Volunteers Needed
We have an immediate need for volunteers in both the Playground and the Health Room.
- We are looking to fill a Wednesday Lunch Recess shift from 12:10 to 1:10; this position is for the first half of the school year only. Playground volunteers are asked to aide in the supervision of students.
- We also need 5 volunteers to fill immediate openings in the Health Room. Health Room volunteers give aid, personal attention and comfort to students who visit the Health Room. They may also need to dispense sympathy, apply band-aids and ice packs, call parents, if needed, and perform other routine care tasks. Health Room volunteers may be asked to assist the Health Room staff with tasks such as copying, filing, etc. School staff respond to serious illness, injury, or allergic reactions. We need volunteers to fill the following shifts: Monday 8:30-10:00am alternating weeks all year; 2 openings for Monday 1:45-3:15pm alternating weeks all year; Wednesday 8:30-10:00am alternating weeks all year; Wednesday 8:30-10:00am alternating weeks all year.
If you can help with any of these volunteer Service Jobs, please e-mail Colleen O'Donnell, Service Board Chair.
Free Dress Opportunity
This weekend is Catechetical Sunday, an opportunity to say thank you to all those who are a part of your children's faith formation, both at Sacred Heart School and at Sacred Heart Parish.
All students who attend Mass at Sacred Heart School in full uniform at the Saturday 5pm., Sunday 9am or 11am Mass on September 14 and 15 will receive a coupon for free dress the following week.
Renewal Food Bank Food Drive
Students and parents are needed to staff a food drive at the downtown Bellevue QFC on Saturday, September 28 in two hours shifts from 9-3. Service hours are available for middle school students. Sign up here ttoday.
Absences/Appointments
If your child will miss or be late for school for any reason, please e-mail your child's homeroom teacher and cc: Kerry Wyman ,the attendance secretary. Additionally, if your child needs to leave early for an appointment also please email the homeroom teacher and Kerry Wyman. Please give yourself some time for the student to be called to the office.
Kindergarten Schedule
Sept 12th-Sept 13th: 8:30-12:20pm, students stay for lunch.
Visitor Parking Spaces Explained
You may have noticed three new visitor parking spaces in the upper parking lot. These spaces are not only for new visitors to the school, but also for parents who may be coming to school to pick up their child for appointments, picking up a child from the health room, dropping off a lunch or a library book. Basically if you are coming to school and plan on being in here for 20 minutes or less, feel free to use these spaces. However, if you are coming for recess duty, library duty, or any other activity that will keep you here for longer than 20 minutes please park in the other provided spaces. We hope that you find these new spaces convenient for a quick trip into the school.
Homework Help Grades 1st - 5th
Thank to you to all of you who were able to attend Back to School Night last week. For those of you who weren't able to attend, I hope you have had an opportunity to touch base with your child's teacher and get the information that was handed out.
Something that I am excited about and that may have been discussed at Back to School Night, or in recent communications home, is after school Homework Help for 1st - 5th Grade. We have asked each of the teachers to offer two nights a week right after school (3:15-3:45) for students to come in and get help on an assignment, ask a question about something that was discussed in class or have the opportunity to make sure they are on the right track. Some teachers will have scheduled two nights per week throughout the year and others may rotate their days, which will be shared with you in their Weekly Reminders.
Please invite your students to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity, their teachers will be there available to help and want to be able to use this time for the benefit of their students.
- Ms. Gray
Food Delivery Orders
Over the course of the year, many parents place orders for food to be delivered to the school for their child's lunch (often from Jimmy John's). This is fine. We do not mind receiving or distributing them. However, it is unfair for deliveries to not include a tip for the driver. So, when we sign for deliveries, the receipt will be checked for a tip. If no tip has been included a tip of $1 per sandwich (for easy calculation) will be added to the total before it is signed.
- Mr. Burroughs
Family Life Parent Meetings
As we introduce a Family Life program to the school this year (as required by archdiocesan policy), we want to give our parents the opportunity to review the materials, ask questions about the program, and ask any questions about Catholic teaching related to family life matters (marriage, sexuality, vocations, etc.). We will hold two information sessions on Monday, September 23 from 6:30-7:30 pm and Tuesday, September 24 from 8:30-9:30 am. Both meetings will take place in the Moore Theater. The textbooks that we will be using and all teaching related to this program will conform to the teachings of the Catholic Church. If you would like to review the materials or ask questions and are unable to make it to one of the meetings, please contact
Ms. Gray or Mr. Burroughs.
Emergency Notifications
In the event of an emergency closing of the school, parents and staff will be notified through a posting to the homepage of the school's website and a notification through the school's Twitter account. Our Twitter account is only used for emergency notifications. You can follow Sacred Heart School on Twitter by texting: "follow SacredHeartSch" to 40404. You do not need to follow anyone else on Twitter to sue this account. You should receive a confirmation message within a few minutes letting you know that you have been successful in signing up. You may also receive an invitation to follow other various celebrities on Twitter, but you can ignore that message (unless you want to start following other accounts).
We will be sending out a test message on Friday, September 13th in order to confirm that you are receiving the school's emergency messages.
Picture Opt-out
Sacred Heart School staff and parents regularly photograph events and activities around the school, including in the classroom. Most of these pictures are for personal use or archival purposes. However, some photos are used in promotional materials or other publications of the school (including the school website). Student photos are never identified by name without specific parent permission.
If you *do not* want your child's photograph used in school publications or promotional materials, please contact Kerry Wyman by September 13th to opt-out.
Asbestos Compliance
Once a year, federal law mandates school administrators to inform parents and employees about local school compliance with the Asbestos Hazardous Materials Response Act (AHERA). Please click here to view the memo confirming our school's compliance of this law.
UNIFORM CLARIFICATION - NAIL POLISH
The question has been asked has to whether a French Manicure is considered "clear nail polish". As we shared at Back to School Night, we are trying to make the policy easy for students to follow and staff to monitor, so we do not consider a French manicure clear nail polish.
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