Our silent auction will be live on Tuesday, February 22nd! The “Love In Deed” baskets are amazing! There will be many wonderful options to bid on during the silent auction leading up to our live event next week. Have you considered hosting a watch party among your family friends or with your extended family? Watch parties can provide a fun way to participate in this interactive live virtual fundraising event. There will be an opportunity to play a watch and win game or two during the live event on Saturday, February 26th at 7:00 PM. Please pre-register by Wednesday for our “Love In Deed” event. Classes that have 75% or more families register by Wednesday will earn a class free dress day on Friday, February 25th!
In the ever changing landscape of COVID, we heard last week Oregon will likely drop mask mandates by March 31st, returning mask protocols to the local level. Our school’s COVID team met this week to discuss current recommendations from ODE and our LPHA in regards to masking to determine the safest way for our school to proceed through the spring. With our current vaccination rate of 93% and Omicron receding, we feel the following updates to our current protocols are timely. The updates to our COVID protocols we will implement beginning on March 1st include:
As we prepare to return to church weekly as a school, we will ease back in starting with multiple Ash Wednesday prayer services to allow for all students in kindergarten through eighth grade to attend one service. Two classes at a time plus nine eighth grade students will attend a thirty minute prayer service once during Ash Wednesday. Ashes will be sprinkled on the top of the head to avoid touching. Our school will participate in the Novena of Grace by grade level in the classroom with each class watching one assigned, recorded service. Students attending the Novena of Grace in person with their family will not be considered tardy. Through March and April, two-three classes will attend school Masses at a time giving nearly all of the classes an opportunity to attend an in person Mass once during Lent. Hopefully, the remaining students will be able to watch the school Mass live streamed from their classrooms each week. We are working on kind, respectful behavior with and between our students. We are reminding our students to clean up after themselves during lunch outside by picking up garbage and spilled foods. We ask students to use school appropriate language at all times. We remind students to not take hats from each other. We expect respectful communication with staff and between students. Please have follow-up conversations at home regarding these expectations. “Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:7 Carol Pausz Principal Thank you for your tremendous partnership with us in providing a faith-based education for your children. Please help us to manage Valentine’s Day during a COVID year by sending in only the Valentines without candy attached. Students may choose to wear school appropriate clothing in Valentine’s Day colors of red, white, or purple on Monday, or students may wear their uniform. Jeans, slacks, or joggers are ok, but please refrain from wearing leggings as pants. Thank you for helping your student to choose school appropriate clothing.
A heartfelt thank you to all of the families that have donated for our “Love In Deed” baskets! There will be many wonderful options to bid on during the silent auction leading up to our live event. Have you considered hosting a watch party among your school family friends or with your extended family? Watch parties can provide a fun way to participate in this interactive live virtual fundraising event. There will be an opportunity to play a watch and win game or two during the live event on Saturday, February 26th at 7:00 PM. Please register to participate in the silent auction and live event. Classes that have 75% or more families register for the event by Wednesday, February 23rd will have a class free dress day on Friday, February 25th! Well, in the ever changing landscape of COVID, we heard this week about many states, including Oregon dropping mask mandates and returning those decisions to the local level. For schools, the Oregon Department of Education and our Local Health Authority will likely make recommendations for best practice in schools just as they have for social distancing, which has not been a mandate since the beginning of this year. Our school’s COVID team will meet next week to discuss current recommendations from ODE and our LPHA to determine the safest way for our school to proceed through the spring. We can see our many layers of mitigation have kept our school community safe throughout this school year so far. We still recommend students wear a KN95 or N95 or surgical mask while at school. Please let us know if we can help your family meet this masking expectation. It is a good idea to send your student to school with two or three masks, so they may change masks as needed after recess or PE. Please remember proper masking in and out of school and maintaining social distancing are the best ways to keep our school community safe. Next week, we will share news about how we will safely return to school Masses and prayer services in the church beginning on Ash Wednesday. We are excited to announce a return to providing meals once a week for Transition Projects. We will take on this endeavor as an ongoing whole school service project. A separate letter will go home today with more details on how families may participate in this important service project tradition. May you take time this weekend to enjoy God’s many blessings. ”Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, his mercy endures forever.” Psalm 118:1. Carol Pausz Principal Greetings St. Ignatius Families,
During our Catholic School’s Week, we prayed for students by name four times each day to fit everyone in over the week. On Tuesday, our students wrote notes or drew pictures for their Family Group Members. We ended our Catholic School’s Week with a PJ day Read-In which the students all enjoyed. During our Catholic School’s Week, we raised money through a coin contest for Jean’s Place, a women’s shelter. The sixth class brought in the most money at $ 344.85, followed closely by Mr. Beseau’s eighth grade class with $ 257.93 and Mrs. Olson’s eighth grade class with $ 228.44 Honorable mention for our first grade class of eleven students raising $171.46. Our whole school raised $ 1,729.39 for Jean’s Place. WAY TO GO, GATORS!!! A special thank you to Mr. Beseau and Mr. Roberts for editing our “Love In Deed”videos this week. Have you considered hosting a watch party among your school family friends or with your extended family? Watch parties can provide a fun way to participate in this interactive virtual fundraising event. There will be an opportunity to play a watch and win game or two during the live event! Next week, we will send out information for early registration. Tune in on Saturday, February 26th at 7:00 PM to join the party! Who will you watch with? In the days leading up to our “Love In Deed” virtual, interactive event, there will be an online silent auction with themed baskets and activity buy-ins with various school staff. Thank you for all of the amazing donations this week. Free dress passes have gone home with the students for this week’s procurements. This week’s raffle winner for a swag bag is the Bartels-Halligan family from our kindergarten class. As the COVID cases recede from the Omicron variant, we are grateful for our students and families working together to hold strong to our many layers of mitigation. We strongly encourage students to wear a KN95 or N95 or double-mask with a surgical mask under a cloth mask. Please let us know if we can help your family meet this expectation. It is a good idea to send your student to school with two or three masks, so they may change masks as needed after recess or PE. Please remember proper masking in and out of school and maintaining social distancing are the best ways to keep our school community safe. Thank you for refraining from parking past the cones near the playground until after 5:00 PM when our preschool has closed for the day and our aftercare program is no longer playing outside. We appreciate all of the ways you help your students practice kindness during their activities outside of the school day. May you take time this weekend to connect with others in peaceful ways.”Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do.” Collosians 3:12-13 Carol Pausz Principal |
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