• Bring your daughter's report card or her schedule with you.  These documents have the names of her teachers on them. 
   
• Stop in the student lobby for a map that identifies where the teachers are located for conferences. 
   
• If the teacher is engaged with another parent, wait a respectful distance away for your turn. It may not be possible to see all of your daughter's teachers.  Select 3 or 4 that you REALLY, REALLY wish to see.  
   
• Conferences are designed to be a BRIEF communication between a parent and a teacher. 
   
• Each conference should last no longer than 5 minutes.  If you have major concerns about your daughter's progress, schedule an appointment with the teacher for another day so that sufficient time can be devoted to her.  Please be considerate of others in regard to time. 
   
• Conferences will be concluded promptly at 4:30 p.m.  At this time faculty members will have a dinner break.  Please conclude your discussion when Mrs. Pasterick announces that the conferences are over.  Conferences will resume at 5:30 p.m. 
   
• If you do not get to see all of your daughter's teachers, call them or e-mail them, and they will call or e-mail you back.  

Looking to get some Christmas Shopping done? Our bookstore will be open during Parent/Teacher conferences tomorrow evening! Come and grab some stocking stuffers to show off your daughter's Seton spirit!

On November 20, 2013, Elizabeth Seton High School has been selected to host the Legislative Open House at 7:00pm.  We will also be asking our representatives to support proposed tax credits for businesses who invest in nonpublic education.  If this tax credit were to pass, it would mean many more dollars for our students and for our academic program.  This could be the beginning of our turf field as businesses could give to this. Legislative representatives will only be able to see how much this funding means to our school if our parents are there networking with the legislature. Please give a night of your time to support funding for Seton.  For more information, please click here to see the enclosed flier.

Dear Parents,
Please take time to complete our parent survey.  We are very mindful of the money that you sacrifice for tuition, and we believe that you should have an important voice regarding our program, our priorities, and how we spend your money. Please click here to complete the survey.

The time to apply for tuition assistance for next school year is now.
Please note our policy:

1.  All parents must apply to the Archdiocese of Washington for financial aid before they are considered by Elizabeth Seton High School.

2.  Parents must print out a copy of their archdiocesan TADS form before you click submit and send it to Sister Dorothy in the mail or with your daughter to her office.  We do not accept email copies.  

       THE DEADLINE FOR THE ARCHDIOCESE IS DECEMBER 6 !
 
Please click here for the online form.

If you need a paper copy, please send your daughter to Sister Dorothy's office.

The 2013 Thanksgiving Food Drive theme is HUNGER GAMES-CATCH FOOD.

The Hunger Games (Food Drive) begin on Friday, November 15th and end Friday, November 22nd.

Food items can be brought to the Main Lobby between 7:30 AM and 8:15 AM daily.

Please click here to view flyer with full details.

On Saturday, Nov. 16, Sister Ellen Marie will be taking a bus to the following symposium.
All students are welcome to attend with her.  Departure time from Seton is 9:00amand return time is 3:00pm.  If you are interested in attending, you must email her by Tuesday, Nov. 12. ehagar@setonhs.org Thank you!

LOFT Life Science Career Symposium
WHEN: NOVEMBER 16, 2013 - 10am - 2 pm
WHERE: Johns Hopkins University-Montgomery County Campus
9601 Medical Center Dr. Rockville, MD 20850
WHO: High school juniors & seniors and college undergraduates with an interest in the life sciences
The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) and MdBio Foundation will host Leaders On Fast Track (LOFT) Life Science Career Symposium for Latinos, African-Americans, and other minorities, which are underrepresented in life science careers. This event is for high school juniors and seniors and college undergraduates who either have an interest in the life sciences or that want to learn more about this profitable and rewarding career path.

Elizabeth Seton High School is pleased to be presenting PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, a Christmas musical featuring our students, our alumnae, and members of the ensemble, Broadway at Harewood.  Please click here to read the flier and please click here to purchase tickets.  It is going to be a great show!

The Parent Organization is seeking parents to serve as committee members for the first annual Mother/Daughter event.  The Mother/Daughter event is scheduled to be held, Saturday, February 15. Sign up at http://tinyurl.com/SetonMotherDaughter. 

The Parent Organization is seeking parents to help with setup, clean up and help during the Father/Daughter dance that will be on March 1, 2014.  Sign up at http://tinyurl.com/SetonFatherDaughterDance

The 2nd Annual Seton Casino Royale is scheduled for May 3, 2014.  The Parent Organization is seeking a chair and committee members to help plan and organize this great evening of fun!  Sign up at http://tinyurl.com/SetonCasinoRoyale

The Music Department of Elizabeth Seton High School is once again selling beautiful 26" Balsam Christmas wreaths for $35.00.  They will be delivered directly to your door by December 15th.  Order forms are available in the Main Office, the Music classrooms or download a form by clicking here. The forms are due in the Main Office by Friday, November 22nd.  The wreaths make wonderful gifts and they can be shipped anywhere in the continental United States.

Do you have any family members and/or friends (that are female) that would be interested in volunteering a few hours to talk with our students about their educational and career paths?  We would love to have many different careers represented.  

If you need any more details, please don't hesitate to ask.  No formal presentations are necessary.  

Attached is the Career Fair flyer.  Please distribute!!
The Career Fair is on November 21 from 3:00-4:30 pm!

Please contact Amanda Lawhorne at alawhorne@setonhs.org if you are interested!!

Please click here to view flyer with full details.

All students are encouraged to attend. A wide variety of careers will be represented by alums, mothers and other friends of the Seton community. Please encourage your daughter to explore options she has not considered and to gather information about entering her career of choice.

Two parent volunteers are needed to help with traffic from 2 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, November 21 for the Career Fair.  Please contact Mrs. Burke at lburke@setonhs.org to sign up.

The State of Maryland Non-public School Student Textbook Program has been in effect for 13 years.  Seton has received substantial grants each year from this grant.  This year, Seton parents saved $90.00 per student on tuition and fees because of this program.

Dance Marathon (Saturday, November 23) is coming up quickly.  We hope that your daughter's fundraising efforts are well underway.  Remember that there are opportunities this year to win prizes if your daughter turns in all of her pledge money on the day of the Dance Marathon.  See the Music Boosters webpage (under the Fine Arts tab) for details. If your daughter needs extra pledge forms, they are available from each of the music teachers and on the Music Boosters webpage.  Remember that donations may be made online:  from Seton's website, go to the Fine Arts tab and click Dance Marathon.  If you have any questions about who has already made a pledge online for your daughter, contact Melinda Chen at Melinda.chen@gmail.com.
 
Help us make the Dance Marathon evening an enjoyable and safe event for your daughter.  Sign up to volunteer at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080A4DA5AB2DA75-dance.  We especially need parents who can help with parking and safely crossing the girls and their guests between Seton and overflow parking at Port Towns Elementary School.
 
Thank you so much for your generous support!

We had hoped that student service hours would be viewed online this year through the portal, however the system does not provide us with the amount of detail we would like.  Therefore, all student service hours will be recorded in the database that we have been using the past several years.  Students will receive a paper copy of their service record at the end of the first semester and can check in with Mrs. Tarnosky anytime they would like to view their record.

Baltimore National College Fair at the Baltimore Convention Center
Tuesday, November 12, 10:00am - 1:00pm, 5:30pm - 8pm

Wednesday, November 13, 10:00am - 1:00pm

Visit www.gotomyncf.com to register for the event.


COLLEGE FAIR
Riverdale Baptist School, 1133 Largo road, Upper Marlboro, MD
November 19th - 6-9pm

Volunteers Needed - Service Hours Available

Crew boosters is looking for volunteers to work the University of Maryland Football Concession Stand # 1 this season. Seton parents earn 8 service hours and non-Seton students over the age of 14 can earn the same. If interested fill out the attached form and select a game.

Please click here to complete form.

Our website will now feature a new tab under ABOUT US. This is the president's blog.  Please take time to read this and share it with your friends, family, and co-workers.

Seton will be offering a CPR/AED class for students on Friday January 24th at 1:45. (This is a 1:30 dismissal day.) The cost is $30 per person (cash only) and the class will last about 2 hours. We will focus on correct CPR techniques, use of an external automatic defibrillator, and choking. Your daughter will come away with CPR/AED certification and valuable skills that, someday, could save a life.
Please e-mail our school nurse, Jeanne Daly, at jdaly@setonhs.org to register or get more information. The class will be limited to the first 30 students who register and pay.

This opportunity is sponsored by Kaplan Test Prep.  This 1-day only LIVE event will be taking place on Saturday, November 16th, and will allow students to:
 
            - Experience both the SAT and ACT in 1 unique, 4-hour practice test
            - Receive detailed score feedback
            - Make an informed decision about which exam best suits them
 
Charles Herbert Flowers High School (9:00AM on Nov. 16th)
10001 Ardwick Ardmore Road, Springdale, MD 20774
 
Students can enroll here: www.kaptest.com/choose.

Each year the Maryland State Council of the Knights of Columbus awards three Catholic High School Scholarship grants to sons and daughters of members of the Knights of Columbus and 3 Catholic High School Scholarship grants to Catholic students in general.
 
Interested parents and students may obtain information and applications by contacting this website and clicking on the Scholarship Opportunities link:  www.kofc-md.org

Parents - All Elizabeth Seton High School students are eligible to enroll in free online math tutoring through http://www.studybuddyhelp.org/.
Please ask your daughter to check her email for the registration email or see Mrs. Roeder in guidance.

If your daughter wishes to tryout for a winter sport (Indoor Track, Swimming, Basketball), she must have a current (performed after 6/1/13) physical on file in the clinic. If you need a form they can be found on our website under athletics or admissions or click here.

Please click here to view the Lunch Menu for November.

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