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Weekly Newsletter - October 18, 2018
Our Motto: Teaching the Mind...Nourishing the Soul
Theme for the Year - TRUTH
At St. Joseph Catholic School, we are striving to become missionary disciples by revealing the Truth of Christ to others through our actions.
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
What a fantastic turn out at last night's HSA Meeting! The evening began with our Family Rosary Night. Thank you to the families who led the SJCS Community in prayer. I was so very impressed by all the students who volunteered, willing to be missionary disciples to all the adults present. You touched all of our hearts, especially Fr. Tom's, whose talk on the subject of Truth, resonated with us all.
We also heard from Nolan Catholic High School's President, Ms. Leah Rios and Principal, Mr. Will Perales. Our diocesan high school is working very hard to meet the needs of all partner schools. Nolan always has wonderful things to say about our community and the caliber of student we send their way.
St. Joseph Catholic School strives to form students who know what they are called to do in life, to love and serve the Lord through their vocation, whatever that may be. We work to develop a child's imagination through religion, service, academics, fine arts, sports, and a variety of extracurricular offerings. We are trying to improve even further on the development of a child's imagination with the implementation of programs like STREAM, and Robotics. We also wish to enhance the outdoor learning experience with the addition of a greenhouse this year. Working with Nature is one way to witness God's creation.
What we offer at St. Joseph, we offer to lead your child to God, to Truth. We strive to form our students to be the person God so desires them to be. Thank you for partnering with us to carry out this work.
Go, Knights! Live in the Truth.
In Christ's service,
Diane Price, M.Ed.L.
Pope Francis' Special Prayer Campaign for October
Truth Bible Quote for October
New saintly Truth Quote to ponder
"This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist." - St. Pope John Paul II
Latin and Greek Roots Challenge
How to Become a volunteer?
You must first create a profile in VIRTUS for the Safe Environment Diocesan Program.
Per the Diocese, all school volunteers if they are current on Safe Environment, will have until 7/31/19 to renew through VIRTUS if you do not expire before that date. You need to go on the VIRTUS website and make a profile. You can do this without signing up for a class. Profiles are needed in the new system so we know you have previous training, as the old database is no longer open for viewing.
A campus can move up the date that VIRTUS is needed, as Nolan has, but it cannot go past the new school year in August of 2019. We have opted to allow families as much time as allowed to complete your training with the 7/31/19 deadline.
If you have had no Safe Environment training at all, you must take the VIRTUS training now to be able to volunteer.
Steps:
Go to fwdioc.org
Click on Safe Environment
Click on Training Sessions, which looks like a calendar
Click on I need a VIRTUS Profile
Continue through the prompts.
Reminders and Upcoming Events
- World Mission Sunday is this weekend. Please join us on Monday, October 22nd, at 2:15pm in the Marian Center to recite the World Mission Rosary with the entire school. Please find the Pope's message for World Mission Sunday 2018 at this link: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2018-05/pope-francis-message-world-mission-sunday-2018.html
- Keep selling those raffle tickets! Remember to turn them in between now and 8:30am Monday morning, so your child can spin the wheel at lunch time on Tuesday next week. Students get to spin the wheel to win a prize for every 14 tickets sold. They are really enjoying this fun time at lunch! Let us know if you need more tickets to sell. Thank you for your support!
- No School on October 26th due to Parent/Teacher Conferences.
- Picture re-take day is Wednesday, November 7th. Please wear your Required Uniform and sweater if you are a Pre-K - 5th grade boy or an Upper School student. If you ordered a picture package and want a re-take, bring the picture package back on that day to the photographer. If you were absent on picture day or had not started school yet, please take a re-take picture. If you want to order a re-take picture, please send in the order form with payment. More order forms are in the front office. You may still order pictures online at www.myschoolpicture.com.
- We have a Class Basket Challenge under way for "A Knight to Remember 2018 (AK2R)." Please see the Thursday Folder flyer for details.
- Be sure to buy your tickets to attend "A Knight to Remember 2018". You may access the link to purchase them on our school website: https://stjosephtx.org/ or click on the image below.
- Monstrous Mondays - Student Council will have snacks and drinks sold for 50 cents on Monday, October 29th. Please support our students. 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.
Our Largest fundraiser of the year is NEXT SATURDAY! Get your tickets now!
Click on the image below to purchase tickets!
Excitement is in the air!
Annual Fund - Quest for Excellence!
Don't forget to participate in our Annual Fund - Quest for Excellence! You've Got the Power! With 100% participation in 100 days, we hope to raise $100,000 to help with campus security enhancements, tuition assistance, construction of another storage facility, and bonuses for our teachers. Any amount is appreciated.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has already participated! We have created a display in the school foyer to celebrate our participants. If you do not wish for your name to be shared in any display or in any publication, please email me (dprice@stjosephtx.org) and your name will be kept anonymous.
Home and School Association (HSA)
- Next HSA Spirit Night - November 6th at Panera (4000 S. Cooper St) from 4-8pm.
- Our next HSA Meeting will not be until January 16th at 7:00 pm in the school cafeteria. There is a free dress day on Friday, January 18th, for the children of HSA members in attendance that night. We do not meet during the busy months of November and December.
- Please bring in your box tops. We are collecting these for the school and there is now a class competition! Check out the bulletin board display in the cafeteria. You can see that Ms. Doskocil’s class is in the lead! Thank you in advance for doing this!
- Looking for uniform pieces? Need to sell some pieces your child has outgrown? There is a Facebook page for that: SJCS Online Uniform Resale.
car line observations
- Please do not move or disregard the cones that are placed around the parking lots. These are provided to help keep our students safe.
- Do not make a left turn at the long line of cones upon entering the parking lot (the TCP area on the map). Please move up the drive, go around the small island, and come back down to the front of the school building. This keeps traffic off of Green Oaks.
- It is very important that cars are not left unattended in the car line. Please park your car in the large lot beside the field if you need to leave your vehicle.
- Please remember that if you are walking your child into the school building, you are to park in the large lot in front of the field. Foot traffic should not be occurring in the parking lots to the left, unless you have a physical need for a shorter walk. It is dangerous to be walking between the car line.
- For the safety of all, please be aware of your speed as you move through the parking lots, and be watchful and courteous.
- Please be patient with friends and extended family members who drop off and pick up students. Many times they have not been informed of the proper way to navigate the car line. We do reach out to families after arrival and dismissal who seem to not understand the car line pattern.
- If you have a friend or extended family member picking up your child, please take a minute to explain the procedures to them. Please reference the diagram. Thank you!
- We would ask that a cell phone not be in your hand while driving in the car line. We all know it only takes one sudden distraction to alter lives forever.
Parents - Hassle Free Mornings Can be Achieved!
If you’ve ever resorted to nagging, begging, or threatening your kids off to daycare or school, you are not alone! Sadly, when this happens, frequently our relationships suffer and our kids fail to learn important lessons about responsibility and self-sufficiency.
Provided below are some quick tips for placing the lion’s share of responsibility on your kids. Remember that even children as young as three or four can learn this skill.
- Small children can follow a visual list of tasks they have to complete each morning. Some parents print pictures representing getting dressed, brushing teeth, eating, etc.
Practice when you’re not stressed.
- Wise parents teach their kids how to get ready and practice on a weekend morning. Older children with special needs can also benefit from this practice, as well as having a list like the one mentioned above.
Rise a bit early and get yourself ready first.
- Children learn almost all important skills by watching the “big” people around them. Experiment with saying, “We will help you get ready when we are completely ready ourselves.” Help them only when you are completely ready to go. In addition to providing a good example, this allows us to be far more relaxed as we are assisting our kids.
Set a small number of limits and resist the urge to nag or remind. For example:
- Breakfast is served until the timer goes “ding.”
- My car is leaving at seven o’clock. Will you be going to school with your clothes on your body or in a bag?
- I charge ten dollars to drive kids when they’ve missed the bus.
The key is resisting the urge to remind. The more we remind, the more we have to remind.
Allow your kids to blow it.
- Too often we nag and remind so that our kids will eat breakfast… or do their hair… or brush their teeth… or remember their homework. Wise parents understand that children will never take responsibility for doing such things when they aren’t allowed to make mistakes and experience the logical and natural consequences… blanketed in SINCERE EMPATHY.
Kids who learn to take responsibility for their exit each morning are far more likely to enter their workplace on time each morning as adults.
September 26 thru November 4, 2018
40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign with a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion in America. The mission of the campaign is to bring together the body of Christ in a spirit of unity during a focused 40 day campaign of prayer, fasting, and peaceful activism, with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus bringing an end to abortion in America. To sign up click below.
Knights in Action!
moments around campus
STREAM BOX EXCITEMENT
Problems Solved!
Wonderful turnout
Truth
PSIA PRactice
Elements
Cheer Squad
Order of Operation
Time together
6th Grade Advances!
Box tops
VB Games
Academia
Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts, Math
Species at Risk
Roboknights in Action!
SJCS ALUMNI News
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!
Are you in need of prayers?
Meet our parish priests!
Rev. Daniel Kelley
Fr. Tom Kennedy
Fr. Peter Opoku Ware
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.