Fall Festival Fun!

The Fall Festival is scheduled for Friday, October 28, 2011 after the children eat lunch, which will be served at 11am. Classes will follow one another at approximately 5-10 minute intervals. The menu for the Fall Festival will be: Hotdog, bag of chips, and a drink. Parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, (anyone) wishing to purchase lunch that day can pay $3.00. This is a day of fun for everyone! Parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc., are all invited to share in the festivities. Come out and spend the afternoon playing games or enjoying hayrides and pony rides. Games are $.25 or $.50 or $1.00 each. All hayrides and pony rides are $1.00 each. This is a non-uniform day for the students. Have a great time at our Annual Fall Festival!

Our Italian Friends are Here!

Read an article about our Partnership in the Enterprise here.

View some pictures below!

We are excited to announce that 49 eighth grade Italian students from Collegio San Carlo in Milan, Italy will be spending 10 days (Oct. 20 - 30th) with us in Southern Maryland! We are in our 3rd year of this intercultural and interscholastic partnership. 4 Italian teachers and their 49 students will be staying with 34 American Host families. Italian students will focus on understanding the importance of our Nation's monuments while studying in our school. Students will take field trips to DC to see the monuments as well as to Annapolis to tour the MD State Capital and Naval Academy. This partnership will continue when our 7th and 8th grade students have the opportunity to visit Collegio San Carlo in March 2012. For more information and updates, please visit: http://www.sjshollywood.org/AboutSJS/Partnerships.aspx.

Coke Rewards - Double the Points!

Do you have Coke points you'd like to donate? If you donate your points to SJS between Oct. 18 - 20th, My Coke Rewards will match your point donation! Now is the time to enter in your codes and donate your points to SJS!

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Child Protection Class

The school year is off to a great start! Many are interested in volunteering. Please remember in order to volunteer, you'll need to attend a Child Protection Class and get fingerprinted.

A Child Protection Class has been scheduled for Monday, October 17, from 6-9pm, here at St. John’s. Please register on-line at www.virtus.org. Remember you have to go to the class and get fingerprinted before you can go on a field trip (Bowles Farm is at the end of the month), help with a classroom or work with any students. If the class says it is full, please send a note to the office and plan on coming anyway.

Collect those Box Tops!

Box Tops for Education - Our goal this year is $1000. Did you know that we can reach that goal if every student turns in only four box tops a month? Imagine if we double that and ask every student to complete and turn in ONE collection sheet. We would actually clear about $2500 with very little effort on our part. Nov. 1st is the deadline for submitting them so we can get a check in December. We need to collect, sort, package and ship them by mid October so please hand yours as soon as possible. Thanks for your support. (Note: Our new coordinator for this program is Beth Dougherty.)

SJS Student Visits NASA's Airborne Telescope!

Please click on the picture below to enlarge it. What an awesome opportunity for our very own, Christopher Skane!