Report Cards for students in grades K - 8 will be available on the Educonnect Parent Portal on Friday, March 10th after 3pm. Please contact the school office if you need a reminder regarding your Educonnect User ID and Password. These are the same credentials that are used to sign in to order hot lunches. No hard copy of the report card will be sent home.
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| PreKindergarten celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday on March 2 with a guest reader. Mrs. Hatch shared several of her favorite Dr. Seuss books. Everyone looked spectacular in their Cat in the Hat hats! |
Policy Reminder - If your family is looking forward to a travel opportunity that will result in student absence, please take a moment to reacquaint yourself with our school's policy regarding "recreational absences". This policy appears in our Parent/Student Handbook:
"Teachers are not required to give make-up tests or assignments for
absences due to vacations. No assignment will be given in anticipation of the vacation. Teachers are not expected to reteach work or
to tutor individual students for make-up work when a student returns from a
recreational absence."
Calling all girls!
Here is a message from Amelie C. in the third grade:
“If you have long hair and are thinking of cutting it, DON’T. I, Amelie, in the third grade am donating my hair to Beautiful Lengths which is a program to help women battling cancer by donating real hair for wigs. I hope you will join me during Lent in this community project.”
On Monday, March 27th, St. Mary’s will sponsor a hair cutting event for girls (and women) to donate 8 inches of hair for this program. Once the donation cut is complete, hair will be professionally styled. Karen Holmes from Bee Trendy in Simsbury will be the stylist. If your child is interested in participating, please contact Karen Corriveau at karen@thecorriveaus.com so we can begin to get a preliminary count of participants. Click here for a permission slip for this event. Permission slips must be returned to the school office NLT Monday, 3/13/17.
Basketball News - Come Cheer on our Knights! Join us for the State Play-offs on Saturday. Varsity Girls will play at 12:30pm at Sacred Heart High School in Waterbury. Junior Varsity girls will play at 1:15pm at St. Paul's High School in Bristol.
Basketball News - Come Cheer on our Knights! Join us for the State Play-offs on Saturday. Varsity Girls will play at 12:30pm at Sacred Heart High School in Waterbury. Junior Varsity girls will play at 1:15pm at St. Paul's High School in Bristol.
2017-2018 Family Enrollment & SMARTAID application for Financial Assistance.
2017-18 Enrollment packets will be emailed to all families on Friday, 3/10/17. Your enrollment packet will be sent to the email address the school office has on file as your primary family email. Please contact the office if you wish to confirm what email address will be used. Please carefully review all of the attachments that accompany this email as there are several forms that must be printed, completed and returned. Additionally, there is important information about next year's tuition, financial assistance and your family's CHOICE obligation for 2017-2018.
This year, we are happy to announce that tuition assistance will again be available via several sources. All requests for tuition assistance must be made via SMARTAID. Click here for more information regarding the types of tuition assistance available and the SMARTAID application process. Click here for helpful information from SMARTAID regarding completion of the application. Click here to access the SMARTAID application. All SMARTAID applications must be submitted no later than April 28, 2017.
Moving Up Night is your first chance for a sneak peek into next year's curriculum and classroom for your child(ren). This event is for parents. Students will be enjoying Moving Up activities during the school day on 3/14. The event begins at 6:30pm in the Parish Center.
If your bring your completed 2017-18 Family Enrollment Form and Fee to Moving Up Night, you may be one of two lucky families awarded with an Enrollment Fee waiver. Note - You must bring your $250 Family Enrollment Fee to be eligible to be awarded with the fee waiver.
We are hosting an Open House for Prospective Families on Wednesday, March 22nd at 6:30pm in the Parish Center. Please share this information with families that you think may be interested in learning more about our school. RSVPs to Toni Chagnon are requested.
Get ready to celebrate our 60th Anniversary!
Tickets are now available for A Knight at the Gala at Farmington Gardens on Friday, April 21, 2017 at 6:30pm. The evening includes dinner, beer & wine, dancing, entertainment by speed painter Rob Surette (amazing heroart.com), and a silent & live auction.
- $100 per person, table of ten $1,000.
To purchase your tickets using our preferred method, please send payment to Toni Chagnon in the school office. Checks should be payable to St. Mary's School with "Gala" in the memo section. If you wish to pay by credit card, click here. Please contact Toni Chagnon for more information
860-658-9412/ tchagnon@stmarysimsbury.eduk12.net Proceeds raised from this event will support our school technology program.
SMS School Board News - The Saint Mary’s School Board Nominating Committee has started the process to identify potential school board members for next year. Potential candidates may self-nominate or be nominated by someone else. There is no requirement for board members to have children at Saint Mary’s School. We want to ensure we have the best talent serving on the board. The needs we will be looking to address for the upcoming term will include individuals with a financial or CPA background skills or individuals with skills focused on advancement, marketing and strategic planning. Potential candidates must believe and support Catholic education and be willing to serve a three year term. If you are interested in being considered to serve on the School Board, please contact Claude Howard at claudeoh@gmail.com. Please include in your e-mail information about your Parish(Town), occupation, if you have or had students at Saint Mary’s School and your specific talents available to the board.
New Ice Cream Choices are available now!
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| "Pawsitively of Service!" Emmett O. dropped off newspapers at Simsbury Veterinary Hospital. Students in Miss Kane's PreK are collecting newspapers for the veterinary hospital as a Lenten project. Newspaper donations can be sent to the PreK Classroom. |
Alumni News - Our congratulations to three Northwest Catholic seniors just named 2017 Summa Scholars by the Office of Education, Evangelization & Cathechesis - Allyson Voelker, Sarah Jessen and Katharine Jessen, all SMS Class of '13. The Summa Scholar represents the top 5% of his/her graduating class in terms of outstanding academic achievement from freshman year to the close of the first semester senior year, based on the cumulative grade point average (GPA).
We are also proud to share that Katharine Jessen has also been named a National Merit Finalist.
Community News
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| Tickets are $16 (which includes all fees) and can be reserved here OR here where you will also have option to buy sponsorships (only a couple of weeks left to get those in), shoutouts, and tickets. After each show, you can have your picture taken with Ariel and Prince Eric. What fun! We are proud to share that several SMS alums are part of the cast of this show including: Joanna Kuziak, SMS Class of '15, as Ariel; John Sullivan as Prince Eric, James Sullivan as Scuttle, Brendan Wlochowski as Chef Louis, all SMS Class of'15; Ally Voelker, SMS Class of '13 and Lindsey Voelker, SMS Class of '15 as Mersisters. 
Looking ahead to summer -
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