• Blue Jean Friday

Tomorrow, Friday 9/30/2022,  is a "Blue Jean Friday”.  Students are permitted to wear appropriate fitting (this means they should not be tight, the short length should be 6 inches above the knee and skirt length should be 4 inches above the knee) denim blue jeans, denim blue jean shorts, and denim blue jean skirts (no other colored jeans are permitted) with pink cancer shirts, Jog n Jam shirts, class color shirts, gray athletic spirit shirts, blue or gray school spirit wear, bluejay spirit wear or uniform tops.  If students do not wish to wear jeans they may wear their uniform bottoms, including gym shorts.   NO boots, moccasins, sandals or flip flops.  Parents will be called to bring appropriate clothing or shoes if there is a problem

• Parent Teacher Conferences

Please mark your calendars for  our upcoming Parent Teacher Conferences.  We are setting up something new this year for conferences for parents.  We will hold Junior High Conferences for those with students in grades 6, 7 & 8  on Tuesday, October 11 and Thursday October 13. Conferences for students in grades K-5 will be held on Wednesday, October 19 and Thursday, October 20 . The conferences will be from 2:45 to 6:45 pm (with a break for dinner for teachers). The conferences are scheduled in 15-minute increments. 

We will be sending an email home to parents to sign up with the Sign Up Genius in the next couple days.

• SOC Meeting Scheduled Grades 3-8

Attention 3rd – 8th grade parents…SOC (Student Outreach Committee) will be holding a meeting on October 4th.  Please send back the pink form that came home with your child to participate in the meeting.  The form should come back no later than September 30th.  If you have any questions about SOC, please email Meredith Schroeder at [email protected]. 

The St. Joseph Consolidated School Board of Education is looking for some new members for the 22-23 school year.  We are looking to add one person from St. Joseph Parish. The SJCS Board of Ed holds a zoom meeting on the first Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m.  If you are interested in being a part of this group that helps to continue to grow and support our school staff and students, please let us know.

• Conduct Update Reminder Grades 4-8

Parents of students in grades 4-8: Teachers in grades 4 through 8 use a system of points to track students conduct.  Any teacher or staff member can assign points to a student if there is a conduct infraction or rule violation.   When students are assigned conduct points, parents will receive an email from Option C indicating points are assigned.  After 5 points have accumulated, students will have to serve an after school detention.  Notification of detention will come in paper form and through an email from Option C.  Detentions are scheduled for Wednesdays from 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

• Option C Reminder

All SJCS parents have an account created in Option C by the school office.  If your children attended school here before the 22-23 school year you have been given your username and password information already.  Please keep in mind Option C has updated their system over the summer and now will require parents to use an email address as their log in. You will be prompted to update this information when you log in if you have not updated already.  Please if you have any questions or need assistance with your login information contact Theresa Stenger at [email protected] to assist you 

Parents can check grades for students in grades 4-8 and lunch accounts in Option C. SJCS also uses the Parent Alert system to call, text and email to notify parents of school closings.   We also use our school Facebook Page, School Web page and Channel 12 SchoolWatch.  To ensure your family is properly notified we need you to log into your Option C account to verify and update your family information.    When updating you will also be able to choose which option, you wish to use to be notified.  This includes phone call, texting or email.   You may choose all or just one or two it is your preference

Below are instructions to complete the update:

1.             Click on the Option C link located on our school web page.  Log into Option C by using your Family Username and Password.  If you need assistance with your username and password please contact the office.

2.             Go to the upper left hand corner of your family page.  Then hold your mouse over OFFICE.  There will be a dropdown screen.  Click on Family Profile to adjust home address or phone (you need to do this first).  Please hit save when finished.

3.     Next click on Contact Information to adjust/add phone numbers and email addresses.  Please hit save when finished.

4.       To select the Parent Alert settings place your mouse over Communication then click Manage Alerts on. Then choose the option you wish by each name.  Again remember to hit save when finished. 

As always, please let the office know if you need any assistance with this process.

• SJCS Diversity Committee

Here at St. Joseph, we are committed to a culture of inclusion, respect, social justice, and equality. In our never ending efforts to continue being the best school in town, we are working hard to coordinate our Diversity Committee. The purpose of the Diversity Committee is to work collaboratively to advocate and support diversity education in our school community, to encourage opportunities for students, staff, faculty and family to grow in their own understanding of diversity. We would like to invite parents that are interested in joining the committee to help develop goals, create activities to celebrate National Observances, provide direction, support, oversight, and enhance educational opportunities for our students and families. The committee will also play an active role in regularly communicating progress in this work to the rest of the St. Joseph family. We are all very excited to engage in this critical work and look forward to working with everyone. We have some events we would like to plan for students and would love for parent assistance. If you are interested in joining this group please click on the link below to share your information for meetings.

SJCS Diversity Committee Sign Up

• Picture Retakes 

We have scheduled picture retakes for Friday, November 4, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Students may be out of uniform for retakes. Parents should send the photos they want returned back to school on retake day or if new photos are needed we will have photo purchasing packets available. 

• Mark Your Calendars, No School Reminder

A reminder to SJCS families that there is NO school on Friday 10/21/22 due to a teacher in-service.

• Acts of Kindness Day, Birthday Remembrance

In 2019 we lost a very very special friend of St. Joseph, our Mimi.  For those of you who don’t know her she was one of our St Joe lunch crew for a long time.  After she retired she came back to volunteer in the cafeteria and with Ms. Graf.  She loved all of us very much and always spread her kindness and sunshine wherever she went. Students will be receiving a special sunshine treat tomorrow in honor of her birthday (10/1) and we would like to ask all of you to do at least one random act of kindness starting tomorrow and make someone smile.  Not only should we all do this today, but everyday!  We are sure she is smiling down at us right now

• School Mass Intentions

The students are all attending Mass again this school year on Thursday mornings at 8:00 a.m.  As always all parents and family are welcome to attend. Below is a list of current intentions for Mass through the end of January, if you would like to have one said please choose the date and contact the Parish or School office for availability. If you have a specific date for after January please let us know and we can reserve it as well.  The cost for a Mass is $5.   

• Reminders from the Lunchroom

• Every Tuesday we send out delinquent notices from the lunchroom. If you receive an envelope from the Lunchroom this means your child has a balance owed on their account.
• The health department does not allow us to heat items that a child brings to school in our microwave. (If they bring cold spaghetti to school, they will be eating it cold.)
• Prices - Hot Lunch (includes 1 milk) $3.50   Extra Main Course (grades 2-8 only) $1.75   Milk .50
• Please write first and last name on all lunch payment envelopes. Please make sure to do this so we can apply the funds to your child's account.

• Lunch Menu Link

Here is the link to our lunch menu for the week of 

SJCS Lunch Menu 

• School Calendar

October 2022 Calendar