During the summer, the school office will be open Tuesday-Thursday from 9 am to 1 pm. All calls received outside of those hours will be returned the following business day.

I hope this finds you all doing well and enjoying your summers as families together. We continue to keep the school in motion as we close out this past school year. Completing report cards, it was discovered that we have two students in the school who never missed one full day of school. Nora Ryan, formerly in kindergarten and Ryan Crowley, formerly in Grade 3 both deserve a huge shout out. They were present in the school or virtual every single day for the 2020/2021 school year. Who can beat their record next school year? I would love to see if anyone can beat them. Please open this post to view the compete newsletter.

Friday is our last day together for grades one though seven. It is a dress up day for the young people. Dismissal will be at 11:15. Briefly I will share we made it and we finished strong. Your children were able to be with their teacher every single day mostly face to face but virtual if it was needed. Very few schools are able to say that anywhere in the Detroit area. The majority of the children tested well in the adoption of the Standardized STAR platform the Archdiocese of Detroit adopted. We have so many things to celebrate from this school year. You are all a part of the reason for our successes. Thank you for all of your support. We now look forward to a much more normal school year for 2021/2022. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

Students know that they do not have to wear uniforms Thursday. It will be a Free Dress Day. They need to adhere to the Dress Code for this. Friday they will dress up for mass as it is the last day of school. Please open this post to view other important updates.

Today I announced to the students that they do not have to wear uniforms Wednesday. It will be a Free Dress Day. They need to adhere to the Dress Code for this. If they do a good job, they will get a Free Dress Day on Thursday. Please open this post to view all the updates.

Please open this post to view the complete newsletter with updates regarding class picnics, FACTS enrollment, St. Clare's vaccination site, lunch updates, and the last days of school.

The focus of this newsletter is around FACTS, field day, picnics, vaccination site, and last days of school. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

Everyone is very excited about our Field Day happening Friday, May 21, 2021. Please open this post to view important information about the day.

Thank you for all your continuous flexibility around our calendar all school year. We are all delighted that at this time no families have COVID-19 illness in their homes as per information shared with administration. We aim to complete the less than month left totally in person. Below you will find specific topics you need to know about for this next week. The most important one at the time is FACTS. 

Writing the Newsletter is becoming more “normal” as we move closer to being done with this pandemic. Activities we were unable to implement are slowly returning to the school. This week we did an all school outside event as the students participated in the nation’s ACES program. Picnics are being scheduled for individual classrooms and we will return to All School Mass next Wednesday. We navigate this COVID-19 adjusting to the conditions as they present themselves. Families, thank you for moving through the adjustments with us. Please read the Parish Bulletin each week as highlights of what is happening in the school are acknowledged. This allows witness by parishioners of the good news coming from the school. This week Grade 2 zooming with WDIV Brandon Roux and Grade 6 and Grade 7 zooming with former classmate who moved to French Guiana in South America were highlighted. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

As stated in last week’s newsletter, we will no longer use PowerSchool as our Student Information System. Instead, we will use FACTS, which we currently use solely for tuition. Using FACTS will mean all student information will be housed in one system, including academic and enrollment information. Families will have access to this system through the FACTS Family Portal, much like the current access with PowerSchool. Please note this is a separate login from your FACTS tuition account. Please open this post to view the complete update.

We are experiencing very good attendance with all students back after quarantining. Thank you everyone for keeping your children home if they are not feeling well. We have 27.5 days left of school. The goal is to stay COVID-19 safe and face to face for all of those 27.5 days. Picnics and a Field Day are being scheduled for May and June. We want to have a healthy and fun closure to this school year. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

This was a very good week at school. Classes participated in virtual Mass with Father Andrew Wednesday. Grade Five provided the Readings, Prayers and Petitions. Earth Day activities were shared and some of those activities from the classrooms can be found on our school Facebook page. Take a moment and explore those Facebook posts. See the collaborative and individual projects the young people enjoyed creating. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

Teachers have alerted me to the status of having students who are involved in after school sports or other activities that involve mixing outside the school cohort groups and family pods. These students are from our preschool classrooms all the way up through eighth grade. Please open this post to view the complete update.

I hope this finds all of you doing well. This is a reminder that most of the students will be returning to school for in person instruction Monday, April 19th. Thank you parents for making this possible as we were able to speak with you last week to confirm all is well. Families that have not been heard from received emails from me today alerting them the need to reach out to me before their children may return to school. Communication is what is allowing us to return. Please open this post to view the complete update.

Virtual Update: In general all seems to be going smoothly. The students appear to be in uniform. The one request that needs to be enforced by parents is making sure your children are participating with their full face visible. The angle of the camera must have their face visible by the teachers. Please open this post to view the complete update.

As shared in prior newsletters, students will attend school in our Google Classroom/Zoom platforms for the Week of April 12th thru April 16th.  Please open this post to view the schedule for this week of virtual instruction.

We begin Easter Break as we finish our third marking quarter here at school. We are one year in from the beginning of the pandemic and our children and school families made adjustments to remain safe this school year. We prepared carefully for face to face instruction in the Fall and implemented virtual instruction when needed. STAR testing revealed our children did not suffer the monumental academic loss experts were predicting would occur with young people. That is a tribute to the teachers remaining synchronous each and every day with their students unlike most other schools. The tribute is to parents for keeping up with the students during that virtual time. The tribute is to the students as they adjusted their learning style from in person to virtual to in person to virtual. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.

Please open this post to view some reminders before Easter break.

Virtual School First Week After Break The entire school will be virtual the first week back from April 12th thru April 16th. The increase in COVID cases in schools, across the metro area, and in Michigan are reason for this caution to be taken. Families you need to know that if you leave the State of Michigan your children will need to quarantine for 10 to 14 days upon the day of your return whether you travel by plane or car. Some of those days may occur while the entire school is virtual. If you do not reach the 14 days during the virtual period, you will need to complete those 14 days during the days the students first return in person April 19th. Please open this post to view the complete newsletter.