February 11, 2010

Elementary Student Registration Packets for the 2010-11 School Year

The registration deadline for priority registration is tomorrow, February 12.

Kindergarten Assessments Required

Any family with an incoming kindergarten student, please make sure you have signed up with the Issaquah office; office@sjsissaquah.org or 425-313-9129 ext. 321 for the kindergarten assessment. The assessment is scheduled for Friday, February 26th.

FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION FOR THE 2010-2011 SCHOOL YEAR:

Fulcrum foundation is now accepting applications for financial assistance for the 2010-2011 school year. You must follow the directions on their website for the application procedure. If your application is incomplete it will be returned and not reviewed. The deadline for applications is February 12, 2010.  You must complete the application online and turn in all appropriate forms directly to St. Joseph School.  Please put “To: Carol Willard Confidential”.  All forms will be mailed from St. Joseph School directly to the Fulcrum Foundation.  Their website is : http://fulcrumfoundation.org/tuition.

Financial Award letters will be sent out from Fulcrum on April 15, 2010. St. Joseph School award letters will be sent out the end of April 2010.

Please feel free to contact Carol Willard if you have questions. 425-888-9130 ext103 or cwillard@sjsissaquah.org.

$1000.00 Raised for Haiti!

Thank you so much to all our students, families and staff for a very successful bake sale last week. $1000.00 was raised for Friends of the Orphans in Haiti. God Bless you all!

The bake sale was featured in the Issaquah Press, if you would like to read the article click on the following link:

           http://issaquahpress.com/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/issaquahpress021010.pdf

St. Joseph School Lenten Project

We will continue to collect for NPH (Friends of the Orphans) for our Lenten Project. Please remember your pennies!  This Catholic organization has homes in Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru for orphaned children. We have supported this worthy organization for the last several years and they appreciate our partnership. Monies collected will go to where they have the greatest need.

2009 Faithful Friends Sponsorship Phone Directory

A 2009 Faithful Friends Sponsorship Phone Directory is included in this week’s Thursday folder.  Please place this in your current school phone directory and reference it when you need a service that one of auction sponsors can fulfill!  This directory is reserved for those businesses who so generously support our school through their auction sponsorship!  If you would like your business highlighted or know of a business that would like to be highlighted in this directory please contact Jennifer Gryniewicz (j.gryniewicz@comcast.net) or Terry Rendall (terryleas@msn.com) to find out how to sponsor the SJS 2010 Auction. 

Yuen Lui Studios Class Pictures

It is class picture time again. Yuen Lui Studios will be at St. Joseph School for class pictures all grades & graduation pictures for our eighth graders. All pictures are taken in FULL DRESS UNIFORM. As the same as last year Yuen Lui Studios will be providing all of our class pictures to our families for FREE. This is a blessing to our school and we very much appreciate their generosity. A big THANK YOU to Yuen Lui Studios who have been in the picture business in the NW since 1947! . The picture date schedule is as follows:

Monday – March 8, 2010                       

MQP – Pre-4, SJS – Pre-4, Mrs Waldo/Gelbrich 1st grade, Mrs. Wiecks 2nd grade, Mrs. Fursman 2nd grade, and Mrs. Catlin 3rd grade

Tuesday – March 9, 2010

MQP – Pre-3, SJS – Pre-3, Kindergarten AM and PM, SJS – Pre-K, Mrs. Myers 1st grade. , and Mrs. Metzger 3rd grade

Wednesday – March 10, 2010

Snoqualmie Campus and 8th grade graduation pictures

Around of Applause for Catholic Schools Week

           Staff Appreciation Lunch

To Parents Club and the parents in 4th, 6th , 7th and 8th grade who hosted a delicious Staff Appreciation Lunch on Friday, Feb 5.  A wonderful lunch was enjoyed by all. THANK YOU!

Bingo

To Kelly Soligon for chairing another fabulous Bingo and Root Beer Float night at MQP last Friday.  Another record crowd was in attendance and fun was had by all.  Thank you to all the volunteer helpers, celebrity callers, root beer float servers and everyone who made this night so enjoyable.  THANK YOU!

TLC

Calling all Cooking Angels!

Here at St Joseph's we are blessed to have a ministry called TLC that provides meals to our school/church families when they need it the most. Whether the need is to lighten the load as families welcome new babies, recover from surgeries or as they mourn the loss of a loved one, we have consistently been able to shoulder the burden of dinner time so that families can focus on what’s important. Hundreds of wonderful dinners have been prepared by our families since TLC was created.

If you would be interested in supporting the needs of our school/church families through this ministry over the next few months, please reach out to me for a schedule.  Your commitment consists of preparing and delivering your specialty dish to a family. All of your time can be tracked toward your volunteer hours.

Please contact Melanie Spies at melaniespies@hotmail.com

Hooked on Marriage - Saturday March 13th at St. Anthony Church, Carnation

"What affects our behavior with each other" and "The weekend came and now it's Monday"

Presented by: Helen and Joe Hesketh of "Couple Power Seminars"

Helen and Joe have been presenting Relationship Programs to churches, associations, clubs and schools at conventions, workshops and meetings for over thirty years. Their personal relationship story has been featured on Oprah, Susan Powter, 50/50, Evening Magazine and in several local and national publications. Click here for more information.

St. Louise Parish Mardi Gras for NPH Haiti

St. Louise Parish will have a Mardi Gras on February 16th, from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM, in the Parish Hall. There will be food from 5:30 to 7:00, followed by a concert at 7:00, with the Maureen Still Band. At this event, we will raise funds for Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH, Our Little Brothers and Sisters, in Spanish), which is a series of homes for orphaned, abandoned, and at risk children throughout Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Our focus for this evening will be the NPH Haiti home due to the devastating loss that they incurred as a result of the January 2010 earthquake. The financial need is great and the need will likely grow for NPH Haiti’s services because of the babies and children orphaned by the earthquake. We hope that you will participate and donate, as you are able, to make this event as successful as possible. Please contact Dawn McIntosh at mcintod@msn.com or 425.641.9399, if you have any questions.

PE Fitness Calendar for February

If you are participating in Mrs. Hughes's Fitness challenge click here for the form.