Friday Forecast :: Week Ending November 2nd

Books Available

Best selling author, Michael Gurian (How To Help Our Sons And Daughters Do Their Best In School And Life), recently spoke to our faculty and parent community. Two of his books that he focused on during the talks, The Minds of Girls and Saving Our Sons, are now available to be loaned out and are in our SVdP parent library (school lobby).  Additional books are available for purchase $20/each.  Mary Cohen will be leading a discussion group on the book Saving Our Sons after the new year.  Stay tuned for dates.

A Chance to Serve with Your Student

SVDP Serves has planned the first All School Service Day for Friday, November 16th from 1:15 to 2:45. The students will be paired with their buddies to complete service projects for agencies in our community. The only thing missing from this wonderful day is you. We would love your help setting up for the projects as well as during with the students. If you are interested in volunteering for this terrific day, please contact Beth Riviere at acappellangel@msn.com.

NET Retreat Missionaries Host Families Needed

Hello families of St. Vincent De Paul, we are having NET ministries come put on a day retreat for our 7th and 8th graders on January 30th. The NET team is usually made up of 12 volunteer missionaries, so we need about 6 families to host them for the night of January 30th. You are not allowed to host only one guest, it must be at least two. Please email Miss Donahue at edonahue@svdpk8.com, our Student Advocate, if you would like to host.

Jamba Juice

Jamba Juice ordering now has more flexibility. You can either continue to place a one time order for the whole trimester, OR order anytime up to two weeks in advance throughout the trimester. (For example, if you’d like Jamba Juice November 27th, your order needs to be in by November 12th and if you’d like Jamba Juice December 4th, your order needs to be in November 19th, etc.) It is our hope that this change in ordering availability encourages even more participation in this valuable SVdP fundraiser. You can begin ordering NOW at https://secure.boonli.com/login. Please email Kay Watson (kmclean_max@yahoo.com) with any questions.

Use the link to stay tuned in to volunteer opportunities, teacher highlights, important dates, and more.

Find gifts for everyone on your list while raising funds for SVdP. Whether you buy the gift cards to give as presents to family and friends, or to use them to buy your gifts—SVdP earns with every gift card purchased. You receive the full face value of the gift card, and SVdP earns an instant rebate on every gift card that is purchased. It’s simple, it’s thoughtful and it’s truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Send in your completed order form (click CC Order Form) and check through kidmail or drop it off at the office by Noon on Friday, November 9th. You will then receive your gift cards on November 16th. If you are looking for a special retailer or have a large business order please reach out to Stef Liley (sdliley@yahoo.com) and she can work with you to personalize your order.

Catholic Schools Night with the Colorado Avalanche is scheduled for Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at the Pepsi Center with the puck dropping at 7:30 pm. Tickets start at $40 with $5 from each ticket sold coming back to Catholic Schools Activities/Co-Curricular Programs. Click Avs Night for the flyer on how to order tickets.

Save the Date: Sat, May 4th at the Cable Center (DU) 5pm

Theme: A Night at the Derby, hats off for SVdP!!!

Ladies grab your hats and gents grab your bowties, you won’t want to miss our biggest fundraiser!

Gala Class reps will be planning donation parties in the coming weeks, so be on the lookout for invites and make every effort to attend.

We are looking for someone to help with sponsorship administration.  This chair would need to help with tracking down sponsorship payments, logos and the communication efforts with the gala sponsors.  Please email Courtney Ranson if you are interested or know someone who would be: CRanson@perryandco.com

2019GalaDonationForm

The Archdiocese of Denver is committed to ongoing Safe Environment procedures and particularly want to communicate the attached letter to families who have children at our Catholic 

Schools

. Click 

Statement to Schools

to read the letter from Mr. Elias J. Moo, Superintendent.  The Archdiocese is maintaining a website (

https://promise.archden.org/

) to keep the faithful of the Archdiocese of Denver updated on these challenging topics.

 on what each class is assigned to bring to help the poor this year.  If you have questions, or would like to donate more items, contact Bevin Wallace at bevinwallace@comcast.net.

If you have a friend or family member that has served (or is currently serving) in a branch of the military, please reach out and invite them to our annual Veteran’s Day Celebration. Our students are hard at work preparing a patriotic and heartfelt program in which to honor and show appreciation to all service members past and present. A reception for veterans and their guests will begin at 1:30pm in the school conference room. The assembly will begin at 2:10pm in the school gymnasium.  Please RSVP at your earliest convenience to: Suzanne Meyer – (303) 777-3812 x102 or smeyer@svdpk8.com if you are able to attend. Please let us know if you will be bringing a guest and what branch of the military you served in. We look forward to seeing you on November 9th!

The SVDP School Community (adults only) are invited to attend a presentation hosted by Good Shepherd Catholic School on the topic of suicide prevention. The presentation will be held at Good Shepherd on November 14th from 6:30-8:00 pm.

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer – the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. People trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. This evidence based training goes over national and state statistics about suicide, warning signs, and detailed explanation of how to talk to someone who may be in a suicide crisis. This training is designed for anyone including parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, advocates, etc. to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide.

The presenter is Alexandra Yannacone, a mental health professional trained in suicide prevention with an extensive background in implementation and trainings for prevention and intervention of mental health services and education. Ms.Yannacone provides current and relevant information regarding suicide prevention and addresses parent questions related to this topic.

Join us for Free Admission at 458 Uinta Way, Denver 80230

Screenagers

 is a powerful documentary on children’s and teen’s habits with screen time and its effects on their social relationships and their lives.  Technology and social media offer many avenues of connection, but are our children missing other developmental skills when they have too much screen time?  This is the same documentary shown last year at St. Vincent de Paul School.  If you have not seen it, we strongly encourage taking the opportunity to view it.

St. Pius X is hosting a craft fair for the first time in many years on December 1st and 2nd!  It will be small, as we can only accommodate 30 vendors.  If you are interested in participating, please contact Loretta Shekleton 703-489-0415 or Jennifer Backus at 720-670-9754 for booth registration. If you are interested in attending the Craft Fair, it will be at St. Pius X 13680 E. 14th Place, Aurora, CO 80111.

St. John Vianney Seminary is hosting a middle school boys’ discernment retreat on Sunday, December 9, 2018 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. To register for the event, families should visit www.denverseminarians.org