Building a Community Principal’s Message- Kathleen A. Razzetti
Examining Student Performance: Last week our students in grades three through eight took a sample English Language Arts Assessment. This provided students experience with the style questions and tasks they will find on the actual assessment. During our Professional Development half day, all members of the faculty corrected portions of the assessments. Our goal with this is to evaluate how our children are performing, examine the skills and types of questions evaluated, and compare this to lessons we teach. This process cannot be completed within one, half-day session. We will be continuing our work to direct our teaching and help us identify a new English Language Arts series for next school year. This work will continue during future faculty meetings.
Thank you! From March 1st through March 5th, our students participated in Read Across America by celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday with numerous activities. I thank Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Henzy, Mrs. Morrow and their committee for organizing the multiple events all week. The best part of the celebration was the excitement for reading generated. We look forward to another celebration next year!
Collecting Gently Used Books: As an extension of Read Across America, we are collecting gently used books for the children at South Bay Elementary School. We will also be holding a used book sale later this spring with proceeds going to Catholic Relief Services, helping earthquake victims.
Re-Registration: This year, more than ever, we need to identify our enrollment numbers for the 2010-2011 school year. Please re-register now.
Haiti Awareness Poster Contest Winners: 1st Grade – Philip Pagliughi, Chase Ruge, 2nd grade – Patrick Henzy, Meghan Bonser, 3rd Grade – Caroline Haffner, Olivia Tedesco, 4th Grade – Madison Gramse, Jelise Nimmons, 5th Grade – Trevor Quinn.
Student Phone Calls: We just want to remind you that we cannot accept phone messages from parents about their child’s after school socializing, especially on half days. Also we will not be making any calls to parents about socializing. Please take care of this with your child before they go to school.
2010 LI Catholic School Honor Band: Congratulations to the following St. Martin of Tours Students selected to participate in the LI Catholic School Honor Band Concert Saturday, March 6th at 2:30pm at St. Anthony’s H.S. Douglas Allen, Gianna Amendolara, Jessica Banny, Nicole Coffey, Kevin Drumm, Jarred Dull, Madison Mangels, Elizabeth Papritz, Matthew Preisel, Austin Quinn, Savion Redhead, Timothy Seeberger, Leah Tener, and Patrick White.
* Last Day of School Information: Due to the snow days students will end June 25th. If we have 1 more snow day, we will lose Friday, May 14 – Students will then end on June 25th and Teachers will end on June 28th.
Hofstra will be hosting the Child's play conference at the end of the month. The symposiums will be of interest to your staff but there is also an opportunity for participation by students in the activities on Saturday for $5. If you click on the link below you will be able to see a summary of the offerings for the entire conference. http://www.hofstra.edu/home/News/PressReleases/022310_ChildsPlay.html