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12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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9:00 am - 1:00 pm @ Gathering Space
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Resources
- Seattle Archdiocese
Official homepage of the Catholic parishes of Western Washington. - Seattle Archdiocese Catholic Schools
Our schools: 150 years of strengthening the faith in Western Washington. - Safe Environment Program
Archdiocese of Seattle protecting the young and vulnerable. - Fulcrum Foundation
Leveraging support for Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Seattle. - Annual Catholic Appeal
A future full of hope. Donate to the Annual Catholic Appeal.
Archives
- Accreditation
St. George School has maintained its accreditation status! - Welcome 2009-2010 School Year
Our mission statement calls on us to "..come together with a shared sense of purpose to live our lives as Jesus did". - Pledge to the Miracle Gym
Will you join our school families with a pledge to the Miracle Gym? - Accreditation Process
A copy of the summary report for the Accreditation Commission for Elementary Schools - Preserving the Miracle
During practice and games, we must demonstrate care and responsibility for our Miracle Gym. - 8TH Grade Girls Won Volleyball Tournament for Jefferson CC
Congratulations to Jefferson CC for winning the City Recreational League Tournament this past November, 2008.
Read. Read. Read. Read 20 minutes EVERYDAY this summer, complete and turn in this reading
record sheet and earn an invitation to the Breakfast of Champion Readers in September offered
by Ms. O’Leary, Ms. Liz and several of your teachers, too. There will be prizes and surprises to help
celebrate your reading success!
St. George School Summer Reading Challenge Record Sheet
Friday, June 4th @ 10:30 a.m.Preview of acts (Auditions) will be held during lunches on:
Tuesday, May 4th and Wednesday, May 5th. Please bring your music to the audition.
Dress Rehearsals are scheduled during lunches on:
Tuesday, May 25th and Wednesday, May 26th. Costume and music are required for dress rehearsal.
Talent Show Rules
1. Music with lyrics MUST be suitable for K-8 audience and approved by the Talent Show Committee.
2. Lip-sync only acts are not permitted. Lip-syncing can be part of a dance or other performance. If you re singing with a pre-recorded track, please make sure that it is "karaoke" in style. Be sure there is no main vocal track on your music. There are several sources for karaoke style music such as iTunes.
3. The school dress code applies to all costumes.
4. Acts are limited to a maximum of (3) minutes. Please participate in no more than ONE act.
5. If your talent show act include more than one person, each participant must turn in a permission slip. Group members' slips should be stapled together and turned in a one "unit."
Permission slips can be turned in to the office or Mrs. Wingard by Wednesday, April 28th.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP IN CREATING A GREAT TALENT SHOW!
St. George School
PTA "Fun"draiser
Spring Carnival
Saturday, June 5th
12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
School Hall and Gym
St. George School is holding a spring carnival to end yet another fabulous school year. All are
welcometo partake in the fun filled activities which include:
- Carnival Style Games
- Vendor Booths
- Food
- DJ from HotJamz 94.5
- Cake Walk and so much more!
There is no entry fee*, so bring the kids or the kids at heart to have fun or just mingle with classmates, alumni, school parents and parishioners!
*tickets will be sold for playing carnival games
In two weeks time, our eighth graders will graduate. This is always an exciting time, tinged with
sadness as the students part and continue their journeys at different schools. They will be attending
Bishop Blanchet, Kennedy Catholic, Holy Names, O’Dea, Seattle Prep, Garfield, and Nova.
We congratulate and send our best wishes to the class of 2010
| Jade A | Roy B | Jessica D | Eben D-M | Eyerusalem G |
| Henry G | Rhealyn G | Matthew J | Damion J | Debrah K |
| Brian L | D'Nesha Mc | Cecilia P | Ellen N | Nicolas T |
| Jove T |
Ms. Liz could use your talents! Would you be interested in helping with the following projects? If
so, please return below volunteer form to St. George – your son/daughter’s teacher will put it in my
mail box!
- Typing, Filing, Photocopying, Laminating, General Cleaning
- Creating student portfolios and journals, creating lesson plans and calendars
- Mounting /securing fixtures, tables etc., Fixing broken items, Touch-up Painting
- Creating bulletin boards, Scholastic Book Fair Planning, Special Projects
Download library volunteer form.
I’m looking for a few adult volunteers to help out with field day events! Field day this year will be on Thursday June 10th. If you are interested in helping out and having some fun, you can e-mail me at mrittman08@gmail.com or come visit me at the school! Thanks, Mike Rittman
The coach of Cleveland High School’s tennis team has offered free lessons to any St. George students in grades 4-8. The lessons will be taught by varsity tennis players and overseen by the head coach. They will provide tennis balls and rackets. He said they would be willing to teach Monday’s, Thursday’s and Friday’s from 3pm-4pm. Contact Mr. Rittman if you are interested.
The PTA is hosting a spring carnival Saturday, June 5th from noon to 4pm. One of the invited guests
is the Humane Society. They will be bringing animals available for adoption. The school will hold a
pet food drive starting tomorrow and running until next Friday, June 4th. We are collecting dog and
cat food, cans or dry food to donate to the Humane Society when they come to our carnival. Please
encourage your students to try to help out. Collections can be kept in the classroom until Friday,
June 4th. Please drop them off in the 4th grade room on Friday.
Thank you!
Individual Championships
On Saturday May 8th, St. George had 38 runners compete in the CYO qualifying meet. Of those 38, 26 of
our runners qualified for the Individual Championship meet which was held on Sunday May 16th. Those
who placed 1st-3rd at the Individual Championship meet took the podium and were recognized with a
medal. Those St. George students who took the podium were...
Kamila Sanusi – 3rd Grade – 400m – Bronze Medal
Britanna Brown – 3rd Grade – 50m – Bronze Medal
Juan Villegas-Sotelo – 5th Grade – 200m – Silver Medal
Thomas Stowers – 5th Grade – 50m – Silver Medal
5th Grade Boys 4x100 Relay (Villegas-Sotello/Fujii/Stowers/Jackson) – Silver Medal
Richard Marois – 7th Grade – Shot Put - Bronze Medal
William Stowers – 7th Grade – 200m – Bronze Medal
Roy Balmaceda – 8th Grade – 100m – Bronze Medal
Team Championships
On Saturday May 22nd, Forty St. George runners turned out for the Team Championships held at Highline
Stadium. Our runners turned in a superb performance! Here is how our team fared...
4th Grade Girls – AA 2010 CHAMPIONS!
5th Grade Boys – AA 2010 CHAMPIONS!
7th Grade Boys – AA 2010 CHAMPIONS!
2010 Greater Seattle Championships 2nd Place AA
This is the highest a St. George team has ever placed in CYO Track & Field! The CYO
Track & Field director approached me after the meet and congratulated our team saying this is the
fastest he has seen a team place so high in only its second year! Congratulations St. George Track & Field team!
Track & Field Records
There were 15 Track & Field records broken this year. Those records include...
Kamila Sanusi – 400m Aminat Sanusi – 75m Terryn Jordan – 400m
Ian Ferraz – Turbo Jav. Thomas Stowers – 50m Alosha Fujii – 800m
Elizabeth Gray – 400m Amanda Szeto – Turbo Jav. William Stowers – 200m
Roy Balmaceda – 100m Roy Balmaceda – Turbo Jav.
4th Grade Shuttle Relay (Sanusi/Brown/Ferraz/Marks)
Boys Sprint Medley (Palomo/Tonel/Stowers/Balmaceda)
Girls Sprint Medley (Szeto/Saturay/Nguyen/Payne-Jordan)
A Special thanks to the coaches: Amy Pollington, Chancellor Young and Melodie White! End of year
Track & Field Pizza Party: Thursday June 3rd @ 5:00pm
2010 Presidential Fitness
Once again this year, many of our students took part in Presidential Fitness Testing in our P.E.
class. To receive the Presidential Fitness Award, a student must be in the 85th percentile or above in
the nation in each of five categories which test strength, speed, endurance and flexibility. To
receive the National Fitness Award, a student must be in the 50th percentile or above in each of the
five categories. Last year we tested in grades 5th,6th and 7th and awarded 2 Presidential awards and
eleven National awards. This year in those same grades we are awarding EIGHT Presidential awards and
TWENTY-ONE national awards! What a step up from last year! This year we also included in the testing
3rd grade, 4th grade, and 8th grade for a grand total of eight presidential awards and THIRTY-SIX
National Awards!!!! Those who will receive awards are listed below...
Presidential award winners Alosha Fujii (5th)
Aleighja Harris (5th)
Cung Le (5th)
Aminat Sanusi (5th)
Ian Ferraz (6th)
Chelsea Villanueva (6th)
Bennet Vining (6th)
Tairah Payne-Jordan (7th)
National Award Winners
Britana Brown (3rd)
Mia Anderton (4th)
Austin Buza (6th)
Steven Tran (6th)
Kamila Sanusi (3rd)
Serenity Adalbert (5th)
Jazmyn Gonzales (6th)
AJ Bautista (7th)
Nick Aweeka (4th)
Aleina Gabriel (5th)
Caitlyn Jacquemart (6th)
Elizabeth Gray (7th)
Zahara Boyd (4th)
Jeremy Lessard (5th)
Emma Jensen (6th)
Michael Palomo (7th)
Calvin Chao (4th)
Ysobelle Montero (5th)
Donald LeGrone (6th)
Roy Balmaceda (8th)
Aliyana Haag (4th)
Terryn Payne-Jordan (5th)
Clarence Leung (6th)
Eyerusalem Gebremedhn (8th)
Nathan Jensen (4th)
Alexa Tonel (5th)
Jonathan Luong (6th)
D'Nesha McLellon (8th)
Tan Le (4th)
Juan Villegas-Stoelo (5th)
Anakaren Medina (6th)
Ellen Nguyen (8th)
Makai Santos-Magee (4th)
Joey Aweeka (6th)
Michelle Nguyen (6th)
Nicolas Tonel (8th)
Yearbooks are wonderful keepsakes of all the exciting memories experienced by the St. George students
during the 2009-2010 school year.
Download order form here.
Within the 242 pages of Diane Ravitch’s lightning rod of a book, “The Death and Life of the Great
American School System,” there appear exactly three references to Catholic education. Which makes
sense, given that Ms. Ravitch is addressing and deploring recent efforts to reform public schools
with extensive testing and increasing privatization.
Yet what subtly informs both her critique and her recommendations for improving public schools is,
in significant measure, her long study of and admiration for Roman Catholic education, especially in
serving low-income black and Hispanic students.
In that respect, Ms. Ravitch and her book offer evidence of how some public-education scholars and
reformers have been learning from what Catholic education is doing right. What one might call the
Catholic-school model is perhaps the most unappreciated influence on the nation’s public-education
debate ... continue reading
It is the online version of the bathroom wall in school, the place to scrawl raw, anonymous gossip.
Formspring.me, a relatively new social networking site, has become a magnet for comments, many of them
nasty and sexual, among the Facebook generation.
While Formspring is still under the radar of many parents and guidance counselors, over the last two
months it has become an obsession for thousands of teenagers nationwide, a place to trade comments and
questions like: Are you still friends with julia? Why wasn’t sam invited to lauren’s party?
... continue reading
Celebrate the diversity in our School and Parish. Enjoy ethnic foods, student projects and performances
and many more! Have a dish, recipe or dance to contribute to represent your culture? Interested in
having your child perform a cultural dance? Contact Grizelda Sarria @ maxteofilo@yahoo.com for more
information.
Multicultural Event
St. George School and Parish
Saturday, May 15, 2010
St. George School Hall 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Event Entrance is Free
International Food: $6.00 each (buy tickets @ front office) $8.00 at the event
International Beer Garden
The St. George track team is made up of about 40 student athletes who represent our school, competing
against all of the other CYO teams throughout our 2 month season. Unlike many other school's, our
school does not have Track uniforms. Most of the other schools have track uniforms while we wear our
St. George first Friday T-shirts to the meets. Please help our team get uniforms by subscribing to the
ESPN magazine by filling out the order form below and returning it to the office with a check or cash
for $40.00. Thanks!
Download Subscripion Form
Please, please, take more care at drop-off and pick-up times. Remember to DRIVE SLOWLY ON 13TH, drop-off
or pick-up your child, and then DRIVE SLOWLY, STOP AT THE CROSSWALK UNTIL IT IS CLEAR AND DRIVE SLOWLY
away from the school. DO NOT STOP IN THE CROSSWALK to pick up or drop-off student. If you let your child
out of the east side of the street, be sure to bring them to the crosswalk. You are setting an example
for the children; you are the foremost educators, so please model safety and courtesy on the street.
Our second and third graders are singing heartily these days as they prepare their operas. Not only do they perform, but they actually the librettists and composers, set designers and set painters. They create the entire production themselves, under the leadership of Sue Bowman, Washington State "Opera By Children" administrator, and Marissa Rebadulla-Ramos, our music teacher.
The second grade opera is call Old Fashioned Singing Country Town. The third grade opera sounds scarier; it is called Haunted House in a Forest. Don't miss these great performances on May 12th at 10:45 a.m.
Our numbers are climbing! Pre-school, kindergarten, seventh and eight grades are now full for the
2010-2011 school year. New applicants for these grades will be put on a waiting list. We still have a small number of openings in each grade 1-6.
Last Sunday, Miss Andersen and I had
the honor of attending the district awards ceremony at Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Post 4137.
Once again, St. George students excelled. Lillian Le, grade 4 took first place in post and second place in
district; Alexa Tonel, grade 5 placed first post and received honorable mention in the district; Emma Jensen,
grade 6 placed first in post and third in district, and Rahel Nuguse, grade 7 was first in post and second in
the district.
At Monday's assembly, representatives from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Priscilla Del Rosario
and Mar Murillo presented so many students in grades four, five, six, seven and eight with honorable mention
certificates and awards for their essay writing. Congratulations to the students, their teachers
and you, their encouraging parents.
I received this information this week and found it very informative and want to pass it on to our families. I will continue to send information home regarding H1N1 to keep you updated. I continue to take part in the on going conference calls held by King County Health Department so as to keep you updated.
Download H1N1 Information
If you have any concerns about driving and live in a hilly area or have distance to drive, please do not take any risks. Stay home and stay warm!
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