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ST. COLUMBA SHEPHERD
GUIDANCE FOR THE WEEK AHEAD
EACH WEEK THE ST. COLUMBA SHEPHERD provides all the information you need to know and links to things that you might need to cross off your list. Stay organized by reading it every week and making sure that you add events and deadlines to your calendar! LET'S DO IT!
DATES TO REMEMBER
9/22 - Volleyball @ Ignacio - 4:30
9/24 - School Mass - 3 Grade Leading Liturgy - 8:15 rd 9/24 - Volleyball @ Escalante - 4:30
9/25-9/26 - 7 Grade Retreat at Stations of the Cross & Sand Dunes th 9/29 - Volleyball vs Bayfield - 4:30
10/1 - School Mass - 7 Grade Leading Liturgy - 8:15 th 10/1 - Volleyball vs Miller - 4:30 10/2 - Prayer & Praise Assembly - 8:15 10/3 - St. Columba Field Day - 12:00-2:45 10/7 - Living Rosary - 2:15
10/8 - School Mass - 2 Grade Leading Liturgy - 8:15 nd
10/13 - Individual School Pictures (More Info to Come) 10/14 - Class Pictures
10/15 - School Mass - 4 Grade Leading Liturgy - 8:15 th 10/17 - Middle School Dance - 6:30
10/21 - Kindergarten & 1 Grade to Jackalope Acres st 10/22 - School Mass - 8 Grade Leading Liturgy - 8:15 th
10/23 - No School K-8 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 10/24 - No School Preschool - 8 Grade - End of 1 Quarter/ Professional Development th st 10/29 - School Mass - 1 Grade Leading Liturgy st 10/31 - Early Dismissal Preschool Only - 12:30
S C H O O L D A Y S
THANK YOU!
A huge thank you to everyone that came out and attended our Back to School Social and Mass! It was wonderful to see so many families visiting, catching up, and making connections! The kids had a blast playing the different yard games and just being on the playground with their friends!
Our next Parent Association Meeting will be Tuesday, October 14th @5:30. We will meet at north Zia in the Cantina upstairs. Invite a fellow St. Columba parent and join us for time to socialize, a field day recap, and planning ahead for our fall activities. We would love to see you there!
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School MassPlease Join Us!
We invite families to join us every Wednesday at 8:15 in the Church for our School Masses. Each class takes turns leading the liturgy throughout the year and our Mass Schedule can be found HERE.
If you can’t join us in person, you can always stream our School Mass on the St. Columba Youtube channel HERE.
Prayer & Praise Assembly
K-8 students will be attending their first Prayer & Praise assembly of the year Thursday, October 2 , at 8:15 in the gym. Families are invited to join us each month. Each assembly includes lessons from Fr. John and Mr. Chick and an introduction to our monthly Friendzy theme as well as St. Columba Awards for students who have gone above and beyond expectaions.
New Website & App Coming Soon
We are sure that many of you have noticed that some components of the St. Columba website and app are a little out of date. That is for an exciting reason - we hope to be launching a new website and app very soon!! These new components have lots of features that we are very excited to share with you. While the pages themselves have been ready to launch since July, we are having a few technical issues getting the sites transferred from hostgator and are working closely with our new company to get the issues resolved We can’t wait to show you the finished project, but in the meantime, please reach out if you can’t find something you need.
STEM Opportunity
Applications for the Fall Cohort of the STEM Explorers Program are open!
Led by researchers at MIT, Caltech, and Stanford, the STEM Explorers Program introduces ambitious students like you to the cutting edge of your scientific field of interest You'll work 1-on-1 with a PhD mentor and create an independent project
Explore cool topics like astrophysics, quantum mechanics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotic control, game theory, genetic engineering, and many more!
Timeline
Week 1: Introduction to your mentor and align on a topic
Week 2-4: Explore the topic and identify the research question
Week 5-9: Create project with 1-1 support from expert mentor
Week 10-12: Complete final edits and submit project for final evaluation
Complete this application to be considered for participation and receive more information We look forward to working on interesting science with you!
This is not a St. Columba Program, we are just sharing the opporrtunity
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THE PARISH CONNECTION
THE PARISH CONNECTION
