Dear St. Andrew Parents,
I hope you had a great week! Our preschool and kindergarten students are now beginning their summer vacation. We are sad they are not with us, but we wish them a great start to the summer. Finals are now underway for our older students, and we are excited for this weekend’s Graduation Dance. Only 3.5 more days of school for our students in grades 1-8. This year has really flown by!
For our preschool and kindergarten families that have older siblings, please continue to drop off and pick up using the back loop. The consistency will help with the flow of all traffic. Please continue to do what you have done all year.
We also have received preliminary Terra Nova scores and have been told that we will receive the rest of the scores by June 7. As soon as we have the reports, we will send them home with your children. We also will share comparison charts as well. Once again, our students did a wonderful job overall. Thank you for your help and support during our testing week.
Below, there is some important information regarding next week. Please take a look and have a great weekend!
School Information
- Students in grades 7 and 8 have late arrival on Monday, 6/5. Students should arrive between 9:50-10:05AM.
- There will be no PM CARES on Thursday, June 8.
- All medication that is kept in our nurse’s office must be picked up by the last day of school, Thursday, June 8. If you are unable to pick up by the last day of school, please complete this form, and we will have medication pick-up on Friday, June 9 from 10-2pm.
- Summer Work
- Required summer reading, summer math packets and supply lists can be found at the link above.
- Rising 6-8th grade families
- If you would like us to share your information with the parochial and private schools that request our student’s information, please complete this form. Typically, they add you to their mailing list and send pertinent information such as open houses, shadow days, placement tests, etc. directly to you.
Repeat School Information
- June Lunch Menu
- Student Lunch Accounts – Please note as we enter the last week of school that students with unpaid lunch accounts will receive a meal they wish to buy but are not permitted to buy snacks. Please pay off unpaid balances by the end of the school year.
- Saint Andrew’s Newtown Bookshop BookFair – Our Spring Book Fair with the Newtown Bookshop has run since May 21 and ends this Sunday, June 4, 2023! Here is the link to the Book Fair Flyer and homepage – https://www.newtownbookshop.com/st-andrew-school-virtual-bookfair You may purchase Summer Reading books, teacher, graduation, and Father’s Day gifts and anything else for your reading pleasure. Please mention Saint Andrew School when shopping in person or online, which raises funds for the Saint Andrew School Library.
- Thank you H&S volunteers! Thank you to our many Home and School Association volunteers for an outstanding 2022-2023 school year!
- 2023-2024 Homeroom Parent Interest Form
- Some roles and responsibilities of Homeroom Parents include: sharing information with class parents via email in a timely manner; planning, attending, and chaperoning grade level socials; assisting teachers with grade level celebrations; organizing classroom holiday parties; and collecting for various fundraisers throughout the year.
- Final Exam Schedule
- Want your PA taxes to go to Catholic Schools? Consider EITC Tax Giving.
- Foundation for Catholic Education
The Week Ahead
- Monday, 6/5
- 7th and 8th Grade Students Late Arrival
- Arrive between 9:50-10:05AM
- Grades 1-7 Science Finals
- 8th Grade Graduation Practice
- 7th and 8th Grade Students Late Arrival
- Tuesday, 6/6
- Grades 1-7 Social Studies and Religion Finals
- 8th Grade Graduation Practice
- 8th Grade Clap out
- Wednesday, 6/7
- Make-up Finals Day
- 8th Grade Graduation 7PM Main Church
- Thursday, 6/8
- Closing Prayer Service
- Half Day-Noon Dismissal
- No PM CARES
- Friday, 6/9
- Teacher In-Service Day
Parish Events
- Faith and Film Camp at Saint Andrew
- Faith and Film Camp webpage: https://www.personallycatholic.com/faithandfilmcamp
- Rescued from Darkness, filmed by two of our parishioners and me, just went live to watch on Amazon and AppleTV this morning!
- You can check it out here:
- RescuedfromDarknessMovie.com
Community Events
*These are not Saint Andrew School Events and do not follow our clearance policy but generally are shared by parishioners or members of our community and may be something you are interested in for your children and/or family.
- Newtown Summer Historic Walk for Rising 5-7 graders
- Summer Camps and Activities
- Archbishop Wood Summer Camp Informational Flyer
- Boys 3-8 Archbishop Wood Boys Basketball Camp
- Holy Ghost Prep Summer Camp Options and Link
- Enrichment, Learning to row, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Lacrosse, and Tennis are just some of the options.
- Nazareth Summer Camp Opportunities Link
- Including a Pre-7th & Pre-8th grade summer enrichment, art, STEM athletics (basketball, cheer, lacrosse, soccer, softball, and volleyball)
- Acting Naturally Flyer – Summer 2023
- AOY Summer Art Camp Flyer and Calendar
- Pure Skills Basketball Camps
- CR North Girls Basketball Camp (3-9 Grade)
- Camp Invention
- Your kid can spark their curiosity with new, hands-on STEM challenges at Camp Invention®! This K-6 program comes to Maureen M. Welch Elementary from June 19 to June 23. Register at invent.org/mylocalcamp.
- CEC Volleyball Camp
- Other CEC Summer Camp Opportunities
- Gwynedd Mercy – Camp Inspire – 6-8 Girls
- Mount Saint Joseph Academy – Summer at the Mount – 5-9 Girls
- NFL Alumni Football Camps – Flyer
- 6-8 Grade Strength and conditioning camps at Notre Dame High School
- Notre Dame athletic, performing arts, and academic summer camps Grades 1-9
- Rising Stock Basketball and Summer Sports Camps
High School Info
Conwell-Egan Scholarship Test Prep Workshop July 10th to July 14th
- For rising 8th graders
- The test prep workshop is hosted each year to give students the best preparation for the Scholarship/Entrance Exam held in the fall. The week-long course includes two days of Math prep, two days of English prep, and the practice exam is taken on the final day.