Highlighted Events
Both a summary and detailed school calendars for JFK are available on our website. Highlighted events are below:
- Oct 11: Butter Braid Bread sales begin
- Apple, Cherry, Blueberry with Cream Cheese, Cinnamon, Raspberry, Strawberry with Cream Cheese, Caramel Rolls with Caramel Glaze. All come with a frosting packet. These are sold individually for $15/package. Also returning this year is the Four Cheese & Herb Bread for $16/package. The bread is frozen and must be allowed to rise 8-12 hours before baking. To order, contact a band/choir student or the school office. (Nearly every 5th-8th grader seems to be in band or choir.) The bread will be delivered on November 19th, in time for Thanksgiving.
- Oct 15: Fire Dept visits K-2
- Oct 18: Flu shots available at JFK
- Oct 22: End of 1st Qtr. Special dismissal at 12:40. No afternoon preschool classes
- Oct 25: Full day in-service. No classes. ECLC open.
- Oct 29: Black/orange dress day
- Nov 1: All school Mass with “parade of saints”
- Nov 2: Evening parent/teacher conferences
- Nov 4: Parent/teacher conferences. No classes. ECLC open.
- Nov 5: No classes. ECLC open
Genesis Flu Free Quad Cities
As in the past, JFK will be a school site for the Genesis Flu Free Quad Cities Program. Free flu shots will be available to students in grades K-8. The consent “form” is only available online and must be completed at least two days prior to the clinic, which is at JFK on October 18th during the school day. The consent forms will be printed by Genesis staff. Students who have permission to receive the shots will be taken to the parish center, where the shots will be administered. Students are then taken back to class. It’s a smooth process! The link to the consent form can be found below:
Ignite Sundays
See below for the list of IGNITE Sundays. There is no cost or registration required to participate. Come to as many of the opportunities listed below as you are able on IGNITE Sundays.
All are welcome, invite a friend or two or three…. Families are encouraged to participate together. There are small group activities and family activities at each session. Those not participating in the family component will remain in their small groups to finish the evening.
Typical schedule for IGNITE Sundays:
- 4:30-5:30pm Mass
- 5:35-6:05pm Meal in the Parish Center
- 6:10-7:15pm Group Gatherings
Ignite Sundays:
- Oct 24: What is hope and why do you need it?
- Nov 7: Jesus came for all of us
- Nov 21: What’s my motivation to go to Mass?
- Dec 12: Finding your place in the Advent story
- Feb 13: Anawim (Hebrew word meaning “poor one”) Poverty and the dignity of work
- March 6: “I thirst” Lent
- March 20: “I hunger” Eucharist
- April 10: Family: The foundation of society
- April 24: What does God want me to do?
COVID Guidance for 2021-22
Click on the JFK COVID FAQ, 2021-22 to have your questions answered. Please note that the information is, however, subject to change.
COVID Data and Comments
Below is a link to a .pdf file that shows several graphs for Scott County and JFK. Below are also some comments related to the pandemic.
- It feels as if JFK’s numbers are deceiving or at least a mixed bag. Our 7 day moving average student attendance rate has been about 94%-96% for about three weeks. In normal years, we’d probably have an attendance rate of about 95%-97% so it’s not really that much different. Our total student COVID number for this school year (19), however, has now surpassed all of last year (17). What really seems to be different between this year and last year are the quarantining numbers. Without required quarantining of close contacts, the number of absences due to close contacts seems much lower. (I’d have to run the data to verify this perception.) On the other hand, we don’t yet have evidence of outbreaks among students in a homeroom when someone does test positive. We have had at least one case in about 67% of all our homerooms.
- One of the bigger challenges we seem to have been facing for about a week now is how to cover all of our staff absences. The seven day moving average staff absence rate is about 8% or about four teachers and support staff members per day. Most of the staff absences are not due to staff illnesses; they are due to the illnesses of their own children, illnesses of their childcare providers, appointments (medical and other) that need to occur during business hours, etc.
Chad
