Picture Day Orders Online
Pictures can still be ordered online. To order online please visit www.tssorders.com and enter your event number 27055787. Every child will be receiving a free 8 x 10 class composite; you do not need to add this to your order form unless you would like to purchase additional ones (Item 13). Retakes will be taken on Friday October 12th.
If you would like to pay by credit card, please order online by clicking HERE or using the following link/url: http://www.tssphotography.com/orgs/179456. All completed orders will be dropped off at the school.
Sad to See Tree Go – Thanks for the Ideas — More?
Thanks to those who have submitted ideas for what we might do behind the school when the final grading of our drainage project is done in the spring. If you still have ideas, please send them my way. Let’s think about how we might utilize the land with which we have been blessed.
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers Fundraiser
Mention JFK or present the flyer for us to receive the donation on September 25th from 4 – 9 p.m.
We’re also in the midst of the magazine sale, which is still the second largest fund-raiser with which the school is associated. Do you know what the largest one is? (Answer below.)
Handbook Sign-Off
Please read the parent and student handbook, available HERE, and on our website: https://www.olvjfk.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Parent-Handbook-2018-19.pdf. Then, print off the last page, sign it, and return it to the school office — one per family. Thank you for helping us to reduce our printing costs.
Breakfast Program To Be Discontinued
Our new breakfast program will be discontinued at the end of the month. Under its present operations with service before regular drop off time beginning at 7:10, the program is only serving about four students per day and losing money. We started it as an aid to families whose children ride the bus. All of our morning bus riders were expected to arrive at JFK between 7:04 and 7:06 and could spend as much as an hour on the bus. We thought a breakfast program might be helpful for these early risers and early arrivers. Most of our bus riders, however, are not arriving until after 7:10, the same time as those getting car rides in the morning. It also seems as most students are spending 30 minutes or less on the bus. The most students we’ve had at school between 7:00 and 7:10 has been 17. Our break even point for breakfast is approximately 20 students purchasing breakfast. With the low numbers of actual breakfast eaters and the pool of possible breakfast eaters also being below the break even point, it is not fiscally sound to continue it in its present format. Our last day of serving breakfast will be Sept 28th.
If your child was a regular user of our breakfast program and you need childcare between 7:00 and 7:10, please contact Mrs. Temming, and we’ll see what we can do.
Children’s Liturgy of the Word Has Resumed
Children’s Liturgy of the Word has resumed at the 9:00 and 11:00 Sunday Masses. Targeting children under second grade (those who have not yet received First Communion), the Children’s Liturgy of the Word breaks the message down into children specific language. Children sit with their parents until right after the opening of Mass and then are invited to go to the altar servers’ sacristy on the “Mary side” of the church. The children rejoin their families before Communion.
Annual Diocesan Appeal
The Annual Diocesan Appeal (ADA) was kicked off this weekend. The goal provided to us by the diocese went up $9,000, a reflection of our overall parish income having increased. The ADA is a “mandated goal.” If we do not meet the ADA goal through the campaign, we would have to cut expenses in order to pay the shortage. Please support OLV/JFK and the Diocese of Davenport.
Imagine the Amazing Contest Opens Sept 17
Use the following link/url to vote for JFK between September 17 – 30: unitypoint.org/imaginetheamazing.
All K-12, non-profit public and private state accredited schools within the 99 counties of Iowa and the primary counties served by UnityPoint Health in Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska and South Dakota are eligible. The site isn’t open yet so I can’t tell you what types of information is required of you in order to vote. You can vote multiple times, and anyone, regardless of school affiliation, can vote. The winning school receives $25,000 and the next ten schools get $1,000 each.
Largest fundraiser: Gala
Chad
