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Dear St. Alphonsus Families,
We hope you are enjoying the long weekend! Teachers are spending the day at Sustaining the Mission, a required Archdiocesan program designed to advance the Religious Education Certification for educators in Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. It provides intentional content education in Catholic faith traditions and core theological teachings so that Catholic school educators may competently and confidently advance the mission of Catholic education.
While we are busy deepening our faith today, we wanted to share with you a great resource for learning and encouragement as you look for ways to apply the various parts of our Catholic mass to daily life with your families. Whispers in the Pew is put out by the Archdiocese and is a booklet with tips and tricks to help you enrich your family's mass experience, both in and out of church. We hope you will take a look!
Don't forget that Iowa Testing begins Friday, March 1 and will end on Friday, March 15 for grades 3, 5, & 7. Please make sure your students have a restful night's sleep and a good breakfast during the testing sessions!
Have a fantastic week!
Best regards,
Ms. Parey, Principal
Mrs. Schermetzler & Mrs. Bruhn, Leadership Team
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The scholarship application can be downloaded here, and the applications are due to our school office by April 5, 2024. | |
Important Tax Information for Parents
Tuition paid reports for the current school year (August-December 2023) have been printed and can be picked up in the school office. Also available are current tuition balances by student.
Reports for the prior school year (January-June 2023) can be found in TADS by following the instructions below:
HOW TO ACCESS YOUR HOUSEHOLD PAID TUITION TAX REPORT in TADS (for January to June 2023).
1. Go to TADS.com
2. Login to your TADS account
3. Click on” Billing” and then look below the blue box for the “Household Paid Tuition Tax Report.”
4. Click on Household Paid Tuition Tax Report
5. Enter the year for which you need the information and a statement will appear that details the fees you paid in that year. These include: Tuition Deposit, Tuition, and field trips.
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More Student Lector Dates Available!
Do your students in grades 2-8 love to read at mass? Consider signing them up to lector at Sunday Mass. Our spring dates are now available here. We will also need gift bearers.
Students practice with Mrs. Schermetzler on the Friday before weekend masses.
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February & March Dates to Remember | |
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03/01 - 03/15
Iowa Testing
Grades 3, 5, & 7
03/04 - 03/10
Book Fair
Details Below
03/08
End of Trimester 2
03/15
Report Cards Released to Parents
Online thru PowerSchool
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03/21
Optional Spring Conferences
4-6pm
Sign-up Coming Soon
03/26
Living Stations of the Cross
6:00pm
03/27
Living Stations of the Cross
2:00pm
03/28 & 03/29
No School
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Save the Date for Living Stations of the Cross
Students pose each of the 14 Stations while others lead the congregation in prayer for a visual depiction of this beloved Lenten devotion.
This year’s Living Stations will take place on Tuesday, March 26th, at 6:00 PM. in the church. There will also be a performance on Wednesday, March 27th at 2:00 PM, again in the church. We hope you can join us.
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Save the Date for the 4th & 5th Grade Spring Concert!
This year our 4th & 5th Grade spring concert will be held on Thursday, May 2nd at 2:00 pm in church. Please save the date and we will have more details as the event approaches!
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It's the last week to order your yearbooks!
Yearbook order forms went home last week. Only pre-ordered yearbooks are guaranteed, and all yearbooks will be delivered by class at the end of the year. Orders must be received by March 1.
Click on this link to place your order!
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March Out of Uniform Schedule
We thought it might be easier for you to have a list of days that are Out-Of-Uniform either with a pass or with special circumstances for the whole month, so here are the Out-of-Uniform Days for March:
03/01
First Friday of the Month
Spiritwear Day! Wear St. Al's spiritwear & jeans or out-of-uniform bottoms
03/07
Out of Uniform with Dine Out Night purchase on 03/06 (receipt required)
03/21
Out of Uniform with Dine Out Night purchase on 03/20 (receipt required)
03/22
Last Friday of the Month
Out of Uniform with Purchased Pass
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This Year's Book Fair Is Coming Soon! | |
The Book Fair is Coming March 4 - March 11!
The online link to our school book fair from Literati is now open! You can check it out here to preview & purchase some of the titles that will be available at our fair. You can also purchase digital gift cards if you would like your student to shop cashless at the in-person book fair.
We will again be offering Kids Book Club memberships at our fair this year. These are personalized book boxes that help kids build vocabulary, confidence, and a love of reading. It’s like getting a book fair in a box, every month!
- Get a monthly selection of five books, handpicked for your child’s reading pace and preferences.
- Buy what they love. Return the ones they don’t for free.
- 10% of every dollar spent on kids book clubs will always come back to St. Alphonsus.
Kids book club membership starts at just $9.95/month but right now you can sign up for 3 months for just $1. You can check them out here!
Finally, please also mark your calendars for March 3 - March 10 and considering volunteering to help us out at the Book Fair. You will help us by setting up, helping students shop, running the register, reminding customers about Literati Kids book clubs, and restocking products and displays. All volunteers will receive a 20% discount at the fair.
Mrs. Schermetzler will send out the sign-up genius via email this week after class shopping schedules are finalized, so you can volunteer while your students are shopping. Thank you for your patience!
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Spring Extracurricular Opportunities! | |
Congrats, Middle School Forensics! | |
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Congratulations to our Middle School Forensics Team on a Fantastic Weekend Competing!
Our middle school Forensics team of Maddy P., Matthew P., and Max C., had a great weekend competing in 2 meets. At Friday's meet, Max C. earned a gold medal by getting the highest averaged score in his category! At Saturday's meet, the team had an awesome day filled with 2 perfect scores, multiple "best in category" rankings, and high scores throughout the day! They capped it off by winning a FIRST PLACE trophy in the Small School category! Congratulations on a great weekend!
Keep up the great work and good luck at the State tournament in a few weeks!
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The 8th grade boys play their first game of the Padre Serra Tournament Sunday March 10th against St. Mary’s Visitation Elm Grove at 3:15. All games will be held at Dominican High school. Please come out and show your support!
As the days start to get longer and we see more nice days that can only mean one thing: Track Season is approaching! Signups are now open! https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/373338
Below is the schedule for each St Alphonsus team (and students playing at other schools) for the upcoming weekend. This the final chance to see our student athletes play this regular season!
- 5th Grade Boys: 6:00 pm February 26th @ St Mary's Hales Corners; 11:00 am March 2nd @ St Alphonsus
- 5th Grade Girls: 6:00 pm February 28th @ St Mary's Hales Corners; 9:00 am March 2nd @ St Alphonsus; 3:00 pm March 3rd @ St Alphonsus
- 6th Grade Boys: 10:00 am March 2nd @ St Alphonsus @ St Alphonsus; 1:00 pm March 3rd @ St Alphonsus
- 6th Grade Girls: 11:00 am March 2nd @ St Leonard; 1:00 pm March 3rd @ St Thomas Aquinas Academy
- 7th Grade Girls: 2:00 pm March 2nd @ Holy Apostles
- 8th Grade Boys: 2:00 pm March 3rd @ St Alphonsus
We still have the following athletic board positions open:
Treasurer
Volleyball Coordinator
Communications Coordinator
If you are interested in helping out with building the future of athletics at St. Alphonsus, please reach out to Nick Warrichaiet.
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MATC STEM Mobile Lab visits St. Alphonsus!
Students in grades 4 through 8 got a chance to hop aboard the bus.Students became the operators of pneumatic machines programmed to polish and sort parts.
Pneumatic machines are operated by pressurized air to move the parts through the machine.
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Home & School is Recruiting!
Home & School is recruiting some new chairs for the 2024-2025 School Year. The Home & School team makes sure our students and families have a fun-filled year with activities like dances & Trunk or Treat. Home & School also provides funding to each classroom & teachers for special extras including field trips.
We are looking for some new event chairs for the 2024-2025 school year. All events have a current chair who could assist with training before the end of the year. Most things occur only one time during the school year & do not need year-long support. Please consider joining us!
The following teams are looking for help for next year:
- Dine Out: Needs 1, to work with one new chair already trained
- Box Tops: Needs 1
- Hospitality and Staff Appreciation: Needs 1 to work with current chair, who will continue
- Fun Run: Needs 2 to work with current chair, who will continue
- Fun Fair: Needs 3
- Poinsettia Sale: Needs 1
Please email Home & School Secretary Holly Lewandowski if you are interested in getting involved.
In addition, last week was our all-school Home & School Meeting! You can read the Minutes from that meeting here.
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Get your dancing shoes on!
Save the date for two upcoming dances here at St. Alphonsus:
*NEW*
Mom Prom
For sons and moms (or mother-like figures)
Friday, April 19th
St. Alphonsus Annual Father-Daughter Dance
For daughters and fathers (or father-like figures)
Friday, April 26th
More details coming soon!
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Join St. Alphonsus and the Home & School Association at the Milwaukee Wave Game!
St. Alphonsus Catholic School is the featured organization at the Milwaukee Wave game on March 22 at 6:35pm. We hope you can attend, watch a great game and support St Alphonsus Catholic School!
Please use this link to buy your tickets and we’ll see you at the game! St. Alphonsus School will get a percentage of the money from each ticket sold at this link, so feel free to spread the word & share this with your family and friends. MANY school families will be sitting in the 200s sections, so consider purchasing your tickets in those seats!
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Updates from our SCRIP Program:
SCRIP is off to a good start. Six weeks in and parishioners and school families have have raised over $1250 so far!
...and yet, this could be so much more!
Do you spend $500 a month on groceries?
Do you spend $400 a month on gas?
Do you go to Dine Out Nights?
If every school family bought the same amount in SCRIP, that’s a $40 rebate per month just for those purchases! Imagine if every school family took advantage of this.
Of course, there are many other ways to increase that amount by using the frequent bonuses! (Kwik-Trip is offering a 9% bonus thru February 23.)
If you haven’t questions, contact Vickie Major! She is happy to help you become a regular SCRIP buyer.
Lastly, the SCRIP program could use some help on Sundays for a few hours. Please consider sitting at the SCRIP table from 8:30-11:00. It's not hard and you get a chance to say hi to all your friends at church! Sign up here!
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Local School & Alumni News | |
Please note that any outside activities are not sponsored or endorsed by St. Alphonsus Parish or School | |
Calling all St. Alphonsus Alumni!
Do you have an alumni student in your home? Are you an alum yourself, or maybe you've heard some great things our alumni are up to? Please share them with us! We would love to share more alumni news in upcoming newsletters and on our social media. You can email items to Mrs. Schermetzler. Thank you!
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Christian Formation Updates & Opportunities | |
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Want to ignite the faith of your family this summer? Want them to encounter Jesus, the Blessed Mother and have fun as well?
Then sign your family up for Totus Tuus! Totus Tuus has two distinct parts - one for younger kids and one for middle and high schoolers. The younger kids come during the day and have a group of Totus Tuus Missionaries lead them in an action packed vacation Bible camp! The missionaries are young adults who are on fire with their faith!
Then for the older kids, the missionaries (same ones mentioned above) engage them at night to grow in their faith as well - the older kids will do things more appropriate to middle and high schoolers.
St. Al's will be co-hosting this with St. Martin of Tours and it will be held at St. Martin of Tours parish.
This will be from July 8th through July 12th from K5-5th grade from 9 a.m. -3 p.m. And it will be from July 7th through July 11th from 7pm-9pm for 6th through 12th grades.
Want to learn more about Totus Tuus? Check out the national website! To sign up, click here.
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In Matthew 25, Jesus is very clear that we are called, no, commanded to love those in need and to serve them. Somehow, by doing so, we are able to serve Jesus. He is in disguise.
And if I could bring everyone to one place to show them what it looks like to serve as if you are serving Jesus Himself, I would bring you all to the Kinship Community Food Center! It is a food pantry unlike any other one I have ever seen. They operate more like a grocery store than a food pantry. People go to different stations to choose the food they want. It affords a real dignity to everyone.
And, it's a place where generosity reigns.
Come and check it out! Please consider joining us on April 13, 2024. It's an amazing opportunity to serve Jesus disguised in the poor. To sign up or to learn more about serving, check out the sign up genius.
--Karen Farrell, Director of Youth & Young Adult Ministry
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Save the Date for the Annual Parish Auction!
On May 10, 2024, we will Roll Out the Red Carpet for the 23rd annual St. Alphonsus Parish benefit auction, and we invite you to join us!
The auction is the only parish fundraiser that benefits all of St. Alphonsus’ ministries, including our school, Christian formation programs, adult education, community outreach (food pantry, community meal programs, giving tree, etc.), support groups and more.
It is sure to be a great evening, so mark your calendars now! We are also looking for donations. Stop by the gathering space in church to take a star from our Walk of Fame! Similar to a Giving Tree, the stars have easy, specific donation items the auction committee is in charge of. Items can be returned to the gathering space or to the parish office. Thank you for your support!
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Do you have items for the newsletter? To submit them or for questions and submission guidelines, please contact Amy Schermetzler.
Please note that submissions are due by 12:00pm Fridays.
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