Open House Tuesday, August 11, 2015

1:30 - 3:00pm Stop by to meet your new teacher, see your new classroom and drop off your school supplies. Make sure you pick up your parent package from your oldest child’s class. It contains paperwork that must be filled out and returned on the first day of school.

2015-2016 School Start

Saint Joseph Catholic School

Newsletter S U M M E R 2 0 1 5

S P E C I A L P O I N T S O F I N T E R E S T :

Brevard County Catholic Schools Art Show

Academic Bowl 2015

Honor Roll

VBS 2015

Graduation 2015

School Start Date 

Wednesday, August 12, 2015 (early dismissal) 

Supply Sales Tuesday, August 11, 2015

1:00 - 3:30pm Purchase the supplies needed for the 2015-2016 School Year. The supply lists that were sent home have a list of items that are to be purchased at the school. These items will be available this day.

Uniform Sales Friday, July 17, 2015 

1:00pm - 6:00pm Sir Walter Uniforms will be on cam-pus to sell uniforms for the 2015-2016 School Year. Having this earlier date will allow for special orders to be in before the start of school.

General Parent Meeting Wednesday, August 19, 2015

6:15-9:00pm There is a mandatory parent meeting scheduled for the above date. The meeting will start with parents visiting the elementary grades to meet the teacher. All grades will then meet in the cafeteria for a general meeting. The evening will complete with the parents of middle schoolers meeting with the middle school teachers.

New Parent Social & Orientation Monday, August 17, 2015

6:00pm New parents are invited to join us in the Library for a meet and greet. Fol-lowing the social, parents will meet in Room 201 for orientation.

 

P A G E 2

First Place Winner, Josh Lazan 

Brevard County Art Show On March 20, 2015 the Catholic Schools of Brevard County participated in the annual Art Show at St. Teresa Catholic School in Titusville.

Each Grade from Kin-dergarten through Grade 8 were repre-sented in a combina-

tion of 2D and 3D works of art.

Our Winners included:

Morgan Cowden ..... 3rd Place ........................................... 3D

Josh Lazan ................. 1st Place ........................ 2D (2nd & 3rd)

Bryson Wiley ........... 2nd Place ........................ 2D (4th & 5th)

Ariyana Kermani ..... 2nd Place ......................... 2D (6th - 8th)

Brieanna Withrow .. Honorable Mention ... 2D (4th & 5th)

Austin Tippman ....... Honorable Mention .... 2D (6th - 8th)

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Par cipants included: 

Kindergarten: Jackson 

Brown, Ada Almeter, Isabella 

Horan, Morgan Cowden 

Grade 1: Olivia Ziarno, Owen 

Johnson 

Grade 2: Addyson Turba, 

Zakaria Ahmed 

Grade 3: Josh Lazan, 

Andrew Turner, Reagan 

Noble 

Grade 4: Brieanna Withrow, 

Ma hew Maze, Michael 

Stallings 

Grade 5: Mason 

McCormack, Bryson Wiley 

Grade 6: Noah Schneider, 

Aus n Tippmann, Ashlynn 

Harden 

Grade 7: Alisa Campbell, 

Ariyana Kermani 

Grade 8: Amy Wright, 

Isaac Agron, Saryn 

Converse 

P A G E 3

Summer Academics

Honor Roll - Third Trimester Principal’s Award

Awarded to a student who has achieved a grade of 94 or higher in all subjects. Students must have a “P” or “DP” in Music, Art and PE (and Span-ish if applicable). In addition, for each subject, the student may have no 3’s for any Behaviors of Learners.

William Almeter Zoey Cook

Anthony Dambek Sarah Gonzalez

Mason McCormack Melodie Nasr Emma Turba

Sabrina Barella Kathryn Carrick Ariyana Kermani

First Honors Awarded to a student who has achieved a grade of 90 or higher in all subjects. Students must have a “P” or “DP” in Music, Art and PE (and Spanish if appli-cable). In addition, for each subject, the student may have no 3’s for any Behav-iors of Learners.

Second Honors Awarded to a student who has achieved a grade of 85 or higher in all subjects. Students must have a “P” or “DP” in Music, Art and PE (and Spanish if applicable). In addition, for each subject, the student may have no 3’s for any Behaviors of Learners. 

Jean-Paul Ay Colt Campbell James Davis Sarah Davis Finley Duong Jake Facciobene Lauren Foster Michaela Gardunia Kamryn Gies Dominic Herrera Andrea Infante Kathryn Johnson Kimara Longchamp Kailyn Marold Elizabeth McLachlan

Khushi Patel Connor Perry Madeline Pesi Thomas Ribnicky Nataly Romero Ricardo Romero Cailé Shields Joseph Stokes Chloe Tesnow Rachel Thomas Joshua Titus Jaime Vargas Brieanna Withrow Benjamin Yost

Angelina Agron Alisa Campbell Bailey Cowden Brooke Johnson Lintonia Kapas Armon Kermani Joshua Lazan Claire Lockhart Alexandra Merceron Benjamin Peña

Colby Sandberg Noah Schneider Austin Tippmann Andrew Turner Jennifer Volk

Summer Reading Expectations There are no specific sum-mer reading assignments for this year, but just because there is no assignment doesn’t mean your child should not be reading. Each teacher has prepared Sum-mer Reading Expectations for your child and several of

the grade levels have included a reading log for your child to keep track of the books they have read. Reading logs can be found in your child’s summer assignment on our website.

Summer Math Expectations Students in grades 1 through 5 have IXL Math expectations for the sum-mer as was sent home in your child’s Report Card. Students entering grades 6 through 8 have required math worksheets to com-plete. If you have misplaced your worksheets, new ones

can be found on our website under the Parent heading.

 

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Avid Reader Awards At the awards ceremony on the last day of school, select students were given the Avid Reader Award. This award, which consists of a certificate and a $10.00 gift card to Barnes & Noble, is given to students that either earned the most points earned/tests passed/words read in the Scholastic Reading Counts program or showed the greatest improvement in the Scholastic Reading In-ventory program.

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Grade 3

William Almeter Sarah Gonzalez Joshua Lazan

Grade 4 Alex Dunning Ian Herrera

Melodie Nasr

Grade 5 Veronica Devinney

Elizabeth McLachlan Gabriela Rodriguez

Grade 6 Marcus Faniel

Noah Schneider

Grade 7 Christopher Faniel Ariyana Kermani Benjamin Yost

Perfect Attendance 2015 Congratulations to the following students that did not miss a single day in the 2014-2015 School Year. The following students attended every day with no unexcused tardies.

Jean-Paul Ay

Sarah Gonzalez

Keara Hernandez

Ariyana Kermani

Kimberly Lepri

Khushi Patel

Benjamin Peña

Joshua Titus

Jenny Volk

Benjamin Yost

P A G E 5

Graduation 2015 We said good-bye to our graduating Eighth Graders on May 27, 2015 in a beautiful ceremony followed by reception in the Parish Center. We would like to thank seventh grade volunteers for all the time and creativity that they put into the reception.

Special Awards

Rotary Honor Roll Outstanding Student Award went to Rachel Thomas.

Sarah Davis is this year’s Salutatorian.

This year’s Valedictorian is Rachel Thomas.

Class Awards

At graduation, one Class Award is presented for each subject of study. Each graduating 8th grader who wins a class award receives a $15 Barnes & Noble gift card. These are sponsored by Saint Joseph’s School Board. This year’s recipients are:

Religion ....................................................... Joshua Titus

English Language Arts ..........................Chloe Tesnow

Math ..................................................... Ricardo Romero

Science .................................................... Benjamin Peña

Physical Education ...................................... Natalie Elie

Art ............................................................... Amy Wright

Music ............................................ Al-laurie Longchamp

Spanish ................................................... Andrea Infante

Social Studies ............................................. Jean-Paul Ay

Outstanding Christian Award ............... Joshua Titus

Principal’s Award of Excellence ....... Rachel Thomas

Scholarships

Each year scholarships are awarded to students who are planning on attending Melbourne Central Catholic in the fall. This year’s recipients are:

Knights of Columbus and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Palm Bay Chapter #7408 awarded $500 each to Jean-Paul Ay and Noel Acosta.

The National Junior Honor Society awarded $500 to Kendra Cook.

The St. Joseph Student Council Spirit of Saint Jo-seph Scholarship awarded $500 to Claire Lock-hart.

Student Council and NJHS merged funds to create the St. Joseph Excelsior Scholarship and awarded $500 to Chloe Tesnow.

The James M. Berkery III & Anthony Berkery Schol-arship in memory of Anthony Berkery and his fa-ther, James, sponsored by the Berkery family, awarded $1000 to Rachel Thomas.

The Pastor’s Scholarship was awarded to Benja-min Peña.

Lourdes Ridyard Scholarship awarded $500 to Elio Ortiz.

Principal’s Award 2014-2015 Year End Average

Sabrina Barella

Kathryn Carrick

Zoey Cook

James Davis

Sarah Davis

Kamryn Gies

Sarah Gonzalez

Ariyana Kermani

Melodie Nasr

Rachel Thomas

Emma Turba

 

P A G E 6

 SJCS Par cipants 

Academic Bowl 2015

S A I N T J O S E P H C A T H O L I C S C H O O L

N E W S L E T T E R

On Friday, April 24, students from our 6th, 7th and 8th grades participated in an Academic Bowl at Melbourne Central Catholic against other Catholic Schools in Brevard County. All of the Catholic Schools in the county were represented: Saint Joseph, Our Lady of Lourdes, Ascension, Holy Name of Jesus, Our Savior, St. Teresa, St. Mary and Divine Mercy. Our students faired well at the competition.

Grade 6 Noah Schneider ................. 2nd in Science 3rd in On-site Drawing

Kimberly Lepri .................... 3rd in Poetry Interpretation

Joseph Stokes .................................... 3rd in Catholic Theology

Grade 7 Ben Yost 3rd in Calculator Applications 3rd in Mathematics 1st in Number Sense

Devin Keefer ........... 1st in Maps, Charts & Diagrams

Alisa Campbell ....................... 1st in Prose Interpretation

Ariyana Kermani ............... 2nd in Science 3rd in Original Oratory

Colby Sandberg .... 3rd in Number Sense

Sabrina Barella ................... 3rd in Science

Grade 8 Claire Lockhart .... 1st in Music Memory

Rachel Thomas 2nd in Original Oratory

Sarah Davis ..... 3rd in Catholic Theology

Ben Peña ................ 3rd in Number Sense

School Day Arrival and Dismissal Procedures P A G E 7

Morning procedures

7:30-7:45 Students arriving are dropped at the Parish Hall

7:45 Gates and homerooms are open; Students in the Parish Center are escorted to homerooms

7:45-8:00 Arriving students report directly to their homerooms

After 8:00 Students are late and must first report to the office for a pass

VPK Dismissal

11:00 Students enrolled in VPK Only and 3 year olds that are enrolled to 11:00 are picked up by parents at the gate

12:00 Students with wrap hours go to lunch

12:30 Students with wrap hour only to 12:30 are dismissed from room 309

Students with wrap hours to 2:45 follow the Regular Dismissal Procedures (see below)

Regular Dismissal Procedures

2:45-3:00 Students in grades PK (with 2:45 wrap hours) through 4 who DO NOT have siblings in grades 5-8 dismiss from the gates in front of Building 300 Students with siblings in grades 5-8 will be collected from Building 200 and escorted to Building 300 to meet up with siblings Remaining students are sent to After Care

3:00-3:15 Students and their younger siblings are dismissed in front of Building 300

3:15 Students remaining are sent to After Care

3:15-6:00 Students can be signed out of After Care from room 309

Early Dismissal Procedures

11:00 Students enrolled in VPK Only and 3 year olds that are enrolled to 11:00 are picked up by parents at the gate

11:45-12:00 Students in grades PK (with 12:30 & 2:45 wrap hours) through 4 who DO NOT have siblings in grades 5-8 dismiss from the gates in front of Building 300 Students with siblings in grades 5-8 will be collected from Building 200 and escorted to Building 300 to meet up with siblings Remaining students are sent to After Care

12:00-12:15 Students and their younger siblings are dismissed in front of Building 300

12:15 Students remaining are sent to After Care

12:15-6:00 Students can be signed out of After Care from room 309

5320 Babcock Street NE

Palm Bay, Florida 32905

Phone: 321-723-8866

Fax: 321-727-1181

E-mail: office@st-joe.org

Website: www.st-joe-school.org

Mission Statement 

Saint Joseph Catholic School offers  

pre‐kindergar en through eighth g ade 

st dents the high academic standards 

and cur iculum of the Diocese of Orlan‐

do.  We recog ize each st dent as a 

unique individual created in the image of 

God.  Our communit  welcomes, edu‐

cates, and challenges children to become 

lifelong lear ers and followers of Jesus 

Christ. 

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