Envision the Future - St Nicholas Academy · is “Habitually truant” if they are absent for 5 or...

Envision the Future 170 Siebenthaler Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45215 Phone (513) 686-2727 www.stnacademy.org

May 13, 2015 May Saint – St. Dominic Virtue – Having a good attitude A look at events coming up:

Friday, May 15 – 8:00am, Lighting the Way Mass – Last 8th Grade Mass!! Thursday, May 21 – 7:00pm, 8th Grade Graduation at Holy Trinity (all are invited!) Friday, May 22 – 8:00am – May Crowning Mass Monday, May 25 – Memorial Day, NO SCHOOL Tuesday, May 26 – FIELD DAY – more information to come Wednesday, May 27 – LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! EARLY DISMISSAL – 11:00! Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s), Enrollment for the 2015-2016 school year is ongoing! If you are planning on registering for next year, please do so as soon as possible. If you know of anyone looking for a school for next year, please send them our way! Grades 1, 4, 5, and 6 are getting close to capacity! Field Day will be held on Tuesday, May 26. I would like to ask if any families, parents, places of work, etc., would be willing to donate any items for lunches for the kids. We are planning on hot dogs (with buns), chips, a fruit, Gatorade/water, and a cookie for dessert. If you can help out in the kitchen at lunch time or if you are willing to donate any of the above items, please email me or contact me to arrange whatever needs to be done. We will have about 200 kids participating with about 15 staff members also. Any and all help is very much appreciated!! We are looking for a full-time summer maintenance worker to help with all the cleaning, etc. that goes on in the school. Mr. O’Shea needs an extra hand with all that goes on. There is a lot of furniture moving, cleaning, floor work, and other various things that we do. It could be an adult or even a high school or college student who needs to make some extra money this summer. The hours are 6:30am-3:00pm Monday through Friday and will begin on June 1 and end on August 14. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please let me know as soon as possible. If you are available on Wednesdays next year to help out in the library, please contact the school. The library will be run on mostly parent help next year and we need to have another person to round out the schedule. MORE ON THE NEXT PAGE!!


The past few weeks we have had a very large problem with students being tardy to school. Each day we have around 20 students – 10% of our population – who are late to school. It has come to a head today with 27 students who were tardy today. This is not acceptable. As I have said in the past, I understand the occasional situation in which a student or students may be late to school – I know how crazy homes can be in the morning. I talk to the students a lot about getting things done the night before – lunches packed, uniforms laid out, showers taken, backpacks ready to go, etc. Next year, it will be SNA policy that 3 tardies will be equal to 1 unexcused absence. Ohio law states that a student is “Habitually truant” if they are absent for 5 or more consecutive school days, 7 or more days in one month, or 12 or more days per year without a legitimate excuse. “Chronic truant” is defined a student who is absent for 7 or more consecutive days, 10 or more days in one month, or 15 or more days in a year. With our new policy next year, these could apply to a number of students! We will employ the services of the Hamilton County Educational Services Center to follow up on ANY and ALL attendance issues. Once things reach a certain point, the situation will be out of my hands!

Coming up on June 5 and 6, the SNA school board will be meeting with Mr. Bruce Vincent regarding the beginning of a Strategic Plan for St. Nicholas Academy. The board is very excited to meet with Mr. Vincent and start this journey, but we would like to ask for input from you also! The school board would like to ask for all to think about and offer practical, workable suggestions to this question:

What can St. Nicholas Academy do within the next few years to become stronger and have a more secure future?

You can email me your thoughts and I can forward them on, you can email or talk to any member of the board, or send something to school so we can forward it on. Thank you for all of your thoughts and ideas! Thank you all so much for your thoughts, prayers, and kind words regarding my surgery coming up in June. It will be a tough recovery, but we are confident that it is the right thing to do. I ask for your continued prayers as the process is ongoing.

Thanks for all you do!!

Mr. Fightmaster


May 13, 2015 Dear Parents/Guardians, During the month of March, grades 3, 4, 6, and 7 took the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) while grade 2 took the Cognitive Abilities (CogAT) test, and grade 5 took both the ITBS and CogAt. We have received the scores and there is a Parent Report that I am sending home today with this letter. The reason for this letter is to help you better understand what is on the report. Grades 3-7 will receive scores from the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. This test consists of the major subjects of Reading/Language, Math, Social Studies, and Science. Students are assessed and then their scores are reported in percentiles. The report does a nice job of explaining the NPR rank and score. The NPR is the National Percentile Rank and ranks students compared to other students who took this test. For example – if a student receives a 55 NPR score, they scored higher than 55% of other students who took this same test. The PNPR is the predicted score based on the CogAt test explained below. For your information also ELA stands for English/Language Arts. Then everyone will also have a CogAt score while the 2nd grade will ONLY have a CogAt score. The Cognitive Abilities test has 3 sections – Verbal, Quantitative, and Nonverbal. The Verbal section measures flexibility, adaptability, and reasoning with spoken materials and in solving verbal questions. The Quantitative test uses figures and concepts related to problem solving skills in math and other disciplines. Finally the Nonverbal test evaluates reasoning abilities using geometric figures and shapes. From this test we get the Standard Age Score (SAS) and other percentile ranks. The Standard Age Score compares your student’s performance with other students his/her age. The “average” Standard Age Score is 100. The Percentile Rank is explained above. The stanine score uses a 9-point scale with an average of 5, 1 being the lowest score and 9 being the highest score. Please keep in mind that this test is a measuring tool that we use as a school to see what we are doing well and what needs to be worked on in the future. This was not a Pass/Fail test and will not appear on any Report Card or Progress Report. You may keep this for your files at home as we have stickers that are put in the students’ files here. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and the report.

Mr. Fightmaster


FATHER/DAUGHTER DANCE FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015

DESSERTS NEEDED

I am looking for volunteers to bake or buy desserts to be served at the Father/Daughter dance. These desserts can be dropped off in the gym after school on Friday the 16th until the dance starts. Please RSVP to [email protected] if you are able to help. I want to make sure we have enough drinks and goodies for everyone attending. Thank you in advance for your help and support of this great night. COST: $15.00 A COUPLE - $5.00 FOR EACH EXTRA DAUGHTER

COST : $15 per father / daughter couple ($5 each add’l girl)

price includes desserts, drinks, and one photo of the couple(additional photos may be purchased at an additional cost)

Music provided by Cincy DJ Entertainment

Friday May 15, 7-10 pmGrades K-8 in the SNA gym

Please contact Tonya Mullins

or Wendy Baker

to let them know which desserts you can donate!

[email protected][email protected]

S.N.A. Library News

May 13, 2015

Greetings from the S.N.A. Library!

The SNA Library is officially closed

today.

All Library books are due immediately.

If you cannot find a book that was

checked out to your child, a notice will

be coming home in the next few days.

We would rather have the book, but if

you cannot find it, please send in the

payment.

Thanks for a wonderful year!

Mrs. Adleta, Mrs. Hoerst, Mrs. Pennington, Mrs.

Schmits


Townsend Learning Center 1375 Kemper Meadow Dr. #1 Forest Park, OH 45240 Ph: 513-742-5510 Website: townsendtestprep.com

Townsend Test Prep will be having an INFORMATION NIGHT for

Parents/Legal Guardians of current 7th grade students who are thinking

about attending Catholic High Schools. Gary Bohnlein, who is nationally

known for his test preparation courses, will speak about the HSPT course

to be offered at St. Nicholas Academy. The discussion will also include

information about what you can do to help your student, possible summer

programs, and the testing and admissions process in the Cincinnati area.

All St. Nicholas Academy 7th grade parents/legal guardians are

invited!! The workshop will include:

A calendar of generally when the various schools have “Entrance Events”

An explanation of the High School Entrance Test (HSPT) Options for preparation for the HSPT A discussion of how students can pick the best high school for

them. The program will not promote any individual High School

Door prizes – Two $25.00 gift cards will be given away to drawing winners.

TIME / DATE: 7:00 PM – Thursday May 14, 2015 LOCATION: St. Nicholas Academy (Spanish Classroom)


Special Choir and Bell Choir Eighth Grade Graduation Mass!!

St. Nicholas Academy’s Eighth Graders will be celebrating their Graduation Mass at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 21 at Holy Trinity Church. We will be forming a special Choir of any students from grades 2 through 7 who would like to participate and help give a wonderful send-off to our 8th grade class. The practice times will be during the school day. For more information, contact Alice Barnes [email protected]

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I give my permission for_________________________________________________________ Grade / Homeroom_______________ to participate in the St. Nicholas Academy Eighth grade Graduation Mass at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 21, at Holy Trinity Church in Norwood. Phone Numbers ________________________________________________ Email address __________________________________________________ Parent/Guardiansignature____________________________________________________ Date________________________

Please detach and return this form to your homeroom teacher by Friday, May 15. 2015


ATTENTION PARENTS OF SIXTH GRADERS!

URGENT IMMUNIZATION REMINDER Ohio law has additional requirements for immunizations. Your sixth

grade child MUST have one additional vaccine before they can enter the seventh grade. Please check your child’s records to be sure that he/she has the following:

Tdap Vaccine – 1 dose Tdap offers adolescents and adults added protection against pertussis (whooping cough). It may also prevent the transmission from adolescents and adults to infants. It is important to get an early start on updating your child’s immunizations. Please send an updated written immunization record ASAP to the school. The school must have written documentation of this vaccine prior to entry into the seventh grade.

Betsy Erbeck RN at 686-2727(school), 254-7187(cell),

[email protected]


The SNA Athletics Council is pleased to announce registration for 2015 Fall Sports is now OPEN. Below is a link to the registration website - to register your child you will need to open the link, create a username and password, and then register (If you have a child that played a Sport in 2014-2015 you use the same username and password created to sign them up for that)!

Remember if this is the first sport your child plays this year the original registration is $75, which includes your inclusion to the 250 Club. Each additional registration is $25 per sport.

Please note the sports SNA is offering this Fall include Boys’ Football (K-8), Boys’ Soccer (K-8), Girls’ Soccer (K-8) and Girls’ Basketball (3-8). If there are not enough registrants for a given sport/level then a team may not be fielded for that particular sport/level.

We would like to have as many registrations as possible by May 31. If you have a child who attends St. Nicholas or your child attends ERE at OLSH, Holy Trinity, St. Saviour, Sts. Peter & Paul or St. John’s and would like to play a fall sport for St. Nicholas, PLEASE sign up before then.

Here is the link:

http://sports.bluesombrero.com/Default.aspx?tabid=602597

Thank You,

GO KNIGHTS!

Christy Pfeffenberger’s Volleyball Camps

Muskie Camp Grades 1-‐4 July 6-‐9

9am-‐12pm $100

Skill Sessions Grades 6-‐12 July 6-‐9

July 6th: Serving & Passing July 7th: Setting & Attacking July 8th: Defense & Blocking

July 9th: Volleyball IQ 1pm-‐4pm

See website for complete Skills Sessions descriptions

$40 each session OR $140 for all four sessions

Youth Camp Grades 5-‐8 July 6-‐9

9am-‐12pm $130

Team Challenge Grades 9-‐12 July 6-‐9 5pm-‐8pm $450/team

All Skills Camp Grades 8-‐12 July 10-‐12

See website for All-‐ Skills Camp schedule

$240

Visit www.CoachPfeffVolleyballCamps.com

to register!

Summer Learning PROGRAMS FOR KIDS

My Daddy "Rgads . , Join acclaimed visual artist, author, and arts educator Annie Ruth and lyricist Teniah for an interactive performance of music, poetry, storytelling, and song. Tuesday, July 21 2:00 p.m. All ages welcome

gc'ieuce Matters in Afnerica Wow! Science is awesome! This program has it all - a disappearing and reappearing message, floating bubbles, toothpaste for an elephant, and more! Tuesday, July 28 2:00 p.m. Ages 6-12

Lego Club Tuesdays, July 28 6 August 25 6:30 p.m. Ages 6-12 Design & build fun creations with our Legos!

Brain Camp for Kids- Al l gtar Explorers Come explore the wonderful world around us during this week-long Brain Camp. We wil l read great stories, play fun games, experiment with science & create themed crafts. Monday-Friday, August 3-7 2:00-5:00 p.m. Grades 1 -5 Registration required.

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Major League Memory Batter up! Test your skills and compete for prizes playing memory with our large-scale MLB logo cards. Tuesday, July 14 2:00 p.m. Ages 6-12

A r t Club Be inspired by artist famous artists and make fun creations! Tuesday, July 14 - String Painting Tuesday, August 11 - Monet's Water Lilies 6:30 p.m. Ages 6-12

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Summer Learning PROGRAMS FOR KIDS

My Daddy "Reads Join acclaimed visual artist, author, and arts educator Annie Ruth and lyricist Teniah for an interactive performance of music, poetry, storytelling, and song. Tuesday, July 21 2:00 p.m. All ages welcome .

glcience Matters in America Wow! Science is awesome! This program has it all - a disappearing and reappearing message, floating bubbles, toothpaste for an elephant, and more! Tuesday, July 28 2:00 p.m. Ages 6-12

Lego Club Tuesdays, July 28 & August 25 6:30 p.m. i . Ages 6-12 Design & build fun creations with our Legos!

Brain Camp For Kids-All Star Explorers Come explore the wonderful world around us during this week-long Brain Camp. We will read great stories, play fun games, experiment with science & create themed crafts. Monday-Friday, August 3-7 •> 2:00-5:00 p.m. Grades 1-5 ' • •;' Registration required. * - • x ' *,;T

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?piat Baseball Build a catapult to launch sticky "splat" balls at a baseball themed target. Tuesday, July 7 2:00 p.m. Ages 6-12

Major League Memory Batter up! Test your skills and compete for prizes playing memory with our large-scale MLB logo cards. • ' Tuesday, July 14 2:00 p.m. Ages 6-12

A r t Club Be inspired by artist famous artists and make fun creations! Tuesday, July 14 - String Painting Tuesday, August 11 - Monet's Water Lilies 6:30 p.m. Ages 6-12

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Teen Chef! Play with your food, and eat i t tool Wednesday, July 1 3:00 p.m. Ages 12-17

Kool Craft Teens hang out and make something awesome! Wednesday, July 8 3:00 p.m. Ages 12-17

Bookbites Bookclub Join us and discuss a cool book. Wednesdays, July 15 & August 19 3:00 p.m. Ages 12-17

Wildcard Wednesday Anything can happen, such as Anime, a game of chess, gaming, or Makerspace projects! Wednesdays, July 22 & August 26 3:00 p.m. Ages 12-17

Teen Brain Camp Create Your Own Podcast Wednesday, July 29, 2-5 p.m. Ages 12-17 - Registration required.

Civil War S'eries Three programs commemorating the 150* anniversary of the end of the war. 4th Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. June 29 - U.S. Grant July 27 - Abraham Lincoln August 31 - a 6* OH Infantry Soldier Adults and Teens welcome

Adul t Bookclub Join us to share in a lively discussion about the t it le we read. Saturdays, July 18 & August 15 10:30 a.m. Adults welcome

Local Boys: Hometown Players for the Cincinnati Tleds Listen to authors Joe and Jack Heffron as they discuss their book which provides an unprecedented history of every player from Greater Cincinnati who has ever taken the field for the Reds. Monday, July 20 7:00 p.m. Adults and Teens welcome

Master Minds 3D Printing Immersion Saturday, July 25, 1-5 p.m. Adults welcome - Registraion required.

BattleBots Create Your Own Podcast Wednesday, August 12, 2-5 p.m. Saturday, August 8, 1-5 p.m. Ages 12-17 Adults welcome - Regsitration required.

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Summer Learning PROGRAMS FOR TEENS & ADULTS

Teen Cbefi Play with your food, and eat i t too! Wednesday, July 1 3:00 p.m. Ages 12-17

Kooj Craft Teens hang out and make something awesome! Wednesday, July 8 3:00 p.m. Ages 12-17

Bookbites Bookclub Join us and discuss a cool book. Wednesdays, July 15 a August 19 3:00 p.m. Ages 12-17

Wildcard Wednesday Anything can happen, such as Anime, a game of chess, gaming, or Makerspace projects! Wednesdays, July 22 a August 26 3:00 p.m. Ages 12-17

Teen Brain Camp Create Your Own Podcast Wednesday, July 29, 2-5 p.m. Ages 12-17 - Regisration required.

BattleBots Wednesday, August 12, 2-5 p.m. Ages 12-17

Civil War Series Three programs commemorating the 150* anniversary of the end of the war. 4th Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. June 29 - U.S. Grant July 27 - Abraham Lincoln August 31 - a 6* OH Infantry Soldier Adults and Teens welcome T

Adult Bookclub •• Join us to share in a lively discussion about the t it le we read. Saturdays, July 18 & August 15 10:30 a.m. Adults welcome

Local Boys: Hometown Players for the Cincinnati Tleds Listen to authors Joe and Jack Heffron as they discuss their book which provides an unprecedented history of every player from Greater Cincinnati who has ever taken the field for the Reds. Monday, July 20 ' 7:00 p.m. Adults and Teens welcome

Master Minds 3D Printing Immersion Saturday, July 25, 1-5 p.m. Adults welcome - Registration required.

Create Your Own Podcast Saturday, August 8, 1-5 p.m. Adults welcome - Registration required.

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