Dear Parents and Guardians,
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! The staff and I truly appreciated all the outpouring of love and gifts from all of you this holiday season. Many thanks for your kindness.
We welcome 2023 and pray for a safe and blessed year ahead. This Friday, 9/13, we will have our All School Mass at 8am. We invite you all to join us as we offer our Mass for the repose of the soul of our beloved Pope Benedict XVI.
As we return from the break, we pray for everyone’s health. Please stay home if you or your child are sick or have flu-like symptoms or COVID symptoms.
Catholic Schools’ Week is coming up and our Family Mass is at 11am in the Church on Sunday, January 29. Our Annual Open House will be at the school, in person, from 12-2pm this year, and as always, we appreciate you referring your friends and family to our school! Don’t forget we have some incentives for this. I will be conducting private tours, and can schedule Zoom meetings with prospective families as well. If someone you know would like to schedule a tour on campus, please contact me at agrey@stanthonygardena.org. Any family who would like to sign up to speak at one of our Masses to promote our school to prospective families, please let me or Amy Lucas Palanca know. You can earn service hours for this.
Just a reminder that there is NO SCHOOL next Monday, January 16, due to the MLK, Jr. Holiday.
Our 2nd STAR testing window will continue from January 5 and will be extended through February 7. We will have one more STAR testing window at the end of the year to measure student progress.
Please turn in all Teaching Touching Safety (TTS) forms to your teachers if you haven’t done so before the break (we need all signed permission slips in so we can start our lessons that are due by mid-February).
Angela Grey, Principal
Thomas Lynch, Resident Principal
SCHOOL CALENDAR 2022-2023
(Be sure to always check www.stanthonygardena.org and your child’s teacher’s blog for the most current information.)
- January 5 – February 7: STAR Window 2 Please see the Growth Assessment Tool page on the Excellence website for all documents and updates (click here to access the Star page of the Excellence website)
- January – Yearbook Pre-Sale Begins and ends Feb 24
- January 9 – February 7: STAR Window 2
- TTS forms due (100% needed by 1/11)
- January 13 – All School Mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Benedict XVI, last day for Kinder Early Bird applications
- January 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday: NO SCHOOL!
- January 17 – Culture Project for Jr high
- January 21 – Kindergarten Round-Up (8-4pm Interviews and ESGI testing with Ms. McCabe and Mrs. Grey), 2nd grade retreat with Ms. Gomez for First Holy Communion Prep
- January 23 – Culture Project
- January – Musical Auditions for Newsies: Mrs. Garcia will discuss this and Talent show info with students in Music. Newsies Auditions will be Tuesday 1/31 and Tuesday 2/7. Callbacks are Wed, 2/8 from 1:30-3:30pm
- January 25 – Parents, the SNOR form is being emailed and needs to be returned by January 25, 2023
- Sunday, January 29: Catholic Schools’ Week begins, Open House, Family Mass at 11am (wear formal Mass Uniforms for free dress passes), Open House from 12-2. Student government leads tours at school, school groups to perform (Folklorico and possibly piano)
- February 8: Progress Reports Go home for 2nd trimester
IMPORTANT EARLY KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION!
If you have a child that will be entering Kindergarten next year and is NOT at St. Anthony’s Day Nursery – please contact me right away to let me know so I can include him/her on the early registration list. If your child is already at the Nursery School, you have already received info and should have turned in all applications by 1/13 at the latest. First come first serve. The Kinder Round Up is on 1/21/23.
SCHOOL DONATIONS AND SERVICE HOURS
For families looking to pay off their service hour commitment, our school gives the option to buy Scrip/gift cards and donate them to SAP. We buy a lot of materials and supplies from Office Depot, Walmart, and Target for much needed supplies, so if you buy Scrip valued at $15/hour and donate it to the school to offset costs, we will credit your service hour account. Parents who volunteer on Saturdays (every 2-3 weeks) can earn service hours cleaning our school with the Interior Maintenance PLC. Please join the group. Thanks in advance!
TEACHING TOUCHING SAFETY (TTS) FORMS AND LAUSD PARENT AUTHORIZATION FORMS DUE ASAP
We are very happy each year to conduct the “Teaching Touching Safety” Classes to our students. This is a course that we teach by mid-February each year, and it covers an age-appropriate curriculum to bring awareness to students regarding issues of sexual abuse and dangers. It teaches them the lines of “appropriateness” within particular contexts and how to avoid and respond to possible situations that could endanger them. *SOME PERMISSIONS SLIPS WERE SENT HOME BEFORE THE BREAK AND MUST BE RETURNED ASAP
IMMUNIZATION REPORTS AND VACCINATIONS
Routine vaccination is an essential preventive care service for children, adolescents, and adults that should not be delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 7th graders should have their more recent TDAP shots. Parents, if you haven’t already, please submit these forms to the office along with your child’s most recent vaccination record. You can email them to Mrs. Sarah Ray and me at sray1@stanthonygardena.org and agrey@stanthonygardena.org. If your child has the COVID vaccine, please submit proof to the school. Those vaccinated do not need to quarantine unless they have symptoms or were a direct contact to a positive case. Guidelines may change. Please follow the latest flow charts.
St. Anthony of Padua – Pray for Us
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