School of St. Philip
Family Newsletter
November 20, 2008
“The School of St. Philip is strongly committed to providing its students with a fundamentally sound education in a Catholic atmosphere which will enable them to carry their faith and learning beyond this school.”
(School Mission Statement)
The Litchfield Games are Here!
We are ready for our Litchfield game fundraiser. We now have 492 games in our assembly room waiting to be sold and find their way under lucky persons’ Christmas trees. These are games that promote healthy, educational, patriotic and Christian values in a fun trivia format. You can see a copy of the whole game here at school or at church.
- Attached is a copy of the game board with an order form on the back for your own use. Take note of the 84 Litchfield businesses that are on the board. Each business paid $200 to advertise on the board, so let them know that we are grateful.
- Attached is also a copy of the coupon sheet that is enclosed in each game with over $100 of savings at the participating businesses. Each coupon can be used once, and it is then marked off by the business. Do not cut the coupons apart. With these coupons, everyone can easily recoup the purchase price of the game.
- Each game sells for $25 and the school receives $10 of that. Your fundraising account will be credited $5 for each game you sell, and the other $5 will go into our general fundraising revenue account.
- All games are to be paid for when you take them from school.
If you want to buy one for yourself to open and show others, that might be a good idea. If you wish to take several games at once (over Thanksgiving for instance), give us a check for them and we will hold your check until you have sold them. You may return unsold, unopened games if necessary and give us a different check for those sold, and we will return your original check.
- All games are available through the school office and will also be sold after the Sunday Masses at St. Philip Church between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
- Who are good customers?
Any resident of Litchfield
Former residents of Litchfield
Students away at college
Employees of the businesses on the game
Your own family
- We are the only organization who will ever be selling this game. This is a one time opportunity for a game that will eventually be a collector’s item of Litchfield in 2008!
Thanksgiving Vacation
Next week we will have school only on Monday and Tuesday. Our Thanksgiving vacation begins with no school on Wednesday. The public schools had a day off for the elementary students last week for conferences. We have chosen to take our day off on Wednesday so that traveling can be easier for some parents. We have our teachers put in their extra time with evening conferences rather than daytime conferences because it is so much easier for working parents.
Congratulations!
We have a new member of our school family. Alexander William Chvatal was born yesterday afternoon. He weighed 8# 2 _ oz and is 19 _ inches long. We congratulate his kindergarten sister Hazel, his preschool sister Lilia and his parents Robert and Kristi. May God richly bless Alexander and his family.
Picture Retakes
If you are not satisfied with your child’s Lifetouch pictures and would like them to be retaken, please return your package of pictures by tomorrow. Our scheduled retake day is next Tuesday, November 25, and we need to know if we should have the photographer come.
Christmas Scrip Orders
We will be placing special orders for scrip cards on Monday, December 1, and Monday, December 15. Your orders would need to be in by noon on those days. We also have ordered extra cards to have on hand. They make great gifts!
School Masses
We will be celebrating Mass tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. planned by Mrs. Gabrielson and the first graders. We will be praying especially for Fr. Joe whose birthday it is tomorrow. Next week our school Mass will be on Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. Please join us in prayer if you can.
Mrs. Klein’s schedule
On Monday, December 1, Jan Klein will be having some minor knee surgery. She will not be in the office at all during the first week of December. If you need to leave messages or send emails to the school, please leave them with me. My email address is: dcarney@hutchtel.net
We all wish Mrs. Klein a speedy recovery.
Christmas Concerts
Tuesday, December 16 – Concert at Augustana Homes. All students will gather
at the school at 6:30 p.m. to walk over to their chapel. We will be finished and the students ready to be picked up back at school by about 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, December 18 – Concerts at St. Philip Church at 1:00 and 7:00 p.m.
May you have a most blessed Thanksgiving Day!
Christmas Giving
The teachers have requested that your generosity this Christmas season be shared with those who are truly in need this holiday season.
In lieu of class gifts between students and gifts to school staff, we suggest that you donate to the class’s Christmas project:
Kindergarten: Toys for Tots
Grade 1: Items from the parish Giving Tree
Grade 2: Econofood gift certificates for needy families
Grade 3: Econofood gift certificates for needy families
Grade 4: Items from the parish Giving Tree
Grade 5: Econofood gift certificates for needy families
Please send any donation you wish to make by Friday, December 12, if possible. We will present our “gifts for others” to Father Joe as part of our retreat on that day.