St. Thomas More School: Knight Times

KNIGHT TIMES

Welcome to the 2009-2010 school year and to the home page of The Knight Times. The latest news will be published here and updated every Wednesday from September through May. Please send your submissions to:

Judy Foster at jfoster@st-thomasmore.org

Thank you to everyone who supported the HOMECOMING 2010! Auction. So far the financial report shows that the HOMECOMING 2010! Auction has made $42,000 +, with money still coming in!

If you were not able to help support the Auction on 2/6/2010, you have one more chance to do so! We will be holding an online Auction soon so please be on the look out for an email from Sister Catherine with the items for bid and instructions on the bidding.

Whether you worked on the planning or at the event, attended and spent your money, or made a monetary donation, you all contributed to HOMECOMING 2010!'s success. I am truly appreciative of everything that everyone did to help enrich the children of St. Thomas More's lives. Without you all, HSA would not be able to raise the funds it needs to do all it does for the teachers, the school, and the children. Thank you again for your support. And good job!

Cyndy Risku - Auction Chair

We have some exciting news to share with all of you about a restructuring of the Middle School for the 2010-2011 school year. How will all this work? Come and see on March 15 at 7 P.M.

Spend two 2 hour sessions learning the premiere video editing software Pinnacle Studio. Learn digital film editing and movie making techniques while creating your great film. Click here for

Each summer St. Thomas More School offers, on campus, summer camps taught by STM staff. Camp dates and times vary with each camp. Camps are open to all even if you don't attend STM School and are offered on a first come first served basis. Check back often as more camps are offered. Click here for camp titles and descriptions.

On March 10th Battle of the Books will be battling at Burlington Day School in Burlington,NC.

Competing schools this year:
Greensboro Montessori St. Pius Burlington Day
Our Lady of Grace St. Thomas More St. Stephen’s

Team Members:
1.Jerry Chang 3 years -leader            1.Shane Jones 3 years - leader
2.Nick Piccillo -2 years                          2.Matthew MacKinnon 2 years
3.Adebayo Keku 3 years - co leader   3.Luke Ciocca -2 years
4.Keenan Thungtrakul 2 years            4.Dominica Sutherland   1 year
5.Tom Dusek -1 year                             5.Billy Morgenlander 1 year
6.Mario Santiago -1 year                       6.Sam Raines 1 year
7.Ariana Jones                                        7.Marina Winkler 1 year

WANTED: Your gently used books (children and adult), videos, DVDs and CDs for STM's annual Used Book Sale. We will begin collecting your tax deductible donations on Wednesday, March 17. Collection bins will be placed in the entryway of the lower school for your convenience.

The sale will run Thursday, April 15 - Saturday, April 17 on the school stage. Volunteers are needed to help set-up on Wednesday, April 14 and to staff the event. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Cathy Elmore at celmore@nc.rr.co

Come celebrate the Roaring '20s, March 26-28th, with the St. Thomas More Players in Tim Kelly and Bill Fancoeur's lively musical Flapper! Click here for more....

CHESS CLASS INFORMATION - Click here for more information regarding the current Chess Class.
CHESS TOURNAMENT - St. Mary Magdelene Catholic School in Apex will be hosting a chess tournament on Saturday, March 6th. Please click here for more detailed information.

The deadline for registration was Feb. 26th. However, if any children are interested in participating, please email Arlene Soberano at arlene_soberano@med.unc.edu before February 19th. We can then organize the group, and make arrangements for Les Mazur to provide 2 classes for any STM children participating in the tournament (tentative dates February 25th and March 4th) for tournament preparation.

Welcome to the 'Gibbons Corner', the Cardinal Gibbons High School page that is here to help develop strong communications between the Gibbons community and local Catholic elementary/middle schools, and to provide families with important information and details of achievements and events at the high school. Please click here to view news and events.

IMPORTANT HIGH SCHOOL INFORMATION AND DATES (check here often, this article is updated regularly)

CARDINAL GIBBONS HIGH SCHOOL
Please click above for important 'Dates to Remember' for admissions to CGHS!
You can also visit their Web site at www.cghsnc.org,
Click here to learn more about the Cardinal Gibbons Spanish II Placement Test

CEDAR RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL
CRHS Rising 9th Grade Information Night
For Parents and Students
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25nd, 2010

CHAPEL HILL---EAST CHAPEL HILL---CARRBORO HIGH SCHOOL
If you have questions concerning any of the Chapel Hill High Schools please contact:
Ivy S. Cheeks
Chapel Hill High School Ninth Grade Counselor
1709 High School Road
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516
Telephone: 919-929-2106 ext.1279
Fax: 919-969-2458

JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL
For more information, please contact either:
Spencer Hawkins at spencer.hawkins@dpsnc.net (or 919-560-3912, ext. 12287)
Cherice Artis at cherice.artis@dpsnc.net or (919-560-3912, ext. 12234).

The HSA now has a new and improved website please view the NEW WEBSITE HERE. Feedback is welcome.

You can now order Whole Foods Vouchers for March. The Whole Foods program is now paperless so you will not be receiving a flyer/order form. The order form can be accessed here...

Click here to find out how easy it is to raise money for our school.

Go here to find out what STM School kids are doing for Haiti...

Here is Father Rob's latest news letter. He also wrote to say they are continuing to have a difficult time getting drinking water but that it has risen to a national level so perhaps more will happen! I will keep you posted!

Click here to find information regarding St Thomas More Church's Vacation Bible Camp.

The STM Environmental Stewardship Committee is pleased to report the 2009 annual totals for St. Thomas More's recycling effort:

Stay informed with the progress of the Building Project. New update posted for January construction.

Click here to view the October 2009 Iowa Test Grade Equivalent results....

Anyone who attended a Child Protection Training session in 2004 was required to retrain in order to continue to volunteer. If you were unable to attend a training session this year, please contact Judy Foster

The YMCA at Meadowmont offers all-day programming when students are out of school. Click here for more information.

Dear Fifth Grade parents-We have begun our biome project planning and it is going very well! Some students want to have live animals in their biomes and I need to explain how this may be done. First of all, we do have a budget in science lab and there may not be any need to purchase anything. Please delay any purchases until we know the final plan in January.

I am so excited to start another fun year of reading. Our first Jr. Great Books (JGB) meeting was Tuesday, October 13th . Our general procedure will be as follows;

It's important to stay informed....... Here are the instructions for signing up for Google Groups. Remember that you need to sign up for each group. You should always sign-up for STMHSA-GENERAL and then your classroom(s).

Thank you for responding to our annual End of the Year Survey. This online survey is conducted in May of each year, and the results are posted on our website. The valuable information you give us is used to celebrate what we are doing right and provides us with direction as to what needs improvement.

Click here to view the upcoming dances....

Please click here to view the 2008-2009 Knight Times.