St. Anne’s Parish School, a nonpublic school, believes Catholic values empower our students to live out their faith guided by the Holy Spirit. St. Anne’s community is committed to fulfilling the needs of each child by providing a safe nurturing environment to equip students providing a safe nurturing environment to equip students for life-long learning.
August 6, 2008
Dear St. Anne’s Family,
Welcome
Welcome back for the 2008-09 school year! This fall will mark the 126th year that St. Anne’s has provided Catholic education for the LeSueur community!!
Staff
We will be having one new staff member at St. Anne’s this fall and her name is Cindy Issaacson. Cindy will be taking over for Mrs. Feeney in the kitchen. However, St. Anne’s is not new to Cindy! Cindy sent her children to St. Anne’s and has also devoted many hours volunteering. She has also subbed for us for the past several years in the school office, kitchen and parish office. Welcome Mrs. Isaacson!
We also welcome back our returning teachers: Kindergarten = Miss May, 1st = Mrs. Wolf & Mrs. Segna, 2nd = Ms. Justen, 3rd = Mrs. Powers, 4th = Mrs. Grieves, 5th = Ms. Adams, music = Mrs. Miller, physical education = Mrs. Wavrin and technology = Ms. Wilson. Welcome Back also to our support staff: administrative assistant = Mrs. Rasmusen, hot lunch coordinator/cook = Mrs. Stockwell, custodian = Mr. Buchtel and volunteer librarian Mrs. Blaha.
Giants Day Parade
Sincere thanks to Julie Rabey for heading up the float for Giant Days and to all the adults and students that helped decorate August 2 and rode or walked the parade route on August 3.
Back to School Conferences
Our Back to School Conferences will be on Wednesday afternoon, August 27th.
The sign up schedule will be outside the school office beginning Monday, August 11th.
Please stop by at your convenience to sign up. If this time does not work for you please make alternate arrangements with your child’s teacher. Thank you!
Back to School Picnic
Our annual Back to School Picnic will be Wednesday, August 27, 6:00 P.M. at St. Anne’s School. Hot dogs, lemonade and tableware will be provided. Families A-M are asked to bring a salad and families N-Z are asked to bring a salad. There will be a bus ride for new students and their families at approximately 6:40 while other students may have a playground/kickball game time. Bruce Kelly will head up the kickball game.
Patrons
The Patrons will have their first meeting also on the Back to School Night at 7:15 in the school library. We will be making project assignments and plans for our school marathon.
Members of the Patrons Board are: President – Sue Hynes-Marquette, Vice – Tom Svihel, secretary – Melissa Schwartz and Pam Schwartz, Angie Wilmes, Liz Steinborn, Scott Tiede, Jen Schmitt, Joan Skelly and Kim Froelich. This group is St. Anne’s fund-raising group. They will be asking you for help as their chair projects to raise funds.
School Advisory Group
Our school advisory group had their first meeting for the 2008-09 on Tuesday, August 5. Members of this group are: President – Tom Rabaey, Vice – Al Schwartz, Secretary – Jill Reinhardt and Roger Streeter, Julie Trimbo and Theresa Kelly.
Lunch
Please note that the forms for free and reduced lunch are enclosed. This year lunch prices are: $2.50 for students, $.50 for milk and $3.50 for adults.
This spring, during our administrative review, we were told that we can no longer give juice to students. If your child does not take milk they will need to bring their own beverage.
If your child is lactose intolerant you will need to fill out a form that can be obtained in the school office.
Activities Fee
Each family is asked to pay $20/student for children in grades 1-5 and $25 for kindergarten students. This fee is used for either Time or Weekly Reader, (classroom teacher’s discretion) for special class activities and for a birthday gift for their teacher and support staff. Please make a separate check out to Patrons and give to Mrs. Rasmusen in the school office.
Playground Noontime Supervision
We appreciate parents helping us with noon time supervision. If possible, we would appreciate you signing up for seven times or more of supervision. Our playground noon supervision times will run approximately 11:10 to 12:10. You may begin calling to schedule your seven times of playground times with Mrs. Rasmusen beginning on Monday, August 11th. Please remember that you also have the choice of giving us a donation of $50 rather than volunteering, however, we prefer volunteers.
Used Uniform Sale
We will not be having a “new” uniform sale but will be having a used sale during conferences. If you have uniforms that you would like to donate to St. Anne’s School or sell please drop them off at school anytime before Thursday, August 21. If you have uniforms that you would like to sell please pin an envelope with your name and amount on the uniform. Any used uniforms that are not sold need to be picked up after the picnic or they will become the property of St. Anne’s. Thank you.
New uniforms may be purchased through Donalds or Lands End. Remember to use Scrip!
Enclosed is a copy of our uniform code.
Mrs. Bruss
Mrs. Bruss will again be offering piano lessons to students at St. Anne’s School during the school day for a fee. She does have openings, please call 507-228-8685 if interested. She will also be at our Back to School Picnic.
Grade 5 Environmental Learning Trip
The 5th grade students will be participating in an environmental learning trip in the spring. They will be working at Pioneer Power on August 22 and August 23. They need help to fill out their shifts. If you can help, please give Elaine Cronk a call, 665-4114. They are working in the kitchen and will be serving food.
Call
Please call with questions, 665-2489, cell 952-201-4078 or email, Jord@frontiernet.net, to let us help you.
Continued summer blessings,
Kathleen M. Segna, Principal
“This institution, St. Anne’s School, is an equal opportunity provider.”