As St. Joseph School and Church fulfills the academic and spiritual needs of our children, the Home and School Association focuses on building the SJS school community. Together as a St. Joseph Family, we work to achieve the 2009-10 budgeted fundraising goal of $110,000. Fundraising and social events have the additional result of bringing family and friends together.

Listed below are some school and parish events already scheduled for 2009-10. Please keep in mind that event dates may change so be sure to check the monthly school calendar and school website for updates!

September

• 11th—Family Event—Welcome Back Picnic
• 27th—Family Event—Bristol Mum Parade

October

• 16th – Parents Event- Paulette Theriault Scholarship Dinner Dance –
• 30^th —Family Event— Halloween ‘BOO BASH’ (sponsored by St Joseph Religious Education Office)

November

• 21st—Parents Event--Auction 2009: Under the Big Top!
• 25th- Family Event- Thanksgiving Prayer Service

December

• 6th —Family Event—Children’s Christmas Parade (sponsored by City of Bristol)
• TBD—Children’s Event—Children’s Christmas Party (sponsored by SJS Student Council)

January

• TBD – Family Event- Imagine Nation Museum

 

February

• TBD-Family Event—Family Bingo

March

• TBD—Family Event—Family Bowling

May

• 20th —Parents Event—Golf Tournament
• TBD—Family Event—Rock Cats Baseball Game · (sponsored by Sports Booster Club) 

Thank you all in advance!

Please let me take this opportunity to welcome each and every family to the school year 2009-2010. I look forward to seeing you all at the first Home & School meeting on Monday, September 14th! If you’re unable to attend please watch for the minutes that will be sent home- a tremendous amount of information will be shared with much more to come in the near future.

The Home School Association is made up of a terrific group of people who are all parents of the children at St. Joseph School. The Association is not just made up of 5-10 volunteers who oversee all the activities and committees, this Association is about the entire student body family working together to help improve many aspects of our school for the children. There are many different activities, fundraisers and events that the Home & School oversees. In order for all of these things to have success, we need continuous support in many ways. Whether you can volunteer on a committee, go the extra step on selling a fundraiser or by simply providing support to all those who are able.

The goal that we are trying to accomplish this year is difficult. As a group we need to work together to accomplish our financial responsibility to the school in order to help offset any excessive tuition increase. By everyone participating and maybe even going a little beyond, this can and will be accomplished. Several families had approached me in order to help volunteer for different activities, for that I thank you. Your outreach is greatly appreciated and I hope that many more families will be able to do the same. Therefore one of the ways that I would like to do that is by email notification. This however requires that we have your ernail address. In order to do this you can respond in one of two ways. Below is my email address, you can send me an email telling me your family name along with your child(s) name and grade. The other option would be to write a note and send it back through the weekly communication envelope through the backpack.

Please feel free to contact me with whatever suggestions, ideas or even complaints that I might be able to assist you with. Anyone willing to help out with any programs please contact me ASAP!

Always remember, communication is the basis for all successful relationships. This is however a two way street and all are welcome!

Russell Houle - Home & School President
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