Knowing that communication is the vehicle of our collaboration, we strive to be conscientious and deliberate about our written communication to you. Perhaps the following guide will be helpful:
- Thursday Mail provides all-school information and interesting highlights about what is happening at school. Often this includes upcoming dates such as dress uniform days, important calendar events, parent events, fundraising events and all-school happenings. We do remind parents of upcoming important dates on the left hand side of Thursday Mail. Remember, Thursday Mail is your friend! We push this vital communication out every Thursday afternoon. It is best read in its entirety on a computer.
- Parent Portal Grade-Level Spaces provide a window into what is happening in your child’s classroom. This could be about what they are doing in math, what is happening with their Goal III projects, where they are going on a field trip, etc. We expect parents to check portal spaces regularly, and encourage you to find a routine that works for you.
- Parent Portal Drop-Down Bars provide information that is pertinent to parents, but which is more general in nature: lunch information, athletic information and registration, a parent calendar, school handbooks, archived Thursday Mails, parent organization information, student extracurricular information, upcoming fundraising event information and more. I often recommend printing the school calendar and posting it in your home for easy reference.
- E-mails and E-blasts or Phone-blasts will be sent when the information we need to communicate is time-sensitive or individualized, for example, if we are closing school because of snow or if we need to remind you about an important deadline.
Speaking of communication, face-to-face conversations are always best. With this in mind, we are very much looking forward to two important opportunities next week:
- The General PCC Meeting: This parent gathering is one of two times during the year when we ask parents to come to school for a general all-parent meeting. The bonus of the meeting (for Classes P–8) is that you will receive your child’s report card, but the content of the meeting (even for our Pre-Primary parents) is always important. The agenda for next week’s PCC meeting is shown below. This is a DON’T MISS event! I can’t encourage you enough to attend.
- Parent-Teacher Conferences: These, of course, are wonderful opportunities to chat about your child’s goodness, graces and growth as they continue to discover their gifts and develop into becoming their best selves. It is an important moment of connecting, collaborating and conversing about our mutual efforts in our shared sacred task—nurturing the hearts and minds of these precious children whom God has given to us as a responsibility.
With joy in the joint journey we share with these children,
Maureen Glavin, rscj
