St. Paul News
St. Paul School - Kevin Brever, Principal- Febrary 2, 2017
Inspirational Quote
- OPEN HOUSE - 2/8
- EdChoice KY - Parents Take Action
- Catholic Schools Week
- Valentine's Day Parties
- Valentine's Day Dance - 2/25
- 2017 PROJECTCSGIRLS COMPETITION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS!
- Current Families Re-Enrollment Period Open
- Catholic Education Foundation for Tuition Assistance
- Speak Up Be Safe program
- Adult Co-ed Volleyball Leagues Starting at St. Paul!
- Creative Learning Center News
- ---Genius Hour!
Raiders Preschool News Link
- Raiders Kindergarten News Link
SPORTS
Spring and Summer Sports Signups are Underway!
Intramural Basketball Teams & Schedule
St. Paul Sports Calendar Link
- STUDENT INFORMATION & SIGN-UP FORM Link
- Catholic Sports Athletic Association Basketball Website Link
---St. Paul Parish School Calendar Link
---School Year Dates for 2016-17
---2016-2017 High School Calendar
- PTO Committee Members
Special Links
Bookworm of the Month
Lunch Menu
School Facebook Link
- Sacrament Information
- Inclement Weather Policy
- Stay Connected with Sycamore Education
- Last Week's Newsletter Link
Saint Paul Catholic Community App
From the Desk of the Principal
Parents Take Action
Expand Educational Opportunities with Scholarship Tax Credits / House Bill 162 & Senate Bill 102!
EdChoice KY’s email call to action was distributed on 1/25/17 through Voter Voice. Please continue to encourage those around you to contact their legislators. The Voter Voice link can be found below. You are welcome to copy it for use through email and social media.
https://www.votervoice.net/EdChoiceKY/campaigns/49293/respond
This link directs people to our Voter Voice page. With a few clicks, they can send a message to their legislators. While the initial response is positive, we still have a great deal of work to do in order to get the attention of state lawmakers this week.
Sincerely,
Andrew J. Vandiver, Associate Director, Catholic Conference of Kentucky
1042 Burlington Lane, Frankfort, KY 40601, PH: 502-875-4345, Cell: (859) 308-9048
Catholic Schools Week
Catholic Schools Week has been filled with fun and celebration of our privilege to be here at St. Paul School. Some of the activities included:
Pajama & Movie Day
- Students writing 'thank you' letters to their parents for the gift of sending them to a Catholic Schoo.
Throwback Day
- Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes with Student Council and Prayer Partners
- Mattingly Center presentation of the $1,696.00 raised with our Penny War!
- Talent Show
High School, College, or Pro Shirt Day
- Gameday
- Cornhole tournament
Class Color Day
- All School Mass
- Special Shirley Dunn "Good Samaritan" Award Presentation
- Spelling Bee Finals - Congratulations Justin H!
- Pep Assembly
Spirit Day
- Student 3 on 3 Basketball Competition
- Faculty vs. 8th Grade volleyball game
Congratulations to the 2017 Shirley Dunn Good Samaritan Award winners. This is the 5th year this award has been presented by Leon Dunn and his family in memory of his wife Shirley. We are so proud to be able to highlight Shirley and the accomplishments of these samaritans.
- PS- Hailey G
- PK Gray-Justin S
- PK Red- Juliahna H
- JK-Piper S
- K- Paige S
- 1-Ella Y
- 2-Sawyer J
- 3-Aiden Hunt
- 4-Aubrielle S
- 5-Dawson H
- 6-Taylor H
- 7- Madalyn A
- 8- Jordan D
Congratulations Logan J, grade 2.
Congratulations Justin H, grade 8.
Congratulations Hailey GJ, PS.
Valentine's Day Parties
During the course of the year, we celebrate holidays and events. We have two major celebrations at Halloween and Christmas. These events involve the room mothers and parents. We do have Valentine celebrations but they do not include room mothers and parents. These celebrations take place on Valentine's Day and are coordinated by the teachers only.
You will soon receive information from the homeroom teacher as to their plans for Valentine's celebrations. If the teacher would like you to provide anything such as valentines for the children they will let you know. These celebrations are class and age-specific ensuring the children enjoy and understand the meaning of the day
2017 PROJECTCSGIRLS COMPETITION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS!
NATIONAL NONPROFIT DEDICATED TO CLOSING THE TECH GENDER GAP BY RUNNING A NATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPETITION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS AND WORKSHOPS AROUND THE COUNTRY
Founded during the summer of 2013, ProjectCSGIRLS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in computing and technology. Their unique idea of a technology and computer science competition for middle school girls stemmed from the fact that a large chunk of learning and development occurs during the critical middle school period.
In today's world where technology is becoming increasingly prominent and essential to nearly every field of study, the aim is to instill a love for computing and technology in middle school girls. The hope is to show them how innovative and creative they can be and encourage them to develop ideas that are powerful, disruptive, and cutting-edge.
The 2016-2017 program year will be the fourth one running the annual Competition for Middle School Girls. ProjectCSGIRLS has reached over 1,800 middle school girls nationally in over 35 states to date and has brought together students, technical professionals, and organizations to work towards a common goal of inspiring girls across the country to pursue computer science and technology.
Current Families Re-Enrollment Period Open
Re-enrolling parents, please login to your Sycamore Site| My Sycamore| My School| Enrollment | Online Form.
If you have questions please contact Jessica (jessica.votaw@saintpaulschool.net)
Catholic Education Foundation for Tuition Assistance
As we begin a new year, I want to encourage each of you to invite more families to join the Catholic school experience than ever before. Last year with your encouragement and with the help of the CEF we were able to achieve record-breaking enrollment. We have not stopped growing and with your help we expect our enrollment to once again grow in 2017. To any family who yearns for a Catholic education for their children but cannot afford it, The Answer is YES!
The 2017-18 FACTs management application is available online at www.ceflou.org. This is the only way to apply for aid this year. The completed application, along with the $25 fee, should be submitted on or before March 15, 2017.
We are sending an instructional flyer to every St. Paul family. Asking for tuition assistance is a very private family decision. Often families who are experiencing difficulty are reluctant to take the steps needed to request assistance but let me assure you if this is the case the answer will be “Yes” to assistance.
For the past two years, every single family who applied to the Catholic Education Foundation for tuition assistance – and demonstrated a financial need – earned an award, 100%! Last year with the help of the CEF, need-based to tuition discounts, archdiocese voucher fund and school choice St. Paul families were awarded $204,256 in assistance!
Instead of talking yourself out of a Catholic education for your children, shouldn’t you consider reaching out to the Catholic Education Foundation and provide a better path for both your children and your family?
- NOW IS THE TIME for more families to join our storied Catholic school community with 106 years of tradition.
- For more information, click this link: CEF Tuition Assistance 2017/2018
Speak Up Be Safe Program
"Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe" is a research-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum for Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. It helps children and teens learn the skills to prevent or interrupt cycles of neglect, bullying, and child abuse—physical, emotional, and sexual. The program uses an ecological approach to prevention education by providing materials to engage parents and caregivers, teachers, school administrators, and community stakeholders.
- In addition to increasing children’s ability to recognize unsafe situations or abusive behaviors and building resistance skills, lessons focus on helping children build a responsive safety network with peers and adults that the child identifies as safe.
- Focused on enhancing a child’s overall sense of confidence.
- "Childhelp Speak Up Be Safe" is a child-focused, school-based curriculum designed to build safety skills within the child while addressing today’s societal risks, such as bullying and Internet safety. The program focuses on enhancing the child’s overall sense of confidence with regard to safety and promotes respect for self and peers that can be applied to general as well as potentially harmful situations.
- The overarching goal of this curriculum is always to provide children with the skills to identify and be able to approach a safe adult should they ever be in a situation in which they are unsure if they are safe.
PreK-2nd Grade
- A primary focus at the earliest age groups is to shift the responsibility for child abuse and neglect prevention away from children and onto the adults in their lives. Children learn basic concepts around personal safety and how to identify safe adults.
- Lessons emphasize that adults are responsible for child safety, but by learning and using a few key safety rules, children can help those adults keep them safe. Children learn how to recognize potentially unsafe situations, how to identify safe adults, and how to talk about feeling unsafe.
- While adults continue to be responsible for child safety, lessons acknowledge the growing responsibilities and privileges of children in this age group and the new opportunities for potentially unsafe situations. Children learn how to recognize potential risks as well as resistance strategies that can be used until they can talk to a safe adult.
Adult Co-ed Volleyball Leagues Starting at St. Paul!
St. Paul is starting an adult coed volleyball league on Saturday nights! Traditional coed rules will apply. We want teams of all ages and abilities, so we will offer an A/B league and a C/D league.The fee entry fee is $120/team. If interested, contact Jennifer Burba at (502)836-1545 / jen.burba@saintpaulschool.net or Beth Carr at (502)8191918 / bethhc21@yahoo.com.
From the Classrooms
Creative Learning Center News
Genius Hour!
The middle school students at St. Paul have been given an opportunity to participate in what is called “Genius Hour” over the course of this school year. This concept, adopted from Google employees, proves that people are exponentially more motivated and productive when they are allowed to choose what they work on or learn. Thus, students have one hour a week in which they come into the CLC and take charge of their own learning. Student-chosen projects range from learning a new language to programming robots to creating products on our 3D printer. The goals that our students set and the successes that they are achieving are incredible, and most are thoroughly enjoying the process. They will be presenting their learnings soon.
Sports
Spring and Summer Sports Signups are Underway!
SPECIAL NOTE: St. Paul partners with Notre Dame Academy. We always hope to have enough participants for every sport on our own, but if we don’t, we will contact Notre Dame to see if we can combine students to create a team. In rare cases, our students may participate with a different school. The Sports Committee will handle the coordination and notify the signed up students of which school they can join for a particular sport. Recruiting is not allowed and a student may not participate with a different school without approval from the Sports Committee. If an athlete signs up to play for St. Paul and there are not enough participants to form our own team the athlete is NOT required to play for another school; they can choose to not participate at all. However, only students who sign up with St. Paul will be offered the opportunity to play for another school.
Intramural Basketball Teams & Schedule
Here are the links for the intramural basketball schedule and teams.
If you have any questions please contact Lisa Bisig (lisabisig@yahoo.com).
Sports Links
Calendars
From the PTO
PTO Committee Members
Vice President -- Michelle Huber ----- 502-671-3851
Secretary -------- Bobbi Osborn ----- 502-645-5326
Treasurer -------- Becky Baird ----- 502-418-6343
Community Happenings
Events at Local Branches of the Louisville Public Library
Southwest Branch
Shively Branch
Fairdale Branch
10616 West Manslick Rd.
Louisville, KY USA 40118
Phone: 502-375-2051
Click to Visit Branch Website
Special Links
Bookworm of the Month
Lunch Menu
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Sacrament Info
Click here to see important Sacrament Information and link to some very user-friendly family resources at the "St. Paul Catholic Community Faith Formation".
Inclement Weather
Click here to view our Inclement Weather Policy.
Stay Connected
Parents and students, please check your Sycamore Education account regularly so you are aware of happenings in the school.
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