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 Dear Parents,
Fall Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held October 23rd and 25th between 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm. You are invited to sign up online at www.ptcfast.com/reg1, where you'll be prompted to enter a code. Please use your student/s Homeroom Teacher Code found below: SYG1248267 - Johnson (K) ZG11248270 - Bator (1st) JWU1248273 - Skorupski (2nd) TZB1248277 - Suchecki (3rd) BA41248281 - Mullally (4th) 2M01248285 - Derck (5th) P1N1248288 - Rhein (6th) YX71248290 - Giroux (7th) FXE1248292 - Celano (8th) If you do not have internet access, please contact Mrs. Peel in the School Office at extension 202. Please note that conferences are 15 minutes in length and with your student/s homeroom teacher only. As a reminder, you can always check your Infinite Campus account throughout the school year to see academic progress. Thank you. Mrs. Johnson's Kindergarten students learned to STOP! DROP! & ROLL! if they are on fire. They talked about safe ways to exit their home if there is fire and smoke. They got to see all the different size hoses on the truck as well as take a tour of the inside of the fire truck. Thank you Spring Lake Fire Department! School-Wide Education in Virtue Program Last week we learned about RESPECT - Check out the TV Monitor in the school lobby to see who we recognized going over and above practicing the Virtue TEMPERANCE/SELF-CONTROL. Be sure to like us on facebook !  At our school assembly this morning, Mrs. Derck’s 5th Grade class created a premise, a script, and then directed themselves in a play to showcase good and bad examples of self-control. A creative way to introduce our school-wide Virtue for the week of 10/8 TEMPERANCE/SELF-CONTROL. St. Mary's Families:
Thank you for everyone who has used the hot lunch program at St. Mary's. In a continuing effort to provide the best service to our students we would love if you could take a moment to answer the survey questions in the link below (only 5 questions). Blessings, Tanya & Laura https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MSVVP8N The October Hot Lunch Menu can be found on our school website. Visit: https://www.stmarysl.org/lunch-calendar-menu.html Scrip Credit Distributions were run on October 1st and will be applied to your Smart Tuition account soon.
July 1- Sept 30th we had credits totaling almost $5,000. This was for all School and Parish families that use the program to save money on Tuition, Mission Trip, Faith Formation, or simply to donate for the Mary Light of Learning Campaign. If you would like to take part in this awesome program, or simply have questions...please contact the scrip office: scrip@stmarysl.org or call 616-842-1702 ext 260 Visit the website https://www.stmarysl.org/scrip.html  Dear School Families,
Thanks to everyone who has or is selling the WESCO Popcorn Buckets. We've sold over 100 buckets so far! We still have them for sale in the school office if you'd like to purchase or sell them for $12 each. We earn half of the $12 which goes to support our St. Mary's School by helping to reduce the cost of our field trips and general maintenance on our bus. It was nice to see so many families at the Blessing of the Pets on Thursday morning. I hope to see most of our St. Mary's School dads this Friday, October 12th in the Abbey before school at 8:00 am for "Donuts with Dads". All dads (or any other significant father figure) are welcome to bring their St. Mary's School children to this event between 8:00-8:30 am. It would be great if the dads could join us for our Friday School Mass at 9:00 am. Stay dry this weekend. God Bless. 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." In following our school "Love One Another" theme, students in Mrs. Giroux's 7th grade class shows their love and support by decorating Sack Supper Bags for Kids' Food Basket of Muskegon. Kids' Food Basket delivers approximately 8,000 Sack Suppers to students throughout West Michigan. https://www.kidsfoodbasket.org/
It was a beautiful sunny morning to see so many smiling faces and wagging tails. Cats, dogs and even a turtle received a blessing from Fr. Dave in celebration of the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. :) Preschool - 8th Grade students have the opportunity to submit original bookmark designs until the final day, which is Saturday, October 20. Designs should reflect the theme: "You Belong at the Library". A panel of local artists will judge the entries and prizes will be awarded for each of the grade levels. Sponsored by the Friends of the Spring Lake District Library. Thank you for your continued support of this school fundraiser. Please keep on feeding our PaperGator it's hungry 24/7! St. Mary's School has 2 PaperGators located in the South parking lot. The PaperGator accepts newspapers, catalogs, magazines, junk mail, phone books, office/school paper and hard and soft covers. Please do not include plastic, metal, trash, glass, cardboard, or paperboard/grocery items boxes. Thank you so much for your support of our recycling and fundraising efforts.  Faith & Family Day with the Lumberjacks Sunday, October 14th - LC Walker Arena 3:15 PM Come see and hear why we love Friday morning School Mass! Join us Friday at 9:00 AM School Mass Liturgy Schedule: Father Dave will be our Celebrant - Choir/Music led by Miss Draeger
Congratulations Landon Wiedenhoeft!
Eighth grade student Landon Wiedenhoeft stood out as a positive role model and student leader, and was selected by Principal VanHammen to represent St. Mary’s School in the "Lunch with a Deputy" program of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office. Deputy Corey Allard picked Landon up at school on Friday and they went to Butch's Beach Burritos for lunch. The Sheriff's Office has partnered with Butch's Beach Burritos and McDonalds of Spring lake to sponsor the program, providing a complimentary meal of their choice to celebrate the student’s success. Our Virtue for the Week of October 1st is RESPECT School-Wide Education in Virtue Program Last week we learned about RESPONSIBILITY - Check out the TV Monitor in the school lobby to see who we recognized going over and above practicing the Virtue RESPONSIBILITY. Like us on facebook and visit our School website NEWS for the latest SCHOOL INFORMATION   Dear School Families,
The Wesco Popcorn Bucket Sale is going great! The profits of this sale goes towards our St. Mary's School bus for field trips and general maintenance. The popcorn buckets make good gifts and they'll have free popcorn through December 2019. The popcorn buckets sell for $12 each and may be ordered and picked up in the school office. Remember the first Monday of each month is a Color Day. This Monday is Picture Retake Day as well. It is also October and that means the shorts are put away until spring. Please make sure your children have a coat or sweatshirt to wear on these cool fall mornings. Hopefully we won't have to worry about winter gear for at least a month. Don't forget "Blessing of the Pets" on Thursday, October 4th at 8:45 am. Fr. Dave will give a special blessing in the south parking lot right after morning Mass and when school starts. Please keep your pets in this area before the blessing. God Bless. 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." A FUN trip to Robinette's Apple Haus is a perfect way to greet Fall for Mrs. Johnson's Kindergarten and Mrs. Bator's 1st grade students. They made apple cider, enjoyed homemade cider and donuts, went on a tractor ride, and took a tour. They even got to go in a big refrigerator where all the apples are stored!
School-Wide Education in Virtue Program Our Virtue for the Week of September 24th is RESPONSIBILITY Last week we learned about KINDNESS - Check out the TV Monitor in the school lobby to see who we recognized going over and above practicing the Virtue KINDNESS this week. Like us on facebook and visit our School website NEWS for the latest SCHOOL INFORMATION  |
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