News for the week of 9-18-12

Last Friday, Kindergarten students were dismayed to find that their teddy bears had disappeared from their classroom.  Accompanied by Mr. Cosham, they searched high and low all through the school to no avail.  Finally, the teddy bears were found waiting outside for their favorite students to join them for a "Teddy Bear Picnic" lunch.  Our School Chaplain, Father Santiago, joined the children and was introduced to all the teddy friends!

Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held in November.  If you have not already done so, please use Sign-Up Genius to sign up for the day/time that will work best for your family.  You may use the "Parent/Teacher Conference Sign Up" tab at the top of this page to access the Sign-Up Geniuses for conferences.


Art Truck/Library Volunteer Sign-up Now Available - Click here to access the Sign Up Genius.

Paul Cryan Photography will take individual student photos and a group class photo of our 8th grade students on Friday, 9/27, in the morning.  Paul Cryan Photo Sessions for other students and siblings of SMS students are available on September 30, 2013 at Paul Cryan's Studio located at 40 Avon Meadow Lane in Avon. Click here for more information or contact Jennifer Pavlonnis at jpavlonnis@yahoo.com or 860-331-0569 to schedule an appointment.

Room Parent News - Grade 4 is still in need of an assistant room parent.  If  you would like to help, please contact Mrs. Auger.

A reminder about Blog Posts - Please keep in mind that there is always a delay between the time a post is "published" to any of our school blogs and when your email copy of the post is received in your email in-box.  For example, when this blog post is published on Wednesday afternoon, it will immediately be "live" and visible if you visit the school's blog website but most of you will not receive your email of the post until early Thursday morning.  This delay is a function of the FeedBurner subscription service of Google and cannot be changed or deleted by the school.  To be sure you are viewing the most current information when utilizing teacher's blogs to check homework, please visit the blog site rather than waiting for an email post.  All Teacher's Blogs are easily accessible via the main school blog by using the links on the right side of the screen.

A reminder regarding carpool dismissal - Students are dismissed each day after closing prayer at 3:20.  Please do not arrive for pickup earlier than 3:10pm.  Until 3:10, the North (playground) parking lot may be in use for physical education classes and the safety cones will be in place.  Early arrivals may end up exceeding the parking capacity of the top of the driveway and overflow onto Hopmeadow Street causing a significant safety hazard.  Thank you for your cooperation with this important safety concern.

Sunday Morning Adult Enrichment - Having trouble finding the balance between faith and sports?  On Sunday, 9/22, the Adult Enrichment talk is perfect for you.  “Family, Sports, Faith and Your Children” will be given by Steve Rushin, parent, parishioner and writer for Sports Illustrated. As many of you may be aware, 3 of Mr. & Mrs. Rushin's children are now students here at SMS.  Sessions will be  in the Parish Center before and after the 9:30 AM Mass. The first session will be from 8:15—9:30 AM and the second from 10:40—11:45 AM.  Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Athletic News -   The SMS Athletics Blog is now available.  Click here to view the blog and subscribe to receive all posts.

Students in Grades 6-8 are invited to participate in Friday morning basketball beginning on 10/4/13.  Between 7:50-8:30am, middle school students may come in and play basketball.  Students will be given coaching instruction and will work on fundamentals. There will also be a scrimmage every Friday. Middle School students have P.E. on Fridays, so students should wear P.E. uniform. On Mass days ,students will be given time to change. If you would like your child(ren) to participate, you can sign up per month for $20 or $5 per day.   Click here for sign up form.

If you have a child that participates in any sports or clubs throughout the year and you have not registered for the Athletic Remind 101 that will send you a text alert if there are changes to practices or games,  please do so now. If you registered last year, you do not need to re-register unless your phone number has changed.  To Register: Text: @smsat  To: (301) 710-0506

School Uniform News - From September 18th-22nd, Lands' End is offering "Penny Logos" - Click here for more details.  Logos may be applied to relaxed uniform polo shirts, sweatshirts, sweaters and sweater vests.

Grade 8 Fundraising - A revised version of the order form for the new Grade 8 spirit wear items has been uploaded to the school's website.  This order form contains sizing information for the new flannel pants and also a place to indicate how you would like your order delivered.  Click here for the updated form.  Please remember that the flannel pants and baseball cap are "spirit wear" items that are not part of our school uniform and should not be worn during the academic portion of the school day (e.g., the flannel pants may be worn beneath a skirt while waiting outside in the morning and outside during recess but must be removed, not rolled up,  during the school day.)

Home & School Association News -  Click here for this week's updates including information about the Lyman Orchards Pie Fundraiser that will begin in October and the current list of non-perishables needed by the Simsbury Food Pantry.

Big Y Educational Express Program - You can continue to earn points for our school until January 1, 2014.  We can redeem these points for free educational supplies including many things that are needed every day like colored paper, pens, post its and USB storage.  If you have not already registered, click here for more information.