Notes From the Office: May 11th, 2020

Greetings,

I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day and that everyone survived a very windy Sunday afternoon. Thank you for all your help making sure the students are completing the work during the NTI days.

Until we get some more specific guidelines from the Governor, it will be very difficult to plan how next year will look for St. John School. I am meeting with the principals from the diocese two or three times a week to discuss preliminary plans when the schools reopen. The school board will also be meeting Tuesday to help plan as we move forward. There will be challenges as we begin next year. I am confident that St. John School will continue providing an excellent education where students grow academically and spiritually.

Please continue to let the teachers know if you have any concerns. This is very important, especially during this time. Please continue to pray for our country, church, school, and our families.

God bless and take care,

Dan Mardell

Principal

Now enrolling for the 2020-2021 school year.  Please spread the word to all of your friends about our great school! 

Office Hours

St. John School office hours are 9 AM to 2 PM, Monday through Thursday.  If you need to drop something off after office hours, please place you papers in the mail slot of the office front door.  I will get them when I return to the office. 

Optional Art Project

Please go to https://youtu.be/CCwe1HHCISQ to view a lesson on Potato Print from The Metropoloitan Museum of Art. 

Please click this link to view a message from the Bishop and Diocesan Superintendent of Schools.

Yearbook Pictures still needed

To help finalize our yearbook we are looking for a few more pictures.  We are in need of 5/6 grade boys basketball pictures and pictures of students working on NTI work.  Please email pictures, full size, to Brandi Griffith at [email protected]. Pictures are needed by May 15th.  

You can still order your 2019-2020 yearbook!

To order your yearbook, please go to https://ybpay.lifetouch.com/Order/SelectJob.  You will then click search for your yearbook id code. Select Kentucky, then Georgetown. St. John will appear.  Click the select button next to St. John.  You should then be able to enter your students information and complete the transaction.

FREE Breakfast and Lunch to children 18 years of age and younger

During this time of uncertainty, the Catholic Diocese Foodservice program would like to do it's part in helping those in need.  We encourage all families in our Catholic Diocese school and parish communities, who are in need of assistance, to take part in this no-cost meal service program for children 18 years of age and younger.   But because this is a pandemic, all children 18 and younger qualify to eat for free.

The Catholic Diocese Foodservice program is committed to doing all that we can to meet the needs of our school and parish community during this unprecedented time. This free meal service will help to ensure the well-being of our children by meeting their nutritional needs, while easing some of the financial burden to families.

Beginning Monday, March 30th, we will start serving a FREE Breakfast and Lunch to children 18 years of age and younger.  It will be served in three of our school/parish parking lots in a meal pick-up service.  Children must be present to claim a meal.  Breakfast service will be served from 8:00-9:00 am and Lunch 11:00-12:00 noon.  Multiple days may be picked up at one time.  The locations of service are Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary School, Lexington, Good Shepherd School, Frankfort, and St Leo Catholic School, Versailles. 

May this mission to empower those in need and bring a community closer together in God.  Please pray for my staff and voluntaries as we begin this challenge.  As St Patrick once said, “May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and evermore.”

Blessings to All

Char Banta