Friday Forecast April 24th

ANNOUNCEMENTS • UPCOMING EVENTS • NOTEWORTHY ITEMS OF INTEREST 

Announcements

2020 Gala in the Garden: *NEW* & *REVISED* Save the Date – May 15th

Turns out now you can attend the 2020 Gala in the Garden from YOUR garden, yard, or living room. That’s right, the 2020 gala is going VIRTUAL and will be held the evening of Friday, May 15.

We have loads of exciting new elements and can’t wait to celebrate with you! Please continue to hold off on ticket purchases. New details will be announced next week. Thank you for bearing with us as we work to make this event amazing for a community that more than deserves it.

Spring Raffle is here! Are you looking for a way to creatively support SVdP school from the comfort of your couch? You’re in luck! The Spring Raffle is here and we have an amazing raffle item for a lucky winner. For just $100, you can be entered to win a gorgeous Chanel purse valued at $3,875! The pictures and full description of the purse are on the Google Form below. Our goal is to sell 100 raffle tickets by May 29th and you can purchase multiple tickets. You don’t have to be a school parent to purchase a raffle ticket, so feel free to send this link to your family, friends and neighbors.

We’ve simplified the process to make this user-friendly in a remote setting and 100% of the ticket proceeds go directly to the school. Step 1: Complete this Google Form SVdP Spring Raffle sign-up with your information and the number of tickets you want to purchase. Step 2: Either mail a check to SVdP school with “Raffle” in the memo line, or call Amee Cave at 720-306-1313 and provide her with your credit card info via the phone. (St. Vincent de Paul School, 1164 S. Josephine St, Denver, CO 80210) If you have any questions or need further info, please email Sharon Alton at sharonalton99@gmail.com. Thank you in advance for your generous support of the SVdP school!

eLearning Notes

How can eLearning@svdpk8.com desk support help students/parents.  Note the front office will need to forward these kinds of requests to eLearning@svdpk8.com.  Their response time is excellent.  Email:

• hardware issues

• resetting Google passwords

• accessing a live class session

• help that is tailored to the device you are using

Students should be communicating questions in Zoom calls or using the comment feature in Google Classroom, if the teacher has shown that feature.

Missing work? – Here is how students can check on all work.

• In Google Classroom – click classwork, view my work, and then they get the whole list of all assignments, assigned and not yet due, missing work, and graded and returned work with all the teachers’ feedback.

• Click here for a video on how to follow the steps above to find missing work in Google Classroom.

Just a reminder that when you are viewing grades, make sure you are checking ParentWeb. This is the official grade book for SVDP.

Important Extended Care Fees Update

Extended Care Tuition for March We are billing in FACTS for extended care tuition fees for the days your student attended in March. Please authorize a withdrawal when you receive your FACTS email notification. Thank you.

Photography Contest Winners

Congratulations to the following students who won top places in an online photography contest this past week.  Click here to this link to see the work.

Colin Osher-First Place Elementary Level Tatum Johnson-First Place Middle School Level Campbell Osher – Second Place Elementary Level Sophia Simones – Second Place Elementary level

From the week of April 21st – Congratulations the our winners.  Click here to this link to see the work.

First Place MS: Francisco Salazar – 6th Third Place Elementary: Tola Reddy  – 5th Third Place MS: Tatum Johnson – 6th

2020 SVdP School Recommended Reading List

Need a good book?  Click here for a recommended list from Mrs. Edmonds, our Librarian.

Fun Food and Jamba Juice

Many of you have reached out to Julie Buckley (FF) and/or Kay Watson (JJ) with regards to credits and refunds on your Boonli account for items ordered after March 13, 2020. We are working on getting more detailed information out to families within the next couple of weeks. Thank you for your patience and understanding. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please reach out to Suzanne Meyer at smeyer@svdpk8.com.

Athletics

The 2020 Spring Season is officially cancelled.

The following activities will be offered in the Fall for the 2020-2021 School Year:

Coed Flag Football (boys and girls in grades 3-8) Cross Country (boys and girls in grades 5-8) Coed Volleyball (boys and girls in grades 5-8)-additional details will be forthcoming

Home and School

Home and School April Newsletter – click here

Home & School Chairs 2020-2021– Thank you to the following parents that have volunteered their time to take leads in our Home & School Association for next school year; it’s going to be a great crew! Chair- Marissa Ogden Vice Chair- Sharon Alton Communications- Kerry Hutcheson Community Events/Fundraising- Beth Riviere and Caroline Iannucci Faith and Family- Dorie Hoody and Catherine Turner

Teacher Appreciation Week- May 4th-May 7th marks the National Teacher Appreciation week. While our SVdP community has shown our appreciation and gratitude throughout the school year through teacher appreciation lunches, the Christmas Fund, Catholic Schools week, and Zoom pop-ups, H&S typically arranges a week’s worth of planned activities for the national celebration. Of course given our stay-at-home order, these plans have changed! We encourage all students, families and classes to participate in something for their teacher the week of May 4th. Stay tuned for details from your Room Parent.

Make Cards for those in need– We continue to get requests for cards, words of encouragement and pictures from our students to share with those in need of a smile. As an example, second grade recently gathered pictures to be passed out to nurses at Rocky Mountain Children’s hospital; An SVdP Dad is volunteering his time to deliver meals to shelters in the area housing those diagnosed with COVID-19, and wanted to include pictures in his deliveries. If you can, please ask your children to make cards, take a picture and post it into our Google Drive. Then Sister can print them and hand out to those that are looking for them!

Spirit Wear Ready for Pickup!- Spirit wear orders should be ready this weekend!! If you placed an order, you will be contacted with regards to pick up procedures.

Looking for some parenting ideas/support/advice?

The Archdiocese of Denver has recently joined forces with Families of Character to help distribute information that will support and empower your parents in their new roles at home as primary facilitators of their children’s distance learning, which can bring many challenges and increased stress for all. For connection and support with our online Families of Character community, consider following FOC on Facebook or Instagram @familiesofcharacter

2019-2020 School Calendar Changes

Cancelled Events

Grandparents Day

Spring BBQ

The Spring Art Show and Music Concert for 4th and 5th grades

Spring Alumni Reunion

Field Day

Rescheduled

5/15/20 GALA – virtual presentation

9/18/20 Spaghetti Dinner 6th grade

5/8/20  now a regular full school day needed to meet requirements

TBD Light of Leadership Mass – first Mass of the new school year

4th grade Poets’ Tea – virtual presentation

May 22 – last day of school

Under Discussion

Steffes Award

Graduation and 8th grade EOY events

Final AR point exchange

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