At St. Joseph Catholic School, each and every day we are training students to be missionary disciples, and learning to recognize God in our lives and in the world around us. Through FAITH, we truly believe in all God has revealed to us.

Mission:

St. Joseph Catholic School provides students with a nurturing and prayerful learning environment committed to academic excellence, training missionary disciples to seek virtue, wisdom, and truth, in partnership with a community of active and faithful families.

Vision:

Catholic schools in the Diocese of Fort Worth are committed to opening the doors so that our students can reach further than the walls that would otherwise enclose them and therefore are able to recognize and cherish the eternal and transcendental goods of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.

Motto:

Teaching the Mind...Nourishing the Soul

We are ready to give something good to God this coming week! We have Catholic Schools Week to celebrate! We begin this celebration with Mass at your parishes and Open House this Sunday. Please come say hello and have some cookies and punch while visiting your child's classroom. Your teachers and children have been hard at work decorating the halls and preparing their rooms to receive you. Pray that we have many new families come to see the school. We are so proud of what we have.

Know that we are working hard at St. Joseph Catholic School to live our lives for Christ. We desire to serve Him by serving you, our families. Through our servitude, we hope to be a positive impact on the lives of your children. The children of our Church are our future. What an awesome opportunity we have to improve the world around us. We do not take this opportunity lightly. Thank you for trusting us to care for your children through your partnership with us.

See you Sunday!

Diane Price, M.Ed.L.

Principal

Beautiful job, Knights!

"Faith is to believe what you do not see;

the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”

--St. Augustine

Here are the Greek and Latin roots we are working on across campus this week:

REVIEW WEEK

• Important Message For Access to FACTS Family Portal: Beginning in January, FACTS will release a security update to the Family Portal login page that will require parents, students, and staff to first enter the school’s district code (SJC-TX), followed by their username and password which will appear on a second page. Once updates are complete, parents and students may be required to update their password if it is expired per our school’s setup under system security settings.

• 1/29 Sunday - Catholic Schools Week Open House from 12pm to 3pm: In celebration of our Catholic school, all are invited to attend! Come have some cookies and punch, while visiting with teachers in classrooms. This is a great opportunity to meet your child's grade-level teachers for the 2023-2023 academic year.

• 1/29 through 2/4 - Catholic Schools Week: Please see the agenda below for all the exciting events!

• 1/31 SJCS Drama Club (5th-8th grade students): First meeting. Please reach out to Mrs. Hess at vhess@stjosephtx.org for details.

• 2/1 Wednesday Mass – NJHS Food Collection: Please join us for mass on this day and any donation from the list provided below will be shared with the St. Vincent de Paul Society Food Pantry of St. Joseph Parish. Thank you in advance for your generosity. All donations will be received before Mass. Please see the list below for requested donations.
  

• 2/3 First Friday Mass and Grandparents/Grandfriends Day/Noon Dismissal

We are still accepting contributions to our Annual Fund. These funds will be used to aid families in need of tuition assistance, update and enrich classroom and instructional resources, provide professional development for our faculty, and fund campus improvements, which include the playground.

Please help us grow by contributing a gift of any amount towards our goal of $100,000.00. We have currently received $22,316.00 in donations. Thank you!

Text QUEST to 817-587-1229 to give.

1. Volunteer to help at an HSA event!
2. Help beautify the flower beds around campus
3. Donate food during NJHS Food Collections at Mass
4. We are always in need of Lysol spray.
5. We are always in need of Clorox wipes.
6. Liquid hand soap
7. Disposable gloves
8. STREAM Enrichment supplies (listed below)

Every $10 you spend will earn 1 service hour. Thank you! We truly need the help.

A heartfelt thank you to this week's altar servers for being willing to serve the school community in this beautiful role. You are all becoming very proficient at this new role!

Mrs. Lara's 4 your-old preschool students are very proud of their saint projects! We cannot wait to show the school to the families on Sunday!

Mrs. Do's preschool students want to share with you their recent recitation and finger play titled, "My Garden". Well done, Knights!

Please enjoy some of the beautiful artwork created by our Knights this week:

3rd Grade: Navajo Sandpaintings - authentic symbols of healing spirits used by Native American tribes designed by students on sandpaper

Kindergarten: Heart Art - pre-Valentine’s Day heart drawings using markers and crayons

4th Grade: Totem Poles - sculptural designs on recycled brown paper inspired by Northwest coastal Native Americans using symbolic totems of stylized animals

7th Grade: The Human Eye in Surrealism - drawings of imaginary eyes inspired by artist Rene Magritte’s painting, “The False Mirror”, from the Museum of Modern Art in NYC

Enjoy this photo of the Girls' Diocesan Basketball Team! The team has quite a few SJCS girls:

7th Graders: Marisa Woehr and Lily Procell

8th Graders: Katherine Gutierrez, Lily Doskocil, and Sara Doskocil

We are very proud of you all!

Our Lego Club is off to a great start! How wonderful to see students of varying grade levels problem solving together in an after-school setting. Here are just a few photos from today. We hope the students in this club enjoy their time together and that the parents attending are able to socialize with one another, helping to build our SJCS community. Thank you, Mrs. Lopez and Mrs. Hansen, for moderating the two club groups. You are appreciated!

Greenhouse life thrives even in the winter months! Our 5th grade students enjoy assisting with greenhouse chores and gathering the fruits of their labor.

Look at what the Lord has provided from our efforts in the greenhouse!

Our RoboKnights enjoyed their competition this past weekend! The students learned a lot about competing and presenting under pressure. Everyone enjoyed themselves and were excited to compete. We are very proud of all of you! Thank you to our mentors, Mrs. Grove, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Murphy for their dedication to this group. We could not do this without you!

Mr. Suarez had a special visitor at this week's art show! SJCS alumni, Sal Bosquez, stopped by to support one of his favorite teachers. Thank you for stopping by, Sal!

These SJCS alumni, Julia and Emma Horton (Faculty member, Mrs. Horton's daughters) and Cecilia and Damaris Saldivar came to support their siblings in the show! Great to have them back on campus!

• Parish website link: https://stjoe88.org/
• Please join the parish for daily and weekend Masses at this link: https://youtu.be/LxIRBSew1yI
• Please continue tithing to your parish. St. Joseph Parishioners may go to this link to give: https://stjoe88.org/giving
  
• Be sure to look into FORMED.org. The parish has paid for your subscription to this vast library of inspiring videos and essential reads to help grow your faith. Just go straight to the "Enter Code" button and enter 4BDX9H to begin the process. You may also access this through the parish website link below. Enjoy!

Contact us at (817) 419-6800

www.stjosephtx.org

ST. JOSEPH, PROTECTOR OF FAMILIES, PRAY FOR US.