Principal Notes - February 21, 2020

A Note from Mrs. Rooney
The Archdiocese has provided St. Cecilia with a Customer Satisfaction Survey to gather data as a part of our Strategic Planning Initiative. The survey can be found at the following link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVy1PFoav5-DRHdIy3MtjCjvnReHuXoht5BNdjdKZ1I3ZFNA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Please complete the survey by Tuesday, March 3 2020. Thank you! Sara Rooney

Parent Teacher Conferences
Please sign up for your parent-teacher conferences  which will be held on March 10-12. Please remember that our conference schedule and week is different than the area public schools. Our conferences are 15 minutes in length, so please be on time. Our schedule is shown below.  Use this link to sign up for your conference slots by Sunday, March 1st:  https://signup.com/go/tdcWTVw 

FSA Book Fair & Food Sign Up
FSA is looking for volunteers to help with the book fair and to provide some goodies for the staff during conference week.  Please use the following links to sign up if you are interested.  Your help is much appreciated. 
Book Fair
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0D4CA9AB2EA2F85-book9
Food for Staff
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0D4CA9AB2EA2F85-food12

Strategic Planning Initiative Meetings - All are Welcome to Attend
Please join us in the St. Louis Room to discuss our Strategic Planning Initiative for St. Cecilia School. We will be asking for input on Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) in regard to the school. This information will be used in our strategic goal planning. You are welcome to attend one or all of the following meetings:
-Thursday, March 5th 9-10 a.m.
-Friday, March 6th 9-10 a.m.
-Monday, March 9th 9-10 a.m.
If you have any questions, please contact the school office. Thank you and hope to see you at one of the meetings!

New eCatholic School Website
We have launched our new school website through eCatholic. Our new URL is:  https://school.stceciliaparish.org/  However, you can still get to our school tab through the parish website. We have streamlined some information and hope you like the new look. Thank you for checking it out!

FACTS Student Tuition Organization (STO)
The FACTS online application for STO opened on January 1, 2020 and the deadline will be  April 15th. In addition to completing the application, parents will need to upload their 2019 federal tax return along with any other required schedules or tax documentation. The online FACTS application for STO award consideration is open and available at  https://online.factsmgt.com/aid  

Heart Month in PE
We are participating in many fun educational heart activities during PE this month.  As a part of heart month, students have already done the heart obstacle course and we kicked off the Kids Heart Challenge this week with an assembly from the American Heart Association.  Students now have the opportunity to collect donations to help in fighting heart disease.  Our goal this year is to collect $4000 at St Cecilia.  All students are welcome to sign up online to learn more about ways they can have a healthy heart and collect donations.  However, no donations are required to register and the class with the most online registrations will help their teacher earn an Amazon Gift Card!  All donations are due February 25th.  Students who collect at least $100 will be invited to our special heart heroes after school party sometime in March with a special guest.

Mrs. DuBois will be posting updates each week on the St Cecilia PE Facebook Page and also be showing all the fun heart activities students will be doing during PE classes.  Should you have any questions, please email Mrs. DuBois  sdubois@staceciliaschoolames.org

Box Tops
The Box Tops spring school submission deadline is fast approaching!  Look for a flyer in your child's Friday folder.  You can attach your clipped box tops to the flyer or put them in a Ziploc bag and turn them in to your teacher.  You can also put the Ziploc bags in the hallway collection box.  The deadline for turning them in is Monday,  February 24th .  If you use the Box Tops for Education mobile app and scan your store receipts for the Box Tops, those are automatically submitted for the school.  There is currently a promotion going on right now through the mobile app.  For every receipt you scan for Box Tops in February, it puts St. Cecilia Catholic School in a drawing for 5,000 bonus Box Tops.   A total of 5 schools will each win 5,000 Bonus Box Tops.  So download the mobile app and start scanning your receipts today!
Thanks,
Ginny Coady

SCRIP
SCRIP orders incentives.  During the month of February, SCRIP will be having a little contest.  Every family that participates in Scrip will be entered into our drawing.  No family can win twice in the month.  
Our drawings will be:
Feb 3rd = PetSmart $25 - Clausen - (Campell)
Feb 10th = TacoBell $10 - Loecke - (Hand)
Feb 17th = Staples $25 (TBA)
Feb 24th = Cold Stone $15

Good Luck and thank you for using our SCRIP program.

Lenten Small Group for Moms
Join Melissa Teggatz (Coordinator of Elementary Faith Formation) for a Lenten Small Group for Moms!  The group will be held on Wednesdays from 10:00-11:30am (after School Mass) in the St. Louis Room beginning February 26th (Ash Wednesday) and running through Holy Week (April 8th).  For more details and to sign up please email Melissa ( mteggatz@stceciliaparish.org) .

Meals Needed
Jaime Wandling (mom of Troy and Reid) has started her chemotherapy journey at Mayo. Please consider signing up to help with meals for the boys while they stay in Ames. They greatly appreciate the meals and prays-keep them coming!      https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0548a4a72ca5fc1-wandling   
 
School Events
Wednesday, February 26: All School Mass 9AM - Ash Wednesday
Friday, February 28: Spirit Day "Bury the Dead". Students may dress out of uniform for a suggested donation of $1