Summer Blog Post #1 - 6/18/15

Summer Office Hours have begun. The office is open from 9am-1pm on Tuesday - Thursday or by appointment. Voice mail and email will be checked daily.

Choice cards will be sold at the school office during the summer  on the dates and times listed below.

9:00-11:30 - June 17th & 24th

9:30-11:30 - July 8th & 22nd

9:30-11:30 - August 5th & 19th

If you have any questions about CHOICE, please contact Tammy Budnick at 860-658-9412 or Tbudnick@stmarysimsbury.eduk12.net.

The School Blog's "15-16 Back to School" page is available and contains lots of helpful information regarding summer communications, summer assignments and supply lists for the coming year.  Click here to view the Back to School page.  We encourage you to check this page often for updates, announcements and changes.

Summer blog posts will continue to be sent out on an as needed basis and the Back to School mailing will be sent out early in August.

Staying in Touch - Click here for information about our school calendar, our school and teacher blogs and our Remind text alerts.  Newly Enrolled Families - we strongly encourage you to subscribe to our school blog and your children's teacher's blogs ASAP so you get all of your summer news from SMS.  Returning Families - Please remember that you will need to "unsubscribe" from the teachers' blogs that no longer apply to your children's grades and/or academic placements.  Directions to "unsubscribe" appear at the bottom of every blog post you receive in your email.  Then, please be sure to take a moment to subscribe to the teachers' blogs that will apply to your children's grades and academic placements for 2016 -16.  Finally, just a reminder that our school's email lists are updated every year.  If you have changed your email address, please be sure to share it with us so we can update our parent email listing and help keep you up to date with all important communications.

It is with sadness that we share the news that Deacon Joseph Gabriele has died. Funeral arrangements are pending and should be available in the Hartford Courant in coming days. In addition to his dedicated service to St. Mary's Parish as a Deacon for many years, Mr. Gabriele also served as school principal here at St. Mary's after retiring from his successful career in the public education sector.  He and his wife, Marilyn, who passed away earlier this year, were strong supporters of our parish and school and actively shared their gifts and talents to make our community a better place. Each year, a deserving student at St. Mary's School is selected by our Pastor to benefit from the Joseph & Marilyn Scholarship Fund. Joe and Marilyn established this scholarship to help assure that Catholic education would remain a viable option for families now and in the future. We rejoice that Joe and Marilyn are reunited in God's love in heaven and pray for their family during this time of loss.