Week of February 14th
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
1 John 4:7-9
Early Registration starts next Monday!!
Current families can enroll/reenroll starting February 21st. Early registrants get instant discounts on tuition for next year.
NOTE: I have heard some parents say they already have a FACTS account but this is different!! There are 2 separate accounts!
“FACTS: tuition” (which indeed you already have)
“FACTS: SIS” (student information system) which offers the FAMILY PORTAL through which registration will happen! Not only is the family portal for registration but it is also where you have access to your child’s school attendance records, Report cards, All medical information+ability to update that information at any time for the school, Log your own volunteer hours, and so much more!
Click HERE to go to the family portal
-You may need to create a new login account using the email we have on file. (fist time log in the password is “Portal”)
-The District Code is SJP-MI (you may need this to log in to the JP2 Portal)
Principal’s Note
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:36-40
It is Valentine's Day and our classrooms at Saint JPII are buzzing with sugar-fueled excitement, but who was St. Valentine?
While the stories of the life of the 3rd-century Roman saint are a bit inconsistent, it is understood that due to his refusal to renounce his faith and stop winning souls for Christ, he was martyred on the 14th of February around the year 280AD. Some accounts point to his efforts to marry Christian couples, an illegal activity in then pagan Rome. Whoever he was, Valentine did exist, with archeologists having unearthed a Roman catacomb and an ancient church dedicated to St. Valentine. During the middle ages Valentine's Day was most likely popularized to overpower the pagan holiday, Lupercalia. Although the exact origin of the holiday is not widely agreed upon, it is widely recognized as a day for selfless love, devotion, and romance. He is the Patron Saint of affianced couples, beekeepers, engaged couples, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travelers, and young people. His feast day is celebrated on February 14.
Hearing and Vision screening
The health department will be here on February 28th and March 1st for hearing and vision screening. The following grades will be screened:
Kindergarten Readiness: Hearing & Vision
Kindergarten: Hearing & Vision
1st Grade: Vision
2nd Grade: Hearing
3rd Grade: Vision
4th Grade: Hearing
5th Grade: Vision
7th Grade: Hearing
All students will need a mask for screening. The screeners will have extra masks available. Any hearing or vision concerns will be communicated to the student’s family directly.
Spring Auction
Here we go folks, the Spring Auction committee had their first meeting last week to begin preparations for our biggest annual fundraiser.
There’s lots to be done and we would like to grow our committee! Please consider joining us for the next meeting on March 3rd, 6PM at the academy. This is a wonderful opportunity to get some of those volunteer hours in! We need brainpower to come up with ideas as well as actual day of event volunteers.
We have started to ask donations for :
Small Bucket raffle items
Large Live Auction items
Monetary Signage Ad. donations
If you own or work for or know someone who owns a business who would be interested in supporting our school please ask for the promotional packet to be sent home with your child.
Keep in mind that fundraisers makes up approximately 1/3 of our yearly budget, and it is through fundraisers like this one, that we can try to keep tuition costs low.
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