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providing a challenging academic education within the Catholic Tradition.

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Upcoming Events: Sept. 24- Collection Day Sept. 28- No School Prof. Development Day Sept. 29- Pictures orders due Sept. 30- 8:15 Virtual Mass Gr. 3 Picture Re-take Day Oct. 5- Packer/NFL Day Oct. 7- 8:15 Virtual Mass Gr. 4 Oct. 8- Virtual Parent/Teacher Conferences 3:30 Oct. 13- Virtual Parent/Teacher Conferences Oct. 16- PUDD Day

COVID-19 Update With a new executive order declaring a public health emergency, Gov. Tony Evers added nearly two additional months to the statewide mandate on wearing face masks. The governor issued the order Tuesday replacing the original one, in which the requirement for face coverings would have ended on Monday. The order pushes that back 60 days with the new mandate set to expire on November 21st. Please see the school website for Covid-19 updates and parent resources. There is a picture (above) on the front page of the website that will take you to many helpful resources as you await test results, isolation guidance, quarantine guidance, testing sites, etc. https://www.holyspiritknights.org/covid-19 Q. My child has a cough or two of the symptoms on part 2 of the Health Screening Checklist 2020-21. What should I do? A. Contact your medical provider and have your child tested for COVID-19. Updated Guidelines for students being at school: September 1, 2020 . If that child has siblings in school, the siblings will be sent home, or siblings should not be sent to school, if a family member meets the symptom criteria. This is the "best practice" recommended by DHS. Please see the last line on page 20 of this document. If you can isolate the child with symptoms from your other children, please do so. Close Contacts are determined by the last contacted day of a COVID-19 positive person. The quicker you quarantine from a potential positive case, the quicker your students could return to school. If the child with symptoms COVID-19 test results are negative, and there is NOT a known close contact to a COVID-19 positive case and the individual is fever free is fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication, the child and their siblings may return to school. They do not need to isolate for 10 days.

Free Hot Lunch… Yes, FREE!! Thanks to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Holy Spirit Catholic School is now offering a free lunch for all children 18 and younger throughout the Holy Spirit community. This means that whether attending school in person, or virtually, and whether enrolled in Holy Spirit or not, a free, school-provided lunch is available for all children 18 and younger. The flexibility in the school lunch program will ensure that all children part of the Holy Spirit community are able to access meals under all circumstances. Meals will include an entree with assorted fruits and vegetables, along with a choice of chocolate or white milk. The meals will follow the hot lunch calendar. Cold lunch milk or snack milk fees are not included in this program. Meals will not be served on days off or with no school for the children. If a family at home, would like to call in and order a meal, please call (920) 733-2651 or email office@holyspiritknights.org by 8:30 am to order your free lunch. Lunch pick up will be from 10:45-11:00 am in the school front office area. These free meals are retroactive from the start of the 2020-21 school year. So, if students ordered hot lunch this year, those funds will be returned to your PowerSchool lunch account. Free lunch meals will continue until December 31, 2020, or until the funds run out. If you have questions about this program, please contact Kris Nollenberg at kris.nollenberg@holyspiritknights.org. Also, thank Mrs. Nollenberg for offering this to our school community.

Conferences Virtual Parent/Teacher Conferences are scheduled for grades 4K-8 on Oct. 8 & 13th from 3:30-7:00pm. Please sign up for your 15 min. time slot using the following Sign Up Genius link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4ca5ab22a2fd0-virtual *Preschool 3 will have conferences at a later date.

Playground Volunteers Needed If parents are available and willing, we are opening up times for parents to help outside with recess supervision. Mrs. Sprangers will be on duty every recess (morning, lunch and afternoon) and we will have another teacher or staff member scheduled for recess duty with her. However, if you would like to make a teacher’s day by volunteering for recess duty outside, we'd gladly take the help. We are asking that our parent volunteers wear a mask while outside. Volunteers must be VIRTUS trained. No need to come inside and check in, just sign up, show up and make a teacher/staff member’s day a little easier. Sign up Genius link. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4CA5AB22A2FD0-playground5

School Pictures Your child should have brought home their picture envelope. If you plan to order pictures, you can order online or place payment in the envelope, choose your package and send it back to school by Sept. 29th. Picture retake day is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 30th.

Substitute Teachers Wanted Do you enjoy working with children while maintaining a flexible work schedule? Have you considered becoming a substitute teacher? Holy Spirit Catholic School is looking for talented substitute teachers to join our fun, ambitious staff who work hard to help all students succeed. We need talented individuals to continue providing a high-quality education to our students when teachers are out of the building for professional development or sickness. Qualifications:

Current Wisconsin Educator License - or- Substitute Teacher Permit

Have an Associate’s Degree or Bachelor’s Degree but not a Substitute Permit? Click on the link https://www.cesa6.org/services/substitute-teachers/ or contact the school office at 733-2651 to learn more about pursuing training to obtain a Substitute Teacher Permit.

Collection News The first Collection Day of the school year is tomorrow! Please send in your Box Tops, Coke Reward Codes, and printer cartridges. We are still collecting traditional Box Tops clips. Keep clipping them, but also download the Box Tops app to get credit for the new digital Box Tops on the products you buy. Here is a video explaining how it works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh94b2BvFK4&feature=youtu.be. We also collect brand name ink jet printer and toner cartridges. See if your brand qualifies here: http://www.fundingfactory.com/qualifying-list-detail.aspx. (Or just send in what you have and we will figure it out!) Remember all Collection money goes to reimburse our teachers for their classroom supplies. Thank you for your help!

Scrip News

Kwik Trip SCRIP - 10% Directly through Parish NOW! Kwik Trip is currently offering 10% on PHYSICAL scrip cards to our parish. This is 1% more than buying through www.shopwithscrip.com which is offering 9%. The difference is that shopwithscrip takes 1% off of all scrip purchases for their overhead. We buy directly from Kwik Trip and Menards specifically for this reason. Please take care to order the Kwik Trip with the words "Holy Spirit" in their name along with the word 10% in order to receive the 10% scrip credit. For any questions, please call Jeanne Konwal at 851-0494 or Tina Keller at 450-1481. We want to help you maximize your scrip credits!!

Football Mania! It’s not too late to purchase a Football Mania raffle ticket! For each $20 ticket that is sold, Holy Spirit receives $14 profit, that’s 70% of the ticket price!! As a school, if we sell 100 tickets that’s $1,400 profit, if we cell 500 tickets that's about $7,000 profit. Use this fast and easy link to buy your tickets online. http://www.charitymania.com/register/AA0D2 Tickets can still be purchased online through October.

This Week’s Winners: Jeff and Sandy Stumpf- $25 Jill Schmalz- $25 *Checks will be mailed within 2 weeks.

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