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by Kendall McKee
February 1, 2012
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Our middle school has been tearing up their competition in the Regional Science Fair, DAR Essay contest and National Geographic Bee. It's a great day to be a student at St. John Catholic School. Future competitions will include a Spelling Bee against Holy Nativity School and Covenant Christian School in April, the date is still to be determined. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
8th Grade Advanced Placement Registration: All of our 8th graders were invited to attend presentations from each of the area high schools for their advanced placement program registration. Last year out of our graduating class about 90% were enrolled into advanced placement programs at the various high schools. This year we expect at least 90% of our students to be accepted into the program of their choice, whether it is the IB program at Rutherford, the Mapps program at Mosely, the AICE program at Bay High or the Collegiate Prep program at Arnold. Our students are highly sought after by each of these high school programs. Open enrollment will end the middle of February and by February 18-20 we should know the students from St. John School that were accepted into an advanced educational program.
Tours of the School: If you know a family that would like more information about St. John School please contact us with their information. We are encouraging private tours for all families interested. Report Cards: went home with our students on January 27th for the 1st semester. If you haven't already seen your child's report card, you may want to check your child's book bag.
Service Projects: The National Junior Honor Society members will kick off their annual Math-A-Thon on Feb. 13 to raise money for St. Jude's Hospital, a very worthy organization. Next
PTO Meeting: Our next scheduled PTO meeting will be Feb. 2 at 6 pm, however, AT THAT MEETING THE ONLY TOPIC OF DISCUSSION WILL BE THE COLLIN RAYE CONCERT. We will hold a regular PTO business meeting soon. The date and time is still to be determined.
Mardi Gras: our students will be riding on one of the floats in the Krewe of St. Andrew's Children's Parade on Feb. 10, 4 pm. Those students with permission will walk with the teacher representatives from St. John School to St. Andrew's School, the beginning of the parade route. They will ride the float to the end of the route on 11th street and return to school. Also, that morning the King and Queen of the Krewe of St. Andrew's and some of their court will visit our school around 8:30 am to give a sneak peak to our students as they parade around our campus. You are all invited! Big thanks go out to Kathy and Al Kidd as the ones responsible for inviting us to attend every year.
Target Grant for Schools: Mrs. Kopp with the help of Mrs. Jennifer Alvis wrote a grant to Target in the fall to see if they could get money for school field trips. Well, recently we found out that Mrs. Kopp's grant was accepted and they were awarded $700 to be used toward a middle school field trip in the spring. Congratulations Mrs. Kopp.
Teacher Websites: As you probably know, our teacher websites through Teacher Web were not renewed this year, mainly because we were hoping to have the same option with our new Limelight database from Pearson. Because the Limelight has not worked as it was supposed to, our teachers have found equally adequate teacher web sites that are FREE. We like Free! As soon as we can we will post the link on our web site, however, at this time you should have a link for your child's homework from their teacher. Just ask the teachers for their new link.
Author visit; Sammie Garrett: will address grades PK- 8th grade on Feb. 9th beginning around 8:30 am, with her books about the different branches of the military and how to write a non-fictional book. Soon we will send out information about her books for your review.
Testimonial from the Montgomery Family: Every once in a while I do receive good messages from our parents about the good things we are doing here at St. John's. Today our testimonial is from John Montgomery. Thank you John for taking the time to talk about the good that we do. We hope more of you are doing this out in the community. This was in response to the Regional Science Fair awards on January 26th
St John's DEFINITELY would have been given the "School Spirit" Award if there was one. Even before the presentation began our children gave resounding applause every time a St John student showed up in the pre-program slide show. They became even more enthusiastic as the presentation went on and I thought they were going to storm the stage when Zechariah (Bryant) won his awards!! The kids almost made the other schools seem apathetic about the whole deal. Congratulations to Andrea for going above and beyond to make this a very special event for the children. Our daughter is already talking about next year! Regards, John M.
Scholarship money available through Step Up For Students Program
St. John Catholic School accepts SUFS
We have great news to share! Step Up For Students is now ready to offer more scholarships for this year, 2011-12. Step Up For Students is an initiative of the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) Scholarship Program. The scholarships are worth up to $4,011, for the 2011-2012 school year and we urge you to spread the word.
We also want you to be aware that they will be determining eligibility for these scholarships as though the students were applying prior to the start of school. For example, if a kindergarten student whose household income meets the scholarship guidelines enrolled in your school last month, he or she would be considered to be "entering" kindergarten for purposes of the scholarship and would therefore be eligible. Similarly, if a fifth grade student whose household income meets the guidelines enrolled in your school last month, eligibility would be based on whether the student attended public school last year -- not this fall. The online application log-in for new parents at www.stepupforstudents.org is live again and will remain open until Nov. 30. But we advise families to apply immediately, because we don't think the scholarships will last that long. We're so excited to get this word out and we hope to be able to reach more students this year with this wonderful news.
They have extended the deadline to January 15, 2012 for this school year.
If you know someone that would like information about St. John School and they think they would qualify for the Step Up For Students scholarship, Go to www.stepupforstudents.org to apply online or call 1-877-7FL-SUFS for help
February 2012 Newsletter
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