Curriculum
night for the Lower School Division will be this Thursday, Sept. 6 at 6:00 p.m. Doors will open at 6:00 and you will go
directly to your child’s homeroom class.
We look forward to seeing you!
Thank
you for the tremendous support for our first “Feed the Need” Friday! It had to be a record-setting ingathering for
one of these Friday events and we – and the folks at the pantry – are so
grateful for your support. It was a
heartfelt show of St. Paul’s Spirit – decorated in bright spirit wear clothing,
too!
Have
you filled out your student forms online? Our student forms are now online
at: https://go.speds.org/studentinfo . We sent out
login information this summer, but if you don’t have your username and
password, please call the front desk (816-931-8614) or email spedsonline@speds.org . It is
important that you fill out the Emergency Directory and Health Information
forms for each student attending St. Paul’s. To save time, much of the info
we currently have on file for your family will be pre-populated in the forms
once you log in. Thanks to everyone for helping us make the transition to
online forms.
Remember
to stay up to date on the latest happenings with our school calendar. Bookmark the calendar page on our website and check back
often to see what is going on at St. Paul's.
This
week we welcome five students from Cristo Rey High School who will assist us
each week. As part of their education, the students at
Cristo Rey work in a business within our community in order to learn skills
that will assist them in the workplace.
We are pleased to welcome on Fridays these Freshmen:
Galilea
C-R
Tay’jah
McK
Mia
P-M
Andrew
Y
And
to welcome back on Thursdays, Sophomore Abel M, who worked in our preschool for
part of last year and returns to assist them again. The students will have school nametags so
please introduce yourselves to them when you have a chance and join us in welcoming these
student helpers!
The
Family Fun Fest is a special event that Parents Guild hosts for the children
and families of St. Paul’s. This year
the fun begins on Friday, September 21st at 3:45 and goes until 6:00
(weather permitting). There will be food
and treats galore as our eighth graders and their families will be selling hot
dogs and hamburgers, grilled sausages, chips, popcorn, cookies and drinks. Come try your luck at the popular Cake Walk. There
will be lots more fun and exciting things to do! We will be asking for baked goods like
cookies, cakes, brownies or other fun sweets to stock the Cake Walk. If you would be willing to bake for this
event, please drop off your donation in the morning car pool line on Friday,
September 21st. Volunteers
will collect them in the parking lot and on Walnut. Other activities include carnival rides,
midway games and hair painting. Tickets
can be purchased on line in advance with a credit card (for which you will
receive free bonus tickets at https://stpeds.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/FamilyFunFest2012/Purchaseticketshere/tabid/409494/Default.aspx until Monday,
September 17th, or the day of the event with cash/check.
Fall
Enrichment Classes
-- There are a few openings in each of our after school, Fall Enrichment
classes that will begin in September.
These classes are available for all SPEDS students and they do not need
to be enrolled in our Extended Day program to participate in the Enrichment
classes. We offer a variety of group classes
as well as private music lessons (piano, guitar, drums, violin, voice). Please note that we have had two instructor
changes. Our new Guitar Instructor is
Jim Lammers and he comes with wonderful recommendations. Jim
Lammers earned a Bachelor's Degree in Guitar Performance from UMKC in 1987. He
performs extensively as a solo guitarist throughout Kansas City, and is also a
dedicated private guitar teacher. He is currently a guitar instructor for the
UMKC Community Music and Dance Academy. He is offering guitar lessons at
St. Paul's for 1st through 8th graders.
We
also have had a change in Chess Instructors.
Mr. Holliman is no longer available to teach, due to scheduling
conflicts. We are happy to introduce Ron
Luther who will replace him. Mr. Luther
is a United States Chess
Federation Life Master and 9-Time Missouri State Chess Champion. A
number of his students have become high school and scholastic state chess
champions, both in Missouri and Kansas.
We are excited to welcome Mr. Luther to our Enrichment programs.
Feel free to
contact Karen McDonald, our Enrichment Program Director, with any questions
regarding Extended Day or Enrichment Programs. Karen can be reached at kmcdonald@speds.org or 816.268.6536.
Middle
school students now have a middle school newspaper (blog): Timeline that is part of the elective program. There are 12 students on this inaugural staff. This blog is student written and student
edited. The banner was created by Sean W. Each student staff member has a column and
some have more than one. You can see
bios of each staff member, movie reviews, cartoons, and other features by going
to http://spedstimeline.blogspot.com/.
Congratulations
to the students and their sponsor, Ms. Laird, for a great start on this new
project.
An
ECC parent reported to us that she saw another parent in the morning carpool with
children unbuckled in the car as they were driving through the line. Please keep
your children safely buckled in until you come to the person who will assist in
getting them out of the car. An
accident, even at the slow pace of a carpool line could seriously injure a
small, unbuckled child.
