WELCOME! KINDERGARTEN INFORMATION 1-21-16

PRAYER:

Dear God our Father,

Bless Sacred Heart School, which we lift up to you with

gratitude and joy. May it always be a place where

eyes are opened with faith, earls are opened with

truth, and hearts are opened with love. May Jesus be

the foundation of our school. Come, Holy Spirit. Be in

our work and our play. Help us be like Jesus in all that

we do today. Amen

Meet your principal in 60 seconds

With Mercy Chosen

Mahoney-7 girls

Wife and Mom

Grandma in June

KU-Benedictine

Simply the best

25 years + teaching/administration

Shawnee Mission

Holy Cross

St. James Academy

Sacred Heart

It’s all about our students growing up with a strong faith-knowing how precious they are in God’s eyes

Meeting students where they are…Building legacy- Challenging them

Academically….Catholic community

Parents are primary educators

Anything to do with sports…ok…the Royals!

Weakness-Strength

All School Mass

Motto

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

• Mission

• Faith formation

• Academic rigor

• Community

• Routine and details

• Registration

Who we are

• 403 students

• 2 full classes of every grade • Average of 24 students per class

• 35 staff members • 24 full time teachers-70% Masters

• Full time nurse

• 3 reading resource specialists

• 1 student advocate

• 4 para-professionals

• Full time Technology director

• 1 of 44 schools in the

Archdiocese of KCK

Principal Mission • Handing on the faith, generation after generation

• Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ

• Rich environment of faith and learning

• Students learn about how much God loves them

• According to Pope Francis:

The parish school is not merely “a human enterprise,”

but rather “a love story,” and the faithful must

remember that it is only in the path of love that the

student can grow.

Nour

Nourishing Faith Continuing education and faith

formation with SOF

Exemplary support by

Fr. Pat/Fr. Dan and parish staff

• Daily Religion class

• Weekly All School Mass

• Rosary/Stations

• Catholic teachers as witness

• Rigorous Faith-Based curriculum

• Teach as Jesus did

Let’s meet the teachers:

• Mrs. Laurie Macan and Mrs. Nora Tripp

Academic Rigor

Full Day Kindergarten

• 90 minutes of ELA including MTSS (MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF

SUPPORT)

• 45 minutes of Math

• Learning centers/Differentiation

• Science, Social Studies curriculum

• Continual progress monitoring (MAPS, Dibel, small

group assessment)

Report Cards Grade K-2

Skill sheets in ELA and Math

Grades K-2 have

skills based report cards

Definitions of +, S, /

• + is mastery of a skill

• S is leading to mastery

• / extra work needed by student in order to master

the outcome

Specials classes: Art, PE, Music, Spanish,

Technology

MTSS: Multi-tiered system of support

Technology-Smart boards. Tablets

Library time

Pier mentors-4th grade partners

Faith Families

Kindergarten screening

• Letter recognition (Capital and lower)

• Count to 30

• Count objects to 10

• Personal information (first, last name, address, birthday and phone)

• Fine motor: Drawing shapes, pencil grip, cutting

• Writing first and last name

Screening does not determine admittance into kindergarten. Used for baseline and classroom placement.

Academics-Progress monitoring

• Reading and Math

• Dibels

• Star

• MAPS-measure of Academic progress

• Weekly communication

• Resource support for Tier 1, and 3 students

Routine and Details

School hours: 7:55-3:20

Drop off: 7:30 a.m.

After school care till

6:00 p.m.

Hot lunch from Pizza West

$3.50

• Weekly communication

• Uniforms

• Discipline=

Virtuous Behavior Formation

School wide expectations,

classroom rewards, school rewards

and age appropriate consequence.

Community

• Faith families

• CPS-Parent involvement

• CYO-Catholic youth organization

• Clubs -Lego, Yo Yo, Dance, Girls club,

Walking, sign language, Mathletics,

Photography, Scrapbook, Improv

• Fully accredited by AdvancEd-top

rating of highly functional

• Model school in Reading and Math

• Resource budget supports updated

technology, lab activities and

materials, reading and writing

materials

Partnership….Current Survey Results

• Common threads in highest scores among parent,

staff, and student survey results.

• Catholic culture aligns with purpose and direction

• Faith-filled administration and staff

• Safe, clean, healthy environment

• Instructional purpose supports learning-students

academically challenged and ready for next level

• Resources support educational programs

• Multiple data sources are used to adjust curriculum,

instruction, and assessments

Current Survey Results:

Where are we going:

Updated textbooks

• Collaboration with resource

teachers/Desoto school district to meet

needs of our gifted students.

• Increase technology

in classrooms

Early Application enrollment till January 31st

• Registration fee $125

• After Jan. 31 $175

• Technology $100

2016-2017 Tuition rates:

In parish:

1 student: $3345

2 students $5495

3 or more students $7445

Out of parish: $5800 per child

Parish school-subsidizes 40% of cost to educate one

child

• Dates:

o January 31st-Deadline for early application

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o Feb 3rd Open enrollment for current families

o Feb 10th-Enrollment papers mailed to new

families, including incoming kinders who did not enroll early

FEBRUARY 16TH-OPEN ENROLLMENT

March 4th: Acceptance Letters mailed

March 21st: Kindergarten screening (9-11am or 1-3pm)

What to expect as a new family

• Shadow day, if needed-call front office

*8:15am-*10:15am

• Mentor family in early June

• Put on our email distribution list for

newsletters and weekly updates

• Ice cream social in August

• Communication from kindergarten teachers

Our Question How do we (Sacred Heart) create a school in which every student receives excellent instruction, infused with our Catholic faith, in every class, every day? ~WE PREPARE MINDS FOR THE FUTURE-SOULS FOR ETERNITY~

WEBSITE: school.shoj.org