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Weekly Newsletter - September 26, 2019
Our Motto: Teaching the Mind...Nourishing the Soul
Theme for the Year - Goodness
At St. Joseph Catholic School, we are striving to become missionary disciples, recognizing the goodness of God in our lives and in the world around us, each and every day.
Our Mission and Vision Statements
Mission:
St. Joseph Catholic School provides students with a safe and prayerful learning environment, enveloped by an intimate 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.
From the Principal
Tonight is the night...Dinner and Talent Show Night!
So much work has gone into this special evening at St. Joseph Catholic School. The students participating in the show have been hard at work preparing. All of the students running the sound, lights, and equipment are excited to be involved. Countless parents have been working all day long to bring you a delicious memorable meal. Faculty and staff pitching in to assist, especially Mrs. Hess for all she does to make this event a reality. There is so much happening, and so many people helping, I cannot put it all into one paragraph for you. We have even tuned the piano for tonight!
I hope you are able to make tonight's event. It is always such a treat to see the students sharing their God-given talents with the school community. I believe I have seen some parish staff in the building as well! Entertainment like this is hard to find and students like ours are one of a kind. I am so very proud of all our students, more than they even know. God is good.
In Christ's service,
Diane Price, M.Ed.L.
Principal
Theme for the Year: Goodness
Goodness Bible Verse for September
saintly quote to ponder
Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you. — St. Catherine of Siena
New Campus-wide Virtues Program
St. Joseph Catholic School is incorporating a new virtues program across all grade levels to help forge a stronger relationship with Jesus, and to grow in both wisdom and virtue. The program is called: Virtues in Practice by the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville, TN.
Please click on image below to view the program. Program details may also be found on the school website under the "Curriculum" tab and in Parent Links under the "Resources" tab.
Latin and greek roots challenge
Reminders and Upcoming Events
- Talent Show and Dinner - Tonight, Thursday, September 26th. Come enjoy some great food and even better entertainment!
- NO SCHOOL - September 27th - This is a teacher in-service day.
- October is the month dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary. Beginning on Monday, September 30th, we will be praying a decade of the Rosary each morning.
- NJHS Food Collection - Wednesday, October 2nd. Our NJHS will be collecting food for the St. Joseph Parish Society of St. Vincent de Paul's food pantry. Here is a list of items they need: cereal, chips, canned baked beans, pancake mix and syrup, peanut butter, Vienna sausages, canned tuna, laundry soap pods, bagged dried beans, bagged rice, corn bread mixes, and deodorant. Thank you in advance for your generosity!
- Grandparents' Day-First Friday Mass-Early Dismissal - All happening on Friday, October 4th. Students will need to come to school in their Dress Uniforms. Students will be dismissed at noon.
- Please follow the Parent/Student Handbook guidelines on appearance and uniform requirements like socks, hair color, length and style, nail color and length, etc. Thank you.
- If you are an Amazon customer, please use Amazon Smile! We receive a donation from Amazon when you shop. Go to: smile.amazon.com to participate. It is a very easy way to support the school! Thank you!
- If you know a St. Joseph Catholic School alumni, please let them know we are looking to stay in contact, and would love to hear how they are doing. See the notice in our alumni section of below.
Home and School Association (HSA)
- Our next Home and School Association (HSA) Meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 16th at 7:00 p.m. in the school cafeteria. We will pray the rosary before the meeting. Come join us in prayer beginning at 6:30 pm. We hope you can attend!
- The children of HSA Members who have paid their dues to join, and are able to attend the monthly meetings, are allowed to wear any SJCS spirit shirt purchased through the school with blue jeans and tennis shoes of their choice to school on the Thursday after the meeting!
Click below to purchase AK2R tickets!
HSA Spirit Night Contest
This year we are going to have a Spirit Night Contest!
The class that has the most attendance for Spirit Nights will win an ICE CREAM Sundae Party!
Each teacher will be given an envelope to keep the receipts and it is easy to participate!
Three Easy Steps:
1. Attend a Spirit Night
2. Save your receipt
3. Turn the receipt in to your teacher (if multiple students turn in their receipt to one teacher, be sure to write all the students' names on the receipt)
Water Walk - A Must Read!
H2O For Life - St. Joseph Catholic School Water Walk Project Completed!
Updated - Safe Environment Training Requirement
Safe Environment Certification for Adult and Teen Volunteers is REQUIRED PRIOR TO SERVING in Ministry in schools and parishes AND MUST BE RENEWED EVERY TWO YEARS. All adult volunteers are required to make a VIRTUS Profile, to complete the Volunteer Ministry Application, to authorize a criminal background check by completing an Authorization Form, to sign the Diocesan Code of Conduct, and to complete Safe Environment Training. A live training, “Safe Environment Awareness Session,” is required for all volunteers.
Log on fwdioc.org, click on Safe Environment, select Awareness Sessions and click on I need a VIRTUS Profile if you do not already have one. When you make a profile, print out the Code of Conduct and Volunteer Ministry Application when it is complete. Safe Environment Coordinators cannot see your answers and signatures. If you do not print it out, we will need a hard copy for your file. The office can provide you with the Authorization for Release of Information for the background check. This form is needed in the file so we may input your correct information into ScreeningOne. Turn in your paperwork to the school before or right after your Awareness Session. Contact Lori Zalesak in the school office with the date of your session so you can be tracked through the process and placed on the Volunteer List for the school when complete. When you are sent home a copy of your VIRTUS Completion Certificate, you are ready to volunteer in the school and at events. Contact the office if you need further information.
Knights in Action!
Frassati Award Recipient
The Beatitude she exemplifies: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.
Pre-K Leaders
In Spanish!
Moments Captured around campus
Practice, Practice, Practice
Art
8th Grade Parents
Show Time!
Financial Literacy
8th grade shadow day
Now we know who set up all of the chairs for the Talent Show!
Thank you, Upper School leaders!
Displays On campus
STREAM Wish list
STREAM Enrichment would love to have these items donated for your children's use.
Thank you!
- Q-tips
- pipe cleaners
- clothes pins
- Popsicle sticks ( big and small) (colorful and plain)
- plastic spiders (Halloween)
- string
- cotton balls
- candy corn
- marshmallows- small
- colored pom poms
- scotch tape
- gallon plastic bags
- toothpicks
- Jolly Ranchers
- Starburst
- Hershey's Kisses
Roboknights
Special Visitor
Alumni News
SJCS Students become leaders
Do you have any information you would like to share with the entire Knight Community? We would love that as well! Please send your news to mhurtado@stjosephtx.org.
Once a Knight - Forever a Knight!
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Meet our Dominican Sisters!
Meet our parish priests!
St. Joseph Roman Catholic Parish
- 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!
- Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is occurring after daily Mass in the Chapel until 5:45pm. Come spend some time with our Lord.
- Please enjoy this link to a lovely article in the North Texas Catholic about the pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Fr. Kelley: https://t.co/3ItrotxIyf
Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth link:
Contact us at (817) 419-6800
ST. JOSEPH, PROTECTOR OF FAMILIES, PRAY FOR US.