St. Patrick's Blog Week of September 15th, 2014

St. Patrick's Blog

Week of September 15th, 2014

Safe Schools Situation

I would encourage parents and guardians to review my information in a previous blog regarding the safe schools situation at St. Patrick’s on September 11th.  Despite the mild concern in the community, our students and staff responded very well.

Grade 7 Math Diagnostic Testing

Our grade 7 students will all be involved in a diagnostic Math test on Wednesday of this week.  The students are told that there is absolutely no preparation or study required for the session, it is baseline test to provide information to the staff regarding the learning process of our students.  Most of the information on the test will be a review of concepts learned prior to grade 7.

Meet the Staff Evening

I would like to invite all of our parent/guardian community to join us on Thursday, September 18th for our Meet the Staff session.  Our students are welcome to accompany parents that evening as well.  We will begin the session with a presentation in the cafeteria beginning at 6:00, including introductions and some information about our school year.  This will be followed by an opportunity to meet with your student’s teachers, as well as the St. Patrick’s support staff.  Please check with your son/daughter to get a copy of their schedule, or a listing of their classroom teachers so you know who to meet!  Our session will end at 8:00 pm.

Form return / Student Fee collection

We have finalized our form and student fee collection this past week.  If you have yet to return student verification, CASL or acceptable use of technology forms, please send these in with your son/daughter asap.  We are also hoping for strong support of school initiatives through our student fee collection.  Please forward $30 with your child to their homebase teacher.  Information regarding the use of the student fee went home on the first day of school.

Have a great week;

Sean Kelly