Mark Your Calendar 3/27 Fish Fry TAKE OUT ONLY Drive thru in Church parking lot 5pm—7pm $8 Fish or Shrimp plates and $4 grilled cheese plates 3/30 Distance Learning continues for all students

Keep checking your: • emails, • School Website, or • our Facebook page for all the latest information.

March 27 2020

St. Pius X Catholic School

“Building Leaders for Christ” 7734 Robin Rest, San Antonio, TX 78209 (210) 824-6431 ,(210) 824-7454 FAX

www.stpiusxsa.org/school

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Dear Parents,

Thank you, thank you, thank you! In my 29 years as an educator never did I envision walking through a challenge educating children under such circumstances. We have had a great first week as our staff unfolded a new distance learning platform! We have stretched the learning curve, shared our successes, messed up, laughed, and cried all together this week. And most importantly, we have banned together in prayer through text, speaker phone, online daily mass and adoration. Thank you again for walking on this journey with us with your children! #rebelstrong

A few important announcements:

• Round 2 Learning Bag Pick Up ‘may’ occur for your child’s grade. This is not necessary for all grades so please just be on the lookout for an email early next week from your teacher. Pick up date will be on Friday, April 3rd if it is needed.

Jenny Kerr’s letter cont...

• 40 bags for Lent drop off is a fantastic family field trip and service to our very own St. Vincent DePaul. Please consider filling the brown bag sent home with canned goods to help. (rice, pinto beans and cereal are currently low in stock, too) Drop off is at the church side door near ramp.

• Please know we are all eager to return to school ASAP. The letter I sent earlier this week stated a possible May 8th return date; however, if the restrictions are lifted, we will certainly discuss starting back up sooner. Thank you for your understanding.

• FISH FRY is happening tonight from 5-7pm! It’s delicious so consider a drive thru excursion with the family. There are options including fried shrimp, fried or grilled fish and grilled cheese. It’s a simple way to support our SPX parish that does so much to support our school and plus you may even see Gabby running around with Fr. Pat!

• Plan to join us for our Wednesday 8:15am school mass. We will also be announcing our Virtue Award winners and Honors Assembly after this week’s mass.

Parent homework: If you are on social media, please follow our school page on Facebook and make com-ments on the posts. Stay tuned for our Instagram account as we are working on that, as well. Warm Regards & Big AIR HUGS to all, -Jenny

Missing our Wednesday School Mass? Join us on Fr. Pat’s Facebook Live for daily Mass at 8:15am

St. Pius X Catholic Church Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SPXSA

We will also be able to post it live on the front page of the St. Pius X Church's website as soon as we have 1000 followers on our YouTube channel: St. Pius X Rebel News Network, RNN Join us! #RebelStrong

Our SPX Parish Bulletin is always available on line https://stpiusxsa.org/bulletins

Are you interested in living your faith during these pandemic times?

Then our new ministry group, the St. Corona Servants may be for you! Meal and a Message delivered! We are looking for volunteers to help our homebound, high risk St. Pius X parishioners by bringing them a meal with a note, prayer card or message to brighten their day. Items will be dropped off at the parishion-er’s door to avoid any face to face contact. For more information and to sign up, please call Terelyn Santos at 210-822-8044. If there is no answer, please leave a voice message. “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you (John 15:12).”

Can’t spell Pius without US!

We are so blessed to have such support from our St. Pius X Community

A message from Mr. Eric with Abrakadoodle

I really miss the students, so we have created weekly challenges for the students on our Abrakadoodle San Antonio’s Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/abrakadoodleSATX

This will give the children an art project to do at least once a week. Happy creating!

See you soon, Mr. Eric and your Abrakadoodle teachers.

We have added several resources to our Counseling Corner that may help when talking to

children about COVID-19.

See helpful documents on our website: https://school.stpiusxsa.org/counseling-corner

Need a scholarship?

Applications are available for Hope for the Future for the 2020-2021 school year.

The Hope for the Future link can be found on our school website: https://school.stpiusxsa.org/tuition-assistance

Early Round closes April 8, 2020

We’re looking for you!

Our School Council is an advisory committee from whom the Principal seeks advice and expertise in school matters including finance, school policy, and long

-range planning. We are inviting school parents to apply to join our School Council. (Self-nominations accepted). We will have both elected and appointed

positions available. Please email the completed applications to spxschool@stpiusxsa.org. See our website for applications and more details:

https://school.stpiusxsa.org/school-council

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ShopWithScrip

While we are following the latest recommenda-tions from the CDC, remember you can always use Scrip to shop online and support our school.

Register online today at ShopWithScrip.com and

use enrollment code: C94BC2517L66.

See our website for more details:

https://school.stpiusxsa.org/spx-scrip-program

Extra resources from Second Step