St. John the Baptist Catholic School Newsletter 1057 Hughes Road Madison, Alabama 35758 (256) 722-0772 www.stjohnb.com May 13, 2015 05/13/15 Band Concert Café 7:00pm 05/14/15 Field Day-Middle School 11:30am 2:30pm 05/15/15 -Field Day K4-5th grades 10:00am 2:30pm 05/18/15 Honor s Day 1:30pm 05/19/15 8th Grade Graduation 6:00pm 05/22/15 8:30am Mass 05/22/15 Kindergarten Graduation 10:30am 05/22/15 Last Day of School Noon Dismissal NO BASC Mass Schedule Saturday Evening 5:30pm Sundays 7:00am, 8:30am, 11:30am & 5:30pm Weekdays Monday 8:30am Tuesday 6:15am & 8:30am Wednesday 8:30am & 6:30pm Thursday 8:30am & 6:30pm Friday 8:30am Holy Days 6:00am, 8:30am & 6:30pm Sacrament of Reconciliation Thursday 5:30pm 6:20pm Saturday 3:30pm 5:00pm (Other times by request) Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Monday Thursday 9:00am 6:00pm Friday 9:00am noon First Friday 9:00am-9:00pm First Saturday 9:00am 10:00am REMINDER: FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS ARE DUE BACK BY May 15th or sooner. All accounts must be settled before final report cards are mailed. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Final report cards (and standardized test scores in grades 3-7) will be mailed home. Thank you! Drop Off: Tuesday May 19th from 7:30-1:00 Sale Dates: Wednesday, May 20th from 7:30-3:00 Thursday, May 21st from 7:30 to 9:30 NEW LOCATION: Room 117 in the K4 wing. Enter from the K4 entrance! ACCEPTING DEBIT/CREDIT CARDS! (3% service charge for this service) All forms are on the St. John s website under PTO. Scroll down to Used Uniform Information and print out inventory sheets. Thank you. FROM THE CLINIC: Any student that has medication in the clinic needs to have it picked up before the end of school. Parents may begin to pick it up beginning Monday, May 18 th. If you are unsure about medication, please call ahead for verification or email nkutsor@stjohnb.com. All students with Epi-Pens are encouraged to wait until their student s last day to take these home. YOUTH PROTECTION I CLASSES: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2:00pm to 4:00pm & 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Location in the Parish Hall. No cost. Congratulations to Lydia Marr! Adventures at AMCOM 2015 Acceptance is delighted to announce the acceptance of Lydia Marr into this year's Adventures at AMCOM program. Due to her hard work in school and in the community, she was one out of 25 students chosen from a highly competitive pool of almost 130 applicants. HONOR S DAY PROGRAM: The following areas will be recognized at Honor s Day on Monday, May 18th: Diocesan Religion Scholars Bowl Library Reading Awards Duke TIP Yearbook Safety Patrol Geography Bee Writing Awards Arbor Day Diocesan Art Show/Panaoply Band Awards Woodman of the World Science Fair You be the Chemist Math Team National Junior Honor Society A Honor Roll
St. John s Crusaders Football is now forming teams for the 2015 American Youth Football league season. 4 Divisions: Ages 6-12. The coaches will have college and NFL experience! Registration is $150 & Information Sessions will be held on the following dates: Crusader Club News: Sports Physicals For the 2015-16 school year, students in grades 5-8 require a physical to participate in sports. St. John s will be offering physicals this Sunday, May 17th from 12:00pm till 5:00pm in Middle School Conference Room. Cost is $15.00. Schools supplies needed for Colors 4 Kids Colors for Kids is a local program that gives new and used school supplies to the less fortunate through programs like the Boys and Girls Club of Madison County and local missions. Please donate any school supplies that are not needed. Accepting pencils, markers, notebooks, art supplies, anything that can be used to help this cause would be appreciated. We will have boxes located in the hallways for the last two weeks of the school year. Drop in any supplies and we will store and deliver to the local missions. Any questions, please contact Emily or Katie Shattuck at 256-783- 4505 or katie.shattuck123@gmail.com BOX TOPS NEWS: Our last Box Tops Classroom Collection Competition has come ended and several classes earned popsicle parties with their great collecting efforts! Ms. Kaufer s K5 class, Mrs. Martin s 1st grade, Mrs. Brown s 2nd grade, Mrs. Mackey s 2nd grade, Ms. Plummer s 3rd grade, Mrs. Zoeller s 4th grade, Ms. Jones 5th grade, and Ms. Sledd s 5th grade all earned popsicle parties! Congratulations! SUMMER COLLECTING CLIP and EARN: Keep up the great collecting over this summer break and clip and save Box Tops, Campbell s UPCs, Tyson Project A+ labels and Coke Rewards. St. John s School benefits from all these programs and through your clipping and collecting efforts, the school is able to obtain items for the school. Great job collecting this year please keep up your wonderful collecting efforts. Thanks! Wednesday, May 13 th from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at St. John s Catholic Church, Madison Sunday, May 17 th from 1 to 4 p.m. at St. John s Catholic Church, Madison Crusader Club News: FALL SPORTS REGISTRATION Soccer: K4 thru 8th grade Volleyball: 5th thru 8th grade Cheerleading: 5th thru 8th grade Registration will run now thru May 22. Anyone interested in coaching please fill out the appropriate form on the school website: www.stjohnb.com click, " Clubs & Activities." SCRIP News: Congratulations to Mrs. Pirozzi's 6th Grade class for winning the Pizza Party! The second and third place winners for the Popsicle Party are Mrs. Zoeller's 4th grade and Ms. Bukovac's K4 class. Thanks so much for all the families that participated in ordering SCRIP or buying Wendy's cards on Wendy's night. We saw an overall 35% family participation in SCRIP from April until May 8. The results for the top ten classrooms are: Mrs. Pirozzi 60.8%; Mrs. Zoeller 60.7%; Ms. Bukovac 60%; Mrs. Brown 53.8%; Ms. Kaufer 46.2%; Ms. Omenski 42.3%; Ms. Sledd 42.3%; Mrs. Mackey 40.7%; Mrs. Martin 38.1% and Mrs. McInnish 33.3%. The end of the school year is just days away and with it brings the end of the school year celebrations, especially graduation plus summer vacations! Consider placing your SCRIP order online to get all the cards you need for these upcoming events. SCRIP will continue to be available throughout the summer. You can purchase OnDemand in the school office during summer office hours or find us after the Sunday morning mass. Plus, incorporate a SCRIP step for your summer vacation needs. Did you notice that Delta Airlines is now a SCRIP provider? Check out www.shopwithscrip.com for details. Current bonus rebates (items in bold are available OnDemand): Albertson's 5%; Boston Market 14%; Caribou Coffee 7%; Carrows 10%; Coco's 10%; Dell Computer 6%; JoAnn's 8%; Shutterfly 11%. Questions? Email Liz Butler at sjscrip@gmail.com SCRIP Vouchers: The last day of collection for the End-Of-Year Thanks for the St. John support staff is this Friday, May 15! A copy of the flyer can be found on the St. John's website under the April 29 newsletter. Send in your request with payment made payable to St. John PTO in an envelope marked "SCRIP VOUCHER ORDER" to the school office. Clarification on the flyer - you can either indicate the individual amount or simply mark the ones to distribute equally among the selected. Thanks in advance! Need to redeem a SCRIP Voucher? Simply place your SCRIP order online or OnDemand and use your SCRIP Voucher like cash for payment. You must submit your SCRIP Voucher with your order. No change will be given. Questions? Email Liz Butler at sjscrip@gmail.com