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Weekly Newsletter - September 27, 2018
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 an amazing Dinner and Talent Show! Everyone truly enjoyed the delicious food and loved the beautiful talent on display. I am always in complete awe of the God-given talents our students possess, and how willing they are to share them with the school community. I had a couple from the parish who attended the event, tell me afterwards how impressed they were with your children. Thank you to all the parents making this event possible, to all the students who worked so hard, and to Ms. Hess for her dedication to our school.
Today, the faculty and staff spent the morning working at Mission Arlington. It was our chance to give back to the greater Arlington community. We were grateful for the chance to serve the Lord in this way. It's through the use of our talents that we embrace who we truly are. We embrace the Truth that is ourselves as the Lord meant us to be.
Go, Knights! Live in the Truth.
In Christ's service,
Diane Price, M.Ed.L.
"Truth" Bible Quote for September
"Truth" Quotes to ponder
Do not accept anything as truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love if it lacks truth.
- St. Edith Stein
The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let is loose. It will defend itself.
-St. Augustine
How Truth applies to us: At St. Joseph Catholic School, we are striving to become missionary disciples by revealing the truth of Christ to others through our actions.
Latin and Greek Roots Challenge
How to Become a volunteer?
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
- 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.
- 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 "The Page" below. Thank you!
Exciting annual event coming soon! Get your tickets now!
Click on the image below to purchase tickets!
Upcoming HSA Spirit Night Event
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. Your participation in North Texas Giving Day falls under the Annual Fund. Thank you!
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 - October 2nd at BJ's.
- Our next HSA Meeting will be on October 17th at 7:00 pm in the school cafeteria, with a free dress day on Friday, October 19th, for the children of HSA members in attendance that night.
- Please bring in your box tops. We are collecting these for the school and there is now a class competition! See the Thursday Folder for details, and check out the bulletin board display in the cafeteria. You can see that Ms. Seed'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.
The RoboKnights are here! Welcome 6th, 7th, and 8th grade!
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.
40 Days for life
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
NCHS Arrives!
A big turn out
Thank you!
It takes a village
Showtime
Giving Back
BOX TOPS
1st Grade
1st Grade
Upper School
Lower School
8th grade retreat
TOB Retreat
STREAM action!
SJCS ALUMNI News
Yearbook Signing - Class of 2018
It was so wonderful to have the Class of 2018 back on campus for yearbook signing. Remember, Knight Alumni, you are always welcome back!
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!
St. Joseph Roman Catholic Parish
- Please see the Thursday Folder for information regarding the Society of St. Vincent de Paul's, Friends of the Poor Walk/Run, on October 6th.
- HELP NEEDED - The parish is needing 2 individuals, or even couples who would be willing to lead baptism class on the first Saturday of the month, as a team, in English. The time commitment would be 3.5 to 4 hours per month on the first Saturday (or second Saturday if the first is a holiday). Please reach out to Dawn Ward in the parish office if you are interested in serving your community in this important way: dward@stjoe88.org
- 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.