Holy Cross Catholic School

Hearing the laughter and seeing the smiles from the students gave us all the feels this week. Being able to pray and sing together just fills our hearts with the Holy Spirit and confirms our calling to teach His children. It has been a great first full week back with all our Holy Cross Hornets. Thank you to the parents who entrust us with your children each day and thank you to our staff for loving these kids like your own. I can't say it enough "Holy Cross truly is a special place!"

Please don't forget Back to School Night is a requirement for parents to attend. Our Back to School Night for grades 1-8 is on Tuesday, August 30 at 6:30 pm in the gym. We will begin with a presentation from PTO, Scrip, Celebration, Catechesis, and myself before we break out into three different sessions.

After our school safety review this summer, we will be keeping all doors locked during the school day. All visitors are required to go through the front office during school hours. We appreciate your help with this as it is our number one priority to keep our students and staff safe.

A Beginning of the Year Prayer for Holy Cross

Thank you, Lord, for new beginnings and this new year. We trust that your peace will watch over us as us step into a new beginning. This year, we will rely on the riches of your love and grace to provide for our physical, emotional and spiritual needs.

In Jesus' name, Amen

Students K-8 will wear liturgy uniforms every Friday for All School Mass.

TK Students wear liturgy uniforms the second Friday of each month.

Dear Holy Cross Families,

Welcome back! We are very excited about the new school year and want you to know we believe in working together with you and the Holy Cross Staff to make sure that your child is safe, happy, challenged, and continues to be the best version of themselves.

Our job as school counselors is varied as the students we serve. The program consists of a wide range of services and activities, including individual and group support, parent and teacher consultation, group guidance lessons aligned with the Archdiocesan standards, and referral assistance to programs and services in the community. We would like to share with you some of our goals for the 2022 - 2023 school year.

1. To help make the school a successful and safe experience

2. To help students understand themselves and others

3. To encourage a good healthy self-esteem

4. To develop and enhance communication skills.

5. To help develop appropriate behavior patterns

Since this position is part-time we wanted to explain which days we will be working with your child or in their classroom teaching guidance lessons. Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday are Mrs. Petri's days and Mrs. Reeb works on Tuesday. We will be in your child’s classroom approximately two times a month. We typically will send home an email explaining my lesson in hopes this will encourage follow-up conversations on the skills that we reviewed. Mrs. Reeb's primary focus is small group opportunities. Remember we are TEAM HOLY CROSS and as a family, we are working together to help your child be a child of God and a positive influence on our world.

We encourage you to call (913-381-7408) if you have any questions or concerns about the counseling program or goals, or just want to introduce yourself.

Blessings to you and your family,

Jackie Reeb & Marian Petri

Holy Cross School Counselor

We are working on representing all the different places our families are from on a world map in our front hallway. Please complete the above form. We are only halfway through our locations we have collected so far and we know there is more to come. We want everyone to be represented! The students are so excited about this project and we are too!

As we begin another school year with an ongoing pandemic, we wanted to touch base with changes regarding general illness exclusion in school and Covid-19 procedures.

General information on illness procedures

As always, please keep your children home for the following symptoms:

• Fever above 99.6

• Diarrhea

• Vomiting

If you have questions about symptoms please call prior to sending your child to school.

Please contact the nurses Polly Mandl and Nina Haverkamp (emails below) or email the office. (mbeisser@holycrosscatholicschool.com) and (sbridges@holycrosscatholicschool.com)

Covid-19

If your child tests positive for Covid-19, keep them home for 5 days, while they are most infectious. They may return to school when they are fever-free for 24 hours (without the use of fever-reducing medication), and their symptoms are improving. Upon return, it is recommended they wear a mask through day 10.

Quarantine is no longer required for contact with an infected individual and the test to stay program has been discontinued. It is recommended however, if you had close contact with a Covid-19 positive individual, that you wear a mask for 10 days and test after 5 full days (on day 6 or after). It is important to closely monitor the exposed individual for symptoms, and exclude them from school if they develop any of the symptoms below.

Symptoms include:

• Fever

• Cough

• Sore Throat

• Body Aches

• Headache

• Stuffy or runny nose

• Vomiting and or nausea

• Diarrhea

• Fatigue

• Loss of taste and smell

Please see the link below if you want more information.

CDC General Covid-19 guidance Aug 2022 update

We are hoping that, with the above measures, we can continue on our way to a more “normal” and healthy school year. Please feel free to call or email anytime with any questions or concerns. We appreciate all you do. Thank you so much!

Polly Mandl RN

Nina Haverkamp RN, BSN

pmandl@holycrosscatholicschool.com

nhaverkamp@holycrosscatholicschool.com

Direct nurse line 913-730-3352

School office number 913-381-7408

Grandparents Day is recognized nationally on Sunday, September 11, 2022. We will celebrate our amazing Grandparents on Friday, September 9th at 9:15am in the school gym. The reason for moving away from our traditional Grandparents Day celebration closer to Thanksgiving is due to us having an entire week off for the holiday this year. This schedule also aligns with our surrounding public school systems.

School Safety and Social/Emotional Support Night will be on Wednesday, September 21st at 7pm in Pflumm Hall.

Dan Carney, Director of Safety and Security for Blue Valley School District and Katie Stillwell, former Associate Superintendent for Student Wellness for the Archdiocese, will both be talking to our community about ways to keep our students safe. We look forward to a night of learning. All parents are welcome.

Please follow the traffic flow information provided below. The East entrance is not to be used. The carline should enter and exit out of the West entrance closest to the the Baptist church. We appreciate your cooperation.

Do not forget that September 19th is deadline for Virtus online training. All volunteers MUST be Virtus trained before volunteering in the building or going on any field trips.

Go to www.virtus.org, click on First Time Registrant. It should prompt you from there.

7:30- Early Morning Care

7:50-8:00- Morning Drop Off

8:00am-3:30pm- School Hours

3:30-6:00pm- After School Care

Email: mwagner@holycrosscatholicschool.com
Website: www.holycrosscatholicschool.com
Location: 8101 West 95th Street, Overland Park, KS, USA
Phone: (913) 381-7408
Facebook: facebook.com/HolyCrossOP
Twitter: @HolyCrossOP