Dear St. Mary Catholic School Families,

During the month of Mary, we honor our Blessed Mother in several ways.  Some of you may have noticed that we begin each day with a Hail Mary instead of the Lord’s Prayer.  A tradition of St. Mary School is to bring flowers to be placed at each of the St. Mary statues.  Each class is assigned to one of them on our campus.  Beginning Monday, children are invited to bring garden flowers to be placed in the vases.  The teachers are aware of the assigned statues.

I’d like to congratulate Jordan Selden(8^th) and Harper Williams(6^th) who had won first place at the Science Olympiad Regional awards held in Wilmington.  Last weekend they traveled to Raleigh to compete in the State Science Olympiad Tournament where they placed 18^th out of 46 students with their “Heredity” project.

Our school and I were honored this week by Office of the Secretary of Defense as a Patriotic Employer for supporting the National Guard and Reserve.  I will post the award in the school entrance.

Filling Sister’s Pantry – As our final Student Council outreach project of the school year, we will again sponsor a food drive for Sr. Isaac’s pantry.  During the summer months the pantry becomes depleted.  We are including a list of the needed items and a bag to put them in for delivery to school on May 16^th.  The 8^th grade students have chosen a special theme for this Dress Down Day – “Wacky, Tacky”.  The youngest and only child will receive the bag.  We will have extra bags if you wish to have one.

We appreciate all of your help.

The list:  Tuna, macaroni and cheese, soup, crackers, spaghetti and/or sauce, canned ravioli, Spaghetti 0’s, peanut butter, jelly, cereal, rice, and oatmeal.

The tuition rates have been set for the upcoming school year.
Other faiths – $6,150
Participating Catholic – $4,950
Falcon’s Nest PreK – $2,625 (all faiths)

The school calendar 2012-2013 has been posted on the school website.  Below are some reminders of dates for the month of May.

May 10 – Sports Awards, 6:30
May 16 – Dress Down Day
May 22 – Spring Concert, K-3, 6:30, Upper Rm.
May 24 – Spring Concert, 4-8, 6:30, Upper Rm.
May 25 – Passing of the Colors, 9:15, Church
May 28 – HOLIDAY
May 29 – Schoolbelles Uniforms, 12-7, Lower School
May 30 – PreK4 Parent Program, 8:30
June   1 -  Middle School Dance
June   5 – PreK3 Parent Program, 11:15

Blessings,

Mrs. Joyce Price

Dear St. Mary School Families,

Field Day was a wonderful success.  We had students and families on both sides of the parking lot today.  Thank you to our PreK parents who created and staffed the activities for our 3 and 4 year olds this morning. Thanks to Mr. Murphy and his committee for organizing a great morning of fun activities for the K-8 students.  I have quite a few items in my trunk that were left behind at Shelter I today.  I will place the jackets and water bottles  on a table in the cafeteria on Monday to be claimed.  Great thanks go to the 8th grade students who stepped up and shared their leadership abilities leading all the younger classes at each game station.

I want to congratulate the 2011-2012 7th Grade Duke Talent Search participants.  Eligibility for participation is an honor requiring exceptional academic ability.  This year those qualifying were Thomas Craven, Christopher Ferzola, Ryan Lopez-Merrill, Paige Lowery, Colleen Martinez, and Marissa Rhyne.  All of these students took the SAT or ACT.

Congratulations to Marissa Rhyne!  Marissa qualified for State Recognition and for the Center for Summer Studies!

Beginning next weekend and the following weekend, some of our 2nd graders will be receiving First Holy Communion.

We send our condolences to the Stanfield Family (William-5th and Walker-3rd).  Mr. Stanfield’s father passed away this week.

Blessings,
Mrs. Joyce Price