Welcome to the new school year from the St. Mary's Home & School Association! We have some great things planned this year and are looking forward to sharing them with you and your families. We need YOUR support not only with our fundraisers, but by volunteering as well.  We hope that all of you have decided to commit to 2 hours of stewardship this year for our school.

 To start the year off, we had a table at registration where everyone could turn in their volunteer forms and sign up to help with classroom events.  So many of you have already signed up to help in many different areas and we are so appreciative of that.  Our first official fundraiser of the year was the Sno Cone sale, on August 28 ^th .  Coming up in September we are having an Aluminum Can Drive. Please bring all of your aluminum cans you've been saving and deposit them into the bins that will be set up in the south side of the school by the Kindergarten pick-up area. There will also be a Bogey's night in September in which you can treat your family to a night out, good food and part of the money you spend will directly come back to the school.  Please make sure you check your child's backpack for information about all of the Home & School events for September.

If you have not been able to sign up to volunteer in a classroom yet, we will have a table at the "Open House" on September 15 ^th .  We hope to see all of you there and look forward to all of the exciting events we have planned for this year!

Sarah Jordan,   Home & School President