Weekly “Knights” News
March 26, 2021
Luck of the Irish Winners: Thank you for your support!
3/1 Brandan Hill 3/11 Lynn Hill 3/21 Amanda Baldwin
3/2 Eileen Mardon 3/12 Matt Skiba 3/22 Al Symington
3/3 Carol Schrom 3/13 Deb Smith 3/23 Kelly Finelli
3/4 Jill Brimmer 3/14 Nancy Steiner 3/24 Rosanne Werger
3/5 Roseanne Fitzgerald 3/15 Candyse Clarke 3/25 John Houser
3/6 Karla Jones 3/16 Mike Ciccarelli 3/26 Casey Agnew
3/7 Colleen Halse 3/17 Kellie Ryan 3/27 Karen Geary
3/8 Amy Magur 3/18 Angela Cordes 3/28 Casey Agnew
3/9 Tina Walsh 3/19 Stephanie Piel
3/10 Noreen McMahon 3/20 Mike Keegan
Next Week – 4/1 Holy Thursday & 4/2 Good Friday No School/No CASE.
Monday, 4/5 to Friday, 4/9 Easter Recess, No School/No CASE.
We hope that you and your family have a Blessed Easter. Enjoy Spring!
St. Jude the Apostle Summer Camp WILL open this summer!!!! More information went in your child’s backpack. Some of the exciting details include:
- Open to all children age 3 through incoming 6th graders.
- 9 weeks of summer camp! The more weeks you register for, the lower the cost.
- Breakfast, lunch & popsicles provided daily!
- Bounce house days, water fun days, McDonalds days, crafts, cooking days, bike days, and so much more fun!!!
If you wish to enroll for the summer camp, please return the registration paper and fee to the school office. These can be found on our school website if you misplaced the one that was sent home.
Street Soldiers of Troy – St. Jude the Apostle School is having a collection drive to help the local organization, Street Soldiers of Troy. They serve the most vulnerable among us and we are happy to support them! Please have your child(ren) bring in these canned items by April 21st.
Pre-K canned tuna
Kindergarten-2nd gr. canned chicken
Grades 3-5 canned Vienna sausages
Grade 6 a SignUpGenius will be created to collect items for making sandwiches
Stations of the Cross – We will be celebrating Station of the Cross each Friday with the following schedule:
3/26 – Grades 1-5
3/31 – All Grades: K & 6 @ 9:30 and 1-5 at 1:15
Clynk It – Start saving those returnable bottles! Create your account at www.CLYNK.com. Bag it, tag it and drop it at your local Hannaford Supermarket! Let us know if you need any more bagsJ We have had such an overwhelming response to this fundraiser that we have had to order more bags!!! Keep sending in your requests for bags, and we will get them home to you! Thank you!!
Mighty Kicks Are Back! – 8 week season for Pre-K 3 & 4 on Monday mornings in school beginning April 12th. The cost for this session is $85.00. Information went home. Sign up at the link below:
https://forms.zohopublic.com/capitalkicksinc/form/StJudeSpringRegistration/formperma/CM-yJDKN6o9oBE_fi_5nJ0-fXCIHbxR-wK5BD6thk7I
Use of Online Daily Attestation Form – ALL families need to complete the online attestation prior to 7am each day to allow us time to download, print and disperse the daily report to all staff members located at school entrances. This will also require ALL parents of drop-off students to accompany their child(ren) to the entrance to show your completed screen to the staff member assigned to your child’s entrance. For siblings, parents/adults will need to take a screen shot of all siblings’ approval screens to be able to show the staff member at the door each day. If multiple adults drop your child(ren) off at school during the week, please share the link or the daily screenshot(s) with that adult doing the drop off. Remember that the screen color changes daily to ensure that we do not admit a child whose attestation has not been submitted. For children who ride buses to school, Miss Larkin will use the printed report to grant entrance to those children.
https://entry.neric.org/rcdaschools
LUCK OF THE IRISH RAFFLE
We are raffling off $100 each day in March and $1,000 on St. Patrick’s Day! Thank you for the wonderful job everyone did selling tickets! Our current class standings are as follows:
1st place Kindergarten – 255 tickets sold
2nd place Mrs. Freyssinier’s Pre-K – 214 tickets sold
3rd place 4th/5th Grade – 194 tickets sold
Kindergarten has won the pizza & ice cream party for being the class that sold the most tickets! They will be rewarded with the party on Tuesday, April 13th. Our 1st grade will also be given a pizza & ice cream party for being the top sellers for last year’s raffle prior to the Covid shutdown. Congratulations to Kindergarten!!
Please return any unsold tickets to the school office!
Please make sure your child/children are coming to school with a clean mask on. Please wash
masks nightly. If they come to school with a dirty mask they will be given a paper mask.
Reminder for Drop-off & Pick-up Families – When dropping off students in the morning, cars may not park on either side of Dana Avenue (in front of school). Cars that do so are blocking a fire lane and blocking traffic. ALL cars must park in the school parking lot, and parents must exit their vehicles to accompany their children to their assigned entrances. For families that pick-up students at dismissal, you must loop through the school parking lot and exit back out Dana Avenue toward Hidley Rd. Ext. YOU CANNOT PASS BUSES WAITING TO BOARD STUDENTS NEAR THE CHURCH!!! Doing so is against the law and North Greenbush police have received complaints of our families violating this law during dismissal. Please comply with procedure for the safety of all of our students and staff!
School Store Fundraiser – This fundraiser helps our teachers earn materials for their classrooms. Family members and friends can earn money for our school while doing their regular shopping. Our families have earned the school nearly $8,000.00 to be used for classroom supplies. Orders have been delivered! Christmas came a little early for our teachers. Pictures were shared on the school’s Facebook page. Keep shopping and earning money for our school!
Health Office Update 3/19/21 – Health Office – There have been questions about traveling and if the regulations have changed. The travel requirements are listed on this website:
St. Jude’s will continue to use the online daily questionnaire for the students and staff. Please remember to fill out the questionnaire by 7AM daily for each student. For a student who is in-person or doing remote learning the questionnaire still needs to be submitted daily. If your child is not feeling well, please fill out the questionnaire with answering “yes” for that student. If the student has a sibling(s), they will also need to stay home until a diagnosis is received by a provider for the sick student. Please answer “no” for the sibling(s) until a diagnosis is given. The Department of Health protocol requires any sick student to be seen by a provider within 48 hours from the onset of symptoms. The provider will then decide if a covid test is needed. Either a note from the provider with a diagnosis and/or a negative covid test will be needed prior to returning to school. The documentation can be faxed or emailed to the school.
If a student is under DOH quarantine for exposure or for testing positive, a release letter from DOH will need to be faxed or emailed to the school PRIOR to the student returning to school.
Guidelines and protocols change often. Please call or email me if you have any questions or concerns bvermilya@stjudetheapostleschool.org . We are doing our best to keep our St. Jude families up to date.
Live Streamed Masses –The Parishes of St Michael the Archangel and St Jude the Apostle are continuing to live stream daily and weekend Masses. Especially during this difficult time, as the whole world is inflicted with the Covid-19 virus, we can come together to pray for healing and peace for all the people of God. Daily Masses are at 8:00 am Monday thru Friday; and Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 12:10 pm. Weekend Masses are 4:00 pm Saturday and 10:00 am Sunday. You may attend these Masses, ALL are welcome, or they can be viewed at either parish Facebook page. Click on the Parish Facebook link, or enter the Church Name and Location and Facebook into the search bar of your Facebook page or any web browser: St Jude Wynantskill Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StJudesWynantskill/ St Michael the Archangel Troy Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StMichaelTroyNY Come worship with us!
If you would like to donate to our collection you may do so through the Parish website http://parishes.rcda.org/stjude/ by either PayPal donate button or filling out an electronic giving form and sending it to Patti Mugrace mugrap@gmail.com .
Thank you,
Fr. Anthony
When Shopping Don’t forget our Online Fundraisers – As always we have our running fundraisers! So please continue to keep us in mind!
Price Chopper – Go to https://www.pricechopper.com/tools-schools and register your Price Chopper Advantage card with school code 15906.
Amazon Smile – Go to https://smile.amazon.com/ and choose St. Jude the Apostle School as your charity of choice. Every time you shop at Amazon, use amazon.com when you shop and .5% of every purchase will go to support the school. Thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com, or with AmazonSmile turned on in the Amazon shopping app, everyday purchases generated over $236 million in donations to charities worldwide so far.
- $233.81 to St. Jude the Apostle School*
- $216,932,702.17 to all charities in the US
- $236,903,641.58 to all charities worldwide
Hannaford Helps Schools – Shopping Online with Hannaford To Go – Look for the apple icon to shop more than 1,500 products online and earn money for your school! Turn in any School Dollars you collect to the collection tower in the Wynantskill store by Saturday, May 29th, 2021.
Shopping In-Store – Look for shelf tags on more than 1,500 products in-store and earn money for your school!
- Collect your School Dollars from an associate at checkout, then deposit your School Dollars in the collection tower in the Wynantskill store.
April Reminders
4/1 Holy Thursday No School/No CASE
4/2 Good Friday No School/No CASE
4/5-4/9 Easter Recess No School/No CASE
Thinking ahead
Graduation Ceremonies will be held at St. Jude the Apostle Church on June 21, 2021.
Pre-K 11:00AM
Grade K 1:00PM
Grade 5 5:30PM
Grade 6 7:00PM
Last day of school 6/23 Half Day 11:00AM Dismissal
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