Picture Day is at Meet & Greet Night!

Next week is Meet & Greet Night! Join us from 3-5pm on Thursday. School pictures will be taken at that time. Students do not need to wear uniforms for their pictures.

Attached is a school picture order form, or you may place your order online here.

Dress Code Updates: Our New School Store is Now Open!

We are so pleased to be able to offer you a new online school store! Here, you will find everything from uniform shirts to spiritwear and more. All the items listed in our school store are uniform-code approved, but we have two important notes.

First, for Mass this year, we will be wearing embroidered sky blue polos. ALL students in grades 5K-8 must purchase a mass polo. You have a couple of different sizing options, but the mass polo MUST be the sky blue color and will be worn every Wednesday in lieu of unity shirts. This was discussed more in our 2024-2025 school year plan released last spring.

Second, for grades 5-8, a gym uniform is also required. Only one gym uniform purchase is required, but students will be required to wear the uniform each time they have gym. You may purchase as many as you'd like for your student to be able to wear the uniform to gym class each time they have it. In addition, the store also offers a cute drawstring bag which many of our students like to use to carry their gym uniforms!

You will find both of these required uniform pieces in the Required section at the top of the school store.

Other school store notes: we will still have Unity shirts! They are just not going to be worn during mass. Unity shirts and uniform bottoms will be worn on MONDAYS and will also be used for special all-school events throughout the year. As in the past, school will provide one unity shirt for each student. You may order additional shirts through the link in our school store. You will be able to pick up your student's unity shirt at Meet & Greet night next week. Any school store orders placed by August 8 will also be available to pick up that night.

Drop Off & Pick Up Line Procedures

A quick reminder for Back to School: please remember to follow our car line procedures! 

3K, 4K, & 5K students AND THEIR SIBLINGS should be dropped off and picked up in the school courtyard car line. Enter via Loomis Road and proceed past the parish house. Exit will be on to Churchway. For the first few days of school, our early childhood staff will be outside in the courtyard to meet your children and help with separation anxiety.

All other grades, 1-8, should use the main car line by the gym doors. Enter from Loomis Road by the apartments and proceed up the fence line. Please do not try to enter the car line from Schoolway or Churchway. The exit for this car line is out the gate onto Schoolway or Churchway. Please also do not cut back through the parking lot to exit on Loomis. We are trying to keep car line traffic one way this year. As always, please be mindful of parishioners leaving mass each morning.

Please do not park your car on Churchway or Schoolway for pickup.  This is a violation of our agreement with the village.  In addition, please do not park in the main school parking lot and cross the car line in order to pick up your younger students. This presents a major safety concern, as the car lines move quite quickly, and cars may not always see you as you're crossing. Thank you for helping us to keep our students safe and our neighbors happy! 

Please let Ms. Parey know if you have any questions. As a reminder, parents should NOT park and walk their children into school.

School Supply Lists Are Now Available!

School supply lists are also now available on our website here. Please note that the brand names listed are just suggestions; you may purchase generic items as well.

Out of Uniform Dates

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 August & September:

08/30

Last Friday of the Month

Out of Uniform with Purchased Pass

09/05

Summer Dine Out Night Out of Uniform Date with purchase at Cousins Subs in July (receipt required)

09/12

Out of Uniform with Dine Out Night purchase on 09/12 (receipt required)

09/19

Summer Dine Out Night Out of Uniform Date with purchase at Cousins Subs in August (receipt required)

09/26

Out of Uniform with Dine Out Night purchase on 09/25 (receipt required)

09/27

Last Friday of the Month

Out of Uniform with Purchased Pass

Cougar Club Calendars are now available!

Just as a reminder, St. Alphonsus offers Cougar Club at the end of each school day!

Cougar Club is an after school program open to all students in grades 3K-8th. Each day the students will have the opportunity to participate in outdoor playtime, gym time, arts and crafts, toys, games, and reading. They will also have the opportunity to work on their homework. The St. Alphonsus Catholic School Cougar Club is open every school day from 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Please note that Cougar Club is closed on Early Release Days and days when St. Alphonsus Catholic School is not in session. There is no fee to enroll in Cougar Club. Simply return a monthly calendar to Stacey Pagac, our Cougar Club coordinator, atcougarclub@st-alphonsus.org. Cougar Club calendars can be found on our website here, along with more information about the program, including fees.

St. Alphonsus Morning Care is available for students in grades 3K - 8th each day that St. Alphonsus School is in session. 

It opens at 6:45 am and closes when the morning bell rings at 7:30 am. At 7:30 am, the students walk to their classrooms.

St. Alphonsus Morning Care is held in Room 330 and lead by our first grade teacher, Mrs. Kathy Ramion. Parents may park their cars in the parking lot on the east side of the Parish House and enter via the 'back porch" of the school that is across from the Parish House garages. Please walk your child up the stairs and ring the doorbell. Mrs. Ramion will come and open the door for your child. Please do not leave your child unattended while waiting for the door to open.

While in Morning Care, students may draw, play games, play with Legos, do puzzles, read, study, and talk with one another. Breakfast and snacks are not served and may not be consumed during Morning Care.

The fee is $2.00 per student per day and is due each day when you arrive with your child. For questions, please contact Kathy Ramion.

Gateway Organization Milwaukee is again offering band and orchestra lessons at St. Alphonsus this year!

Students in grades 3-8 are eligible for Orchestra. Students in grades 4-8 are eligible for Band.

The registration timeline is as follows:

• Signups for band/orchestra lessons will open August 1 and close September 4.
• Scholarship applications will open August 1 and close September 6.
• Lessons will tentatively begin the week of September 16-20.

You can get more information from the flyer below, read their welcome letter here, or check out their website here.

Online registration is available via the links below. Registration is due by Wednesday,

September 4.

Orchestra registration is here

Band registration is here

Lessons will begin the week of September 16!

Fall Extracurricular Registrations Now Open

Some of our most beloved extracurriculars are now open for registration! Check out the information for Chess Club, Coding Club, and STEAM Club below.

You can click on this link to register.

Signing up for SCRIP is easy! Stop by the SCRIP table when you see it after Mass, or use the app!

The enrollment code for new families is 2DB1B8CC1953. You can also check out our Enrollment Forms and FAQ on our school website. If you would like to order via paper order form, you can find that here.

Any questions, please call or email our SCRIP coordinator, Vickie Major at 414-704-0526 or via email here.