News Category: Principal’s Letter

Dear Parents, I begin this week with sad news.  The father of Sven Tice, 7th grade homeroom and middle school science and math teacher, died on Tuesday evening.  Mr. Tice is with his family and will be on leave.  Please keep him and his family

During May, we celebrate Mary, the Mother of God and a motherly source of spiritual support.  May is also Mental Health Awareness Month.  NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental health, the Office for Catholic Schools, and all our schools are

Dear Parents, Happy Educator Appreciation Day!  We here at St. John are very grateful to you, our partners, our fellow educators!  You are getting your children to the Zoom, Google, and Teams classes.  You are encouraging them to read and do

Dear Parents and Teachers, Tomorrow, we move into May, a month we devote to honoring Mary, the mother of Jesus.  As we remember this woman of awesome strength, let’s ask her to intercede for all of us.  We are also reminded of those wonderful

On Wednesday, current second-grade families feted Mrs. Hendrickson with a celebratory drive-by at the St. John School flagpole after she announced that she would not be returning to St. John next year.  Organized by a second-grade parent, students

Dear Families, Easter is the primary feast in the liturgical year.  The Paschal Mystery has so much relevance throughout the school year, the dying and the rising!  Recovering from bad grades, the lost game, spring after winter.  And on Monday,

It’s Auction time!  The distance learning lesson this coming week is all about being True to Your School!  The learning objective is to be the highest online bidder!  Preparation and pre-event homework includes registering with Bidding For

I keep hearing the phrase, ‘strange times.'  I also hear that this is the war of our generation.  We are going through a major global historic event, and acting for the common good is tasking us in ways that are not at all as challenging as a

Today is the first day of spring.  The weather is beautiful; the sun actually feels warm.  It is a blessing we can take advantage of right now.  We are also blessed by your messages of support and the photos you are sending. We miss the children.

Remember those famous opening lines from A Tale of Two Cities? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The virus has us all reeling. The children had a nervous excitement today in the building as you were probably scrambling to