Friday Forecast :: Week Ending October 26

Extended Care –  Session 2 Fall Enrichment and RSVP for attending November 1st (half day)

Sign up for the next Fall Enrichment by clicking Enrichment session 2, Fall.  If you are currently registered for Extended Care and plan to have your student attend on November 1st, please RSVP to Monica Wooley by October 30th to ensure they have space for your student.  You can email her at mwooley@svdpk8.com or call her at 303-777-3812 ext. 108.  It is a first come, first serve basis.

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.

Book Fair Update – Thank you for your support!

Thanks so much for supporting this year’s Scholastic Book Fair. It was a big success and great fun for the students, too. A special thank you to all our parent volunteers who helped throughout the week! Here are our results:

Total Sales: $10,047.41 Total Books Sold: 1,904 Total Reading Minutes Generated: 342,720 Books Purchased for our School Library: 53 Books Purchased for our Classroom Libraries: 42

Scholastic gives SVDP a 25% kickback, which our library will use to update and expand our nonfiction section and to purchase new sensory seating for students to use during read aloud time in Library class. Thanks again for helping to create a culture of reading at our school!

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

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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.

In celebration of the Holy Day (All Saints Day and All Hallow’s Eve), students may dress down on October 31st.  Students are to follow dress down guidelines as found in the Parent/Student Handbook.  If they wish to wear an accessory (ie not a primary piece of clothing), that is associated with their trick-or-treat costume, they may do so.  Accessories that are a distraction to the learning environment may be held by the teacher until the end of the day.

Kelly Archer and Laurel Eyer will be on campus after dismissal on Wednesday, October 31st to pass out dress down passes.  The passes have the date of November 7th as the designated dress down day.  If you have time, please allow your children to trick-or-treat at Kelly & Laurel’s in the school gym.  PLEASE be aware of intersections whether you are helping children to cross or driving. Thank you.

November 1 – All Saints Day

November 1st, All Saints, is a Holy Day of Obligation and a Mass Day for SVDP School.  Students 6-8 are to be in regular school uniform.  Students K-5 are to be in regular school uniform UNLESS they choose to dress as a saint and participate in the opening procession at Mass.

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