Registration Date/Time for 4Care-8th Grade Families
New Parent Meeting
Our Covenant Community
- Enrollment Agreement
- Covenant of Communication and Support
Aftercare, Kindercare, 4Care
Sioux Center Christian School will once again be offering three convenient options for childcare during the school year: Aftercare, Kindercare, and 4Care!
AFTERCARE: If you would like to register your child(ren) for Aftercare, please see the information and application below. Please print the forms and bring them with you to registration. If you don’t have access to a printer, please stop in the school office for hard copies.
KINDERCARE: If your child was in TK this past year or if you did not sign up your TK or Kindergartener during enrollment and would like Friday Kindercare in the 2023-24 school year, please contact the office by August 1. To learn more about Kindercare, check out the document below.
4CARE: There are still spots open in our 4Care program. The 4Care classroom is in the main school building with lots of room, new toys and furniture, and run by Tara Dekkers! Check out https://www.siouxcenterchristian.com/studentlife/4care.cfm to learn more.
Busing
We will continue to share busing with the public school.
We need ALL families to fill out the following Google Form with your busing intentions. If you did not already do so from the June announcement, please fill this out by Tuesday, Aug. 1. Click here for the bus form.
See the map below for bus eligibility. Students living outside the red boxed area are eligible to ride the bus.
SCCS Purchasing School Supplies
Trailblazer Gear
Show your Trailblazer spirit! The online store for our exciting new line of Trailblazer apparel will open on Tuesday, August 29. We’ll be offering new designs on t-shirts, hoodies, and more!
PACE
PACE: Parents in Action for Christian Education (PACE) is made up of all parents of students at SCCS. The goal of PACE is to serve our school and provide opportunities for fellowship and encouragement. Check out the ways you can help during the 2023-24 school year by going to the link below (also check out the "We Need You" announcement later in this newsletter). Please sign up where you would be willing to help out. There will also be a PACE table at registration to learn more about your responsibilities and opportunities as a member of PACE, including the opportunity to sign up as a room parent. Thank you to PACE for all of their work!
Bloomz Info
Parents can find a training for Bloomz at https://www.siouxcenterchristian.com/currentfamilies/bloomz.cfm.
Look for an invitation from your child's homeroom teacher to join Bloomz (it may go to your junk or spam folder). If you have not received an invitation by August 17, please let the homeroom teacher know.
You can decide how you receive notifications from Bloomz. In order to adjust your notifications settings, follow these directions:
- Click on the left menu tray via Bloomz App or Click on the Setting Wheel in the left panel via desktop
- Click on Settings (Wheel icon)
- Click on Account Settings
- Click on Notifications
- Choose how you want to be notified: email, text, app and voicemail (when sent as voice mail)
- Toggle on or off what you want notifications regarding
Lunch Information, Free and Reduced Lunch Application
Our school lunch staff is gearing up to provide healthy lunches for your student this year. School lunches this year will cost $3.60 per meal. Reduced price meals will be $.40. Extra milk and milk only will cost $.40. Adult meals will be $5.00. Families that may qualify for the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program will need to fill out application forms. Please bring completed applications to registration. If you don’t have access to a printer, please stop in the school office for a hard copy. Application, instructions and income guidelines are at the link below.
We are also requiring a Diet Modification Form if your student will be eating lunch and has special dietary restrictions that need to be accommodated. All Gluten Free students need to have an updated from on file each year. Please find the form at this link. It does need to be signed by a medical professional.
We Need You to Serve God’s treasured kids at SCCS!!
This year we are requiring each family to serve in one of two areas that benefit every SCCS student.
Washing Dishes:
Hours are 11:15am - 1:00pm. Three people work together to wash trays and silverware and wipe the tables. Bonus: You get to eat lunch for free with one of your children! We are asking that you work at least one time per month.
Benefit: With three volunteers working each school day, we save the cost of hiring three part-time employees.
Outlet 75:
Shifts are available on Wednesdays and Thursdays.. There are two volunteers needed for each shift and there is always a manager present to give you guidance. Volunteers help check out customers, unpack, check, and price clothing, steam clothing, put items on display, and neaten displays. Everything at Outlet 75 is new and purchased at a deep discount from places like Costco and Target.
Volunteers are critical to sales - the more merchandise we can get on the floor, the more we can sell! We are asking that you work at least two times per year.
Benefit: Outlet 75 distributes all profits to SCCS and each child receives a share of that profit in the Alternate Revenue Contribution on your tuition statement!
As an SCCS parent, you are required to choose one of these two above areas of opportunity. We would LOVE for you to choose both! Men and women are welcome in both areas!
Your willing work in these areas is greatly appreciated and truly helps SCCS treasure and train your children! This is the only required service we ask every family to give to SCCS - thank you for doing your part to make our school thrive!
CLICK HERE to choose your area and specify the times that work best for you…
Please complete this form by Friday, August 11.
Music Registration Form for 7th & 8th Graders
7th & 8th Grade Drama Opportunity
7th and 8th Grade Drama Opportunity: The Elves and The Shoemaker
Co-Directors: Eileen Buiter and Kirsten Buiter
Performance Dates: Jan 26 and 27, 2024
Audition/Interview Dates: September 18, 19, 20, 21 after school
All students that want to be involved will need to either
- audition using the provided excerpt (see below) to act in the show
- interview to determine your best placement backstage or in the sound booth
CLICK HERE to sign up for auditions/interviews. A rehearsal schedule and all other important information can also be found at this link.
Rehearsals: Tuesday and Thursday mornings before school, occasional Friday afternoons starting on September 22
In this fanciful and charming reframing of the traditional story of the shoemaking elves, the central character is Gunter, an old shoemaker. War rages across Europe and, somewhere in the midst of that conflict, Gunter has lost his only son. Gunther has also lost his will to work and instead waits for the daily casualty lists, sharing with his friend, the tailor, a growing dread. The same war claims the mother of a precocious boy named Peter. Elves grant the wish of the dying mother that Peter will live and be protected and cared for. A soldier brings Peter to Gunther, who reluctantly takes him as an apprentice. The elves watch over Peter and magically make shoes to the delight of the boy and the consternation of Gunter. The magical events turn the entire town topsy-turvy and gradually soften the heart of Gunther, who finds in the boy the son he has lost.
Immunization/Physicals/Health Info
TK and Kindergarten students also have immunization records that should be brought to school along with the dental card and the vision card, and a physical is also recommended (a physical is not required).
Please note that a religious exemption is available for vaccinations. To learn more, check out https://iris.iowa.gov/docs/Certificate_of_Immunization_Exemption_Religious.pdf.
7th and 8th graders who plan to participate in athletics need to complete an athletic physical and a signed concussion form and turn it into Nurse Jenny or Mr. Groskreutz before they may practice or play. Athletes need a new physical and concussion form each year. The forms are attached below.
Storyline
STORYLINE: Our Storyline this year is Living God’s Story: Elements of a Growing Disciple. SCCS provides a storyline t-shirt that is worn for chapel, class trips, and the final Storyline Celebration. Please complete the form regarding sizes of your child(ren) as soon as possible (there will not be paper forms at registration this year). You have the option to order additional shirts for your students for $10 each.
Parent/Teacher Conference Sign Up
We are excited to offer before-school conferences again this year for grades TK-8, to be held August 17 from 3:00-8:00 PM. Students are welcome to attend the conferences.
We are excited for the school year. Let's get this strong partnership started!
After checking class lists, find your child's homeroom teacher and type your name in next to the time that works best for you at the following link: PARENT TEACHER SIGN UP
First Day of School
You are invited to come into the building at 7:45 the first day of school to bring your student(s) to their classroom(s).
School Picture Day for Students
IGNITE the Vision exciting news!
We're excited to share that we surpassed our June milestone of $7 million to IGNITE the Vision for God’s kids! The total amount given and committed to building the Blazer Center is $7,207,500. This is the most support SCCS has ever received during an 18-month period! We now have $1.8 million to go before we reach our next big milestone of $9 million, which allows us to break ground and start taking the plans on paper and transforming them to spaces that train and equip God’s kids.
As building costs continue to rise, we are seeking to steward the generous giving as well as the upcoming project with wisdom. To keep the most critical spaces in the project while maintaining the $14.7 million cost approved by the Board and SCCS Society, our hope is to bring this project to bid this fall so that construction can begin next spring.
We are committed to being a place that relentlessly pursues God’s Truth in all activities, in all teaching, and in all learning. Our educational program drives towards the knowledge, understanding, and habits students need to be effective disciples. Our spaces make this Christ-filled training possible!
THANK YOU for helping us reach this milestone through your personal gifts and commitments and through gifts made to the Trail'Raiser Trek. If you haven't yet given, we ask you to prayerfully consider how your giving commitment will help move this important piece of our vision forward and the significant impact you will make in the lives of God's treasured kids at Sioux Center Christian School!
Learn more about our vision to ignite student opportunities to learn and thrive and deepen our transformational impact on lives through the Blazer Center campus expansion...
Give a gift or set up your commitment to IGNITE the Vision for God's kids here...
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