Wow, how time flies! It's hard to believe that we have already finished our first quarter. Your child should have received his/her report card today. Please review the report card with your child, paying special attention to the Work Habits section. This portion of the report card provides information about your child's effort and conduct, which are two factors that may impact learning the most. If your child received a 1 or 2 on the Work Habits Report, please take time to discuss ways to improve in these areas. Each quarter, students who receive all 3s and at least four 4s will be recognized and receive a Positive Panther Award. Please also remind your child that we have just started Quarter 2, so everyone has a fresh new start!

This afternoon, we had our first All-School Assembly to recognize students who earned the Positive Panther Awards and/or Honor Roll (6th-8th), won the design contests for the Yearbook Cover or our God's Gifts Stickers, earned four God's Gifts Stickers, or played SPX Athletics this quarter. In addition to the awards, our cheerleaders lead an energetic Pep Rally, the staff "performed" a routine, and student representatives from each grade level competed in Minute to Win It type challenges. It was a great way to show our SPX spirit and celebrate our students' Quarter 1 accomplishments! We will include photos and lists of our award winners in our next newsletter.

Friday, November 4 Report Cards Sent Home and All-School Awards Assembly

Sunday, November 6 Daylight Savings Time Ends

Monday, November 7 Mod Pizza Fundraiser

Tuesday, November 8 All-School Mass

Wednesday, November 9 Home & School Meeting (All are welcome! Room 201 6:30 p.m.)

Thursday, November 10 Book Fair Begins

Thursday, November 10 Parent-Teacher Conferences (3:10 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.)

Friday, November 11 Veterans Day Program (Gym 8:20 a.m.)

*All scouts may wear portions of their scouting uniforms. Please see information below.

Tuesday, November 15 All-School Mass

Tuesday, November 15 School Board (Library 7:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, November 15 Confirmation Parent Meeting (Cafeteria 7:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, November 16 Parent-Teacher Conferences (3:10 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.)

Friday, November 18 Newsletter Published

Monday, November 21 $1.00 Dress Down Day for 8th Grade DC Trip

Tuesday, November 22 All-School Mass 8:30 a.m.

Tuesday, November 22 2nd Grade Stone Soup (Parish Center 11:00 a.m.)

Tuesday, November 22 Kindergarten Thanksgiving Meal

Tuesday, November 22 Beta Club Induction Ceremony (Gym 1:15 p.m.)

Wednesday, November 23 No School

Thursday, November 24 No School - Thanksgiving

Friday, November 25 No School

Sunday, November 27 Advent Begins

Tuesday, November 29 Mass with Bishop Fernandes 8:30 a.m. (Families Welcome!)

**The yearly calendar may be found by logging in to your FACTS Family Portal.**

We have implemented a new procedure for students who are not picked up on time. Dismissal is at 2:30. If parents are not in the carline by 2:40, the students will be taken to Latchkey. Parents will be charged through Incidental Billing the Daily Drop-In Fee of $30.00 per child, plus a one-time registration fee of $25. Parents should ring the bell at Door C to pick up their child(ren) on those days.

On Tuesday, November 1, we celebrated All Saints Day with an All-School Mass. As always, Father Dave did an extraordinary job sharing a homily that provided an analogy and a visual that enabled our students to fully understand his message. By bringing students forward to "hold" the ingredients for chicken noodle soup, he explained how each of the ingredients were important in giving the soup just the right taste. Similarly, he explained that God needs each one of us, with all of our uniqueness, in heaven. Fortunately, the saints have provide us beautiful examples of how to live lives that lead us to heaven.

We'd like to thank all of the parents who volunteered to work the event, decorated a trunk, donated bags of candy, or attended the event! What a fun way to build our SPX community! Check out more photos on our Facebook page!

Parents order products anytime from the Market Day website. They’re open 24/7! Just like other popular eCommerce sites, customers pay on-line. Market Day accepts all major credit cards. Orders ship in a cooler packed with dry ice via FedEx direct to the customer’s front door. St. Pius earns 10% of the total dollar amount on every order.

When searching for our school, we are listed as St. Pius X School!

Market Day still offers proprietary and exclusive family favorites like ChicNSteakes®, Pizza-Eatzzas® and Chocolate Pudding Cakes to name just a few, and many other delicious frozen foods!

Help us increase the amount of our Kroger community rewards by registering your Kroger Rewards Card with St. Pius X School and Church. These reward checks allow us to do special things for our staff throughout the year, and I always say, "If we keep our staff happy, they keep your children happy!"

Here's how the contest works:

• Link your Kroger Card to St. Pius X School and Church (#KL459). See directions below.
• Take a screenshot of the page that shows your account connected to SPX.
• Email the screenshot to mdennett@spxelementary.com or print it and send it to school with your children.
• One point will be given to each child in your family for each account that is registered, so please encourage your friends and family members to link to SPX, too!
• The class with the greatest average number of points per student (when we return in January) will earn a pizza party and dress down day.

1. Log into your Kroger app.

2. Link your card to an organization.

• Select the 3 lines on the top right.
  
• Click Rewards.
• Click Community Rewards.
• In the "Find an Organization" box type KL459
• Select St. Pius X School and Church
• Click Enroll

Your selected organization will also display in the Kroger Community Rewards section of your account.

It's time for our Book Fair Classroom Coin Challenge! Each day, students may bring in money for their classroom libraries. The class that donates the most money by the end of the challenge will earn an additional trip to the book fair on the last day to shop for a free book. ($10.00 Value)

Monday 11/7: Pennies

Tuesday 11/8: Nickels

Wednesday 11/9: Dimes

Thursday 11/10: Quarters

Friday 11/11: Anything goes!

Classroom Schedule

Thursday 11/10

8:00-9:00 K-Woods

9:00-9:30 6-Meyer

10:15-11:00 7-Schwab

11:00-11:30 6-Meyer

1:00-2:30 6-Nardy

Friday 11/11

8:00-8:30 7-Kehres

11:00-12:00 1-Evans

1:00-2:30 3-Camp

Monday 11/14

8:00-9:00 2-Thomas

9:00-10:15 2-Hayson

10:15-11:00 8-Berger

12:15-1:30 4-Weber

1:30-2:30 5-Moriarty

Tuesday 11/15

8:00-8:30 7-Kehres

9:35-11:00 5-Barrett

1:00-2:30 4-Mathys

Wednesday 11/16

8:00-9:00 K-Marvin

9:00-10:00 3-Canfield

10:15-11:00 8-Maloney

1:00-2:30 1-Marchi

Thursday 11/17

8:00-9:00 K-Angle

We are excited to announce that Bishop Fernandes will be celebrating an All-School Mass at SPX on Tuesday, November 29. Following Mass, he will be touring the school and meeting our students and staff members. We hope to treat him to some special presentations from our students. Parents are welcome to attend the Mass.

You should have receive an email from you child's teacher with a link to sign up for a ten minute Parent-Teacher Conference on November 10 or 16. In addition to your child's homeroom teacher, there will be links for specials teachers and our intervention staff.

Additionally, HSA will be collecting used uniforms that evening, Spirit Wear may be available, and parents will be invited to attend our Book Fair. These could make great Christmas gifts!

Once again, we will be creating a slideshow to honor our veterans and active military on Friday, November 11 at 8:30 a.m. (All are welcome to attend!) If you have a relative you'd like to include in our slideshow, please send photos to kkister@spxelementary.com and please include his/her name, rank, years of service, branch of service, and relationship to SPX student by Tuesday, November 8th.

**If you had a submission last year, we will automatically include it again this year.**

Red Ribbon Week was a lot of fun and a huge success thanks to our Red Ribbon Week Ambassadors Caroline Gegorski, Tyler Hermen, Caroline Kitsmiller, and Sammy Gerardi. We kicked off the week wearing bright accessories and sunglasses to represent our bright futures, followed by treats at lunch time, a fun door decorating contest, and a Drug Free Pledge for all of the students to sign.

Congrats to Mrs. Angle's Kindergarten Bears for winning the door decorating contest!

Congrats to the 8th Grade Drug Free T-Shirt Contest winners:

1st Place - Alexis Kline

2nd Place - Camden Caldwell

3rd Place - Izzy Forshey

Thank you, St. Pius, for participating and Celebrating Life by Living Drug Free!

Drama Club started in 2018 as a way for 6th, 7th and 8th graders to learn more about acting, improvising and theatre before they begin working on the Spring Musical in late January.. The first year, Drama Club focused on acting and improvisation games and have since added performances of short skits. This year, Drama Club will be performing their very first Fall Play. It is Mrs. Smith's hope that students feel more confident with script reading, stage direction, expression and movement, and they really see the importance of cooperation and teamwork in theatre. Stay tuned for details on their upcoming play, Channeling Grimm!

There will be a meet & greet and a short practice (with candy) on Tuesday, November 15 at 5:15-5:30 for students in grades 1st-8th who may be interested in the SPX Children's Choir. Practice will be each Tuesday from 5:15-5:45 in the Choir Room in the church.

The first Mass will be Saturday, November 26. Please call John Pottkotter at 614-309-3152 or email pottkotterj@gmail.com for any additional information.

Gentle reminder as basketball season approaches that ALL families playing 4-8th grade DRA sports (most sports offered through SPX) MUST have at least one parent take the Parent Like a Champion class offered through the Diocese Recreation Association. Classes are held virtually the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month and are $15. Use the link to register https://columbuscatholic.org/recreation/play-like-a-champion

Play Like a Champion

St. Pius X Athletic Association is looking for the next Gym Manager to oversee games for their 2022-2023 basketball season. The Gym Manager is the point of contact between the Diocesan Recreation Association and the St. Pius X Athletic Association for scheduling the SPX gymnasium.

Responsibilities may include, but are not be limited to:

-Working with the volunteer coordinator and commissioners to ensure students, athletes, and parent volunteers are lined up to score the game and sell concessions

-Helping to ensure the gym is “game ready” on Saturday mornings by setting up admission and concession tables

-Helping to ensure the gym is “school ready” after the last game and items for admission and concessions are returned to storage

Games are held between 8 am and 3 pm, with time before and after for set-up and tear down, on Saturdays from early December through mid-February. There is a holiday break during Christmas and New Years.

Please contact the St. Pius X Athletic Association with any inquiries at mfeeney79@gmail.com

Poinsettias will be available on Wednesday, December 7th, from 3:00 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. in the school cafeteria. We sold 500 poinsettias! Thank you for supporting our Home & School Association!

Email: stpiusx@cdeducation.org
Website: www.spxreynoldsburg.com
Location: 1061 Waggoner Road, Reynoldsburg, OH, USA
Phone: 614-866-6050
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SPXSchoolReynoldsburg