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The School Office will send an email the last day of each week with important news and notes for the upcoming school week. Please look it over carefully. If you would like to be added to our email distribution list contact the school office at (616) 842-1282 or email schooloffice@stmarysl.org
Dear School Families,
It was nice to see our church filled with so many of our St. Mary's School families and friends at the Preschool-4th Grade Music Program Thursday night. The children did such a wonderful job kicking off the season of Advent leading into Christmas. I hope to see many of you at our Advent Vesper Program coming up on Sunday, December 16 at 6:00 p.m. in St. Mary’s Church. The Advent Vesper Program will be directed by Miss Shawnda Draeger with music sung by our 5th and 6th Grade Choir and our 7th and 8th Grade Choir. This program is open to everyone. Please feel free to invite family, friends and neighbors. Our students and staff are busy working on their Advent service projects for this year, helping others or supporting a special cause. I’d like to thank our families for supporting these projects as they’re a part of our Catholic School mission. As a reminder, our Scholastic Book Fair is still going on in our Church Gathering Space through December 12th. Books make great Christmas gifts and it’s a good time to stock up on reading material for your family. Please be sure to scroll through the information on the bottom of this page for important school news. Happy Advent! Steve VanHammen, Principal St. Mary's School, Spring Lake Phone (616) 842-1282 "Inspired by Saint Mary and rooted in our Catholic faith, St. Mary's School fosters spiritual development, academic excellence, responsibility to self, and service to others in order that the Gospel of Christ may be known in the world." School-Wide Education in Virtue Program Last week we learned about the Virtue MODERATION - MEANING: Attention to balance in one’s life. Be sure to look at the school lobby TV to see who we caught practicing the Virtue MODERATION this week. We also announce after each Friday Mass – Join us! Our Virtue for the week of December 10th is MAGNIFICENCE – MEANING: DOING GREAT THINGS FOR GOD Like us on facebook and visit our School website NEWS for the latest SCHOOL INFORMATION https://www.stmarysl.org/school-news ADVENT PROJECTS Our students and staff are busy working on their Advent service projects for this year, helping others or supporting a special cause. I’d like to thank our families for supporting these projects as they’re a part of our Catholic School mission. Want to see what our Preschool – 8th Grade are doing? Follow this link to our SCHOOL NEWS. https://www.stmarysl.org/school-news ST. MARY’S SCHOOL ADVENT VESPERS PROGRAM – Sunday, December 16th at 6PM Our 5th – 8th Grade Advent Vespers Program will be held in our church on Sunday, December 16th at 6PM. Miss Draeger will direct the music featuring our 5/6 Grade and 7/8 Grade Choir. Please join us! ST. MARY'S MUSIC BOOSTER CLUB NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT! Calling all St. Mary’s Music Booster Club members - NEW or EXISTING! It's that time of year again to join or renew your membership to support PS-4 Grade Music and 5-8 Band & Choir. Donors will be listed in our School music programs. The current needs benefit all St. Mary's School students. The donation form and list of needs are on Miss Draeger's Choir/Band page at https://www.stmarysl.org/choir---classroom.html. THANK YOU! HOT LUNCH ANYONE? Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup…Scratch made Banana Bread…Roast Beef Dinner! YUMM! For the complete DECEMBER LUNCH MENU visit our school website: https://www.stmarysl.org/lunch-calendar-menu.html PTO NEWS The next PTO Meeting will be held in the evening on Wednesday, January 9th at Two Tonys in Spring Lake beginning at 6PM December 5-12th - ST. MARY’S SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR in the Church Gathering Space St. Mary’s MERRY MONEY is back! It’s the time of year for St Mary’s Merry Money! What is Merry Money? It’s a special certificate that the Scrip office will sell to school families. If you would like to buy a gift card for a teacher/staff member and don’t know what they like…this is the greatest thing for you! Simply come into the parish office, name the dollar amount you’d like to purchase, and you will be given a Merry Money certificate. Fill out the certificate to your teacher/staff member, they will come in and redeem the certificate for the gift card of their choice (from the Cash and Carry box). * Once the Merry Money certificate has been redeemed, the family that purchased it will be given the scrip credit toward that card that was redeemed. * You cannot purchase Merry Money after weekend Masses, it is only sold in the parish office. * Merry Money cannot be exchanged for cash. * Merry Money expires January 31, 2019 * If the recipient doesn’t use the certificate, the money will be donated to Mary Light of Learning Campaign. DO YOUR KIDS LIKE Youtube? THEN YOU’LL LOVE FORMED!!! FORMED is an AMAZING website that is very similar to Youtube, however all the content is Catholic. From bible studies, catholic movies, youth content and even really good AWARD- WINNING kids cartoons! Our parish has purchased the right to use all the content and is offered to all parishioners for FREE. HOW DO YOU ACCESS? Simply follow this link! https://stmarysl.formed.org ADDENDUM TO ST. MARY'S SCHOOL DRESS CODE On normal dress-code days, booties at ankle height or below CAN be worn during school hours. Parent Prayer Meeting - Thursday mornings in the School Lobby - All Welcome! Short informal prayer time to share intentions and pray for our students - led by Dave Heinert 5TH/6TH GRADE GIRLS' BASKETBALL & 7TH GRADE BOYS’ BASKETBALL LAST REGULAR SEASON GIRLS BASKETBALL GAME TOMORROW/SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8TH The regular season concludes tomorrow. Come on out and cheer on our Cyclones vs. Fruitport Calvary. ST. MARY’S GIRLS CYCLONES VS. Fruitport Calvary at 1PM. AWAY GAME at 5873 Kendra Rd., Fruitport, MI Next Saturday, December 15th our season concludes with the year-end tournament. It will be held at Muskegon Catholic Central. We won’t get the bracket until after the games this weekend. We could play 2 or 3 games that day. Games will start at 9am, with the finals around 12:30. Coach Ladd will pass along the specific details as soon as they are released. LAST REGULAR SEASON BOYS BASKETBALL GAME IS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13TH ST. MARY’S BOYS CYCLONES VS. MCC - HOME GAME AT 4:15PM in our School gym. More information to come on the Boys tournament schedule. Visit our School Athletics web page for current game schedules: https://www.stmarysl.org/athletics---school.html GIRLS ON THE RUN PARENT COACH/S NEEDED Mrs. Skorupsi our 2nd Grade Teacher has show interest in helping. We need additional help - PARENTS interested in helping to coach a 3rd-8th Grade GIRLS ON THE RUN team in the spring, please contact the school office. https://www.gotroac.org/Our-Programs Do you use SCRIP? Consider Tri-Cities Unity Auction when making your purchases. Just ONE extra gift card purchased can benefit the kids in St. Mary's School and Faith Formation. Add on to your order any denomination gift card through Scrip, and let them know it's for the Tri-Cities Unity Auction, benefiting CATHOLIC EDUCATION in our community. SCRIP NEWS SCRIP IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS - Scrip is looking for a few more volunteers willing to help sell Scrip after Weekend Masses. Please contact the Scrip office for more information. SCRIP CASH AND CARYY BOX The official kickoff for all your Christmas shopping has begun! The Scrip Cash and Carry box has all your needs!
Jennifer Grossman & Marci Hamilton Scrip Coordinators scrip@stmarysl.org, 842-1702 Ext 260 Announcing…a Catholic Children’s Story Hour! Announcing…CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S STORY HOUR! WHO? Attention all parents with small children - All are welcome! WHAT? Join us for a Catholic Children’s Story Hour WHEN: The 2ND Friday of each month at 10:15AM – 11:15AM WHERE? In the Parish ABC Room (by the parish kitchen behind the gym) Please contact Cathy Pearce if you have questions about this event. Cathy Pearce Director of Elementary Faith Formation St. Mary's Parish 616-842-2840 cpearce@stmarysl.org Remember our UNIFORM CLOSET Our Uniform Closet is full of clean uniform clothing for boys and girls in many sizes. They are all organized by size. There's also some Cyclone spirit gear - ALL FREE. The office will unlock it for you - please take what you need and consider donating if you've outgrown your uniform clothing, spirit wear or Love One Another t-shirt. Thank you. Extension: Families that would like to use the Extension Before and After School Care Program need to preregister and schedule with the Extension Coordinator Nicole Stroven 616-842-1282 ext. 232 nstroven@stmarysl.org. Visit: https://www.stmarysl.org/extention-program.html School Drop-Of and Pick-Up Procedures: FRIENDLY REMINDER TO PLEASE DRIVE SLOWLY IN THE PARKING LOT If you are in the car pick up line, please pull forward and up all the way to the extension room canopy. Also, please remain in your car and ready to pull ahead to make room for more cars in the pickup line. If your child needs help buckling their seat belt, please park in the center parking spaces to assist your child. We appreciate you helping to keep our pickup line safely moving along. Visit: https://www.stmarysl.org/transportation.html Appointments During School Hours: If your child needs to leave the school during school hours, parent must come in the office to sign in/sign out. Please use North/Front entrance (4A) for pickups during school hours. Car Rider or SL Bus Changes: Call or email by 3:15 PM for changes to your normal routine. Student Absences: Call in or email the School office with any absences. If sick, please note if fever/sore throat/vomiting - for our weekly Health Department reporting. This Coming Week Birthdays: December 10 – Gracelyn Herrygers – Kindergarten December 11 – Samuel Lieto - Preschool December 14 - Leo George – 3rd Grade December 15 - Emmett Patterson – Kindergarten December 15 – Giavanna Bishop - Preschool School Mass Liturgy Schedule: 9AM School Mass - Join us! Father Dave will be our Celebrant (Father Chuck will be our Celebrant the 2nd Friday/month) Choir/Music led by Miss Draeger December 14th - Mass prepared by 7th Grade Students – 5th & 6th Grade Choir Looking Ahead: December 5-12 – Scholastic Book Fair in the Gathering Space December 8 - GIRLS CYCLONE BASKETBALL vs. Fruitport Calvary AWAY AT 1PM December 12 - $1 Jeans Day (Student Council sponsored event) Proceeds go to our Food Pantry December 13 – BOYS CYCLONE BASKETBALL VS. MCC – HOME GAME AT 4:15PM December 16 – 5th-8th Grade Advent Vespers 6:00PM in the church. – Join Us! December 21 – Half Day – Dismissal at 12:00PM – Christmas Break Dec. 22-Jan. 2 – Christmas Break LIKE us on facebook to see pictures/updates on school-wide activities. WE ❤ ST. MARY'S SCHOOL Thank you St. Mary's School 430 E. Savidge Street Spring Lake, MI 49456 616-842-1282 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
