Monday, April 28, 2022
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This Week at a Glance
- Tuesday, April 26 - Knights of Columbus Awards Mass
- Thursday, April 28 - Hearing and Vision Screening for Preschool
- Friday, April 29 - Hearing and Vision Screening for K-2
- Friday April 29 - STM Spirit Dress Day - Any STM spirit top with jeans or uniform bottom
- Friday, April 29 - Sunday, May 1 - Archdiocesan Art Show (more details below)
- Friday, May 6 - NO SCHOOL - Professional Development Day
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SAVE THE DATE!!
Calling all parents of middle and high school students. On Wednesday, April 27th, Ms. Kara Napolitano of the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking will share her expertise on this extremely difficult, but very relevant topic. Hosted by STM Catholic and the STM Youth Group, please join us from 6:30-8:30 PM in McCallin Hall. Presentation format: first 45 minutes with parents and kids (middle and high school, then kids will join youth ministers for some fun activities), then 45 minutes with parents only (parents with students of all ages are invited). Presentation followed by Q&A and resources.
Important Links
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Counselor's Corner
Are you concerned about the information your children have access to today? Do you ever ask yourself if you are doing all you can to protect your children while they are online?
Parents and Guardians of students in ALL grades are invited to join Mrs. Poniatowski, STM School Counselor, for a 6 week video series entitled “Keeping Kids Safe Online”. Attend any or all sessions. After each video there will be time for sharing and short discussion.
Dates: April 25, May 2, 9
Time: Monday mornings from 8:00-9:00 AM. Videos will begin promptly at 8:00.
Location: St. Francis Hall
Topics:4/25/22 – Talking to Kids about Pornography
5/2/22 – Kids with Pornography
Addiction5/9/22 – Responding to Punks
DUE TO MATURE AND SENSITIVE CONTENT THIS SERIES IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN
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Archdiocesan Art Show at STM Catholic!!
The Catholic Schools Art Show will be:
April 29th 6:00pm-9:00pm Opening Night – Face Painting and Food Trucks
April 30th 10:00am-4:00pmMay 1st 10:00am-4:00pm
St. Thomas will be hosting the art show this year. Come and see all the beautiful artwork created by Catholic Students in our own Gym
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STM Catholic School Mass on May 7 at 4:00pm!
Our next opportunity to prepare a parish mass is on Saturday, May 7th at 4:00pm! We'd love to see some new faces participating in the mass, so please use the link below to sign up if you are available to volunteer. If you have already had a chance to participate in a mass, please wait until May 1 to sign up to give others an opportunity as well. Thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you all at 4:00 mass on the 7th! Please have students wear dress uniforms.
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Lunch Room Volunteers for May/June
Below is the link for May/June. A big thank you to our our parent volunteers. We love having you in the lunch room!
signupgenius.com/go/90...
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Music Department
Do you have any WHITE Lowe’s, or Home Depot type buckets laying around at home, not being used? Well, the STM Catholic School Music Department would love to take those buckets off your hands.
Please bring any white buckets to Mrs. Burkholder’s room by Monday, May 2nd. Thank you SO much in advance.
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Great Lengths
Throughout the season of Lent, seven members of the STM community committed to donating their hair as part of our fifth annual Great Lengths program. These women chose to donate 8 or more inches of their hair to Children with Hair Loss. Their hair was blessed at our school mass on April 19. It will then be shipped to make wigs for children who cannot grow hair. Thank you for your sacrifice.
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Home and School Spirit Night
Join us at Newk's Eatery Lone Tree on Wednesday April 27th for delicious food in support of STM Catholic!
Where: Newk's Eatery Lone Tree, 10012 Commons St., Lone Tree, 80124.
Where: Newk's Eatery Lone Tree, 10012 Commons St., Lone Tree, 80124.
When: Wednesday April 27th, 4:00pm-8:00pm
Please mention you are with STM Catholic prior to ordering as they will direct you to a special register for your order.
Thanks again for supporting STM Catholic!
Home and School
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Teacher Appreciation Week
On the first day of Teacher Appreciation Week, we are going to do a gift card pull! The STM staff loved it last year, so we want to bring it back. If you are able to donate a gift card, please send to school by April 29th and sign-up on the link below.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4EADA92EA1FDC52-teacher1
We are also going to lighten their load a little by taking over car line and lunch/recess duties! We will need a lot of help to make this happen so sign-up for shifts you are able to take. It will be fun for the kids to have parents taking over that week!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4EADA92EA1FDC52-teacher
Please let us know if you have any questions! We greatly appreciate your help and support of STM Catholic!
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STM Diaper Drive Results and School-Wide Prize
Thank you to all who contributed to make this year’s Stuff the Bus Diaper Drive an overwhelming success!!! Through your generosity and sacrifice, STM collected the equivalent of 135,834 diapers (47,619 diapers plus $12,350 in cash) to provide support and hope to families in need through Catholic Charities this Lent, beating our goal of 110,000! Way to go!
As a result, the whole school will enjoy a special themed-dress Sports Day. All students can wear shorts, jeans, or athletic pants and hats, jerseys, or T-shirts from their favorite sport or sports team. Stay tuned for an announcement of the date.
Congratulations to the winners of the class competition, who will be receiving a class party with treats of their choice:
Preschool: Lions class
K-2: Mrs. Duran’s second grade class
3-5: Mrs. Lamb’s 4th grade class (collecting $934.12, the top class overall)
6-8: Mrs. Basile’s 8th grade class
FIAT would like to give a special thanks to Ms. Peel, Ms. Basile, and all the members of Beta club for collecting diapers during morning carline each day and counting baby bottle collections. We could not do this without you.
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