Wednesday, December 15, 2021

STM Newsletter for Wednesday, December 15, 2021

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December 15, 2021

Below are the updates for this week. 

  • Calendar
  • Academic Chess ~ new at STM
  • Toy Drive 
  • Give Joy Event follow up
  • Christmas Program Schedule
  • Advent Prayer Service
  • Covid-19, Post Winter Break Testing 
  • Letters from Santa

CALENDAR

Wednesday, December 15
Christmas Program - live streamed; 
Recordings will be posted on our school website www.stmsf.org on Thursday, December 16
11:00 am TK-3
1:15 pm Grades 4-8

Friday, December 17
Advent Prayer Service
Minimum Day 12:15/12:30 dismissal
After school extended care available

December 20-31
Christmas Holiday - School closed

Monday, January 3, 2022
Classes resume; Full day of school

ACADEMIC CHESS


Academic Chess will begin to offer after school chess classes beginning Wednesday, January 19, from 3:05-4:05. This will be open to all ages and will run for 8 weeks. 
 

Academic Chess Registration Link:
https://stthomasmoreschool.aware3.net/form/NgpEF2zbX

TOY DRIVE

The San Francisco and Daly City Fire Departments have received over 300 items in this year's toy drive. This is their largest donation of toys ever from the students at St. Thomas More School.  A big thank you to all contributors and to our Student Council for encouraging participation by scheduling a Free Dress day. 


TOY DRIVE RAFFLE WINNERS

CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

This year, we livestreamed the Christmas Program on our website via YouTube Live. Recordings will also be posted on our website on Thursday, December 16. 

TK-3 Performances

  • TK We Wish You a Merry Christmas
  • Kindergarten Up On the Housetop 
  • 1st grade Jingle Bells 
  • 2nd grade Jingle Bell Rock
  • 3rd grade Walking in a Winter Wonderland 

Grades 4-8 Performances

  • 4th grade My Favorite Things and Deck the Halls 
  • 5th grade Joy to the World and Here Comes Santa Claus 
  • 6th grade The Twelve Days of Christmas and Hark the Herald Angels Sing 
  • 7th grade Angels We have Heard on High and Last Christmas
  • 8th grade Feliz Navidad and Silent Night
  • Latin Percussion

ADVENT PRAYER SERVICE

Friday, December 17, 20221

Our 1st grade students will be providing readers for the final Advent Prayer Service at STM Church this Friday. At this time, we continue to limit all school events to students and school staff. 

During this holiday break, it is important to remember that anytime different households gather and mix indoors or if there is any travel, people are at higher risk for exposure to, and infection with, COVID-19.  As an added layer of safety for our St. Thomas More School community, proactive testing before returning to school on January 3, can prevent classroom exposures, outbreaks and unnecessary missed days from school for students. 

SFDPH recommends that all students and staff, regardless of vaccination status, get tested for COVID-19 1-2 days prior to return to school, even if they are asymptomatic.  The test can be done with a home test, or a PCR or rapid antigen from a clinic or testing site.    

If traveling out of town, SFDPH also recommends testing 3-5 days after returning from travel as per CDC/CDPH guidelines, so depending on when your family returns from travel, testing twice might be a good idea.  For example, if your family returns from travel on the Sunday before school starts, it would be a good idea to test once on that Sunday as well as test once again sometime during the following Wednesday through Friday.  

If your student tests positive, please notify us immediately and follow SFDPH isolation and quarantine guidelines.  

GIVE JOY HOLIDAY EVENT

We are so very grateful for the time and effort our 1st and 3rd grade parents  put into making this event a winner all around. It definitely brought joy to our school community, and your donations to Samaritan House and the Toy Drive will bring joy to others in our local communities. 

Both parents and kids were so excited to attend an in-person event and had so much fun. It was a truly great turn-out with 220 in attendance, and over $2,700 raised for the school. Funds will be used to provide some updates to the alarm system we currently have in place.

Kindergarteners Received Letter From Santa

 

And remember…..

When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flocks,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among people,
To cherish the children.

Merry Christmas and best wishes for the remainder of 2021!


Marie Fitzpatrick
Principal

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