St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School

Announcements

• Lunchskins

  New Lunchskins are here - Please click on the link for the order form

  Contact us at GreenTeam@stthomas-school.net with any questions.  Thank you!

  Carolyn Kinskey & Jennifer Shields ; STS Green Team

• Family Movie Night

  Family Movie Night

  Join us in the St Thomas School Gymnasium

  On Saturday, May 19^th

  Doors open at 6:00 with movie starting around 6:30

  To watch the movie

  How To Train your Dragon

  Bring pillows, blankets, or lawn chairs to spread out on the gym floor

  Bring a picnic dinner to share with your family or friends

  Soda, popcorn, and candy will be for sale!

  Hope to see you there!

• Comet Cash

  Do you want to save money off your school tuition?

  Don't forget about buying comet cash!   

   

  This is a script program in which you buy gift cards to help you pay for groceries, gas, dining out, local and national retailers and even getting your car washed.    For every gift card you buy, a percentage of the sale comes back to our school.  50% of that money goes to help send our teachers to required continuing education classes, and 50% goes towards paying your school tuition!   For example - if you spend $200 per week in groceries, and buy a Kroger Card which pays 3% back, that equals $6 dollars per week, $3 of which goes to the school, and $3 goes to you.   Over the course of 52 weeks, that equals $156 dollars off your tuition.   Add in $100 a week for gas (easily done these days) at 3%, which equals $78 dollars per year in tuition savings as well.   This adds up to a grand total of $234 dollars per year off your tuition just to pay for things you have to buy every week.   And the best thing is it costs you nothing extra to do fundraising for our school and your tuition!   

  We have set a goal to raise $12,000 dollars for our teachers and $12,000 in tuition savings this year.   We are currently at $10,500 and need your help to meet this goal by May 31^st. 

  If this goal is met, the students will receive an out of uniform day at school!  Please purchase comet cash in these next two months.   Remember comet cash can also make great gifts for Mother's day, end of the year teacher gifts, and birthday presents.   If you have any questions about how to sign up for this program or purchase comet cash, please contact Jill Seaton at 648-9911. Order forms are available on Renweb, and they can be sent in through school and the cards will be sent back home with your student.   You can also buy these cards after all the masses every weekend.  Thanks for your support of this program!

• Schedule Appointments for 2012-2013
  Physical Exams: The state of Illinois requires a current physical , with up -to -date immunizations, for all students entering Preschool, K & 6th grade.

  Dental Exams: Dental exams are required for students in K, 2nd & 6th grades.

  Eye Exams: Required for Kindergarteners only. The    exam must be from an eye doctor, not your family doctor or pediatrician.

  All exams must be turned in to the school office before August 1 in order for your enrollment to be complete.

  Please refer to the  flyer from the Peoria County Health Department.

  Please also refer to the Catholic Diocese Policy on health examinations

   

• Directory
  If you need to see a directory we have uploaded it to Renweb under Resource Documents. For your convenience you may also access it here. You may print out a copy if you wish!
   
  Click here for the Directory
• Spiritwear
  Families may now order spiritwear. Please use the following link

  http://stthomascomets.promoshop.com

  All orders are done on-line. Turn around is a week to 10 days! Order early so you will have your order by our November Spirit Day!
   
• Accelerated Reader
  To get to the Accelerated Reader page click here https://hosted113.renlearn.com/183585/HomeConnect
  Username is child's first and last name. Password is their initials.
• Accelerated Reader
  This is the book wizard site. You can plug in a students reading level and then search for books under a certain category that they are interested. So for example, if you click leveled search, you can say that you have a 4th grader, you want a chapter book, and they enjoy adventure books. When you click search, it will pull up a list of books for you, tell you the level, interest level, and whether or not is an AR book. Just wanted to pass this along!
   
  http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do
• School Handbook
  See School Information,  Resource Documents on the left-hand side of the home page for a copy of the student handbook.
• Website
  For additional updates and information, please refer to our website school.stthomaspeoria.org

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