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Saint Timothy Catholic School
Tuesday Tidbits
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
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| Mr. McLaughlin presents the Tuesday Tidbits Overview from the Shrine of the National Basilica |
Dear STS Parents,
This
Thursday, 12/15 is the Annual Christmas Dinner & Concert.
There will be a delicious pasta dinner provided by Business Partner Pizza Margarita (Gainesville) beginning at 4:45 p.m. (in the school gym and cafeteria), followed by a concert in the church at 6:00 p.m. We are asking all students to report to their classrooms at 5:30 p.m. so they will walk over to the church with their classes. If your student is in the Choir Elective, Cecelia Choir or 6th Grade Choir they can meet outside the front office near the pond hallway. They will all walk over together. Following the concert, students will be dismissed from the church, please do not bring any jackets to the classroom. If you would like to send in desserts they can be dropped off during morning carpool or in the afternoon carpool. Students are encouraged to wear their Sunday Best for the concert.
We also invite all of our families to join us for the
STS Christmas Band Concert on Wednesday, 12/14 at 7 PM, in the gym and the annual
STS Christmas Para-liturgy on Monday, 12/19 at 1:45 p.m. in the church. Come see our Kindergarten angels and the Holy Family, and join us in singing joyous Christmas songs. A special thanks to Mrs. Salinas for her efforts in organizing and preparing our students for this year's Christmas Programs. We hope these events get you into the Christmas spirit!
Tomorrow, Wednesday, 12/14, students are encouraged to come dressed in attire representing true Christmas Spirit. Given that this is the season of giving, we also encourage each student to bring in a donation for Catholic Charities (Please note that Pajamas are not permitted). P
lease note that our 8th grade students will have their own Christmas Spirit Dress Day on Tuesday, 12/20. The student Government is trying to beat last year's total of $2,100, raised for the Arlington Diocese Catholic Charities! Thank you for supporting this worthwhile cause and for your continued generosity!
A special word of thanks to STS Business partner,
Mr. Tim Curtin for his generous donation to our school! If you are in need of a mortgage, please contact Tim at
Americorp Mortgage Services.
Thanks again to
Mr. Paul Hunter for yet another generous contribution to STS. If you are in the market to purchase or sell a house, Paul and
RE/MAX Gateway Realty are incredibly service oriented and would love to hear from you. We greatly appreciate Paul's continuous generosity to and support of our school. Thanks so much Paul!
Thank you to
Guapos Restaurant for their $1,000 donation to our school for our recent Spirit Day, and thank you to everyone who turned out to support the STS Guapos Spirit Day.
A special thank you also to
Mrs. Tara Pollock, the PTO Executive Board and our amazing parent volunteers for coordinating and facilitating this year's Santa's workshop for our students. The children really enjoyed shopping for their family members.
It's the time of year when we start experiencing inclement winter weather conditions. This is a reminder that our Inclement weather policy if located on our school website Click
here for policy. Please also note that in the event of a two hour delayed opening of the school, we ask that students please bring a packed lunch, thanks in advance for your consideration. Also,
If there is a two-hour delayed opening, the morning pre-K session will have school from 10:00 - 12:00 and the afternoon session will have school from 1:15 - 3:15.
We are looking to hire a part time person for a part-time After Care Position starting in January. The hours are 3-6 pm Mon- Fri and occasionally 11:30-4:00 pm on Fridays. Great for college students. Please contact Elise Facciolo if you're interested.
If you are interested in serving on our school climate committee, please contact our school counselor, Mrs. Beth Henry. This committee is responsible for planning and facilitiating parent education programs.
Our Mission Commission Club will be decorating at the National Shrine of Our Lady (in Washington DC) on December 19th. All families are encouraged to attend and assist with the decorations, contact Mrs. Gott for details.
Families who will be in need of tuition assistance for the next school year are encouraged to begin the application process now. Details can be found
here
If you have any questions about the process, please reach out to Mrs. Irons.
Thank you for your continued support of our wonderful school. I pray that God will bless you and your family during this Advent season!
God bless,
Joseph M. McLaughlin
Principal
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Advanced Band Practices for their upcoming Band Concert tomorrow.
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Clinic News
On Friday, December 16th the PTO will hold our annual Christmas Luncheon. We will provide students full day Pre-K-8th with pizza, drinks and dessert. Pizza will be ordered from Pizza Margherita and students will have their choice of red Jello or Oreo cookies. You will find ingredients listed below. Please contact Mrs Snowden should you have any questions or concerns. We are still in need of volunteers for this event. Please see the PTO sign up genius for details.
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Christmas Luncheon Ingredients:
Jello:
Strawberry Jello (Sugar, Gelatin, Adipic Acid (For Tartness), Contains Less Than 2% Of Artificial Flavor, Disodium Phosphate And Sodium Citrate (Control Acidity), Fumaric Acid (For Tartness), Red 40.)
Reddi Whip:
Nonfat milk, cream, sugar, corn syrup, maltodextrin, inulin (chicory extract), cellulose, mono- and diglycerides polysorbate 80, artificial flavors, carrageenan.
Oreo:
UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PALM, AND/OR CANOLA OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CORNSTARCH, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLIN
Target brand mini candy canes:
sugar, corn syrup, artificial flavor, yellow 5, red 40, red 40 lake, blue 1
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Clinic Issues:
I have been notified of a few cases of strep throat and stomach virus in the elementary grades. Please follow the 24 hours symptom free policy before sending children back to school. There have been absences due to fevers only and upper respiratory infections. We have also had a handful of pneumonia in the Kindergarten. There is a bad cold, cough, sore throat virus affecting the students and teachers. They often have low grade fevers and have to take a couple days rest. Should symptoms or fever persist longer than the normal 7-10 days, a doctor's visit may be needed.
God bless you!
Mrs. Patrice Snowden, BSN, RN
From our Lucy's to you... Happy Feast of Saint Lucy!
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Reminder, the Christmas Paraliturgy is Mon., Dec. 19th @1:45 PM in the Church
The PTO would like to extend a sincere Thank You to Mrs. Tara Pollock for organizing and facilitating Santa's Workshop. We would also like to thank all the volunteers who helped throughout the week and Mrs. Walker for allowing us to utilize the library space. Thank you all for making this a successful event for our students! We greatly appreciate it!
Ornament will be sold this Thursday at the Christmas Concert dinner. You can still get yours today via the order forms sent home with your children.
Time to brush up those dance moves, vocal chords, poetry prowess and piano skills! The first St Timothy's Talent show will be February 4, 2017!
Try- outs will be held after school on January 19th and 20th.
All talents are welcome, and students can form a group act if they wish!
All acts will be limited to One Minute and Thirty Seconds, so please be sure to think creatively about what you would like to wow the audience with!
More information will be available to parents and students after the Christmas Break.
Any questions about the show can be directed to
Katie Pond
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Make plans now to attend the Saint Timothy School annual Gala Auction. Grab your sitters now and come out and join us on Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the Hilton Dulles Hotel. More information will be coming after the Christmas Break. For more information, please check our updated auction
website.
Car Raffle, preliminary meetings have occurred, watch sign up genius for volunteer opportunities.
We are still in need of volunteers to help with the Christmas luncheon on December 16th. If you are able to help, please see the
sign-up genius for details. Thank you for your continued support!
On Friday, December 16th the PTO will hold our annual Christmas Luncheon. We will provide students full day Pre-K-8th with pizza, drinks and dessert. Pizza will be ordered from Pizza Margherita and students will have their choice of red Jello or Oreo cookies. You will find ingredients listed below. Please contact Mrs Snowden should you have any questions or concerns. We are still in need of volunteers for this event. Please see the PTO sign up genius for details.
Ingredients:
Jello:
- Strawberry Jello (Sugar, Gelatin, Adipic Acid (For Tartness), Contains Less Than 2% Of Artificial Flavor, Disodium Phosphate And Sodium Citrate (Control Acidity), Fumaric Acid (For Tartness), Red 40.)
Reddi Whip:
- Nonfat milk, cream, sugar, corn syrup, maltodextrin, inulin (chicory extract), cellulose, mono- and diglycerides polysorbate 80, artificial flavors, carrageenan.
Oreo:
- UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PALM, AND/OR CANOLA OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CORNSTARCH, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLIN
Target brand mini candy canes:
- sugar, corn syrup, artificial flavor, yellow 5, red 40, red 40 lake, blue 1
Car Raffle:
Preliminary meetings have occurred, watch sign up genius for volunteer opportunities.
Please note we have added some additional volunteer opportunities to help sell the STS Christmas Ornaments. These are NON-Virtus, please see the
sign up for more details. We will need help with set up and clean up of the Christmas luncheon. Thank you for all your support this year!
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Mother-Daughter Retreat
Jan 28 -29th
5th -12th grade girls and their mothers
are invited to join us for
Mother- Daughter Retreat
at the San Damiano Retreat Center
125 Old Kitchen Rd.
Old Post, VA 22663.
On Saturday, January 28 starting at 3:00 pm-Sunday, January 29 1:30 pm. The cost is $215 per mother/daughter, $50 each additional daughter. There will be talks and activities for moms and daughters, holy hour, adoration: a wonderful opportunity to spend time together with Jesus. Contact Angela Velasquez-Kanzeh at 703-994-1185 or angelamaria1971@yahoo.com. Event sponsored by the Challenges Club.
Advent /Christmas Mass and Confession
Schedule 2016 Confession Schedule:
***Note NO CONFESSIONS December 24***
- Dec. 19 Confession after 9:00 am, & Noon Masses and at 7:00 pm
- Dec. 20 Confession after 9:00 am, & Noon Masses and at 7:00 pm
- Dec. 21 Confession after 9:00 am, & Noon Masses and at 7:00 pm
- Dec. 22 Confession after 9:00 am, & Noon Masses and at 7:00 pm
- Dec. 23 Confession after 9:00 am, & Noon Masses and at 7:00 pm
- Dec. 31 Confession at 3:30 pm as usual Christmas Masses
- Dec. 24 Daily Mass at 9:00 am Only-(Not a Christmas Mass)
- Dec. 24 Christmas Vigil Mass 4:30 pm, 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm
- Dec. 25 Christmas Day Mass 8:00 am, 10:00 am and NOON
Solemnity of the Mother of God Holy Day of Obligation
Dec. 31 Daily Mass 9:00 am Only -(Does not count for the Solemnity)
Dec. 31 Vigil Mass 5:30 pm and 11:00 pm
Exposition after Mass until 10:00 pm we will close the Octave of Christmas with singing of Christmas hymns. At 11:00 pm Vigil Mass finishing at Midnight.
Jan. 1 Masses at 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am & 12:30 pm NO 5:30 MASS on the Solemnity of the Mother of God
See how the Virgin Waits!
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Upcoming Events:
Wednesday, Dec. 14th - Band Concert (Gym) 7 p.m.
Thurs. Dec. 15th - Christmas Dinner and Concert in the Church 5 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 19th Christmas Paraliturgy - 1:45 p.m. (Church)
Wednesday, Dec. 21st - NOON DISMISSAL
Christmas Break- NO SCHOOL - December 22nd - January 2, 2017
Tuesday, January 3 - first day back after Christmas Break
Monday & Tuesday, January 16th & 17th - NO SCHOOL
Wednesday, February 8, Science Fair!
Thursday, February 9, Art & Science Open House for entire school
Saturday, March 4th - SCHOOL AUCTION!
Tuesday, March 14th - Pi Night!
Wednesday, March 15th - Preschool Coffee 8 a.m.
Thursday, March 16th - AllPro Dad's Breakfast 7 a.m.
Saturday, March 18th - PTO Skate Night
Friday, April 7th - NOON Dismissal
Thursday, April 13th NOON Dismissal
Friday, April 14th - April 23rd Easter Break!
Thursday, April 27th, 2017 - 6th Grade Medieval Day Field Trip & Spring Golf Tournament @ Westfield Golf Course 1:00 p.m. Shotgun start!
Thursday, May 4th - 5th Grade Cinco de Mayo
Sunday, May 7th 9 AM (2A) 10:45 AM (2B) 1st Holy Communion
Friday, May 12th - NOON Dismissal
Saturday, May 13th - 8th Grade Confirmation
Thursday, May 25th - Math Fair
Friday, May 26th - NOON Dismissal & Field Day
Thursday, June 1st - Last day of school for 3s
Friday, June 2nd - Last day of school for 4s
Tuesday, June 6th - 8th Grade Yearbook Signing
Wednesday, June 7th - 6th Grade Patrol Party & 8th Grade Appreciation Dinner
Thursday, June 8th - School Mass 9 a.m. & 8th Grade Farewell
Friday, June 9th - Kindergarten Graduation 10 a.m. & 8th Grade Graduation 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 14th - School Wide Year book Signing NOON DISMISSAL
Thursday, June 15th - NOON DISMISSAL
Friday, June 16th - NOON DISMISSAL & Moving UP Day! LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
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Talent Friday in the Cafeteria! |
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