SAM - 09/04/2023

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT MEMO

Everything You Wanted To Know

Week of 09-04-23

 

What joy filled the halls as we opened the doors to the school year this morning! As we embark on this school year, let’s begin in prayer:

"God of wisdom and might, we praise you for the wonder of our being, for mind, body, and spirit. Be with our children as they begin a new school year. Bless them and their teachers and staff. Give them the strength and grace as their bodies grow; wisdom and knowledge to their minds as they search for understanding; and peace and zeal to their hearts. 

We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

Welcome to our first official school weekly school newsletter. The “SAM” (Special Announcements Memo) comes from the school office via email every Tuesday. This weekly newsletter contains important parent information that will help keep you informed of the great activities that happen on our campus. Please make sure to read this mailing each week in a timely manner. After the SAM is sent to parents, it is added to your FACTS Family Portal under Resource Documents. If you are not receiving this message at an email address that is convenient for you, please contact Mrs. Michele Wasman at [email protected] to update your email address.

CALENDAR REMINDERS:

Tuesday 9/5: GR 1-8 First Day of School in Uniform,  No Hot Lunch, PreK & K Individual Slow Start meetings

Wednesday 9/6: 1:00pm School Mass (Teachers), No Hot Lunch, 2:05pm Dismissal, PreK & K Individual Slow Start meetings, 2:30pm Faculty meeting

Thursday 9/7: PreK & K First Day of School, No Hot Lunch

Friday 9/8: No Hot Lunch, 3-4:30pm Daisy Troop 13030 meeting in library

Monday 9/11: No Hot Lunch - bring a lunch from home

Tuesday 9/12: Hot Lunch Begins! 3:15-3:45pm Gr 5-8 study hall, 5:30pm SAC meeting, 6:30pm PTC Exec. meeting

Wednesday 9/13: 1:00pm School Mass (8th Gr), 2:00pm Dismissal, 4-8pm SJF Night at Chipotle, 5:00pm C.A.S.E. Training in CFC, 6:30pm Gr 6-8 Back to School Night in CFC

Thursday 9/14: 9:45-12:50 8th gr high school visits (schedule below), 3:15-3:45pm Gr 5-8 study hall

PLAYGROUND DUTY:

Tuesday 9/5:        KRUSE

Wednesday 9/6:    KIRKER

Thursday 9/7:        BACHLEDER

Friday 9/8:        SCHMIDT

Monday 9/11:        MEYER

Tuesday 9/12:        REED

Wednesday 9/13:    REESE/WINDELL

Thursday 9/14:    HUNT

Friday 9/15:        McCLASKEY

Parents, in addition to the reminders that are in the SAM each week, you can access the September Playground Duty calendar on your FACTS Family Portal under Resource Documents. Playground duty is from 11:25am - 1:00pm. On your assigned day, please check in at the school office first, and then head to the Corrado Family Center.  It is important to arrive on time on your scheduled duty date.  When you don’t show up, three different teachers must give up their lunch periods to cover the primary, intermediate, and middle school lunch recess periods.  

If there is a conflict with your scheduled playground duty date, please notify Holly Hunt, our playground duty coordinator, as far in advance as possible so that she can reschedule your duty. Thank you for your help in the lunchroom and on the playground.

CARDINAL NEWS

Check out these photA NOTE FROM OUR PRINCIPALos from our first morning drop off - so cute!

 

HAYHURST NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY VIGIL

The Hayhurst Neighborhood Association will conduct a Safety Vigil tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 6 from 8:00-9:30 am.  The goal of the event is to remind drivers that school is back in session, so students and families are on area streets walking and biking to and from school. Additional information is on the attached flyer.

HIGH SCHOOL VISITS

Our Portland area Catholic high schools will visit SJF to meet with our seventh and eighth grade classes on Thursday, Sept.14:

9:45am Central Catholic High School - CFC

10:20am Valley Catholic High School - CFC

10:55am Jesuit High School - CFC

11:30am LaSalle Prep - Church

12:50pm St. Mary’s Academy - Church (8th grade girls)

GRADES 5-8 STUDY HALL

Study Hall for students in grades 5-8 will begin next Tuesday, Sept. 12.  Study hall is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 to 3:45pm in the 7th grade classroom, and is supervised by Deacon Scott. Remember, this is time to complete homework or collaborate with classmates on projects, not time to socialize.

BIKING TO SJF

If you and your children are interested in biking to school we would like to extend the invitation to join Evan (5th) and Hayden (1st) Schuller (and their father, Mike) biking to SJF. We bike to school on Mondays and Thursdays, sometimes on Wednesdays and Fridays depending on our work schedules. We live about 1 mile north of SJF by Pendleton Park. We could meet at the park, or coordinate a ride to meet depending on where people are starting from. From Pendleton Park we ride on neighborhood streets, south on SW 50th and then along the SW Vermont frontage road. We cross SW Vermont at the crosswalk by the school entrance, which is the busiest street on our route. Please email me if you would like to join: Mike Schuller

CARDINAL UPDATES - HEALTH DAY

Health Day is just around the corner and we need some volunteers!  Health Day is Friday, 9/29 and we will start right after morning drop off at 8am.  We hope to be done in about 2 hours with vision screening for the entire school.  Please consider helping this year.  Super easy, no experience needed, and it absolutely counts as family volunteer hours.  If you can help please sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080F49ADAA29A7F58-health1  or email me at [email protected]. Check the volunteer requirements for 2023-24 below to be sure you are up to date with all your volunteer requirements before you commit to volunteering.

VOLUNTEERING AT SJF

We appreciate our parent volunteers! If you will be volunteering on campus this year (CYO coaches, hot lunch, classroom helpers, room parents, field trip chaperones, etc.), you are required to complete the following before beginning any volunteer service.

New Volunteers (New Family at SJF or you have not previously volunteered at school):

• Background Check 
• Read and sign the “Know Your Policies” form

The background check and policy acknowledgement form are completed online through Praesidium Academy, the training portal used in the Archdiocese for all parent volunteers.

• Attend the in-person training, “Creating A Safe Environment” (CASE Training)

St. John Fisher will host C.A.S.E. (Creating A Safe Environment) training sessions on the following dates: Wed, 9/13 at 5pm (just prior to Gr 6-8 Back to School Night), Wed, 9/20 at 5pm (just prior to Gr PreK-5 Back to School Night) and Fri, 9/22 at 8:30am. All new parent volunteers are required to attend this in-person training. Advance registration is not required. A list of additional training sessions taking place throughout the diocese this fall is attached to this SAM.

Ongoing Volunteers (Returning families to SJF who will continue their service with minors):

• Take this year’s online training course, “Foundations: Preventing Abuse in Youth Serving Organizations”

You can access this training through your Praesidium Academy account.

Please contact Mrs. Wasman in the school office if you have any questions about volunteering at SJF.

SJF NIGHT AT CHIPOTLE

It’s SJF night at the Beaverton-Hillsdale Chipotle on Sept. 13! 

Perfect solution for a busy school night: pickup dinner at Chipotle, then attend C.A.S.E. training and Gr 6-8 Back to School Night at SJF

Wednesday, 9/13 from 4-8pm

33% of even sales come back to St. John Fisher

All the information you need to support this event is on the attached flyer:
Chipotle

Please click the links below for more information:
Hayhurst Neighborhood Vigil
Child Protection Requirements