WEEKLY BROADCAST FEATURED NEWS During this Teacher Appreciation Week, we continue to prepare for next school year and I am very happy to share our staffing for next school year at the Co-Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Middle School. We only have one change to our staffing. Mr. Miller has decided to retire after 40 years of service to St. John and the Rochester Catholic Schools. Thank you Mr. Miller! You will be missed!
DesmaLee Hurtado - Math Teacher Pam Smith - Math Teacher Dayo Powell - Science Teacher Darlene Vincent - Science Teacher Carolyn O'Reilly - English/Religion Teacher Josh Heindel - English/Religion Teacher Amelia Smith - English/Religion Teacher Susan Claypool - Social Studies Teacher Jessica Wilkes - Social Studies Teacher Robin Kehoe - Spanish Teacher Larry Leibovich - Technology Integration Specialist Maureen Sherman - Music Teacher Wendy Hanson - Band Teacher Colleen Streefland - Librarian Physical Education - Open Position Dianne Cameron - Office Manager Becky Murphy - Paraprofessional
SCHOOL NEWS Attendance Parents - Please remind your child(ren) to mark the attendance each day. We are still keeping track of this until the end of the school year. Thank you. St. John chess club on Mondays at 11:30 AM on Zoom St. John is starting a pilot program for the chess club on Mondays from 11:30 to 12 noon. If there are students who are interested in participating, please contact Mrs. Vincent at dvincent@rcsmn.org. St. John's Literary Journal-Winter Issue We're excited to share the newest issue of Time for Literature, the St. John's/St. Pius literary journal, with our school community. For this issue we had 5 St. John's students, along with 22 St. Pius students, contribute their writing. We were happy to receive so many great stories, and hope you enjoy reading them! Please click here to read. We will be having a spring issue of Time for Literature as well. It will look a little different since we won't be able to meet in person, but we would still like to offer interested students the chance to share their creative writing. If your child is interested in participating, please contact Mr. Amundson (bamundson@rcsmn.org) for more information. Mrs. Montoya and Mr. Amundson Counselors Site Here is the link to the site from our counselors Robin Alcala and Nate Tuma. https://sites.google.com/ Schulze Foundation - Grant We are blessed to have been provided with a challenge grant from the Schulze Foundation. The funds from this grant will be used to help make our school even better than it already is. A parent letter can be found by clicking on this Parent Letter link and a flyer regarding how the funds impact the school can be found on this Schulze Flyer link . Please consider helping our school and sharing this with your family and friends.
SYSTEM NEWS Attention families that have registered for Summer Care. RCS has elected to move forward with plans to host our Summer Care program incorporating CDC, along with state and local, health recommendations. An email was sent today directly to those families that have registered a child for Summer Care 2020. It is critically important that we hear back from you by Tuesday, May 12. At this time, we are not accepting any additional registrations for the program. We will continue to communicate with our families when additional information becomes available in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Scrip will continue to be available on a monthly basis effective immediately until further notice. Orders will be due on the second Monday of each month by 10:00 a.m. Pick up schedule will be the following Wednesday and Thursday of those weeks from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Lourdes High School Activities Wing entrance (Ex: May 11 - orders due by 10:00 a.m.; May 13 and May 14 - order pick up). We encourage you to use ShopWithScrip.com to place your orders. If you would like to register, please contact Teresa Goodrich (tgoodrich@rcsmn.org). You may also email your wish list to Teresa with the same order deadline. Only pre-orders will be accommodated. No walk-up sales will be available.
Unfortunately, the June 2020 RCS Washington D.C. Trip has been cancelled. All travelers will receive a full refund. Below is a message from Legacy Travel on the refund process. To receive your refund for this year’s trip, please follow the instructions listed here: Rochester Catholic Schools offers Extended Day AM and PM Supervision Programs at Holy Spirit Catholic School for K-5, St. Francis of Assisi School for K-8; and St. Pius X School for K-5. Extended Day AM runs from 6:30 a.m. - 8:20 a.m. and Extended Day PM begins after school until 6:00 p.m. The Extended Day AM Supervision Program is also offered at the Co-Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Middle School for grades 6-8. Now is the time to sign up if you will need this service for the 2020 -2021 school year. You will have the option to utilize the service everyday, specific days per week, or on a drop-in basis. The fee for the Extended Day AM program is $10.00 per day/per student, and the fee for the Extended Day PM program is $10.00 per day/per student. There will be a $10.00 late fee for every five minutes that students are in the Extended Day PM program after 6:00 p.m. Staffing is determined by the number of students signed up by May 20, 2020. Please click here to sign up by May 20, 2020. The Catholic Foundation of Southern MN is pleased to again offer financial support from the Seeds of Faith Catholic School Tuition Assistance Endowment for the 2020-2021 school year. The Seeds of Faith scholarships are need-based, and these funds are available to families who wish to have their students attend Catholic schools but have limited income and work opportunities. This is not an academic scholarship fund. The application deadline is May 15, 2020.
SYSTEM ACTIVITIES On Tuesday, May 19th @ 6 pm there will be an informational ZOOM meeting for the 2020 volleyball season. All girls entering grades 7-12 for the 2020-21 school year are welcome to attend. Information about summer opportunities, camps, training programs and pre-season will be discussed. Please reach out to Coach Angie Severson via email and the meeting link will be provided to you. Email address: aseverson@rcsmn.org UPCOMING EVENTS
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