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Upcoming Dates: April 20 Apr First Communion 24 Apr Mass 25-26 Apr No School Brown Bottle Set-Up 27 Apr Brown Bottle May 03 May Mass May Crowning 07 May Rosary 9:45 am 20 May 6-8 Field Day 21 May Mass Rosary 2:30 pm Yearbook Signing 2-3 pm 22 May K-5 Field Day 8th Grade Graduation 23 May Last Day of School 11:00 am Dismissal |
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St. George
St. Adalbert
23 Apr
St. Fidelius of Sigmaringen
24 Apr
St. Mark
25 Apr
St. Catherine of Siena
29 Apr
St Pius V
30 Apr
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Sacred Heart School Newsletter
Year 2012-13 - April 19,2013
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JMJ
Dear Sacred Heart Family and Friends,
We've been focused on the Kansas Assessment tests and how we will use the data to improve curriculum and instruction. This past week, Sacred Heart students in grades 3-8 took the reading portion of the KS Assessments. I have to admit, that as a new principal, I was anxious about our students' performance. I knew that we had done very well in the past and was hoping for excellent results once again. As the test scores started coming in, our teachers had huge smiles on their faces. Their excitement was priceless and has inspired me to share our reading test results.
Sacred Heart of Jesus
Kansas Assessment Reading Scores: 2013
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% of students scoring
Exemplary
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% of students
scoring
Exceeds Standards
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% of students scoring
Meets Standards
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3rd
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27.5%
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42.5%
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17.5%
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4th
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25.5%
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41.2%
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25.5%
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5th
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71.7%
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17.4%
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8.7%
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6th
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39.5%
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44.7%
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13.2%
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7th
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60.9%
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34.8%
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4.3%
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8th
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52.7%
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34.2%
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10.5%
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- In grades 3-8, the overall percentage of students meeting standards is 95.4%
This is FANTASTIC. I am so proud of our students, our dedicated teachers, the support of our Sacred Heart parishioners, and you- the families who partner with us on a daily basis. Look for more assessment reporting to follow, including our Math scores.
In the Triumph of God's Great Love,
Maureen Engen
Principal
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Position:
I am the middle school English teacher at Sacred Heart.
Background:
I grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where I attended Bishop Carroll High School. I then went to K-State and majored in education and print journalism. This is my first year of teaching.
Family:
My family still lives in Wichita, and my younger sister, Kathleen, goes to K-State - a family tradition for us!
Parish:
I am a member at Sacred Heart Parish and enjoy spending a time in our pretty adoration chapel.
Hobbies and Interests:
I enjoy reading, running (just finished my first half marathon!), and spending time with family and friends.
Sacred Heart Reflection:
Since my first day here, many students, parents, and teachers have made the transition a wonderful one! I felt sad leaving my family in Wichita, but now I feel like I have made a new family here.
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3rd Quarter Honor Rolls were posted last week.
Please note the following corrections to the
Honor Rolls that were updated on April 15, 2013:
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Principal's Honor Roll
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8th Grade
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William Hess
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Ryan Starkey
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Red and White Honor Roll
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6th Grade
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7th Grade
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8th Grade
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Matthew Schneider
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Louis Martinez
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Matthew Surface
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Caroline Kenagy
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Brenna Holt
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Christopher Hoog
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Tori Compton
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Dylan Streeter
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The School Library has an Amazing Problem!
We have 300 new amazing books awaiting processing in order to go on the shelves and be available to our students. The overall process is very time consuming but can be broken into small steps. Can you give 1 hour a week and help move these amazing books through one of the steps and into the hands of our children? Our amazing processing station is open all day every school day and can accommodate several amazing workers at a time. Training will be provided. No special skills necessary just your willingness. You'll be amazed how easy it is! Our amazing students are very grateful for your help!
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Calendar Change
We have switched two Rosary times in May.
New times: May 7th at 9:45 a.m. and May 21st at 2:30 p.m.
All are invited to attend.
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School Calendar 2013-2014 (Draft)
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Lunch Reminder
We appreciate your diligence in pre-ordering hot lunches. The sub sandwiches, pasta, and pizza served by Pizza West have been excellent. Thank you for supporting our program and for keeping your lunch accounts up to date. We have the best families at our school!
This week you will be ordering for the week of April 22.
April 22
Mac 'n Cheese Pizza
April 24
Chicken Quesadilla
April 26
No School
**You have until Friday at noon to place Pizza West lunch orders for the following week.**
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May Lunch Menu
The lunch menu is on the our website for the month of May. Please click here to download the menu.
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We have been so appreciative for the number of parent volunteers in our lunchroom lately! The lunchroom runs much smoother when we are not short-staffed. Please consider signing up to assist us. God bless you for giving of your time to serve our school in this way!
We would love to have 3 volunteers from 10:45-12:20 on M/W/F (hot lunch days) and 2 volunteers from 10:45-12:10 on T/TH. (If you need to leave earlier, please make note in the "my comment" section when signing up.)
- Volunteers assist Pizza West with serving, assist students with their lunches, and assist with clean-up.
- All volunteers must be Virtus trained.
- Please remember to sign in at the school office on your scheduled day.
- If you have a last-minute cancellation, sick children, etc., we kindly ask you to please notify the school office if you will not be there. (Please call Mary or Cindy at 422-5520.)
We sincerely thank you in advance for so graciously giving of yourself and serving in this way!
For volunteer sign-up, please copy and paste
the May link into your browser:
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Important BROWN BOTTLE
RAFFLE TICKET Notice
If you received your Brown Bottle raffle tickets in the mail you may have received only five tickets in error. We normally send out ten tickets. If you want to purchase $50 worth of tickets, please feel free to send in your $50 check and we will fill out five additional tickets for you.
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Brown Bottle Dinner & Auction Saturday April 27th
Pre-Auction starts Saturday April 13th!
SACRED HEART BROWN BOTTLE PRE-AUCTION LINE-UP
STARTING Saturday April 13th through Friday, April 26th @ noon!
Click here for the Pre-Auction Line-Up pdf list!
REGISTRATION FOR BIDDING ON PARISH WEBSITE (PARISH EVENTS-BB DINNER & AUCTION-SELECT LINK:
https://qtego.net/auc/shojcc/
We're going paperless!
TEXTING YOUR BID VIA CELL PHONE. IT IS SIMPLE!!!
Go to our parish website: www.shoj.org go to Parish Events- Brown Bottle Dinner and Auction and click on link and Select https://qtego.net/auc/shojcc/ and register. Transactions will not be processed until night of Brown Bottle. All transactions will show "Qtego Auction" Indianapolis, Indiana vs. Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Theresa Schuman
Chair, Sacred Heart Brown Bottle
brown.bottle@shoj.org
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Brown Bottle 2013 Details:
- For Brown Bottle Pre-Auction Bidding click here.
- For Brown Bottle Pre-Auction Line Up click here.
- For Online Ticket Sales click here.
- For downloadable PDF of below flyer click here.
- For downloadable PDF of Seating Chart click here.
How to bid:
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Check High Bid:
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Reply to any Qtego message with the 3-digit Item Number and SEND
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Bid:
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Reply with 3-digit Item Number and Amount and SEND, ex: 123 100
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Max Bid:
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Reply with 3-digit Item Number, your MaxBid amt. & the letter M and SEND,
ex: 123 300 M
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Donate:
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Reply with GIVE followed by amount and SEND, ex: GIVE 1000
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Instant Buys:
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Reply with BUY + 3 Digit Item Number
Ex: BUY 958
If purchasing more than 1, need to enter for each purchase
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Check Status on all Items:
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Reply with STATUS and SEND
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CYO News - Spring 2013
GO CARDINALS!
- CYO Awards Night for all 3rd and 4th Grade CYO Participants, their Parents and Coaches: Monday, May 6th at 6:30 pm, MPC (Light refreshments will be provided).
- CYO Athletic Banquet for all 5th through 8th Grade CYO Participants, their Parents and Coaches: Wednesday, May 8th, at 6:30 pm, MPC (Pizza, drinks and dessert will be provided).
No jeans or shorts, please for these special events! Thank you!
Let's celebrate our youth in CYO!
~ Sacred Heart Athletic Committee
The Sacred Heart Parish Athletic Committee sponsors a CYO Awards Night in May of each year for our 3rd and 4th grade CYO participants and their parents, as well as a CYO Athletic Banquet for our 5th through 8th grade CYO participants and their parents. All CYO participants receive recognition for their participation in CYO sports during the school year.
Jim Finley Award recipients are also announced-this award was established in honor of Jim Finley, who began our CYO athletic program at Sacred Heart Parish. Mr. Finley was our parish Athletic Director for many years and long-time coach of multiple sports at Sacred Heart. The Jim Finley award is given to any 8th grade boy or girl who has participated in each of the CYO sports offered during the school year, from 5th through 8th grade. Jim Finley Award recipients are invited to the Awards Night and Athletic Banquet to give a short talk to our youth.
High school seniors who participated in our CYO program, and who have actively participated in sports programs during high school, are invited to the banquet to give a short talk to our youth. Let's celebrate our youth in CYO!
GO CARDINALS!
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Totus Tuus (totally yours)
comes to Sacred Heart June 9-14!!!
Registration Information
We are thrilled to announce that Totus Tuus (totally yours), a summer vacation Catholic school, is coming to Sacred Heart the week of June 9-14, 2013! The 2013 curriculum is "The Seven Sacraments and the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary." A trained team of college catechists and seminarians on fire with the Holy Spirit will be helping bless our Year of Faith with this beautiful gift to our young disciples. Register now for Totus Tuus offered June 10-14, 2013
Totus Tuus is a summer Catholic youth program for students entering grades K-12. It is dedicated to sharing the gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through evangelization, catechesis, Christian witness, and Eucharistic worship. The curriculum for 2013 is the Seven Sacraments and the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. Our week-long Parish Summer Catechetical Program assists parents in evangelizing and catechizing youth by supplementing the work they are already doing.
Register now at the following link to participate in this extraordinary new youth ministry!
http://www.shoj.org/totus-tuus.asp |
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We are in need of a Coordinator
to work with our Children's Liturgy
of the Word Ministry.
Children's Liturgy of the Word Ministry
(Virtus Trained Volunteers Needed)
What We Do: Celebrate the Word of God with our parish children during the first half of Mass with age appropriate materials. We enrich children's faith by using prayers, songs & questions to help interpret and better understand the teachings in the 1st Reading and the Gospel. Whom We Serve: Little Church (3-5) Liturgy of the Word (6-7) Training: Shadow experience with an existing catechist. Program outline details our steps. Time Commitment: 1 (20 minute) session every 2-6 weeks during Mass.
Coordinator Role:
Work with Ministry Lead, Andy Adkins, to provide ongoing communication with catechists; identify & replenish supplies/materials as needed; make sure appropriate teaching materials are on website for easy access by catechist; provide ongoing communication to Director of Ministry with needs and ideas. The position will require hardly anytime at all, we really just need someone with fresh ideas and an eye for detail who can help our ministry become more organized and efficient! Thank You!! Contact Kathleen Whalen at 913.422.5700 or Kathleen.whalen@shoj.org if you feel called to this role or if you need more information. |
Virtus Site has new sessions scheduled!! Please sign up today if you are interested in volunteering for School, SOR, Youth Groups, Totus Tuus, or any other children's ministry programs at www.virtus.org. You must register online. Anyone 16 years and older is required to attend one of these sessions prior to volunteering. Current Training Scheduled: Protecting God's Children for Adults |
Sacred Heart Needs You!!!
Below is a link for a sign-up genius site that provides opportunities for you and your family to volunteer your services to help the parish in a variety of different ways. This site is updated regularly. These projects are intended for your family to participate in together. Your example and leadership to your children provides them and our parish a strong foundation of service that will only help us all grow stronger together. Sacred Heart needs you!!!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084EA5A92CAA8-family
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St. James Camps and Leagues
It's time to start thinking about Summer Camps!
St. James Academy offers several youth sports camps, high school summer workouts, high school sports and enrichment classes! Please see our website at www.sjakeepingfaith.org - Click on the "Summer Camp 2013 Registration" link under the Activities News Tab on the left hand side of the page for camp dates, descriptions and enrollment instructions for each camp. For questions please contact Mark Huppe at (913) 254-4284. Thank you and we hope to see you at Summer Camp!
This summer St. James Academy will be hosting summer basketball leagues for all boys & girls entering 5th-8th grades next Fall. The leagues will be run by, Stan Dohm & Rich Weitz, Varsity basketball coaches at St. James. The leagues will take place on Monday & Wednesday nights (boys) & Tuesday and Thursday nights (girls). The leagues will start on June 3 and run through June 27. The cost of the league is $50/player. For more information please contact Rich Weitz @ 913-302-8564 or rweitz@sjakeepingfaith.org. |
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Bishop Miege will offer a summer Strength and Speed Academy for students grades 6 - 8
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Camp Invention - St. Paul (Olathe) - Summer 2013
- Click here to download the below flyer and registration.
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Sacred Heart School Policies Reminders:
- All visitors must sign in and wear a badge.
- If your child plans to ride their bike to and from school or plans to walk to and from school without adult supervision, please send a written note to the School front office to let us know.
- For your child's security, parents are not allowed to make unscheduled visits to the classroom, nurse's office, or hallways during school hours. The office will be more than happy to walk your child to class or notify the teacher that there is a lunch, backback, or folder in the office.
- We are always concerned about student confidentiality. If you visit/volunteer at the school we ask that you sign a confidentiality agreement. By signing this you agree not to share information concerning a Sacred Heart Student with anyone but the School Staff.
- Our school welcomes you to join your child for lunch, (you must be VIRTUS trained) we just ask that you refrain from bringing outside fast food and drinks in the lunchroom unless it is your child's birthday or half-birthday.
- When a student has a temperature of 99. 6 degrees or higher, he/she will be sent home from school. The student must be fever free (99.5 degrees or below for 24 HOURS without Tylenol or Advil/Motrin) before returning to school. Also, if the student is ill with vomiting or diarrhea, please keep him /her home until these symptoms are not present for 24 hours. *** Report any contagious disease (strep throat, pink eye, chicken pox, etc.) to the nurse or school office as soon as your child is diagnosed. Following these guidelines will help us keep all students, faculty and staff members healthy.
- No pets are allowed inside the school building. Pets should not be on school grounds except during the annual Blessing of the Animals for the Feast of St. Francis.
- Please do not allow your children to climb on trees on the school grounds.
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