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Calendar and Events

School Calendar 2008-2009
As of 10/15/2008

Changes / Additions / Cancellations noted in Red

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Month Date Description

AUGUST

 20 Back-to-School Forms due in office
     

SEPTEMBER

 1 No School - Labor Day
  2 First Day of School – Grades 1-8
No Morning Care
12:15 pm Dismissal – No After School Care
Fall Uniforms
Sally Foster begins
Back to School Night – PreK / K – 7:00 pm
  3 Full Day of School for Grades 1 – 8 (7:55 am – 3:00 pm)
Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten Visit 9:00 – 11:00 am
Morning and After School Care begins
New Parent Meeting (Grades 1 – 8) – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  4 Pre-K and K ONLY – Dismissal 12:15 pm
  5 Opening School Mass 8:30 am (8th Grade leads)
Pre-K and K ONLY – Dismissal 12:15 pm
Back to School Picnic/Carnival – 5:00 – 8:00 pm
  9 Confessions – 9:15 am – 8th Grade
Back to School Night (Grades 1-4) – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  10 Back to School Night (Grades 5-8) – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  12 Feast of the Holy Cross Celebration
Picture Day
Change
 14 Dedication of Mariam Center (was scheduled for Sep 21)
  16 Confessions – 9:15 am – 7th Grade
8th Grade Parent Meeting – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall (re: High School)
  19 Mass – 8:30 am (7th Grade leads)
  21 Archbishop Wuerl celebrates 10:30 am Mass
Dedication of Mariam Center (changed to Sep 14)
  22 Teacher Appreciation Breakfast hosted by 8th Grade
  23 Confessions – 9:15 am – 6th Grade
  24 7th Grade Parent Meeting – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall (re: High School)
  25 Confirmation 2008 Meeting for Parents – 7:00 – 8:30 am – Lewis Hall
  26 12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Professional Development
  30 Confessions – 9:15 am – 5th Grade
Sally Foster Drive ends
     

OCTOBER

 1-3 Principal’s Retreat
  1 Progress Reports Mailed
  3 Mass – 8:30 am (6th Grade leads)
  7 Confessions – 9:15 am – 4th Grade
Postponed 10/29 8 Home & School Meeting (HSA) – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall Postponed 10/29
  10 No School – ADW Archdiocesan Forum
  11 CYO Golf Outing (Tentative)
  13 No School - Columbus Day
HSA Moved to 8th 14 Confessions – 9:15 am – 3rd Grade
Home & School Meeting (HSA) – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall Moved to the 8th
  17 Mass – 8:30 am (5th Grade leads)
  20 Teacher Appreciation Breakfast hosted by Pre-K/Kindergarten
  21 Confessions – 9:15 am – 8th Grade
  24 Confirmation Test – 8th Grade
12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Professional Development
  28 Confessions – 9:15 am – 7th Grade
Final Date 29 HSA General meeting: 7 p.m. in Lewis Hall
  31 Walk for the Homeless – 1:30 pm
Halloween Parties – 2:00 pm
1st Quarter ends
     

NOVEMBER

 1 All Saint’s Day
Daylight Savings Time ends
  3-6 Spirit Week
  3 Winter Uniforms begin
  4 Confessions – 9:15 am – 6th Grade
  6 12:15 pm Dismissal (NO AFTER CARE)
Report Card Conferences – 1:00 – 6:00 pm
Bingo
  7 No School
Report Card Conferences  8:00 am – 1:30 pm
  11 8th Grade ONLY – No School
Confessions – 9:15 am – 5th Grade
Confirmation Retreat – 1:00 – 7:00 pm – Quinn Hall & Church
  12 Open House (Prospective Students) – 9:00 am – 12:00 noon
  14 Mass – 8:30 am (4th Grade leads)
Awards Assembly – 2:00 pm – Lewis Hall
Confirmation Rehearsal – 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Church
  15 Confirmation Mass – 10:30 am
  17 Teacher Appreciation Breakfast hosted by 1st Grade
  18 Confessions – 9:15 am – 4th Grade
  21 Mass – 8:30 am (3rd Grade leads)
  25 Confessions – 9:15 am – 3rd Grade
  26-28 Thanksgiving Vacation
     

DECEMBER

 1 Classes Resume
“Giving Tree”
  2 Confessions – 9:15 am – 8th Grade
  3 High School Placement Test – 8th Grade
  5 Santa Secret Store
Progress Reports Mailed
  6 Breakfast with Santa (HSA) – 9:30 am – Lewis Hall - Changed, was on 12/13
  8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
Mass – 9:00 am (2nd Grade leads)
  9 Confessions – 9:15 am – 7th Grade
  10 Middle School Choir Concert Dress Rehearsal – 3:30 – 5:30 pm
  11 Middle School Choir Concert – 2:00 pm (school) & 6:30 pm – Lewis Hall
Change 13 Breakfast with Santa (HSA) – 9:30 am – Lewis Hall - Changed to 12/6
  15 Teacher Appreciation Breakfast hosted by 2nd Grade
  16 Confessions – 9:15 am – 6th Grade
  18 Christmas Program (PreK-Grade 5) - 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  19 Mass – 8:30 am (8th Grade leads)
Class Parties
12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Faculty Luncheon
  22-31 Christmas Vacation
     

JANUARY

 1 New Year’s Day
  2 Christmas Vacation
  5 Classes resumes
  6 Confessions – 9:15 am – 5th Grade
  9 Mass – 8:30 am (7th Grade leads)
  12 Teacher Appreciation Breakfast hosted by 3rd Grade
  13-15 Semester I Exams – 8th Grade only
  13 Confessions – 9:15 am – 4th Grade
Home & School Meeting (HSA) – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  15 First Penance Meetings for Parents – 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Lewis Hall
  16 12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Professional Development
2nd Quarter ends
  19 No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
  20 No School – Inauguration Day
  21 Band Concert – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  22 March for Life (7th/8th Grades)
  26 Catholic Schools Week
Mass – 8:30 am (1st Grade leads)
Career Day
Band Concert – 2:00 pm
  27 Catholic Schools Week
Open House (Prospective Students) – 9:00 – 11:30 am
Confessions – 9:15 am – 3rd Grade
Report Cards Distributed
  28 Catholic Schools Week
Awards Assembly – 2:00 pm – Lewis Hall (Parents Welcome)
  29 Catholic Schools Week
Student Appreciation Day
Free Tag Day
Pizza Lunch & Bingo
  30 Catholic Schools Week
Teacher Appreciation Day
12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
     

FEBRUARY

 3 Confessions – 9:15 am – 8th Grade
  5 Confirmation 2009 Meeting for Parents & Confirmandi – 7:00 – 8:30 am
   Lewis Hall
  6 Mass – 8:30 am (6th Grade leads)
  9 Teacher Appreciation Breakfast hosted by 4th Grade
  10 Confessions – 9:15 am – 7th Grade
  12 Fuddrucker’s Night Out
  13 No School - Pastor’s Day
  16 No School - Presidents’ Day
  17 ACRE Assessment (5th/8th Grades)
Confessions – 9:15 am – 6th Grade
  18 Progress Reports Mailed
  22 Confirmation Commitment Ceremony Mass – 9:00 am
  24 Confessions – 9:15 am – 5th Grade
HSA Pancake Supper – 6:00 – 7:30 pm – Lewis Hall
  25 Ash Wednesday
Mass – 9:00 am (5th Grade leads)
  27 Stations of the Cross
12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Professional Development
     

MARCH

 2 First Penance Retreat (Group A) – 12:30-2:45 pm – Quinn Hall/Church
  3 Confessions – 9:15 am – 4th Grade
First Penance Retreat (Group B) – 12:30-2:45 pm – Quinn Hall/Church
  6 Mass – 8:30 am (4th Grade leads)
  7 First Penance – 10:30 am – Church
Daylight Savings Time begins
  10 Confessions – 9:15 am – 3rd Grade
  12 International Night (PreK – Grade 6) – 7:00 pm
  13 No School – Archdiocesan Professional Day (MC)
  14 Gala (Tentative)
  16 Teacher Appreciation Breakfast hosted by 5th Grade
  17 Confessions – 9:15 am – 8th Grade
  19 First Holy Communion Meeting for Parents – 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Lewis Hall
  20 Mass – 8:30 am (3rd Grade leads)
12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Professional Development
3rd Quarter ends
  23-27 TerraNova Test Week
Parents, DO NOT schedule any appointments or absences this week.
  27 Report Cards distributed
  30 Spring Uniforms begin
  31 Confessions – 9:15 am – 7th Grade
     

APRIL

 1 Awards Assembly – 2:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  3 Mass – 8:30 am (2nd Grade leads)
  7 Confessions – 9:15 am – 6th Grade
Living Stations of the Cross – 2:00 pm – Church
  9 Holy Thursday
No School
Easter Vacation begins
  10 Good Friday
Easter Vacation
  13-17 Easter Vacation
  20 Classes resume
  21 Confessions – 9:15 am – 5th Grade
  23-24 8th Grade New York Trip
  25 Flea Market
  27 Early Prevention Testing
No School for PreK & Kindergarten ONLY
Teacher Appreciation Breakfast hosted by 6th Grade
  28 Early Prevention Testing
No School for PreK & Kindergarten ONLY
Confessions – 9:15 am – 4th Grade
  29 Progress Reports Mailed
Middle School Choir Concert Dress Rehearsal – 3:30 – 5:30 pm
  30 Middle School Choir Concert – 2:00 pm (school) & 6:30 pm – Lewis Hall
     

MAY

 1 Mass – 8:30 am (1st Grade leads)
  4 First Communion Retreat (Group A) – 12:30 – 2:45 pm – Quinn Hall/Church
Band Assembly – 2:00 pm
  6 Confessions – 9:15 am – 2nd Grade
First Communion Retreat (Group B) – 12:30 – 2:45 pm – Quinn Hall/Church
Band Concert – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  6 First Communion Rehearsal – 6:00 – 7:30 pm – Church
  8 Grandparents Day – 9:00 – 11:30 am
12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Professional Development
  9 First Holy Communion Mass – 10:30 am
  12 Confessions – 9:15 am – 3rd Grade
Home & School Meeting (HSA) – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  13 May Procession – 9:30 am
Graduation Pictures (K/8th Grade) – 10:30 am – Church
  14 Spring Show (Grades 6-8) – 7:00 pm – Lewis Hall
  15 Field Day
12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Professional Development
  18 Teacher Appreciation Breakfast hosted by 7th Grade
  19 Confessions – 9:15 am – 8th Grade
  22 12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Rain date for Field Day
Professional Development
  25 No School – Memorial Day
  26 Confessions – 9:15 am – 7th Grade
8th Grade Exams
8th Grade ONLY - 12:15 Dismissal
  27 8th Grade Exams
8th Grade ONLY - 12:15 Dismissal
  28 8th Grade Exams
7th / 8th Grade Picnic – 12:30 – 3:00 pm
  29 8th Grade Class Trip
     

JUNE

 1 7th Grade Exams
8th Grade ONLY (Mass – 8:30; Graduation Practice; 12:15 Dismissal)
  2 7th Grade Exams
Confessions – 9:15 am – 6th Grade
8th Grade Only (Mass – 8:30; Graduation Practice)
Leaver’s Assembly – 11:00 am
8th Grade Dismissal – 11:45 pm
  3 7th Grade Exams
12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
8th Grade Graduation – 7:00 pm – Church
  5 Last Day of School for Pre-Kindergarten
  8 Pre-Kindergarten Closing Program – 9:00 am – Lewis Hall
  9 Last Day of School for Kindergarten
  10 Kindergarten Closing Ceremony – 10:00 am – Lewis Hall
Class Parties
12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Professional Development
  11 12:15 pm Dismissal (After School Care provided)
Professional Development
  12 Last Day of School
Mass – 11:00 am
12:15 pm Dismissal (NO AFTER CARE)
4th Quarter ends
  14 Feast of the Body & Blood of Christ
Corpus Christi Procession following 1:30 am Mass
  16 Last Day for Teachers
  22 Report Cards mailed
 

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