February 28, 2019 Issue #25 Shamrock Newsletter IMPORTANT DATES: Friday, March 1 st 2 nd Trimester ends TK-8 Monthly Devotion 2pm 6 th grade Confirmation Retreat 5-10pm St. Jude s collection table after school Monday, March 4 th 3 rd Trimester Begins 2019-2020 Registration Begins Tuesday, March 5 th Burning of the Palms at 10:30am/ Father Cleary Park Wednesday, March 6 th Ash Wednesday Mass 8:45am Full Uniform Friday, March 8 th Stations of the Cross 2:00pm Thursday, March 14 th Gr. 6-8 field trip Lincoln Theater 9:30-1:00pm Spirit Rally 2:00pm/Gym Green Day MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Parents, Guardians, Alumni, and Friends, This coming Monday, March 4th current families will receive the enrollment packet for the 2019-2020 school year. It is our pleasure at St. Apollinaris in continuing to partner with you, to develop the faith and academics of your child. Please note, to obtain the parishioner discount your family must meet the obligations of a St. A s parishioner, which is confirmed on the parish level. Please read over those guidelines carefully. One question I often get is, Why do we have larger class sizes? Other schools provide smaller classes. At St. A s our larger classes afford us the opportunity to provide additional class offerings and staffing, that some of our competitor schools do not offer. Our school is known to have one of the strongest academic programs in Napa. All of our students who applied and tested for our partner high school Justin-Siena were accepted. Catholic schools do not receive outside funding and the school is fully funded on tuition and fundraising. The Catholic School Department recognizes the average class size of 35 to operate a sound fiscal program. While our school is doing well financially, our current average class size equates to 28, with some classes exceeding that number and some below. Our program also offers accelerated math instruction, spanish, art, technology, science and a resource program that many schools do not offer. Please know that while our class sizes may be on the larger
2 Shamrock Newsletter size our faculty and staff is committed to the education of the whole child at St. Apollinaris. We thank you for your trust in us and the program we provide. We will continue to strive to provide the highest quality program possible for your family. Registration packets and fees are due back by Friday, March 15th. After that date any class openings will be offered to students in 1st - 7th grades who were assessed and are on our waiting lists. If for some reason you know that your family will be unable to return to St. Apollinaris for the 2019-2020 school year, please let Anna Cardwell in the front office know. As a Catholic school we continue to look for ways to improve upon our Catholic Identity and live out our faith. Next week begins our Lenten journey with Mass on Ash Wednesday at 8:45AM. Please consider joining our school for Mass. Our students will be praying the Stations of the Cross throughout Lent on Fridays at 2PM. You are welcome to join us during this time as we come together and journey as Jesus did. For more Lenten resources please visit https://www.stapollinarisparish.org/faithformation/formed.html and use code NZCHZ2 for our parish and school. Today, we practiced our regularly scheduled lock-down drill. Today s drill was purposely scheduled towards the end of the second lunch period where half of our school was at recess. Please debrief with your child any questions or concerns regarding today s drill and I welcome your feedback. The drill was different from others and was done with the intent that we never know the time of day or where our students are located, when an emergency could occur. It s important for our students to be prepared and to take all our practice drills seriously. Blessings, Mrs. Olivia Brazil, Principal SCHOOL NEWS
3 Shamrock Newsletter 8 th grade field trip Marin HeadlandS Three days of learning, team building and discovering with Mrs. Stahlecker!
4 Shamrock Newsletter THE ST. APOLLINARIS SUPERHERO S WALK-A-THON IS COMING UP FRIDAY, APRIL 12 TH!! This year s theme is St. A s Super Heroes Walk-A-Thon. We are so excited this year to have capes the students can wear during the event. There will also be a signing table so students can have their cape signed!! The walk will start at 12:30pm on Friday, April 12 th and runs until the end of school at 2:45pm. Mark your calendars if you want to join us for this fun day! Corporate Sponsors - WE NEED CORPORATE SPONSORS! If you would like to be a corporate sponsor please fill out the form and send us your logo. The cost is $400 and we will put your company logo on the back of our T-shirt! T-SHIRTS AND CAPES!! The T-shirt order form will go out to students next week. T-shirts are FREE to each student. This year we will also have superhero capes available to purchase or you can wear your own cape from home! We will have 2 cape options available Hot pint/teal and Red/Green (they are reversible) for purchase. They are all kid size capes! FR. DAVID WILL BE BACK FOR JUMP FOR CASH THE 1 ST JUMP FOR CASH IS FRIDAY, MARCH 8 th. RAFFLE The raffle is back!! The week before the Walk-A-Thon, we will have the raffle out after school for students to put in their tickets. If you ordered tickets they will be given to your student(s) on Thursday, April 4 th. If you requested raffle tickets for multiple children, each student will receive their portion in their classroom. If you would like to donate to the raffle we would love any gifts cards you can give. For every $20 gift card we will give you 1 B Hour!! If you have a new item(s) you would like to donate for B Hours please contact Susan Wilsey at swilsey22@hotmail.com to see if we can use it!
5 Shamrock Newsletter SCRIP NEWS And the winner is. Congratulations to the Bourke Family Our February 2019 Scrip Raffle Winner Check out shopwithscrip.com..our school ID is E11F627C9L85 Angela McWilliams Scrip Coordinator
6 Shamrock Newsletter scrip@stapollinaris.com ATHLETICS The 7th Grade boy s basketball team finished their season off with a perfect record as they defeated Kolbe Academy. The offense showcased another game where everyone on the team put points on the board. The team has earned their spot as the number one seed in the playoffs as they kicked off the year-end tournament with a game against St. John Napa last Tuesday. Congratulations to the St. A's 8 th grade boy s basketball team on their First Place CSL league finish! It was a great game Saturday following the Marin Headlands trip. Despite tired legs, the boys showed real character, finishing off their last regular season game at St. A's with intensity. Jackson led all scoring with 17 pts. and 7 rebounds followed by, Dante with 12 points and 7 rebounds and Ben with 8 points. Andrew from 7th grade helped out again, pouring in 6 points followed by Jack I and Luke with 2 pts. a piece. Defense was key with Austin and Jack D helping to keep SHM at only 8 pts. at half time. Final score 47-26. We will keep you update on this week s CSL Tournament play as we go along. Good luck to both our 7 th and 8 th grade teams. Go Shamrocks! Track and Field registration is open for all grades!! We are excited to kick off another season and look forward to seeing as many of our students take the field as possible. Practices begin the first week of April so sign-up today! See attached registration form or find one in the school office. 2019 Track Practice Schedule Mondays Grades 2-8 3:15-4:30pm Tuesdays Grades TK-3 3:10pm-4:15pm Thursdays Grades 4-8 3:15pm-4:30pm
7 Shamrock Newsletter March Madness Volunteers Needed! The St. A s March Madness Tournament is fast approaching (March 14th-17th), and is in need of many volunteers! This event is the main fundraiser for our athletic program and depends on the generosity of your time and spirit to be successful. We need volunteers to help with the entry table, scorekeeping, the cafe and the ice cream social on Saturday evening. This is a fun opportunity to earn your parent volunteer hours and is also a great opportunity for our middle school students to earn service hours (you will need to volunteer along side them). Most shifts are in short blocks of just over an hour, so sign up for one or a few! Please click here to sign up today. We thank you for your support!