Principal's Update April 21, 2009

Principal's Update April 21, 2009

Principal's Update Tuesday, April 21, 2009 

Girl Talk
Girl Talk @ 7pm tonight

Book Fair
Our annual Spring Scholastic Book Fair, “Lights! Camera! Book Fair!” is coming soon!  All are invited to shop the Book Fair in the St. Simon School Library on Sunday, May 3rd from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon and from Monday, May 4th through Thursday, May 7th from 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.  Parents, students, and teachers will find plenty to interest them.  As always, all profits from the Book Fair benefit our school library.  Book Fair
             
More Info on Walk-a-Thon in Packet today!  Get your Sponsors!
St. Simon's annual Surf-the-Turf Walk-a-thon is around the corner on May 17th, Sunday 12-3 at SFHS Track.  This is a great school spirit tradition and community event.  The students attended a school assembly today and can tell you more about the fun in store and the deserving cause we raise funds for (the St. Simon PAG Teacher Fund).  Every student received a packet today- please take the time to look thru our FAQ, rules and Sponsor form.  Also, in these times of economic uncertainty, we are looking for underwriters to help us defray costs.  If you have the resources, we appreciate it if you can consider underwriting a prize.  The volunteer form listing different tasks is also in this packet.  To access any of these forms online, including rules, underwriting, sponsor form, and volunteer, please go to our website:http://school.stsimon.org/walkathon  See you there!

St. Simon Used Uniform Exchange
St. Simon will collect uniforms in the School Breezeway on Tuesday, April 21 and Wednesday, April 22.  On Thursday, April 23 and Friday, April 24 the uniforms will be available for purchase outside of the parish center from 8 - 9am and 2:30 - 3:30pm.  After these dates the remaining uniforms will be donated to a local non-profit organization.  Please drop off any used uniforms in the School Breezeway on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Volunteer Appreciation
Volunteer Thank You Mass and Brunch on May 1.
Calling all yard duty supervisors, Health Office heroes, field trip chaperones, library aides, classroom guest speakers, room parents, and other volunteers!   Our annual Volunteer Thank You Mass and Brunch will be held on Friday, May 1.  If you have volunteered in any way at St. Simon School, we would like to honor you.   At this Mass, we also thank the “graduating” volunteer parents, so we hope that many parents of the Class of 2009 will be able to attend.  Save the date!  Please send an RSVP to Mrs. Regina Shirey if you are planning on attending: RShirey@stsimon.com

Casablanca Auction 2009 Classroom Contest Winners
Thank you to all the classrooms for encouraging their parents to attend Casablanca Auction 2009 held in February.  And congratulations to the winning classrooms who had the highest parent participation rates.  The winners are:
GRAND PRIZE:  Free Dress and Pizza Party – Rm 3 Ms. Albanese (70% of parents attended)
RUNNER UP, Lower Grades:  Free Dress – Rm B Mrs. Kozlovsky (67%) and Rm 7 Mrs. Devlin (67%)
RUNNER UP, Upper Grades: Free Dress – Rm 10 Mr. Ortiz (58%) and Rm 16 Ms. Riley (57%)
Thanks to everyone for making Casablanca Auction 2009 a success!

8th Grade Sacrament of Confirmation Holiday
The eighth grade will have a school holiday on Monday, May 11th. 

2nd Grade First Communion Holiday
The 2nd grade will have a school holiday on Monday, May 4th.

St. Simon Used Uniform Exchange
St. Simon will collect uniforms in the school breezeway on Tuesday, April 21 and Wednesday, April 22. On Thursday, April 23 and Friday, April 24 the uniforms will be available for purchase in the breezeway.  After these dates the remaining uniforms will be donated to a local non-profit organization.

St. Simon April Yard Duty Sign Up
We are needing help with April Yard Duty.
http://school.stsimon.org/yard-duties

Summer School Program
Please go to http://school.stsimon.org/summer to register.

Wednesday Mass
First Grade Room 8 has planned and will read at the Wednesday Mass.

Prayer Corner
Please pray for the  repose of the soul of Mim Gibbs, grandmother of Kelsey and Travis Martin (mother of Vicki Martin), who passed away last Thursday.