8/22/2025 Cavalier Connection

August 22, 2025

Please see below for information about the start of the school year.

These are "Informational" forms that you will need for this new school year. These helpful forms are normally in the welcome packet, but this year this email will take the place of receiving paper copies.

All forms below are for the 2025-2026 school year.

Please click on each link below to view and print.

TWILIO

SPIRIT WEAR DATES

STUDENT INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

PARENT/GRANDPARENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

SCHOOL HANDBOOK

Protect Young Eyes

Protect Young Eyes (PYE) is a digital safety organization founded by Chris McKenna in 2015, providing research, education, and advocacy for families, schools, and churches to create safer digital spaces. Through its website, presentations, and apps, PYE offers resources and guidance to help young people navigate technology responsibly, with a focus on giving children and teens the right technology at the right time.

A back-to-school video can be found by following this link.

MORNING DROP OFF REMINDERS

Parents are welcome to enter the back parking lot via Nordman Drive for morning drop off. This will alleviate backup on Lorraine Avenue.
Students should be ready to exit the vehicle when you pull up to the cones.
If you need more time to get your child out of the vehicle (we all have tough mornings!), you are welcome to park your car in the upper lot and walk your child to the front circle. This will allow traffic to clear more quickly.
Parents should not enter the building unless they have business in the school office.

Counselor

Please welcome Holly Barrett-Sears as our counselor for the year. She will be at St Joe's every Wednesday and Friday starting August 27th.

Click the image below for the Little Flowers registration form.

Library Volunteers Needed

Mrs. Schreiber is looking for volunteers to support two great opportunities in the library:

1. Book Covering at Home

We’ve been blessed with a wonderful collection of new and donated books! Mrs. Schreiber is seeking volunteers to take home a bag of books and cover them with protective film.

All materials will be provided
Simple and easy to do at home!
If you're interested in helping out, please email Mrs. Schreiber (cschreiber@sjscrescent.org) to arrange a book bag pickup.

2. Library Class Volunteer

Would you like to help during your child’s library class time? You can sign up using the link below.

Limit: 2 volunteer slots per semester, per child
(For example, 3 children = 6 volunteer slots)
Please use the Sign Up Genius link to choose your time.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090E4FAFA828A31-57852197-sjslibrary

Thank you so much for supporting Mrs. Schreiber and helping to instill a love of reading in the students of SJS!

Aspire Higher. Book by Book.

Cavaliers Care 2025

Cavaliers Care is an outreach program that provides an opportunity for our students and families to get involved with various organizations to volunteer and build into our community. As Christ followers we want to be the hands and feet of Jesus by serving our brothers and sisters in need. We are called to humble ourselves in service to glorify God's kingdom. To give of our treasure, time and talents! We certainly answered that call from September - December 2024. In addition to our weekly volunteering we facilitated two large events that were a huge success! See below for more information and the sign up opportunities for January – May 2025.

Link to Sign Up Genius

Robotics Club

Registration for St Joe's Robotics Club is now open for grades 2-8. Please click on the flyer below for more information. The cost for the program was left off of the flyer. Please see below for that information. Checks may be made payable to St. Joe’s Robotics Club may be left at school office; due September 2nd.

Use the link below to register.

https://sports.bluesombrero.com/Default.aspx?tabid=1035815

MathCounts

MathCounts will be in one of our Academic Support Rooms by the upstairs restrooms in our 5th grade hallway starting Thursday September 25 from 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

MathCounts was established in 1983 by the National Society of Professional Engineers, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the CNA Foundation. It is an enrichment, coaching, and competition program that promotes middle school mathematical achievement through grassroots involvement in every U.S. state and territory. If you have a natural aptitude for the subject, or are simply interested in a creative approach to problem-solving, then join us on Thursday evenings. Beyond weekly evening practices, intended Mathletes should anticipate optional take-home material, possible scrimmages against local schools throughout the year, regional competition at NKU in February 2026, and potential state competition in March 2026. College scholarships are typically offered for top placements at the regional and state events. The program has minimal cost beyond your commitment of time, energy, and enthusiasm! We very much look forward to meeting any interested 6^th through 8^th graders.

Office Reminders

If you are dropping off an item your child has forgotten, please put the item on or in the blue bin by the front door. Your child’s name should be on the item. Please email the office and the child’s teacher to let them know that an item has been dropped off for the child. The office staff will retrieve the item and your child will pick it up from the office.

If you need to make an appointment for your child during the school day, please refrain from picking your child up after 1:30 p.m. The office is very busy at the end of the day, and reducing early pick ups at this time will allow our office staff to focus on making sure everything is ready for our school dismissal at 1:55 p.m.