SAM - 9-5-22

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT MEMO

Everything You Want to Know

Week of September 5, 2022

 

FROM THE PRINCIPAL: 

Welcome to the 2022-23 school year! I hope your summer was filled with memories of good times.  We have been preparing for the big start all summer and from the excitement in the school this morning, it was apparent that the kids (and parents) were ready for school to begin. 

With the start of each school year comes a bit of “housekeeping.”  During this month, I will feature a series of friendly reminders regarding events that happen on campus.  This week:

Parent Communication.

Parent Communication: As your partner in your child(rens) education, we strive to maintain open communication with you regarding school and classroom events.  A few venues we use for communication are:

• “SAM” (Special Announcements Memo): Our SAM comes from the school office via E-mail 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 that is convenient for you, please contact Mrs. Michele Wasman at [email protected] to update your email address.

• FACTS: FACTS is our secure intranet website that contains school/teacher newsletters, our family directory, email links for classroom teachers, forms you may need, and more.  You can access FACTS HERE or via the link off our school web page under “Parents.”

• New Family Orientation: Tomorrow night from 5:30pm-6:30pm we will host our new families for an informational session about life at SJF on the lower blacktop. Our mentor families, PTC Exec and I will be there to fill you in about the various events at SJF and to answer your back to school questions. See you then!

• Back to School Night: We host 2 Back to School Nights, both sessions beginning at 6:30pm. Parents of middle school students come to the Corrado Family Center on Wednesday, September 14th and parents of children in grades K-5 come to their child’s homeroom on Wednesday, September 21st with 1 session at 6:30pm and a second session at 7:00pm. During this event, you will have opportunities to meet the faculty and staff and hear the specifics for your child’s grade level.  We look forward to seeing you then!

Welcome again to another great year!

 

CALENDAR REMINDERS:

Tuesday-Thursday 9/6-9/8: Kindergarten Slow Start Appointments

Wednesday 9/7:  1:00pm School Mass (Teachers), 2:00 Dismissal, 5:30pm New Family Orientation on lower playground (families welcome)

Friday 9/9:  Kindergarten 1st Day of School

Tuesday 9/13:  First Day of Hot Lunch! 5:30pm SAC Meeting

Wednesday 9/14:  1:00pm School Mass (8th GR), 2:00pm Dismissal, 5:00pm CASE Training in Corrado Center, 6:30pm Gr 6-8 Back to School Night in Corrado Center

Thursday 9/15:  9:45-12:50 High School Visits, 5:30pm PTC Exec. Meeting, 7:00pm Men’s Club Meeting

Friday 9/16:  8:30am CASE Training, 1:30pm CASE Training

Saturday 9/17:  Pre-season volleyball tournaments, times TBA

PLAYGROUND DUTY REMINDERS:

Playground duty is from 11:25-1:00. The duty calendar for the current month can always be found on your FACTS Family Portal under Resource Documents. On your assigned day, please check in at the school office and then head to the Corrado Family Center!  It is important to arrive on time on your scheduled playground 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 you have a conflict with your scheduled duty date, or you are able to help out on a date that needs coverage, please contact our playground duty coordinator, Holly Hunt, at mailto:[email protected]. Thank you for helping our students in the lunchroom and on the playground.

Tuesday 9/6:        DORLON

Wednesday 9/7:    BACHLEDER

Thursday 9/8:        KIRKER

Friday 9/9:        SCHMIDT

Monday 9/12:        REED

Tuesday 9/13:        REESE

Wednesday 9/14:    CARLSSON

Thursday 9/15:    McGINTY

Friday 9/16:        BERSCHEID

SJF ALTAR GUILD

Our next meeting will be Sept. 14th at 10 am in the Corrado Family Center. All women of the parish are invited to attend. Please call Joanne Cholick at (971) 998-7351 for more information.

BACKPACK FOR KIDS PROGRAM

Dear Parents:

My name is Darlene Sheridan and I teach second grade here at St. John Fisher School. It is so nice to be back at church and at school and we thank you for your continued support for our school! 

I’m writing today to provide you the opportunity to partner with our class as we help children in need. Many schools feed students free breakfast and lunch, but on weekends these students don’t have enough food to eat. To help provide students with food over the weekend, there is a national program called Backpack for Kids. In this program, people donate food items that kids can fix themselves at home if their parents are working or aren’t available to make meals. After the food is donated, it is filled into backpacks that the children get at school on Fridays and take home for the weekend. They bring the backpack back to school the following Monday and it is filled again for the next Friday. 

Our school will be collecting food items throughout the year to support this program. Example items include soup with pop-up lids, peanut butter and crackers, fruit cups, tuna kits with crackers, granola bars, and bagels. You are welcome to bring your items to the school office or 2nd grade classroom. We donate the food items through St. Vincent dePaul, so please mark your donations “Backpack fors Kids” when you donate.

We appreciate your help with this service project throughout the school year. Pray with me for our children in this time in our world that they will come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.  That will provide them joy and peace that will carry with them all their lives.  

Thank you for all that you do,

Darlene Sheridan

Second Grade Teacher at St. John Fisher School

ST. JOHN FISHER SCHOOL VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENTS: 2022-23

We appreciate our parent volunteers! If you plan to volunteer on campus this year (hot lunch, classroom helpers, room parents, coaches, field trip chaperones, etc.), please complete the following:

1. Complete Background Check

   1. These expire every 3 years

      1. If you are new to volunteering, please Email Mrs. Michele Wasman at [email protected] for a link to the background check

      2. If you are ready for a renewal, please log on to Praesidium Academy and click on “Background Check - Multistate Search - 3yr screen” to update your background check

 

2. Email a copy of your vaccine card to Mrs. Michele Wasman at [email protected]

   1. Following OAR 333-019-1030, vaccination is required for all volunteers

      1. “Fully vaccinated” means having received both doses of a two-does COVID-19 vaccine or one dose of a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine and at least 14 days have passed since the individual’s final dose of COVID-19 vaccine. “Booster shots” are not required

   2. If you submitted your vaccine card last year, you do not need to re-send 

3. Attend a C.A.S.E. Training

   1. Required for new volunteers - returning volunteers that have already attended this training are not required to attend another session

   2. These sessions will be held in the Corrado Family Center, and take about 90 minutes. Advance registration is not necessary.

      1. Weds 9/14 at 5:00pm (prior to the Gr 6-8 Back to School Night)

      2. Friday 9/16 at 8:30am (join us right after morning drop off)

      3. Friday 9/16 at 1:30pm (join us before afternoon pickup)

      4. Weds 9/21 at 5:00pm (prior to the Gr K-5 Back to School Night)

4. Login to Praesidium Academy to complete these 3 updates:

   1. Complete the course: “Know Your Policies” - new volunteers only

   2. Complete the course: “Promoting a Safe Environment: Employee Sexual Harassment Training

   3. Returning volunteers that have already attended a C.A.S.E. session: complete the course: “Social Media Safety” - returning volunteers only

Additionally, Senate Bill 155 requires school districts to verify with TSPC whether a licensed educator or volunteer is currently under investigation for Sexual Conduct, or has a Founded Investigation for Sexual Conduct. Therefore, St. John Fisher School will complete the verification process through the Oregon Department of Education Data Enterprise system. 

 

SACRAMENTS & FAITH FORMATION

• Confirmation:  SJF Parish is seeking support with this year's confirmation cohort instruction! If you are interested in helping form our young people in their preparation for the sacrament of Confirmation, please contact Maura Timoney DeVille

Children’s Liturgy of the Word (CLOW):  CLOW is a Catholic circle time focused on Gospel teachings that takes place during the 9am Sunday Mass for children 1st grade and younger. Children may attend with or without their parents. CLOW will be starting up again this fall and is recruiting parent volunteers.  Sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0E4FA8AD2AA0F85-fall