Friday Forecast :: Week Ending November 9th

A Chance to Serve with Your Child

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.  We have found this to be an invaluable retreat for our students for the second half of the year. 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. They must travel and stay overnight at least in pairs. Please email Miss Donahue at edonahue@svdpk8.com, our Student Advocate, if you would like to host.  You do not need to have a child in 7/8 grade to volunteer; these young men and women are devoting one to two years of their lives deepening their own Christian lives and traveling to schools and churches to put on retreats for middle and high school aged children.  They are a great blessing to our church.

SVdP Spirit Shop – Winter Campaign

SVdP Spirit Shop is open for ordering! Don’t miss out on your opportunity to purchase your spirit gear and show your support for our wonderful school. Order by Tuesday, November 20th and orders will be delivered to your student via kid mail. Ordering spirit gear is only available during the specified campaign deadlines. The next ordering period will not be until March 2019.

Not only can you wear your new SVdP shirt or sweatshirt around town, but Sister has approved days throughout the year where students will have an out of uniform day if they wear their SVdP spirit gear. You will get your gear in time for the December Spirit Gear Day!

Shopping for clothes has never been so easy, and 15% of sales will go back to our school. To order, click here http://shop.bornfit.com/categories/merchandising-partners/st-vincent-de-paul.html. Please note when ordering on the website, you will have to fill out the shipping section but your purchase will be delivered to school and delivered to your student.

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.

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!

We are still looking for additional sponsorships.  Click  Gala Sponsorships Levels 2019 for sponsorship benefits.  Click 2018-2019 Sponsorship Form to sign up and please let Courtney Ranson (CRanson@perryandco.com) know if you are interested in being a gala sponsor.  In addition, please utilize any corporate matching programs.  Many companies have a match program, so please inquire about these.  This is a great way to maximize our gifts!  If you do submit a check, please make sure to put “gala” in the subject line.

We are off and running with acquisitions.  Thank you to Mary Catel for leading the charge.  A couple things we wanted to mention regarding acquisitions.  First, the donation parties are mostly scheduled.  Please try and attend if you can, as these are great community opportunities.  Bring your donations and ideas to the parties.  We are also asking for everyone to bring a bottle of wine to the parties to contribute to the wine pull.  Note that no donation is too small either!!!  For example, if you have a gift card that you won’t be using, we can package with something else!

 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.

My name is Nicklaus Garcia and I am a Senior at Bishop Machebeuf High School. I am currently working on my Eagle Scout Rank through Troop 999 in Arvada. My Service Project is a free golf camp for kids, 4th – 8th grade to be held on Saturday, November 10th from 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm in the Machebeuf Gym. The goal of this project is to teach life core values of Honesty, Respect and Integrity through the game of golf. There will be three activity stations where the kids will learn Full Swing, Chipping and Putting along with golf and real life examples of the core values. There will be a Longest Shot competition at the end of the camp. Each student will receive a lunch of PBJ, chips, fruit and bottled water along with a Goodie bag of a Golf Rules Book, golf tees, golf hat clip and Chick fil A sandwich coupon. This camp will be open to the first 30 kids that sign up. Click Get Into Golf for more information.

The annual RegisJesuit Open House is this Sunday from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm. This is our admissions event of the year, where prospective families can have the opportunity to meet our students, faculty, staff, coaches and other members of our community behind our unique educational model. We will have student-led tours, refreshments and live performances by our very own students.

November 15 Eat in the Classroom Day

Next Thursday, November 15 is an eat-in-the classroom day.  Please send your child with a sack lunch; no hot lunch is available.  There are occasions in the school year that the cafeteria is used for other parish/community needs.  This Thursday, the seniors of our parish will have lunch and play a game of Turkey bingo.  If you ordered milk for the year, the Moo Crew will deliver milk to your child at his/her lunch time.

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.

November 16 – Spirit Wear Day

Each month there will be a designated spirit wear day on which students may wear a Spirit Wear top with uniform bottoms.  Spirit Wear consists of any purchased SVdP Gear, athletic team jerseys, academic decathlon shirts, 8th grade t-shirts, former faith rally t-shirts.

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

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