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St. Henry School Newsletter

February 13, 2009

St. Henry Students –“Soaring with the Lord!”

I’m sure most of you heard about the tragic accident last weekend that took the lives of a father and his son, a sixth grade student at St. Joseph School in Fort Atkinson. Please keep them and their family and friends and all the St. Joseph community in your prayers for quite awhile. Such a tragedy!

Prayers too for Mr. Mike Ruehlow’s mother who died this week. Mike is our full time maintenance man whose cheerful and willing spirit helps make this environment such a good place to be. I know he’ll appreciate your thoughtful remembrance of his family to the Lord.

Three cheers for the hard-working students below whose grades on their second quarter report cards should have made them justifiably proud.

The honor roll students with a grade point average of 3.2 to just under 3.8 are as follows:

Grade Four Gabriel Elsen, Caitlyn Hesse, Natalia Olguin, and Brenna Smedema

Grade Five Jennifer Brebeck, Brett Caine, Alexander Denault, Kirsten

Evans, Rochelle Gray, John Hertel, Jesse Jones, Christopher Justmann, Callaway Kemp, Mara Lapp, Gabriel Linskens, Lacey Mehltretter, Grace O’Connor, and Joshua Schroeder

Grade Six Noah Cole, Isaac Elsen, Janelle Hamilton, Jeffrey Schultz, and Caleb Walter

Grade Seven Abigail Beltz and Justin Drebenstedt

Grade Eight Megan Heiden, Yolanda Narvaez, Brendan O’Connor, Jerry Tracy, Ben Uecker,

and John Wagner

The high honor roll students with a grade point average of 3.8 to 4.0 are as follows:

Grade Four Emma Cole, Karli Kohls, and Erin Haeger

Grade Five Megan Bacchi, Sarah Bradow, and Trey Jahnke

Grade Six Brian Hogan, Cole Keller, and Leah Uecker

Grade Seven Jill Brebeck, Angela Breunig, Sara Hogan, Jessica Mallow, Kristin Miller, and Nikki Williams

Grade Eight John Brebeck, Juliena Herritz, and John Tesensky

Have you made your reservation for the School Families Weekend in the Dells at the Wilderness the weekend of May 15-17? If you have misplaced the number and the code for reservations, please call school for it. Just a probably unnecessary caution: if people use that number who do not have children in school, they will end up paying full price since registrations will be checked. The whole purpose of HASA arranging this is to provide a nice experience for school families to do something together and to help foster that Christian community support for each other. Thanks for understanding!

Recently a parent tried to email me using an old email address. For future reference, the old sthenr@straphael.org is no longer in use. You can email me at francine.butzine@straphael.org or, I’m told by the diocesan computer support people, this would work too: watertownshs@straphael.org. (I never knew that until I checked on the old address’ viability!) All of the parish staff do have emails listed on the front of the weekend parish bulletin, in case you ever need them. Those same diocesan people said you could email the parish at watertownshp@straphael.org. I didn’t know that either. Live and learn.

Just another quick reminder that on Monday, the 16th, picking up children at 3:00 pm will be a little more difficult than usual due to the diocesan meeting mentioned in the note that went home the other day. Hope the dismissal went well today!

The public school asked us to share the following information about summer school 2009.

We have a significant change this year with a May 1st deadline for elementary registration. Early bird registration will be Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at Lincoln School from 8:00 am until noon. There will be no guarantee for those students that turn in their applications after May 1st. They will be put on a wait list. There will be absolutely no walk-ins on the first day of Summer School.

Please notice that you are invited to the Weather Show being presented this coming Wednesday. Details in the calendar below.

The Dinner Auction was great fun. So many wonderful items and generous bids. God bless EVERYONE involved in any way.

Did you check out all those great pictures on the website? Weren’t they delightful?

Have a lovely weekend!

Dates to Mark on Your Calendar

FEBRUARY

Sunday 15 First Communion families at 8:30 Mass followed by

breakfast hosted by Knights of Columbus

Monday 16 A large diocesan meeting here at St. Henry beginning in

afternoon; after school pickup will need extra care.

Tuesday 17 Education Commission mtg. (Usually second Tuesday but

some members at important meeting of the Diocesan School

Planning Committee so re-scheduled to this evening.) 6:30 pm, rectory hall.

Wednesday 18 Grade Seven fills liturgical roles at 8:15 All School Mass

Weather show presented by WTMJ’s Craig Koplien at 10:00 am in PC. Join us.

Friday 20 Last day for open enrollment in Watertown School District; potentially

important for out-of-district parents of 09-10 4K children wanting to

be at our site next year and for eighth graders here who want

to attend Watertown High School.

First set of third quarter Accelerated Reader (AR) points due for students in grades 4-8.

Deliveries of Emil’s Pizzas for those who ordered.

Rescheduled MARKET DAY

Saturday 21 4K Sledding Party at Washington Park 10 – Noon, weather permitting.

If not, come to the school cafeteria!

GIFT Family Lenten workshop and Chili Cook off

Mon-Wed 23-25 4K registration at Educational Service Center from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm.

Be sure to specifically (and emphatically) request the St. Henry site.)

Should have filled out pre-registration form and sent in.

Go with forms you should have obtained earlier filled out,

along with child’s birth certificate or hospital

record to verify that child is 4 on or before September 1, 2009.

Tuesday 24 Student Council Mardi Gras Day – wear yellow, green, and purple.

Music education presentation by Wisconsin Chamber members, 12:45-1:15 in PC

Wednesday 25 ASH WEDNESDAY! Grade Five fills liturgical roles at 8:15 All School Mass

Thursday 26 Dentist Dr. Sommers visits kindergarten and grade 1 classrooms.

Friday 27 NO SCHOOL – Teacher meeting and workday

MARCH

Sunday 01 Dr. Ray Guarendi talk “ Standing Tall as a Parent,”

2 pm, Bishop O’Connor Center, Madison

Monday 02 NO SCHOOL – Staff Development Day