Monday Minute

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This week

Tuesday, Titan Time: Buddy Time

Wednesday, Late start - doors open at 9:00am, Music at Mid-week (sign up here), 9:15am school starts

Mass hosted by 7th grade

Dinner Night out at Mod Pizza - all day. HT receives 25% of your bill!

Back to School Night 5:30-7:30

Looking forward

Friday, October 4th 2 cans of food for Free Dress - Peanut Butter in plastic jars please

Friday, October 11th, NO SCHOOL Staff In-Service Day

Wednesday, October 16th, PICTURE DAY

Principal's Message

It is now officially fall. We are in our fourth week of school and the halls, playground, and classrooms continue to be filled with excited voices, curious questions, and joy. This week Back to School Night gives us an opportunity to connect to our students’ parents. As we settle into a rhythm of the year it is good to take time every now and then to stop and take a breath, appreciate the community, and find a bit of joy. 

Virtue for the Week

This week our school explores the virtue of Hope. 

This virtue is more than wishing it calls us to trust in God.

You know that when life gets hard you don’t give up but carry on hoping that things will get better. You dream of a better world or something better that will come in the future. You live for something greater than yourself. Your hope drives out selfishness and boredom and encourages you to engage with your community and do good works. You trust that God is at work moving the world towards what is good. (Vicariate for Education Diocese of Leeds).

Back to School Night - Wed, Sept. 25th 5:30-7:30 pm

Today we sent our Back to School Parent letter (read here). We are looking forward to welcoming families to this exciting event. The format is a bit different from past years so please review the message sent yesterday. Key points to keep in mind:

• This is a parent/guardian event, please make arrangements for students 
• The key purpose is to share information with families and continue to forge strong partnerships with families. 
• Elementary families can select the order of grade level sessions to visit. Middle school families follow the schedule for their student(s).  
• Table of information about after school activities and PTO will be available.
• EC Open until 4:00 pm. Please make arrangements for students.

Gradebook Publishing Dates

Last week families learned about some revisions to Holy Trinity’s grading practices. These changes required a bit of adjustments to teacher gradebooks and the school wide grading system. This pushed the publication date for gradebooks back some. Also, we agreed to hold off on some of the elementary grades to allow students to adjust to school. Here are the new dates:

• Middle school: September 23 (today)
• Elementary grades 2-5: September 23
• Elementary grades PreK-1: October 1st. Check on the work coming home in Friday Folders

Attendance, late slips

We appreciate our families efforts to get students to school on time. We also understand that there are times when legitimate events or issues make that difficult–traffic, early morning appointment, or unexpected circumstances. Guidance for what to do when a student is late remains the same as past years. If a student is late an adult must come into the office to sign in the student. This year, students receive a late slip they take to their teacher, that shows either excused or unexcused for the late. Please be sure to come into school to check in late students in person. 

Titan Time

Every week Holy Trinity students are in Titan Time (1:25-1:55). This 30 minute session is an opportunity for community building. This was an idea that came from the staff last year. During a month Titan Time will be used for schoolwide homeroom activities, an assembly each month, cross grade Buddy Time, and grade homeroom time. So far we already had an assembly, buddy time, and some homeroom time. We are a strong community and time focused on building relationships and reinforcing our core beliefs will make us stronger.