Important Mid-Week Updates

January 21, 2021

STO Financial Assistance

Thanks to all who prayerfully considered and gave to the STO program in 2020. This program is absolutely vital to the St. Matthew community having received over $100,000 in the most recent years. As you know this year, we were working hard to meet the $6.4 million dollar goal, I am writing this to let you know that the Archdiocese fell short. As of Sunday January 17th, the final numbers were an amount of $4,519,465 raised, which was 70.47% of the goal.

What does this mean for you?

St. Matthew will have a difference that will need to be made up. The Board of Education is meeting tonight and will talk creative solutions.
If you can give, I ask that you consider a donation to the school to be used for the gap to ensure that a St. Matthew education is affordable. Use the link below and indicate STO in the comments section. Also remember that you can match any gifts to St. Matthew.

The STO application is now live and ready for you to complete. Please make sure that this application is complete and submitted by April 15th, 2021. This means that you will need your tax return complete and uploaded by this date as well. There will likely NOT be a round #2. Click below to begin your application. Please let me know of any questions, aconlon@stmatthewcr.org or 319-362-3021.

Donate Here

Begin STO Application Here

ACTIVITIES EACH DAY

Monday:

Kindness activity: Kind note about their teacher
Illustrate/write a page in our book, Why We Love St. Matthew

Tuesday:

Kindness activity: Kind note about a staff member
Read and Feed

Wednesday:

Kindness activity: Kind note about a classmate
Class snowball fight

Thursday:

Kindness activity: Kind note about a parent/guardian
Kindness cards for residents of Manor Care

Friday:

Kindness activity: Kind note about Father/Church/Jesus
Party with a treat

Website Update

As you know, the St. Matthew website was redone last year. As we continue to move forward, we are continually refining and finding ways to ensure that we are able to meet your needs. Below are a few of the updates that have been made in the past few weeks:

Give: there is now an option to give to St. Matthew (https://school.stmatthewcr.org/give)
Tuition Payments: for those of you liking electronic payments, you can now pay your tuition online; this is available for your use at any time throughout the year (https://school.stmatthewcr.org/tuition-payments)
Registration: materials will be sent out in the next two weeks, but know that an online registration option is available, this option will also allow you to submit your deposit. You can start using this now if you would like (https://school.stmatthewcr.org/registration)

Let us know if there are other things that would be helpful to your busy lives as parents. We hope you find these useful and easy to use.

January 2021 - Lunch

Catholic Schools Week

Important Reminders:

Sign up for your student(s) to play an active role in mass the weekend of January 30th/31st. Roles include lector, singer, greeter. We also need a parent representative to speak at each mass.
We will be collecting soup cans during the week.
Dress up days were posted in Tuesday's email; they are also located on the school calendar so they can be found in your app on each day of the week

Sign up Here

JK/K Parent Night

St. Matthew Elementary will be hosting a virtual parent night for anyone interested in learning more about our junior kindergarten and kindergarten programs. If you know of anyone who may be looking, please feel free to pass along this information.

Who: Anyone interested in learning more about junior kindergarten or kindergarten

When: Wednesday February 11th, 2021 at 4PM

Where: Virtually at the link below (webinar style format)

The afternoon will be recorded and shared after the event. To make sure you get the recording, please email Mrs. Freeman at jfreeman@stmatthewcr.org to make sure we have your contact information.

We look forward to seeing you. Please let Mrs. Conlon know of any questions or to set up a tour today - aconlon@stmatthewcr.org or 319-362-3021.

Click Here for Webinar