Weekly Newsletter – March 15, 2024
Dear Parents,
Welcome to the week before Spring Break. I hope you all are able to enjoy the next 10-12 days with family and friends. Safe travels to those of you heading out of town for Spring Break.
Enrollment continues to be strong for the upcoming school year. Many families wanting to make a change begin looking in April. If you know of any families looking for a great education for their children, please continue to send them our way. We are giving tours regularly each week. Sharing the wonderful things about St. Mary’s with new families is a joyful experience.
Thursday, March 14th – In addition to being Pi Day, we have an early release. Please pick up your student(s) by 12:00. Students can wear spirit wear or Pi day wear on Thursday.
Important Upcoming events:
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Pi Day Sale – March 14 – Come and get your Pi(e) on the 14th from 12:00-12:45 or until they are sold out. Some extraordinary pies are being made available through an online bidding process. You can bid on these specialty pies using this LINK. – All proceeds will help St. Mary’s invest in during and after school STEM programs.
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ICSI Basketball – 3rd Annual Idaho Catholic School Invitational (ICSI) March 15-17. Each year St. Mary’s is asked to host/run concessions at Bishop Kelly in the Carley. We need extra hands (volunteers). Students (7th grade and below) can volunteer as long as they are accompanied by an adult. Great opportunity to get volunteer hours for high school students as well. Link to volunteer
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ICSI Schedule for the weekend includes:
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Junior Girls St. Mary’s 3/4
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First game Friday 6PM Meridian Homecourt (court 2) vs Sacred Heart
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Second game Friday 8PM Meridian Homecourt (court 2) vs St. Marks 3rd
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Senior Girls St. Mary’s 6th
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First game Friday 8PM Meridian Homecourt (court 4) vs Sacred Heart
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Second game Saturday 9AM Meridian Homecourt (court 3) vs St. Ignatius
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Senior Boys
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First game Friday 5:00 PM Meridian Homecourt (court 2) vs St. Marks 6th
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Second game at 7:00 PM at Meridian Homecourt – Court 2. vs St. Nicolas
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Tournament Games info: Download this APP – The tournament game schedules are up and available to view in the Sports Engine Tourney App (game scheduler). You can download the app, for free, on any app store. Our tournament is titled: Idaho Catholic Schools Invitational. The game schedules will be kept up-to-date in this app throughout the tournament.
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There will be two locations being used for the tournament: Bishop Kelly High School (both the Carley Center and the Reg) and the City of Meridian Homecourt YMCA (936 Taylor Ave, Meridian, ID 83642).
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Chromebooks Available – St. Mary’s has a number of Chromebooks no longer in use, but in good condition. If you would like a Chromebooks for your student to use at home, please stop by the office. Donations are appreciated.
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Grandparents’ Mass, March 27th – Please mark your calendar and let your relatives know, we will be hosting a Grandparents’ Mass on Wednesday, March 27th at 8:30 with a reception to follow. We have printed invitations if you would like to mail them to your family. Linked is a digital version of you would prefer to send it through email.
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Also March 27th – Living Stations of the Cross – You are welcome to come to Mass in the morning and come back for Stations of the Cross in the afternoon at 2:30 pm.
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Holy Thursday, Washing of the Feet – Holy Thursday Mass is on March 28th at 7 PM at St. Mary’s. One of the parts of the liturgy is having a washing of the feet of 12 members of the parish, which recalls how the 12 apostles had their feet washed by Jesus. Fr. John would like to have our students be the twelve to have their feet washed during the service by him and the deacon. This is a wonderful way to continue to engage our students with the parish community. If your students would be interested, please complete the linked form.
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Nurses Newsletter – Please see the linked document for information concerning the importance of sleep and the dangers of canals from our nurses.
Please mark your calendars for important dates:
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March 12 – Stations of the Cross – 2:45 – All are welcome
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March 13 – School Mass – Corpus Christi collection – All are welcome
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March 14 – Pi Day Sale – Sidewalk sale and Online bidding
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ICSI – March 15 -17 at Bishop Kelly
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Grandparents Mass – March 27th – All are welcome
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Living Stations of the Cross – March 27th at 2:30 pm- All are welcome
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March 28 – Holy Thursday Mass, Washing of the Feet – 7:00 pm
God bless.
Kevan Grant
St. Mary’s Catholic School- Principal
Go Spartans!
Other Items of Interest
- Audrey Custodio, a junior at Bishop Kelly High School, has been working with BirthRight to organize a fundraiser with CycleBar Meridian – Please see the linked flier to support
- Officer Gomez spoke last week at Bishop Kelly about Social Media, drugs and crime against youth. If you did not get a chance to attend, you can follow him on Youtube
- Flag Football for 11 and 12 year olds – If you are interested, please use the following LINK for more information
- Whole Family Religious Education – Contact Rusty Bang for more details
- Instrument Donation – Do you have slightly used music equipment? Check out this link…
- Important information from the School Nurse – Return to School Policy
- Get your Spirit Wear from Educational Outfitters – New Spartan Design
- Mexican Dance Group – Wednesdays at 3:30. No need to sign up, you are welcomed to stop by and try – More details HERE