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School starts on Wednesday, August 28th for K-8, with a half-day ending at 12pm. Full day on Thursday, and no school on Friday or Monday for the holiday weekend. Go Falcons!

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Registration for all current and new families is NOW OPEN! Please go to your FACTS account and register as soon as possible! Registration fee is $300.00. New families, please see instructions in Full Details if you need to set up an account in the Family Portal.

St Clare of Montefalco is pleased to announce our next Open House. Click for full details.

Good news! We have funding available for Catholic and non-Catholic families, with financial need, to assist with tuition for the 2024-2025 school year. Click through to learn more.

Planning for the school auction is underway! Thank you to all of the families that have signed up to help. We need many volunteers to help make this event a success. Please reach out to the PTO for more information and click through for more details.

Last Thursday we held our annual Turkey Trot fundraiser on a beautiful fall day. I’d like thank Jean Stanley-Irving for leading and organizing the events of the day as well as Caerise Williams, the PTO president, and all the PTO moms and dads who volunteered their time both at the start and finish of the race, as well as being “cheerleaders” along the racecourse. It takes an enormous amount of collective work to put together such an event. I’d also like to thank Jody Corbett for her wisdom and experience with the family fundraising.

We are just over $1,000 shy of our $11,000 school fundraising goal. Please consider donating today. Thank you to 300 donors from 23 (!!) states for helping make our second largest school fundraiser a huge success! click to donate...

This is becoming very real for me. I missed greeting all of you and your children this week. The teachers were very busy finishing grading, updating records, cleaning classrooms, and moving classrooms. The new principal, Mrs. Sarah Hensien, was present quite a bit asking questions, taking notes, zooming into grant meetings with me, and interviewing people for a few non-teaching staff positions we still have open in the school. Things are progressing in a positive way for the upcoming school year. Here are some facts you need to know. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

This newsletter will be factual. Next week I will send another Newsletter out once the Report Cards and STAR Parent Reports are mailed. I will list what you need to know below. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

Families we are making sure that the students are safe in the school. No one is allowed in the school currently unless they come through the Main Office doors. We are not allowing adults or former students in the building due to adults reporting COVID cases in their households. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

St Clare of Montefalco Catholic School in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan seeks a principal who possesses a strong commitment to the Catholic faith and Catholic education. The school educates a diverse group of students in prekindergarten through grade eight. The school is part of a vibrant parish community; however, many students come from areas outside the parish boundaries to receive the benefit of a Catholic school education. St. Clare of Montefalco School is accredited by the Michigan Association of Non-public Schools. The new principal should be prepared to work closely with the pastor, faculty, staff, and parents as well as working with the Archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools to ensure the Four Dimensions of Unleashing Our Catholic Schools.

It was a great week for the school in my absence. The school chugged along smoothly under Ms. Cooley’s leadership. The entire staff continued as they always do, demonstrating their support by making adjustments when they were needed. This demonstrates the outstanding learning community St. Clare of Montefalco is. I sure did miss seeing everyone and was so pleased to see all the smiles at Drop Off this morning. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

Beginning Friday, April 8th, the St. Clare of Montefalco students will begin praying a Novena for the recovery of Mrs. Valerie Albright who is moving through the beginning of cancer treatment. Mrs. Albright is our school's administrative assistant and mother of three children in our school. A novena is nine days prayer for a special intention. So we ask you to pray each day from April 8th through April 16th the following prayer. It is best to set aside a special time when you will pray this as an individual or as a family.

During Easter Break students will bring home rapid Covid tests allowing you to test your children over break and the night before the students return from Easter Break on April 25th. All students to bring a negative test to school on Monday, April 25th. Families who travel domestically only need to mask for 10 days and do not need to quarantine upon return. International travel requires quarantining if not vaccinated. Masking is necessary if vaccinated. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

We are staying very COVID-19 aware. The students and staff are following all the protocols and are good with the mask optional choice. To ensure safety, on Thursday, March 31, we are going to implement a school-wide antigen test in the morning. You may administer the test in your cars if you feel more comfortable with that Thursday. Preschool and kindergarten will take home tests Wednesday night for the parents to administer and return on Thursday. Open this post to view the complete newsletter.

We had a fun day as many students dressed in green and participated in St. Patrick’s Day activities. National Junior Honor Society sponsored the Free Dress Day raising money for the people of Ukraine on this day too. NJHS had a busy week. After mass on Wednesday, NJHS inducted two new members, Taneya Louis and Gustavo Leyva. They were brought into the organization because their character, leadership, faith, scholarship, and citizenship are outstanding. Congratulations! Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

We have so much to celebrate today. Congratulations needs to be given to our Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Kathy Pawlowski. Today she was awarded an Honorable Mention as an Amazing Catholic Educator from the Catholic Foundation. Families who have had children pass through her classroom fully understand why she would receive such recognition.   A note from Ms. Cooley: We must also extend congratulations to our principal, Ms. Crowley, who received an Amazing Catholic Principal award today from the Catholic Foundation. I know I speak for all our staff, students, and parents when I say we are eternally grateful for Ms. Crowley’s leadership in our school community. We are so proud of Mrs. Pawlowski and Ms. Crowley! What an incredible group of educators we have here at St. Clare.

Family Literacy Night is going to be a very fun night. Families will be together in small groups for the first time in the school since COVID lock down two years ago. Bring your children and enjoy board games, decorating free backpacks, sight word games, stories read aloud in our library, a social and emotional learning presentation for adults, and pizza slices in our cafeteria.

Antigen tests are being sent home with your children today. They must take the test the morning they return from Winter Break to allow them to be mask less with their classmates outside the school. Write the child’s name on the test and have them return it to their teacher. Families who want their children to continue to mask outside may let their teacher know this. Wayne County Health Department lifted their masking requirement today. Due to the fact we have many children who are not vaccinated, we are remaining a masking school. Open this post to view the complete newsletter.