| | | | Dear Parents, This Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, is known as Palm Sunday. It is the beginning of Holy Week. It celebrates Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey. Great crowds of people thronged the streets waving palm branches to welcome Him. The people shouted "Hosanna" and laid their cloaks and palm branches from the nearby trees in His path. As we move closer to Easter Sunday, please continue to encourage your children to fill their Lenten boxes so that the MCA missionaries can continue their good work in the world. We will be collecting these boxes after we come back from Easter break. SANDWICHES-FOR-THE-NEEDY Thank you in advance to the 1st grade students who will take the lead in providing sandwiches for the needy this Friday, March 23. We ask students in all grades to consider making at least one sandwich in this last collection before Easter. | | | STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Please consider joining us tomorrow, Thursday, March 22, when the 3rd graders will present the final six stations. Stations will begin at 1:15pm in the church. | | | TRIVIA FINALS - WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! We are still in need of several volunteers to help when we host the Winter League Trivia Finals this Saturday, March 24. If you are available and have not completed your hours, click HERE to sign up! | | | CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
We hope you all have had a chance to look over the information you received about our Capital Campaign - More than Bricks. As we mentioned at the parent meeting, we ask that every family respond to the pledge. There is no specific, required contribution however, the level of response from all school families to the Campaign will ensure the safety of our children as we move forward with the seismic retrofit and other improvement projects. We ask that all responses are received by Friday, April 27, 2018. | | | | A FEW REMINDERS - You must complete one online form for EACH child currently attending STM/Utopia Preschool. (Preschool families who are entering Kindergarten at STM do not need to register online.)
- If the online form is not completed by Friday, March 23, a seat will not be saved for your child.
- Re-registration fee of $375 for each child will be billed to your FACTS account on Friday, March 23.
- The payment deadline is Wednesday, April 11.
- As a reminder, any family with unmet financial obligations to the school may be dropped from the registered list. These include scrip purchases and parent hours.
- As always, re-registration fees are non-refundable.
| | | | SCRIP - LAST CALL BEFORE EASTER BREAK!
With Easter vacation just around the corner, now is a great time to receive credit on your account for purchasing gift cards through our scrip program. Did you know Shop with Scrip offers Disney? Various hotels, cruise lines and airlines? SiriusXM? Shutterfly? Cinemark? Dave & Busters? Uber? Orders placed online by 8:00am this Friday, March 23, will be delivered in your next Wednesday envelope. | | |  | | Congratulations to our 8th graders who are heading off to high school next year. Students have been lucky enough to be accepted into several schools to which they applied. The following are the Catholic schools to which students were accepted: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (6), St. Ignatius Preparatory (7), Mercy San Francisco (2), Mercy Burlingame (4), Archbishop Riordan High School (10), and Stuart Hall (1). Several students were also accepted into many other prestigious independent schools. We are all so proud of our soon-to-be graduates! | | | As a reminder, Thursday, March 29 is a minimum day for all Preschool through 8th graders and the beginning of Easter Vacation. Preschool will dismiss at 12 noon, K-3 at 12:15pm and 4-8 at 12:30pm. There will still be extended care until 6pm that day for K-8 students.
Sincerely,
Marie Fitzpatrick
Principal
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