientation (presented in English) - we will review Teacher Ease, Envision, Digits, etc. to answer any questions you may still have! :)
- 7-8 PM - Bilingual New Family Orientation - we will review Teacher Ease, Envision, Digits, etc. to answer any questions you may still have! :)
- 8th Grade Bake Sale During Conferences
Friday, October 18 - NO SCHOOL
Sunday, October 20 - 8th Grade Fundraiser - Pampered Chef/ Thirty-one Party 1:30 pm at the Crafter's Niche, 105 Templeton Gap Road, Colorado Springs, CO
The following is a link for more info on this GREAT community event! The Pampered Chef consultant is Shirley Kell and her website is www.pamperedchef.biz/
Catalogs will be sent home with each 8th grader and they are encourage to collect one or two outside orders since this would increase the amount raised. Many people are starting to Christmas shop and can do so online if they live out-of-state. We will also have several very small catalog/invites at the front desk if any Corpus family would like to have one.
PLCS for the Next Few Weeks:
- NO PLC for the week of October 14-20 due to Maureen being in the Holy Land from October 14-25! Thought you could use this time to work on preparing for conferences! :)
- We will have our regular data meetings the week of October 21. Please have 2 progress monitoring data points for all RED students and at least 1 progress monitoring data point for all YELLOW students for meetings that week! :)
- We will continue with regular PLCs the week of October 28th with the theme - "Simple Ways to Defuse Anger" even though it is the 5th week to make up for our lost PLC for next week.
Upcoming Events:
October 22 - LOCK OUT DRILL
October 25 - Jeans Day; HSA Sponsored School Fall Festival 6-8 PM
October 29 - Mike McCoy, #1 Draft of the Green Bay Packers and Play Like A Champion Ministries HERE for Middle Schoolers at 1:30 PM
October 31 - Wear Halloween Shirts/Colors with Uniform Bottoms; Halloween Parties for Preschool-5th Grade 1:45-2:45 PM
November 1 - ALL SAINTS DAY - All students dress as FAVORITE SAINT!
8 AM - MASS
11:15-11:45 AM - First Friday Adoration
NOON - Noon Dismissal - First Friday PLC
Diocesan Committees- Team members please mark your calendars for meetings at the diocesan office!
- ACI Team - November 5 - 2-4 PM
Have a BLESSED Week!
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