Curriculum Night for our
Middle School students is this Thursday night. It begins at 6:00 for eighth grade parents only. This is all about the YMCA Camp of the Ozarks
(aka Potosi) trip on which the eighth graders will embark on Sept. 11. Then at 6:30, we hope that all
parents of Middle School students will come to hear about the plans for
their child’s school year.
This Friday is our first
Spirit Day of the new school year!
Faculty and students are encouraged to wear their St. Paul’s spirit
clothes to school. We hope our students
will enjoy this opportunity – one that we share as a school once a month but
are always happy to see the students proudly wearing St. Paul’s gear any day!
Friday is also “Feed the Need
Friday” in all-school chapel. Once a
month, usually on our Spirit Day, we encourage those who are willing to bring
food for the church’s pantry to help feed the hungry in our neighborhood. Any non-perishable goods are welcome and the
particular food item theme for this month is pasta. So please send in food items, if you are so
inclined to help. Thank you. Our school families are a very valuable asset
to the food pantry.
We will be closed on Monday,
Sept. 3, for the Labor Day Holiday.
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.
From time to time, I will be sharing articles that I hope
will be of interest to you as parents.
You can find links to the articles in the right margin of the MMM blog. One of you sent to us the article from The New Yorker that you will find accompanying this blog. It is called “Spoiled Rotten”. We all have different parenting styles and
work, as often as we can, from our instincts, but sometimes we can appreciate
the perspective of others, as it is too difficult to be objective with our own
children!
Please remember that you must register your child no
later than September 4 to receive the advance registration rates for Lunch
Bunch, A-Team, and Extended Day. After that deadline passes, you will be billed
at the drop-in rate for any of these services. Drop-in care is available for
everything except A-Team. If you choose to use extended day or
lunch bunch on a drop-in basis because it suits your needs better, please know
that is an option but that the rate is higher.
If you know your child will need care for 1 – 5 days/week, it is
advantageous for you to sign up for those days now at the reduced rate. (You must
register for A-Team; no drop-ins are available this year.) Regrettably, our MWF toddler Lunch Bunch is
already at capacity, so we will be unable to take drop-ins for this group. The Extended Day registration is online,
here: https://go.speds.org/pages/extendeddayregistration. The A-Team/Lunch Bunch registration form can
be printed out from here: http://www.speds.org/current-parents-and-students/inside-st-pauls/student-forms/
(at the bottom of the page) Please return the completed form to Linda van
Thullenar. We want to provide the best care possible for your children, and
this helps us to better plan for their needs. Thank you for helping us do that.
UMKC's
Academy of Music and Dance is currently enrolling for their three youth choirs: Roo Singers
(K-2), Kansas City Children's Choir (3 – 8) and for Canta Filia (high school
girls).
Auditions
for KCCC are next Tuesday. (Roos do not need to audition; they simply call the
office 816.235.2741 to register). To audition, call directly (816.809.6389), or
attend walk-in auditions starting at 4:15 on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Auditions are held at the annex of UMKC at
301 E. 51st Street, Room 207. http://conservatory.umkc.edu/cmda/cmda-content.cfm?L1ID=1
