SJW #29, April 8, 2010

The Iowa Skippers performed for our students. Maria Schussler, 6th grade student at St. Joe's is a member of their team.

Congratulations St. Joseph Catholic School!

If you had the opportunity to see a copy of the Cedar Rapids Gazette on Sunday, you probably weren't surprised to see that the students at St. Joseph Catholic School once again posted scores that we can really be proud of!  The test scores that are reported in the Gazette are a little different than have been previously reported.  In the past, the scores that were reported consisted of the Composite score, Iowa Percentile Ranking, School Norms.  This is essentially an average of the entire battery of tests.

Because many schools do not use the Iowa Tests, or do not complete the entire Battery, the Gazette now relies on the Core total score, which are an average of the Reading, Language and Math Tests (without the Math Computation Test).  A complete copy of the analysis of the tests can be found here.

Prayers

Please keep Diane Evans, mom of our student Blake Evans in your prayers. She has surgery next week.

Chargers Parent Organization Officers Elected

The officers for the 2010-2011 school year for the Chargers are as follows:  President, Kate Fejfar, Vice-President, Angie Haugen, Treasurer, Teresa Fitzpatrick and Secretary, Amy Lippert. Thank you for all you do for our school! A special thank you to outgoing President, Peg Detweiler for all her dedication and hard work with the Chargers organization. We appreciate it very much.

Musical

We hope you can join us on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the student performance of Annie. The musical will be performed on Thursday, April 8th at 7:00 p.m. in the gym as well as Friday, April 9th and Saturday, April 10th at 7:00 p.m. It should be lots of fun!

You are invited to...
 
Xavier High School’s
Public Presentation
of its
“Visioning Report”
Mr. Jeff Johnson, Presenter
Monday, April 12, 2010
7:00 p.m.

Regis/LaSalle Theatre

Please join us as our facilitator, Jeff Johnson, presents the results of this comprehensive study of Xavier High School.  The important findings, both facts and perceptions, compiled after interviews with 24 groups (over 200 participants), will be shared.  Mr. Johnson will also share the three major objectives which have emerged from this important process.

Principal Tom Keating will share how this report will help shape Xavier High School’s future.

Pastors, students, parents, faculty, staff, supporters, Regis/LaSalle/Xavier alumni, parishioners, business leaders, civic leaders, media and all others interested in the results of this study are enthusiastically encouraged to attend!!!