Dear Students, Parents/Guardians,
We are off to an amazing start with all of the students, teachers and parents feeling extremely enthusiastic about what promises to be another wonderful school year, even though we started the trimester with distance learning! A warm welcome to our new school families! It was terrific to see so many of you at your class Meet and Greets on campus. This Wednesday, 8/26, we will have our first All-School Morning Assembly at 8:30am on Zoom. I’m excited to see all our students again at once. I do miss our morning assemblies together.
We will be having a Welcome Back All-School drive in Mass on Friday, 9/4 at 9:30am, so please mark your calendars! If you can’t make it, we invite you to join us on Facebook Live, as the Mass will be recorded. We are thrilled that Msgr. Sal offered to celebrate a special Mass for our school families! This week, only Kindergarten continues to have 12 NOON dismissal. For Grades 1-8, dismissal is at 3pm, and every Wednesday is 1:30pm dismissal online. Teachers office hours are daily till 4pm.
Wednesday, 9/9, is our BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT ZOOM Mandatory General Parent Meeting at 6:30pm. We will be breaking out into grade levels after our Mandatory General Parent Meeting. Please see your child’s teacher’s email messages for more information about block schedules and Meeting Room Zoom links.
Leah Nakayama, our Fundraising PLC Chair, will be reaching out to everyone soon to update you on Fundraising for this year. If you ordered chocolates for the annual Fall Fundraiser, can pick up your candies on campus before Back to School Night. You can also choose to opt out of selling chocolates and pay the fee outright or roll it into FACTS, or increase your Scrip commitment for the year. We will also be replacing our Hawaiian Raffle with a Cash Raffle valued at $3000 for 1st Place.
This time of year, though hectic, is really a favorite time for educators as we receive our new students and have another opportunity to do what we love –educate… I pray that the excitement that we all felt the first week remains with us throughout the year, knowing full well that God is with us through every moment, especially the difficult ones. Please keep all families who are bearing extremely heavy crosses at this time in your prayers. A special prayer request for our very own Business Manager, Carlos Aguilar, whose beloved father Agustin Aguilar, Sr. was called to eternal rest on Saturday, 8/22. Thank you and God bless you all.
Angela Grey, Principal
SCHOOL CALENDAR 2019 – 2020
(Be sure to always check www.stanthonygardena.org and your child’s teacher’s blog for the most current information.)
August
- Monday, August 26-September 9: STAR Window 1 (2-week window for School-Wide testing) Please make sure students sleep early and eat a good breakfast, and do not help them so we can properly assess them.
- Friday, August 28: Deadline for Student Service Fee ($350 per student) – Noon Dismissal
- Friday, September 4: All School Welcome Back Drive-in Mass at 9:30am
- Monday, September 7: Labor Day No School
- Wednesday, September 9: Back to School Night 6:30 pm Zoom (Vicki Marsha Online Sale)and Chocolates for Fall Fundraiser to be picked up this week (Time and Date TBD)
- Thursday, September 17: Fall Picture Day (Tentative)
- Monday, September 28: STUDENT FREE Day. Faculty retreat
ALLERGIES/EMERGENCY CARDS
If your child has any allergies or serious medical concerns, please be sure to notify our office as well as your child’s classroom teacher as soon as possible. Emergency cards and contact info must be current and updated in the office every trimester. WE NEED THE EMERGENCY CARDS RETURNED IMMEDIATELY … This is extremely important in order to make sure we have accurate and updated records for your child. If your child has a medical condition or has allergies, we need to know this up front and have a plan in case of an emergency. When we return to campus, any medication must be self-administered by the child or by you, and permission for us to administer medicine must be in writing.
STUDENT SERVICE FEES! ($350 per child)
Parents, it’s very important that we receive your student service fees of $350 per child by the end of this week 8/30. This fee covers the cost of classroom supplies for our teachers, student consumable and e-books, Teacher editions, wi-fi access school-wide, and Student Accident and Liability insurance anytime the students come on campus.
HANDBOOK AND IMPORTANT FORMS
Parents, please read the latest Parent Student Handbook online at our website to be up to date on our policies. Some rules and procedures have slightly changed, so please pay special attention to those changes. We have also sent out a COVID-19 addendum to the handbook and some distance learning guidelines in an email from our Secretary, Maria Grimaldo. Please read and fill out all paperwork sent home and return to the office immediately. 100% compliance is greatly appreciated.
PLC SERVICE HOURS (10 hours per family waived this year)
Again, a very special thank you to ALL who helped make this school look so beautiful over the summer. Some of you came to help Pablo and get ahead on your service hours. We have waived 10 of the 30 service hours this year to provide our school families some relief during this time.
St. Anthony – Pray for us
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