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Principal’s Wednesday Letter
Dr. Bruce Colville
principal@st-dunstan.org
October 14, 2009
Dear Parents and Guardians:
PRAYERS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Prayers:
Let’s pray for a warm and fun-filled three-day Parish Festival this weekend. Thanks for
being extra safe during the last few days of wind and rain. Please continue to pray for
the citizens of Samoa, Philippines, and Indonesia as they recover from recent floods.
Links to programs assisting these countries can be found in last week’s communication.
Acknowledgements:
Thank you to all our parent volunteers working the Parish Festival this weekend as final
plans come to fruition. Posted today is a complete list of all scheduled festival
activities as we celebrate the “Wide World of Sports”. Thank you to our raffle
coordinator, Marvin Laubacher. He visited all the classrooms yesterday to promote the
raffle competition. We hope to reach our goal of 1000 booklets sold. There are many
incentives for students to sell booklets (see below). Also, today we gave students a
hardcopy listing of local businesses that will honor those who purchase raffle tickets by
giving them discounts. Ask your child to see listings. You can make copies of this form,
as it is an excellent incentive to purchase more booklets.
FROM THE SCHOOL OFFICE
Reminders and Announcements
• The parish festival is a public event covering a full three days with many
activities and events happening on campus. Parents need to properly
supervise their children and be aware of where they are. Encourage them to
regularly check-in with you. Younger primary grade students require consistent
supervision. Thank you.
• During the Festival children are not allowed in any of the booths.
• The Daughters of St. Paul, who are Catholic Religious Sisters working with
Media for Evangelization are going to be present at St. Dunstan School for a
School Book Fair on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009. The Sisters will be
inviting the students from grades K- 5 to view their books during the school day.
(Many of these books have been authored, published and illustrated by the
Sisters themselves.) Each child will be given an order form on which they can
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Principal’s Wednesday Letter
Dr. Bruce Colville
principal@st-dunstan.org
indicate their choices. Parents or Guardians are encouraged to review their
child’s order and make appropriate selections. Orders, together with payment,
may be returned to the child’s teacher on the next or following day. When the
Sisters have received all the orders, they will return with the books in about two
weeks.
• A hard copy of the Knightly News for October will be going home today with
your child. It also has been posted on the website.
• When sending in payments for hot lunches, raffle/ride tickets etc, please make
sure they are attached to an order form or placed in a properly marked envelope;
loose payments can easily get lost.
• There is a Flu update from the Archdiocese San Francisco that is posted
today. It is a reiteration of earlier postings from the San Mateo County Health
Department. Please review content and remind your children to wash their hands
regularly and properly.
• Parent-Teacher Conferences will be the week of November 2nd -6th. These
are 12:35 pm days to accommodate the meetings. Conference times will be
announced in advance. At the conference you will receive your child’s first
quarter report card, a parent report on your child’s IOWA (Standardized Test
Scores), and commentary on your child’s progress.
Food Service Questionnaire
The School is aware that parents are dissatisfied with our current lunch program
provided by Divine Catering. We went to meet with the manager of Divine Catering,
visited their kitchen, and expressed our concerns. We would appreciate it if you could
help us by answering the following three questions and send them to Advisory Board
Marketing Chair Diana Chang via email at lunchprogram09@gmail.com:
1. Are you and/or your child (ren) happy with the food offered by current caterer?
2. What would be an ideal lunch program offered by the school?
3. What would you like to see different on the menu?
Your feedback is important and greatly appreciated. It will be presented at the next
School Advisory Board Meeting on October 20th.
St. Dunstan Catholic School www.st-dunstan.org
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Principal’s Wednesday Letter
Dr. Bruce Colville
principal@st-dunstan.org
Centerplate Update
There is just one game left, and we still need volunteers! If you're interested in
volunteering and in earning 10 service hours at one game, please sign-up for one (or
more) of the following games:
Sunday, November 8, 2009 against Tennessee
All volunteers must complete Centerplate's training course before working at a game.
Training CD's are available at our school's front office. If you worked Centerplate last
year, you will have to complete Centerplate's training course again. To volunteer or
if you have any questions, please contact Leta Labson at (650) 678-9362 or via email at
leta_lee@yahoo.com.
My School’s Cool Program has begun.
Want to help our school win $500 every time you shop at Tanforan Shopping Mall?
Then save your receipts and turn them in to our school’s office. There are 9 other
schools participating in this program and word has it that Lomita School wins every
year. Let’s show them what we can do! Ask your friends and family to save their
receipts for our school! Every dollar counts – even if you just buy a cup of coffee or an
ice cream cone! Movie ticket stubs and snacks from the concession stand count too!
For more information on “My School’s Cool” program, go to our school’s website at:
http://www.st-dunstan.org/wed_env_docs.html and scroll down to the end of the page.
FROM THE ATHLETIC BOARD
Please don’t forget to check the Athletic Page on the website for important
announcements and news.
FESTIVAL NEWS
The Festival Raffle Challenge:
Sell 1000 Thousand Tickets!
Your help can win you prizes!
Raffle tickets sell for $2.00 each or 12 tickets in a book for $20.00.
Check this out:
The person selling the winning ticket wins $50.00!
For each book of tickets you sell, you get a coupon for 1 free play at a non-food
booth.
If you sell 3 books you will receive a free dress day!!
St. Dunstan Catholic School www.st-dunstan.org
1150 Magnolia Avenue, Millbrae, CA 94030 P: (650) 697-8119 F: (650) 697-9295
Principal’s Wednesday Letter
Dr. Bruce Colville
principal@st-dunstan.org
If you sell 5 books you will receive a complimentary ice cream bar and a
second day of free dress!!
If you sell 10 books by 10/11/09 you will receive a free book of ride tickets!
The class with the most sales will have an afternoon pool party and BBQ (with
only cool music)!!
The top seller for each class will receive a $20.00 gift certificate to Macy’s
The top seller for all of K-8 will receive $50.00 cash and one week of free
dress!!!
If the Parish meets the goal of 1000 books sold, we will have a combined CCD
and School party.
• Festival t-shirts will be sold for $15.00 after school in upcoming days. Students
who buy a t-shirt will be able to wear their t-shirt over their uniform shirt the week
of October 12th and will earn a free dress day on Friday, October 16th. Please
refer to the flyer attached in today’s communication for dates and times of t-shirt
sales.
• We still need volunteers to work in the “Knight’s Dug Out” Pub on
Saturday, 10/17 and Sunday evening 10/18. Please see updated Pub
Schedule on website. Please contact Ray Jackson at (650) 873-3942 or
rjackson@pacbell.net if you can help out. No experience required ~ selling wine,
beer, and margaritas only.
• Please check the website for Fall Festival Flyers and Information i.e. Sunday
Night Reservation Form, Festival Ride Tickets pre-sale Form, Mega Bingo
Reservation forms, Sweet Tooth Booth information, Wall of Fame, Donor Forms,
and other information.
FROM THE PARISH OFFICE
Eucharistic ministers and lectors are currently needed at St. Dunstan Church. Please
call the parish rectory for further information. The rectory number is 650 697-4730.
Sunday’s Gospel invites us drink from Jesus’ cup and all the challenges that it brings
along with unexpected gifts and graces. Read the Gospel reflection in today’s
communication. See you at the Festival. Thanks for all you do.
Sincerely in Christ,
Dr. Bruce Colville, Principal
St. Dunstan Catholic School www.st-dunstan.org
1150 Magnolia Avenue, Millbrae, CA 94030 P: (650) 697-8119 F: (650) 697-9295
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