March 17th- Happy St. Pat's Day!!

 March 15, 2012

Dear Notre Dame Families:

Please register as soon as possible. Early registration helps with planning how to staff for next year. To get the registration details click on 2012-2013 registration and read the general notice to parents.  Part of the registration process includes completing the Tuition Agreement.  The Tuition Agreement should be available on the Facts Registration site early next week.  You will receive an e-mail notification as soon as the Tuition Agreement is availbable allowing you to complete the registration process.

Tuition for the 2012-2013 school year is $2,150 (plus a $60 registration fee)  Grace will deduct $100 from the tuition invoice for the second, third, and fourth students.  There will be no charge for the fifth student.  Although this is a $150 increase in tuition from last year it is only slightly higher than the tuition rate paid in the 2010-2011 school year (the year before Notre Dame joined Grace)   For comparison, in the 2010-2011 school year tuition was $2,080.  A family of three  would have paid $6,290 vs. $6,430 for a family of three in the 2012-2013 school year.  The increase in tuition for a family of three represents $140 (including registraton fees) over the 2010-2011 school year.

Pre-school families must register on-line Become a Student and complete the form indicating the pre-k/ec program of your choice:Pre-school Programs and Tuition. 

If you have questions as you proceed through the registration process do not hesitate to call me on my cell phone # 217-4684. For help receiving your personalized registration link,  your user ID or password,  you can call the Facts Registration help desk at 1-866-441-4637  and reference Grace.  I have callled the help desk many times and they are very helpful. (Office hours for the Facts Registration  help desk are  7:30 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Monday through Thursdady and 7:30 A.M to 5:00 P.M. on Friday).

Happy Pi Day (March 14th)!!!!  Pi is approximated to be 3.14............and goes on forever!! We use this day to explore applicatons of pi. To celebrate "Pi" day students in the Middle School brought "Pie" to school to eat!!!   The students were also able to donate money to their "favorite" teacher to have that teacher receive a pie (all in good fun!!!)  All donations will go to the school.

Notre Dame has recently purchased six Apple I-pads which have been "enthusiastically" received by students and teachers!!!  Funds for the purchase came from the donation from Knights of Columbus.  Thank you Knights of Columbus!!!

A sincere THANK YOU from the Carnival Committee!  We had a wonderful response  to the March 7 dress down/donation day!!  Thank you to all of the Notre Dame Families for your generosity.  We look forward to seeing all of you on March 30th!  Click here for the Carnival details.

Attention:  Scrip Users. Please click here for current promotions  and new offers.

Mrs. Glover  asked that your read the following:  This past week our inventory was off by quite a bit by Festival's, Kwik Trip, McDonald's and Piggly Wiggly.  If anyone thinks they might have received extra, please call and check.  Or our thought is we are missing completed orderforms.  If this sounds like your order from last week, please let us knowso we can check to see if we have it.  For future orders, please check your order carefully after receiving it and report any discrepancies.  Our sales have been at a high this year making it harder to keep track of inventory and very time consuming.  Please help by double checking.  Thank you!

If you are looking for shorts or polos for your child to wear in this beautiful Spring weather, come take a look at the Uniform Closet at the ES.

Volunteers are needed for the Battle of the Books.  To find out more, click here.

Come and check out the samples of the new fundraiser, Square 1 Art, located at both schools.  Click here to find out more about this fundraiser that will be starting soon.

Donuts for Dad is on March 16th.  To get more details, click here.  After you've enjoyed donuts and socializing, please join us at 8:30 mass.

Father Patrick asked that I publish his upcoming schedule to hear confessions:

 St. Francis:  Thursday, March 22nd 2:30 - 3:30pm

                     Thursday March 29 2:30 - 3:30

St. Mary:       Saturday, March 17th 8:30-9:30 am SM

On Saturday, March 10, 2012, Notre Dame of De Pere hosted the GRACE Solo and Ensemble Festival.  Notre Dame of De Pere was extremely well represented with 100% of band members taking part as well as 90% of band parents volunteering their time to make the Solo and Ensemble Festival the wild success it was!  Also participating were many of our fine pianists.  Overall, Notre Dame of De Pere musicians received 15 I for gold level ratings and 4 II for silver level ratings.  Way to go Notre Dame musicians!!
 
 
 In Spirit,  

  Jeff  

 Additional Links:  

 Notre Dame Island Adventure Carnival  

Carnival Spaghetti Dinner 

 Seroogy's Easter Sale  

Donuts for Dad 

Battle of the Books 

 Easter Egg Hunt    

 The Big Event 

 Raiderwear Order Form   

Upcoming Events and Important Dates:  

March 15th- 2:00-2:30 Stations of the Cross

March 15th-3:00-4:00 Market Day Pick-up @ Dolski Center

March 16th- Donuts for Dads

March 16th-Seroogy's Easter orders due

March 17th-Happy St. Patrick's Day

March 22nd-2:00-2:30 Stations of the Cross

March 30th- Island Adventure Carnival