Dear Parents,

Welcome back to school and a normal routine. Though the snow was beautiful I sure got a bad case of cabin fever by Friday! I couldn't wait to get back to school.

Some of you may be concerned about the affect this will have on our school schedule. Because St. George has longer instructional days compared to the public and other Catholic Schools, we are still well above the state mandated minimum instructional hours requirement. Even with that in mind, the staff still wants to recoup some of the instructional time lost. Instead of adding to the end of the school year, we felt that the time would be more effective for students sooner rather than later. Thus... read more

Don't forget Valentine's Day is February 14th

Romantic Dinner? Olive Garden, Red Robin, California Pizza Kitchen

Valentines and Candy? Walgreens, WalMart, Safeway

Check out www.glscrip.com for the entire list of retailers

Due to the February holiday, the shopping card order will go out February. 27th.

1.  The St. George Conference of Saint Vincent de Paul needs help with putting away the donated food we receive. It entails bagging up food and placing the new food on the shelves in our office located at the church. The time commitment is about 1 1/2 hours or less once a week. A person could do it any day or time he/she chooses. We will train any volunteer.

The volunteer hours can be applied to your parent volunteer hours.

If you are interested or have questions, please contact Marian Wolfe, hedgwolfe@aol.com or 206-763-9430 .

2.  Lunch recess duty from Noon-1:00 daily.

Orders due by February 16th

Royal Blue with Athletic Gold print
T-shirts: $10.00
Hooded Sweatshirt: $25.00
Hooded Sweatshirt with last name on back: $30.00

For questions e-mail mrittman08@gmail.com. These items do not meet dress code and should not be purchased to wear as part of the uniform. They are simply to enhance school spirit and pride!

Bring below flyer and dine at Pig Iron Bar-B-Q or Slims Last Chance and 20% of your bill will be donated to St George School.

Located next door to one another at 5602 and 5606 1st Ave South, one block south of Lucille. Fundraising event held on Feb 24th & 25th is good for food and alcohol, and tax & gratuity are excluded.

Family Night Out Flyer

Friday, January 27th
Family Bingo Night
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Play for Prizes!

Sunday, January 29th
All School Mass
Bake Sale
3rd, 4th & 5th Grade providing baked goods. Shopping cards available too

Wednesday, February 1st
Staff Appreciation Luncheon

PTA has 10 tickets to the upcoming St. George Filipino American Association Valentine's Day Dinner Dance, February 11th

Please contact erikairwin68@gmail.com if interested in purchasing tickets ($30 pp). This very popular event supports the Parish and School

Catholic Schools Week begins this Sunday with our Family Mass at 10:30!
We invite all school families to kick off this weeklong celebration by worshipping together as one parish school community. Here is the schedule for the rest of the week's events. As always, students who do not wish to participate in the dress up activities are to wear their regular uniforms.

Monday is WACKY TACKY Day. Students can come to school in their craziest mixed up outfit ever. We celebrate our parents.

Tuesday is Sports Day. Dress up in jerseys and t-shirts honoring your favorite sports teams.

Wednesday is Ethnic Dress Day. Show us the beauty of your cultural heritage by dressing in traditional clothes of your families' native country. Join us for our first annual Scripps School Spelling Bee at 10:15 am. Two students from each grade 1-8 compete. The top speller from grades 6-8 will continue on to the next level at Seattle City Hall. We also celebrate our teachers with a special lunch

Thursday is the all time favorite Student Appreciation Day with the wearing of the PAJAMAS! Be sure to bring your favorite pillow, stuffed animal or blanket for your class READ IN. This is also the day we will be watching a movie celebrating our magazine sale success. K-4 will be watching Toy Story (G) and Grades 5-8 will be watching Akeelah and the Bee (PG). If you have any objection to your child watching a movie, let us know and we can make other arrangements for them.

We at Villa Academy would like to invite you to the attached Parent Education event on February 2nd from 7-9p. Please join us and invite your friends. If you would please post this in your public spaces as this is free and open to all we would appreciate that love to see everyone.

Thanks!
Wendy Newsom

Parent Education Flyer