immaculate heart of mary school the weekly report

The Weekly Report

Immacu late Heart of Mary Schoo l

Nov.25-29, 2019

Monday

Tuesday

Ice Cream on sale

at Lunch– $1.00

1st Grade Tea

1:00-2:15 pm

Wednesday–

Half Day 12:00pm

No Cares

Grades 5 and 6

Class Mass

Thursday

Happy Thanksgiving

No School

Friday

School Holiday

Dear IHM Families,

Please make sure you come out to our IHM Bazaar to-

morrow! We have over 20 vendors, Christmas Crafts for

the kids and most importantly a visit with Santa! All

money raised will go towards enhancing the school cur-

riculum and making safety improvements to our campus.

I want to thank all the table leads, the vendors, the

home and school board and Bridget Berns for all their

hard work putting this amazing event together! Thank

you for your dedication to the IHM School Community!

The trimester is winding down. When the students re-

turn from Thanksgiving break, we will enter the final

week. Please make sure you are checking Option C, and

communicating with your child’s teacher to see how your

child is progressing.

I hope this weekend you enjoy your time with your

families. Please make sure you get to church for the last

week of Ordinary Time. Advent starts next Sunday!

Give it Your Best!

Mr. Lowry

Principals Message

November 22, 2019

Congratulations to the Samantha S, Andi T, Rian K, Brooke S, Natalie

E and Madison M. The young ladies were awarded “The Principals

Award” for showing Compassion, Leadership and Service to the school

community. These young ladies are a great example of what an IHM

student should be.

Principals Award Winners

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Tuition Office News


Wednesday November 27th we will dismiss at noon. There will be

no Cares.

Thursday November 28 and Friday November 29th are school

holidays.

Please remember to send in an absent note. Your child’s homeroom

teachers are responsible for collecting them. A copy of a absent

note can be found at https://iheartmary.org/absent-notes

Please remember to call the IHM Absentee Line at (215)482-8503 .

Please leave a message if you child will be absent from school.

Our Christmas Concert will be Friday December 20th at 9:30 am in

the Church. There will not be a concert on Wednesday December

18th.

All Drama Club questions should be directed to Mrs. Brady or Ms.

Werner. The email is [email protected].

All practices can be found on Ms. Werner’s School Webpage.

https://sites.google.com/iheartmary.org/middleschoolscience/drama-club?authuser=0

Main Office News


https://iheartmary.org/absent-notes

https://sites.google.com/iheartmary.org/middleschoolscience/drama-club?authuser=0

All students should be dropped off at the 4th Grade doors or on

Cathedral Road.

Parents should not be getting out of the car in the Carline. We want

to keep it moving.

If a parent needs to stop their vehicle please do so in a parking

spot on Cathedral Road.

Cars should not be speeding in the parking lot. Please drive at a safe

speed when exiting the IHM Parking Lot.

Parents should not be dropping their children off on Port Royal

Avenue.

All students should enter the building at the Fourth Grade Doors.

The Early Childhood students, are the only children entering the

building using the Convent Doors.

Dismissal

Students will exit the building through the Fourth Grade Doors.

The parents should park on Cathedral Rd.

If a change in dismissal should occur, please call the office and your

child will receive his or her change of dismissal.

Morning and Afternoon Car Line


Student Council News


IHM Shop with Scrip Program

Are you getting ready to shop for the holidays? You should take advantage

of our Shop with Scrip program! The last day to place an order for Christmas is

Sunday, December 15, 2019, for pick up on either Thursday, December 19

or Sunday, December 22, 2019.

IHM’s Shop with Scrip program is a wonderful way to offset tuition payments!

Scrip is your first line of financial aid available through Immaculate Heart of

Mary School. Through the Scrip program, you can purchase gift cards for rou-

tine expenses. Through the rebates earned through the Shop with Scrip pro-

gram, credits are accumulated through the end of April each year and then ap-

plied to the next year’s tuition.

For 8th Grade Families, you can apply your Scrip credit earned to your high

school tuition! This fundraising program allows our families to shop where you

always shop, buy what you always buy, and not spend one penny more than you

already spend!! Your regular shopping habits can turn your hard earned dollars

into a tuition credit.

The Shop with Scrip Program offers gift cards for over 750 retailers, including

department and specialty stores, supermarkets including Acme, Shop Rite, Giant

and Weis, gas stations, hotels, restaurants, and universal Discover cards. The

discounts vary from retailer to retailer. You can even use Kohl’s gift cards to

pay your Kohl’s credit card bill! For retailers offering a 4% or less discount,

families will have the whole rebate credited to tuition. For retailers offering a

5% or higher discount, the rebate is divided in half, between your tuition and

Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.

Script Information


For a complete list of vendors and the percentages available for each retailer,

please see https://www.shopwithscrip.com/shopwithscrip-ret ailers.

You can also pre-order all of your Supermarket Scrip. Acme, Shop Rite, Giant

and Weis will be at a 3% credit. There will still be stock available for purchase

on Thursdays for those last minute needs.

In order to place your order, simply send an email to [email protected] by

Sunday evening at 8:00 pm. The email must contain your family name, the stores

you wish to order, and the amounts.

Once your order is submitted via email on Sunday evening, Scrip is available for

pick upon Thursday evenings from 7:00pm to 8:00pm in FSH (September

through last week in May) or on Sundays in the church vestibule. On Thursday

evenings, Shop Rite and Acme gift cards are available, in addition to a small sam-

pling of merchant/restaurant gift cards for direct sale for those unexpected

needs. On Sundays, only pick-ups are available.

If you apply for financial aid through the Archdiocese, you may receive addi-

tional money as a result of your Scrip purchase.

We are also in need of Scrip sellers on Sunday mornings. If you would like to

volunteer your time, please let us know.

Please direct all Scrip questions to: [email protected].

Script Information


We are looking for members for the following committees to assist in

preparing IHM for its National Blue Ribbon application. We are hoping

that these committees will look at our strengths in each area and fig-

ure out any places that can use improvement and make recommenda-

tions.

Committees:

Curriculum

Marketing and Enrollment

Finance – we are asking that committee members have experience

in finance or accounting

Communication and Community

Building and Maintenance

We are hoping to finalize committee members within the next few

weeks and then begin working In January.

We are expecting to have committees meet 1-2 times per month

through the end of the school year.

If you are interested, please email your contact information along

with the committee that you would like to work on

to [email protected].

Blue Ribbon Corner


mailto:[email protected]

Top 5 Students

Top 5 Homerooms

First In Math Leader board


1. Arianna in 8A

2. Jocelyn in 8A

3. David in 5B

4. Max in 5B

5. Sophia in 4B

1. 5B– Ms. Foley

2. 8A– Mrs. Donohue

3. 6A- Ms. Kapuscinski

4. 3B– Mrs. Gordon

5. 3A– Mrs. Salley

The Christmas Bazaar is here! We hope to see you all tomorrow between 10am

and 4pm. We have so many great vendors this year (be sure to check out Mrs.

Gordon’s craft table and Mrs. Rizzo’s spirit wear table) and a lot of really cool

raffles. Here is a sample: AirPods, a hoverboard, free registration for 1 child, Nintendo Switch, Ring doorbell, Blink security camera, Phillies tickets and a meal at Pass and Stow for 4, VSCO basket, 76ers tickets, loads of gift cards for res-taurants, events, and services! We also have photos with Santa from 11am to 2pm.

Tonight, November 22, is the drop off for bottles of cheer and baked goods.

Someone from the Bazaar Committee will be on hand from 3pm - 8pm to take do-

nations. Please be sure to sign off that you donated! As a thank you, all students

whose family donates will be treated to a free ice cream to use during school

lunch!

We would like to send a special shout out to the Christmas Bazaar Table Leads.

They have put in a lot of time and efforts leading up to the bazaar and they will

put in many more this weekend. If you see one of the leads this weekend, please

be sure to thank them!

We are also thrilled to introduce our logo contest first place winner….Jack Rain-

ford, along with our top 5 logo contest winners: Alexandra Kovach, Christian Vu-

kas, Caroline Rainford, and David Bautista.

Home and School Corner


The top 5 logo designs will follow this article. You can also see the lo-

gos displayed in the hallway leading into Father Sullivan Hall.

Our recipes this week are both holiday cocktails / mocktails. Leigh

Anne shared a recipe for Apple Pie Sangria. Tastes just like Thanks-

giving dessert (everyone's favorite part!):

https://inspiredbycharm.com/apple-pie-sangria/ This can easily be

made non-alcoholic for the whole family to enjoy by skipping the alco-

hol and using sparkling cider, ginger beer, ginger ale, or sparkling wa-

ter instead. Wanda says this Apple Butter Old Fashion is “to die for.”

https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/apple-butter-old-fashioned/

Our book recommendation for this week leading up to Thanksgiving

comes from the I Can Read Series (level 3), It’s Thanksgiving! by Chil-dren's Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky. One Amazon reviewer said, “This is a classic Thanksgiving book. My favorite! It is clever and funny. I've read the poems to my students for years and now to my grandsons.”

Upcoming Events:

11/22 Bottle of Cheer and Baked Good donation drop off (3p -

8p)

11/23 Christmas Bazaar (10a - 4p) with a special appearance by

Santa (11a - 2p)

12/12 Couch Tomato Fundraiser (all day) - 102 Rector Street (at the

corner of Main Street)



https://inspiredbycharm.com/apple-pie-sangria/

https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/apple-butter-old-fashioned/

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