News - August 2019 RSS Feed

Thanks to everyone who attended our NCYC Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser - our most crowded one ever! A lot more people than expected purchased tickets after Mass, so we appreciate how patient and understanding everyone was as we added more tables and chairs. We hope everyone enjoyed the great meal and fellowship. Spaghetti Dinner Salutes: • Don, Denise and Nick Freville and Micky Stoner, for preparing the dinner. • Carmella and Vic Reyes for helping set up and clean up. • Texas Roadhouse for donating the rolls/butter. • Dawn (From General Mills) for donating the brownies for dessert. • Pat Gillenwater for helping set up and clean up. • Michelle Rousselle helping in the Kitchen. • Susan and Ted Wagner with clean up. • Shevawn and Tom Bettler with clean up. • Our NCYC kiddos for serving Salute for Youth Ministered Mass participants: Philip Stoner and Michele Cooper for being Lectors and our Volleyball Players who served as greeters and took up the gifts. Thanks to the Youth Choir and for Matthew Huber who sang.

If you plan on volunteering for any school activity, room parent, fieldtrip chaperone, cafeteria volunteer, then you must be Safe and Sacred Trained. The training will take about 40 minutes and you can complete online. You will find the Safe and Sacred Program at https://safeandsacred-archindy.org.

Monday, September 2nd is a holiday. There will be no school on this day.

So, do you know how to play euchre? Do you want to learn? Have you ever played bunco? What about other games? Come have fun with your parish community and meet our St. Anthony High School Leadership Team in the Social Hall for Family Game Night, on Saturday, August 31st, from 6-7:30pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

School Pictures will be taken on Thursday, August 22nd and Friday, August 23rd. Preschool, kindergarten and grades 1-4 will have pictures taken on Thursday, August 22nd. Grades 5-6-7-8 will be Friday, August 23rd. Money is due on or before the pictures are taken. Students may be out of uniform on the day that their picture is taken. Guidelines for out of uniform days are in the school handbook. Order forms were sent home last week or you can order online at mylifetouch.com with your picture day ID: EVTNKRQSV

Our theme for the school year is “F.R.I.E.N.D.S” I’ll Be There For You. As a Catholic School, we want to show that we are all friends and we should always be there for each other just like Jesus is always there for us. As we go throughout the year, we will discuss what qualities make a good friend. We used an acronym to come up with qualities of a good friend: Friends are: Faithful Respectful Have Integrity Encouraging Noble Dependable Supportive

We are very excited to announce that we received $1,000 from the Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County. With this funding, we will be adding a WiFi access point to improve and expand classroom connectivity. This will allow faster and more effective use of devices in the classroom. I want to thank the Horseshoe Foundation for supporting St. Anthony School. Also, thanks to Cindy Collins and Jenny Harrington for writing and submitting the grant.

During the Back to School Bash, parents were able to sign up for a Gift Basket from Paragon. The winner of the basket is Chris Copeland. Congratulations, Chris! You can pick up the basket from the front office.

School Pictures will be taken on Thursday, August 22nd and Friday, August 23rd. Preschool, kindergarten and grades 1-4 will have pictures taken on Thursday, August 22nd. Grades 5-6-7-8 will be Friday, August 23rd. Money is due on or before the pictures are taken. Students may be out of uniform on the day that their picture is taken. Guidelines for out of uniform days are in the school handbook. Picture order forms are going home today.

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis Office of Catholic Schools has made a change to the grading scale. This was done to make our Archdiocesan elementary schools more aligned with our high school grading scales. The grading scale will be put into effect for the 2019-2020 school year. The new scale is as follows: 93-100 A 85-92 B 76-84 C 70-75 D 69 and Below F

Welcome to the 2019-2020 school year! I am excited to begin this new school year. I am looking forward to a wonderful year filled with lots of learning, growing, and fun. I hope you have enjoyed a summer vacation filled with fun and exciting memories with your loved ones. The summer gave us time to rest and relax; now we are ready to start the year with positive energy and enthusiasm. As we start this new year, I would like to welcome new teachers to our school community: Ms. Jessica Neumann (2nd Grade) Ms. Jessica Pinnick (4th Grade) Mrs. Kelly Duggins (Art Teacher) Ms. Katherine Alberts (Music Teacher) As always we ask for God’s blessing for a safe, healthy, and successful school year for the entire St. Anthony Community.