Curtain Call! Fourthie Play

Dress Rehearsal is Tomorrow at 8:35

and   drumroll....

The Jungle Book -  Starring the St. Catherine's Fourthies

Wednesday  April 6  2:30     Special Parent Performance

McVey Theater

Bike Day Information

March 2016

Dear Parents,

On Monday, April 11th, 3rd and 4th grade students will go to our Goochland campus to learn about helmet and bike safety. To participate in bike day, your daughter will need to bring a helmet to school. Any helmet with the CPSC, Snell or ASTM stamp of approval is a perfectly safe helmet. To help ensure that all students have a helmet on bike day, please send helmets in by Thursday, April 7th.

The 3rd grade will leave St. Catherine’s at 9am and return at 12:30pm. The 4th grade will leave St. Catherine’s at 11am and return at 2:30pm. The entire group will eat lunch together from 11:30-12pm.

Please make sure that your daughter wears appropriate clothes and that she packs a lunch, water bottle, and sunscreen on Monday, April 11th.

Before bike day, please take some time with your daughter to review biking and helmet safety by going to www.youtube.com and searching “NHTSA's Bike Safe, Bike Smart” for a short video.

We look forward to teaching your daughters about biking skills and safety.

Laura Horn

Chair, Physical Education Department

If your daughter would like to bring her bike...

• Please bring it to the Goochland Fields between 3:00 & 5:00pm, April 10th.
• If you bring a bike, please pick it up on April 12th or the 19th between 4-6pm.
  ***There are some good games out at Goochland on April 12th and 19th!
• Gate will be unlocked, and a teacher will be present
• Unload at the upper parking lot
• Bikes should not have training wheels
• Bikes should be labeled clearly with a first and last name

BIKES PURCHASED by St. Catherine’s and available for student use:

7 extra small Felt 7 Eighty bikes          7 Felt Q24 24 inch bikes

3 Scott Voltage 20 inch bikes              3 small Felt 7 Eighty bikes

**Bike Day for 3rd and 4th graders is April 11th!

Pack a bag lunch to be eaten at the fields. Water bottles are welcome!

Celebrating Walden!

What a day for Walden, and what a day for the girls to celebrate her!  She captured the other class's flag to win Capture the Flag!  Thank you, Miss Anderson, for being a wonderful PE teacher!

Current Play Practice Schedule

This is the schedule set by Miss Merrick for practicing for the play.  We begin tomorrow at 9:45. The girls are so excited!

Rehearsal schedule

Fri 3/25 (Good Friday)	9:45-10:30 Sing-through/read-through (LSAR)
Mon 3/28	No school – Easter Monday
Tues 3/29	1:00 – 2:15 (McVey)
Wed 3/30	1:00 – 2:30 (McVey)
Thurs 3/31	8:30 – 10:00 (McVey)
Fri 4/1	8:50 – 10:30 (McVey)
Mon 4/4	9:00 – 10:50 and 1:00 – 2:15 (McVey)
Tues 4/5	8:30 – 9:00 Grades K - 4 rehearse songs for seniors (McVey) 9:00 – 10:45 Dress rehearsal
Wed 4/6	2:30 Performance for parents
Thurs 4/7	9:45 LS Party for Seniors - all LS students & faculty attend

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Shalom Farms

Shalom Farms was an amazing experience for all of the Fourthies and Seventh Graders, teachers and chaperones.  The girls learned about a wonderful farm that grows healthy vegetables and makes them available to people  all over metropolitan Richmond.  Twenty-four hours ago most of these girls had no idea how to plant a potato, but now, not only do they know how to do that, but they have been part of a project that is key to our school motto.  "What we keep we lose, and only what we give remains our own."  These girls gave on a beautiful, sunny day in our gorgeous state of Virginia, and they learned a lot and loved every minute of it.

There are more pictures and videos to come!  It's taking a long time for them to load, but I thought you would enjoy these few right away.

Holy Week Chapel Services

3/21 - Palm "Monday" - gather on Green Top between 8:15 and 8:20, process to Bannard Chapel for 8:30-9:00 service

NO CHAPEL WEDNESDAY!

3/24 - Maundy Thursday, 9:00 a.m. in Bannard Chapel

3/25 - Good Friday, 9:00 a.m. in Bannard Chapel

Shalom Farms - Tuesday

Dear Parents,

In celebration of 125 years of growing strong girls, the JK-12 service coordinators at St. Catherine’s School have planned an exciting, hands-on service opportunity for all of our students through Shalom Farms, a non-profit farm that works with local communities to assure access to healthy food and the support to live healthy lives.

On Tuesday, March, 22 from 11:00am-3:25pm, Grade 7 and Grade 4 students and faculty will travel together by school bus to Shalom Farms in Goochland County to plant potatoes that our Grade 3 and Grade 9 students will have prepared for us. Each participant should wear clothes (jeans and t-shirts are acceptable) and closed-toe shoes that can get dirty, as well as layers in accordance with the weather. Volunteers should also bring a water bottle and a bag lunch (bag lunches will be provided for students who buy lunch at school). The farm has work gloves for our students and teachers to use, but participants may bring their own if they would like.

Through this hands-on experience at the farm, the Grade 7 and Grade 4 students and teachers will help Shalom Farms grow food that will provide the Richmond community with accessible nutritional choices. During this 125th anniversary of our school’s founding, we are proud to continue to live our original motto, “What we keep we lose, only what we give remains our own.”

Sincerely,

St. Catherine's Service Coordinators

Ashley Miller, Ali Bonnell, Sherry Oelkers, Drew Johnson

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