Dear Holy Name families, As summer draws near, you and your family may be eagerly awaiting a break from the daily routines of the school year. This shift from school to summer break, however welcome, can affect your entire family. The challenge for any family lies in shifting gears to a different kind of schedule for the summer. It is a transition phase that may pose special challenges for your child, especially if he or she has learning and/or attention problems. There are steps you can take to smooth this transition and create a summer routine that benefits the entire family. Below are three practical tips for successfully shifting from school year to summer break. 1. Summer Schedule: Review the summer plans you have made to date. First, think about your main concerns for summer: child care and transportation arrangements and possible learning activities such as camps or other summer programs. Then, remember to allow time for spontaneous activities –places and people to visit when time permits or the mood strikes. It is helpful to keep a running list of these opportunities. Finally, be sure to allow some unstructured time for your child to “just be a child.” 2. Healthful Snacks: Healthful snacks help children re-energize throughout their active day. Make sure portion sizes are small so the snack will not interfere with meals. There are many recipes for making healthful snacks fun to eat! 3. Summer Learning and Reading: Summer learning programs offset “summer slide,” the tendency for students to regress academically when they are not in school. All students tend to fall behind in math and reading during the summer because they have fewer opportunities to practice these skills. You may want to ask your child’s teacher about local resources. In addition, joining a reading club at the local library is often motivation for young readers. The internet can also be a good resource for rein-forcing both reading and math skills. They also have their summer reading lists to

complete. Finally, decide that you will greet the summer in a relaxed manner and with a sense of humor and joy for the op-portunity to enjoy your family in a new way! Keep God Alive in your Heart, Mrs. Workman, Principal

Holy Name Parish School

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Important Dates to Remember June 2 “Mass of 100 Singers” 9:00am hosted by Grade 3 June 3 –6 Grade 6 visits Camp Agassiz June 4 Band rehearsal 2:30pm Finn Hall Food Pantry—Last one Student Council Elections June 6 Grade 1 to Franklin Park June 8 Blood Drive starts at 9:00am Parish Hall June 9 Family Mass 9:00am hosted by Grade 4 June 10-13 Used Book Sale June 10 1/2 day for Nursery, KI, and KII June 11 1/2 day for Nursery, KI, and KII Band rehearsal 2:300pm Finn Hall Hot Dog Day June 12 Holy Name Band Show 1:30pm Nursery Celebration 9:00am Finn Hall KI Celebration 11:00am Finn Hall KII Celebration 10:00am Parish Hall June 13 Grade 6 Celebration Day Grade 5 Field Trip to Aquarium June 14 Last Day for Grade 6– Dismissal at Noon Grade 6 Graduation 5:30pm Prayer Service (Upper Church) Reception—Parish Grounds June 16 Family Mass 9:00am hosted by Grade 5 Happy Father’s Day June 17 & 18 Full day for Grades 1-5 June 19 1/2 Day for Grades 1-5 Dismissal at Noon No Boston School Bus Transportation June 20 Last day of school Dismissal at 11:00am No Boston School Bus Transportation Report Cards distributed Looking Ahead September 2 Labor Day – No School September 3 Faculty Meeting September 4 School reopens for Grades 1-6 Dismissal at Noon Nursery Orientation at 8:00 - at the Early Childhood Center for parents

KI Orientation at 9:15am at the Early Childhood Center for parents

KII Orientation at 10:00am in Finn Hall Open House for Nursery, KI & KII for students from 11:00- 11:30am September 9-13 Starting Days for Nursery, KI and KII (1/2 class sessions) Dismissal is at noon for all students September 16 Full Day sessions begin for Nursery, KI, and KII

Quick Reminders

The Family Liturgy is held each Sunday at 9:00am in the Upper Church. Make God an inte-gral part of your family life. Please try to attend Mass and worship together. Be thankful for all the joys that each member of your family gives to one another. As Father Carlson reminds us, friends are welcome. The continuing participation of our children at Mass involves assisting with music sheets, the offertory collection, and presenting the offertory gifts. The schedule of grades assigned to assist at the Family Mass is as follows: June 2 “Mass of 100 Singers” hosted by Grade 3 June 9 Family Mass hosted by Grade Four June 16 Family Mass hosted by Grade Five

Reminder! CORI applications deadline will be extended to June 14 It is necessary for us to have these approved before the September opening of school. Both parents must submit a CORI form if they wish to be involved in any student related activity such as lunch duty, field trips and classroom resource, etc. We need a CORI application for each parent. Forms must be presented in person to the office to verify CORI information. CORI forms returned in September will not be immediately cleared for the start of the academic school year 2013-2014.

Holy Name Parish

Family Liturgy Every Sunday

9:00am Upper Church

Holy Name Parish School provides two options for tuition payment. Tuition payments for the 2013-2014 school year are due on June 1, 2013. Option 1: Full payments with $100 discount by June 1, 2013. Option 2: Utilize FACTS: which is our tuition management plan de-signed to be a flexible budgeting plan to meet family needs. All outstanding tuition should have been paid in full by April of this year. Unfortunately, any family whose tuition for the 2012-2013 school year is not paid in full by September 2013 will not be allowed to return. FACTS Financial Tuition aide packets were sent out to all families. Applications may be filed online. FACTS will assist in determining eligibility for aid. For additional information, please call the office.

Any child, who is transferring from Holy Name Parish School for the upcoming 2013-2014 school year, needs to notify the school office immediately. Forms are available in the office. These forms also ensure betermination of the FACTS agreement or payment for tuition. Records will not be sent unless tuition has been paid in full. Records will not be sent without the required information. Thank you.

We would like to thank all those who helped with our Box Tops for Education program. Box Tops Ap-preciation Day was fun for all those involved. A special thank you to Christy Bortolotto, Stacy Shea, Robin Gallagher, and Monica McLaughlin who organized the Holy Name Parish School Box Tops for Education program. A total check amount of $1,259.90 was earned this last submission period. Thank you for everyone’s efforts.

Bruins Spirit/Casual Day on May 22 was a great success! The Bruins organization sponsored a rally and raffle at Holy Name Parish School to show their appreciation for the school’s do-nation of 2,006 pairs of pajamas to Cradles to Crayons. Holy Name Parish School was the first place winner among local towns in the Cradles to Crayons Pajama Drive contest. The rally featured Boston Bruin alumnus, Tom Songin, The Ice Girls, and Boston Bru-ins mascot, Blades. Holy Name Parish School was presented with a signed and framed Bruins jersey commending the school’s great efforts. Congratulations to the Student Council, with the help and sup-port of Mrs. Alessi and Mrs. Crowley, for a great event!

We are grateful to our Home & School Association for the outstanding fundraising events that they had throughout the year. We thank all the hard-working members of the Association for the dedication and support they have continually given to Holy Name Parish School. Once again this was truly an outstanding year. Many enjoyable events consisted of the following: the Calendar Sale, Genevieve Wrapping Sale, Santa’s Workshop, Craft Fair, Polar Express showing, Scavenger Hunts, Cupcake Wars, Family Feud, Ready Set Go, Tree Lighting & Social Supper, and Santa’s Workshop. Our sixth grade graduates also benefit from their support and scholarships. We are most grateful to all who attended and supported the many events. We appreciate the generos-ity of all those who donated numerous items to theses events. It has been a school community effort, supported by faculty, staff, students and parents. For all the hours of hard work, the sacrifice of time and energy, we thank eve-ryone involved. Our Holy Name children are our motiva-tion; they are the soul and spirit of our school. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thank you! A big thank you for all the events spon-sored by the Bernardines. Your support is invaluable!

The Raffle winners from Bruins Spirit Day include: 1st Prize: Devan Mullaney (1-2) 2nd Prize: Lila Romano (2-4) 3rd Prize: Anthony Ferrara (K 26)

Our Student Council has successfully completed another year at Holy Name Parish School. Some of the many projects they have undertaken are: pro-viding tours for the new students and families, Lights For Loved Ones, Saint Vincent de Paul Clothing Drive, F.O.G. Fund Raiser, Toys for Tots, Cradle to Crayons, the Catholic Relief Service “Operation Rice Bowl,” Holy Name Gives Back, Spring Fest for gym classes, Rain-bow Day, Food Pantry, and recycling throughout the school. We praise and thank our Student Council for the many out-reach projects and casual days they have under-taken under the guidance of Mr. O’Hara, and Miss Curtis. We also thank you for your support of these projects.

Student Council & advisor, Mr. O’Hara Photo Credit: Judith Sargent Photography, Inc.

Congratulations to all the 5th and 6th graders who participated in the Ballroom Dancing Spectacular! It was quite a show complete with swing, tango, and salsa numbers. Holy Name was fortu-nate enough to have special appearances by professional ballroom dancers, Mr. Dubovsky and partner Olga Bassett! A special thank you to Mrs. Houston and Mrs. Bradley for their instruction, patience, and effort in putting this event together. The dancers included Mrs. Hill’s Headlining Hoofers’, Mrs. Kelley's Dance Force, Mrs. Curley’s Tango Tigers, 6 Sixteen Dancing Machine, Mr. Gordon’s Glamorous Gang, and Mrs. Amiro’s All-American All Stars.

May was a month of stars! Congratula-tions to the students’ who participated in the wonderful production of “Channeling the ‘60s.” Those students include: Grade 1: Abby Pavlan, Matthew Tobin, Katie Carroll, Annie Cuddy, Nola Jean Keeney, Joseph Mitchell, Brendan Norton, Maeve McGrath, Elizabeth Gerstle, Seamus Coyle, Sophia Maldonado-Werk, Matthew Golden Grade 2: Isabel Pobudziej, Mia Prendergast, Julia Dalmanieras, Marlene Carter, Emma Kefalis, Sophia Russo, Olivia Tarantino, Claire Ryan, Claire Bortolotto, Annie Kelley, Alexandria Kickham Grade 3: Cynthia Bechwati, Jordan Todd, Jil Gallagher, Caroline Harrington, Melia Tarabay, Molly Dame, Allison Golden, Niamh Prentiss, Maeve Haight, Nola Fabiano, Elan Pang, Ruth Norton, Brynn O’Toole, Lily Crowley, Lukas Hofmann, Caroline Kelley, Allison Chang

Grade 4: Taylor Enos, Thomas Stone, Alyssa Bottary, Mary Catherine Macdonald, Bridget Torpey, Dottie Parlon, Madelyn O’Hara, Katerina Daimanieras, Olivia Kickham Grade 5: Alexis Geyer, Samantha Lonergan, Kieran Flood, Aine Doyle, Megan Wilson, Olivia Timilty, Ema Noonan, Maren Dougherty, Maeve O’Toole, Caelainn Coyle, Katie Crowley, Eleanor Spy, Lizzie Frattaroli Grade 6: Sarah Forde, Nada Tarabay, Mary Kate Golden, Cecilia Tarantino, Jacob Azzi, Kevin DiCarlo, Michaela Russell, John O’Hara, Benjamin Hofmann, Libby Spy Stage Crew: Hannah Browne, Deirdre McKenna, Olivia Stone, Ryan Bottary, Arthur O’Malley

A special thank you to Director, Diana Bradley, and Musical Director, Patrice Monahan!Teachers, Barbara Amiro, Mary Kercz, Karen Curley, Katie Davis, Rob O’Hara, and Diane

Beatrice.

Summer reading and supply lists will be provided for your children from their upcoming grade. If you misplace them, they may be obtained on our school web page. Teachers have met and established their grade requirements. Remember, summer is the time not only for reading enjoyment, but also for maintaining skills. Once again this year all Holy Name stu-dents will be given the Holy Name Parish School assignment book and folder at no cost to our families. If the child loses either one during the year, the normal fee will be assessed. These

On Thursday, June 13, 2013 the fifth grade classes will be taking a field trip to the New England Aquarium in Boston. They will be departing from Holy Name at 8:15am and will return by dismissal. Since we will be gone from school during lunchtime, the children are asked to bring a brown-bag lunch. Please do not send glass or plastic containers, as they must be able to throw away all trash. Please have your child wear his/her gym uniform.

The Holy Name Enrichment Program has provided the children with several cultural pro-grams that have been outstanding. We began our year with the a Bully Prevention Program “Be Cool Be Safe” which helped children understand tools to keep harmony in school. In October, the “Prismatic Magic Halloween Laser Spooktacular Show” was enjoyed by all stu-dents. This show was an exciting ensemble of mesmerizing laser drawn animations set to clas-sic Halloween tunes and today’s current pop music. It gave students the tools necessary to make their school bully-free. A group of talented musicians from the Boston Pops including Mr. Roylance entertained the students during Christmas time. In April, local author Mary DePalma visited the Early Childhood Center and taught the students about illustration and writing books. In May, “Energy Pursuit” was presented by NSTAR and provided a fun gaming and trivia contest for students. A heartfelt thank you to our Enrichment Coordinator, Mrs. Buckley.

Grade six classes will have the op-portunity to visit Agassiz Village En-vironment School in West Poland, Maine from June 3-6 2013. All the students will participate in a “hands-on” science program focusing on a sensory awareness approach to envi-ronmental education utilizing a wide variety of natural surroundings. Thank you, Mrs. Amiro, Mr. O’Hara, for accompanying the students, and especially Mr. Gordon, for organiz-ing this academic experience for our sixth graders.

The Holy Name School Band will hold their annual Spring Concert directed by Jon Woodard and Jim Repa of the Paul Effman Music Service on June 12th at 1:30pm in Finn Hall. Our talented musicians will perform a concert for their parents and Holy Name stu-dents. Congratulations to the following students for their dedication and hard work: Flute: Allison Chang, Michelle Wang, Daniel Li, Elan Peng, Sophia Ross Clarinets: Alanna Smyth, John Harrington, Eleanor Spy, Kterina Dalmanieras, James Gillespie, Reyna Han, Eric Ma, Theresa Gilbride Saxophones: Christo-pher Canavan, Neal Gaffney, Conrad Hock, Kaleigh Conrad, Ryan Pease, Patrick St. George Trumpets: Dai Chi-Tran, Patrick Smyth, Jack Gilbride, Brendan Galvin Drums: Nathan Fitzgerald, Maximus Holmes, Matthew Susich, Kevin Prendergast, Vincent Hock, James Harrington, Lily Kate Rodgers, Socrates Abreau

Students of Grades 1-5 will receive their report cards on Thursday, June 20, 2013. The teachers and ad-ministration will carefully decide the best placement for your child/children. Although input from par-ents is important, there are many as-pects that need to be considered in the final classroom decision. We are unable to honor requests. Please be assured that each one of us will make the best decision possible. Assign-ments will be sent out by IRIS and e-mail in late August.

Congratulations to the Holy Name Parish School Grade 6 Graduates!!! We wish you much happiness as you enter a new chapter in your life. May the Catholic education that you received here at Holy Name Parish School always in-fluence you in making good choices. We are proud of your accomplishments. May you continue to share your talents and abilities with others.

May everyone have a safe, healthy, and enjoyable rest of the school year

and summer to come. We look forward to seeing everyone back in September and wish the best of luck to our graduates!

Used Book Sale will be Monday, June 10th– Thursday, June 13th. Please watch the backpacks for specific times that your child’s class will be visiting the Used Book Sale. Books will be priced .25—$1 …..such bargains!