An Irish Blessing  May you have A world of wishes at your command God and his angels close at hand. Friends and Family their love impart, And Irish blessings in your heart!

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March 13, 2008

Holy Week
Although our Easter vacation begins on Wednesday, March 19^th, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of that week are the days of the Easter Triduum, the most sacred days of our Christian heritage.  On these days we remember when Jesus gave us the Eucharist and an example of service at the Holy Thursday services, when Jesus died on the cross at the Good Friday services and when Jesus rose from the dead during the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.  I would ask that you consider attending these services with your youngsters.

During this Holy Week we remember that We sow seeds of love by .....Listening  We do this when we:

A Giving Heart
Operation Rice Bowl donations are due by Monday, March 18^th.  If you have not done so yet, you are asked to send in a check by Monday payable to SHPS for the amount collected in your Rice Bowl.  Please do not send in the coins.  We will certainly appreciate your cooperation & understanding in doing this.  Thank you.

Financial Matters

• The March Tuition Raffle was due yesterday.   Once again, you can’t win if you don’t participate.  I hope you recall that I explained a while ago why you would be receiving 3 Tuition Raffles in March & April:  you will not receive any in June.  As was stated before, families who are two months behind with Tuition Raffle payments will have the balance added to their SMART tuition balance.  Thanks to the majority of you who so promptly make their returns each month – you are a blessing!
   

• 2007 – 2008 Tuition:  As of Monday, March 10, 2008 we have $67,031 in Delinquent Tuition.  Once we add the delinquent After School Payments and Tuition Raffle payments to your tuition totals, this number will dramatically increase.  I still need to pay the teachers for the remainder of this year and so I need you to be prompt with your payments – all kinds of payments.  I have been receiving Release of Records request forms and please keep in mind that I will not be able to release any records until your financial obligations are totally satisfied.

SHPS – Forever in Our Hearts
7^th Grade Students and some parents have designed a T-shirt to capture our days at Sacred Heart Private School.  The HSO will purchase the T-shirts for each of our students (each grade will have a different color.)   However, I want to offer our school parents, grandparents, etc. the opportunity to purchase a T-shirt with the same message:  Sacred Heart Private – Forever in Our Hearts.  There is an order form enclosed in the packet; however, we will need to have the orders and payments in before Easter Vacation – next Monday, March 17^th.  So, if you are interested:  take action NOW!  On the order form, just give size for student (no money needed) and for adults the amount of each size and enclose $5.75 per shirt.  Grade 7 Polo Shirt Form.

• I know many of you have visited a number of schools and have left your name but haven’t taken the final step of registering.  I understand that this is a very important but difficult decision for you.  However, I urge you to make a decision very soon before available places are no longer available.  The schools will not be able to hold a place for you for much longer because they do need to have a secure enrollment.
   

• Once you make the difficult decision on a school for your child for September, please remember to send in the Release of Records Form so that we can begin to prepare to send out your youngster’s records in a timely manner.  If you can’t find the Release of Records Form, you can download it from our website.  Thank you.

Once Again ……… Be sure you have marked your calendar with the following dates:

1. Stations of the Cross:  Tuesday, March 18^th @ 2:15 p.m.

2. Choir:  Tuesday, March 18^th 3:00 – 3:45

3. Wednesday, March 19^th  Easter Vacation begins:   No School

4. ITBS Testing:  Begins on Monday, April 7^th

Classroom Highlights

Willie & Wanda's Wedding

Chinese New Year Celebration

The Kindergarten certainly has been busy! We celebrated the 100 Days of School and Chinese New Year and both Kindergarten and PreK loved the time they spent together. Last week, the students learned about “Leap Year” and in Art created colorful jumping frogs! They received wonderful treats for the memorable “Leap Day”! Thank you to Mrs. Ardon for her creative crafts and to the Kindergarten class for being such great sports! We had them “hopping” at our party on Friday.

Kindergarten class visited the S.H.P.S Science Fair on Friday in the APH. They had so many questions and we will doing some of those experiments in our Science class too.

Last Friday, we finished learning the last consonant “W”. We celebrated a Willie and Wanda Wedding and the Pre-K students were the wedding guests. We played games and ate “W”edding cake and waffles and wish you were there too!

Please note:  there will be no packet next week.
However, Look for your April calendar in the mail!