Please check out our page often to keep up to date on all of our news and
current events! Please sponsor our OLV Home & School Events. Our school
children and their families benefit from the family atmosphere and the
profits benefit your children.
UPCOMING EVENTS
10/19/09- BURGER KING NIGHT
Help raise funds for our school. Spread the word; hand out the tickets. A
percentage of sales will come back to OLV! Moms and Dads- enjoy a night out--
no cooking, no dishes, no kids' complaints! See you at Burger King!
10/23/09-3/31/10 SUPER 50-50
Ticket sales begin at the Halloween Bingo for this fabulous fundraiser, which
concludes on 3/31/09. Winner will be drawn at the Night of the Races on April
10th.
Tickets sales are $5 each or 6/$25 and wlil be continous until 3/31. The
winner will take home half of the collected prize money (collected over 25
weeks) as the jackpot. Check family envelopes for more info. Tickets will be
sold at OLV H & S Functions or contact Ray Bunn (C/O Chris in grade 6.)
TICKET STUBS MUST BE INCLUDED WITH PAYMENT IN ORDER TO BE INCLUDED IN THE
DRAWING!!
Our Lady of Victory Regional School
Home and School General Meeting
October 6, 2009
Opening Prayer: Given by Miss Ciccanti.
Presentation: “Holiday Stress Management” given by the Home and School
Board.
Treasurer’s Report: Given by Ray Bunn.
• Attendance for the Hayride was the best yet – 150 people.
• 61 Families are registered so far for the H&S Association.
• Super 50/50 will start at Bingo and run for 25 weeks ending at the
Night at the Races in April. Drawing will be that night.
• Breakfast with Santa will be in December. Tickets for the Super 50/50
as well as a regular 50/50 will be sold then.
New Business:
• OLV bumper stickers were ordered. They will be in shortly and
available in the office.
• Ray’s Diner cards are also available in the office. OLV receives 10%
of what we spend.
• Family mass dates at each of the Churches are being coordinated.
• Basketball hoop and play equipment are together. Children have been
using them.
• Halloween Bingo is on 10/23/09. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Games start
at 7:00 p.m. Flyers went home requesting donations for the baskets
from the older grades and trinkets for the goody bags from the
younger grades. All those attending are asked to bring a nut free
dessert. There is a meeting on 10/15/09 at 7:00 p.m. for those who
volunteered to help. So far about 80-90 people are coming.
• Santa shop is on 12/1/09 and 12/2/09. Flyers will be sent home.
• Chik-Fil-A and Burger King nights are being set up. Details to follow.
• Next general meeting is 1/12/10. Mr. John Keenan will be presenting
Family communication and relationships along with different learning
styles and what we can do to help our children achieve in school and
in life.
School Report: Given by Miss Ciccanti
• The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is on 10/7/09. There will be a
prayer service outside at 12:45 p.m. weather permitting. If it is raining, it
will be in the school. Possibly the media will be covering this event.
• Every day the students recite a decade of the Rosary after lunch led
by Chris Bunn.
• St. Paul’s Candlelight Rosary Procession is Monday, 10/12/09.
• This year is the Year of the Priest. The faculty is trying to teach
the children more about the saints. They are stressing the saints as role
models and are trying to increase participation at masses on Sundays.
• This year children in grades 6-8 were trained as school ministers.
Students were able to volunteer to be lectors, altar servers, cantors and
sacristans. They were installed at the October first Friday mass.
• Teachers are using differentiated instruction (DI) to teach the
children in order to get them ready for the “real world”. Rather than just
memorizing, the children are asked to problem solve and use skills they will
need when they are in the working world.
• Rigor and Relevance – raising the bar for academics. Our school is
collaborating with other area schools and attending Archdiocesan workshops
for DI/Rigor and Relevance.
• Teachers are doing a good job teaching without workbooks until the
Pennsylvania budget is approved.
• Parent/Teacher conferences are on 10/22/09 and 10/23/09. Progress
reports will be handed out at the conferences.
• Children must complete all assignments. Zero is not an option.
• Fall Pictures are on 10/15/09.
• Each class is being assigned a month to decorate the hall bulletin
board to showcase their class.
• Thank you for participating in the brochure fundraiser. Results not
known yet.
• Student Council has many good ideas. This year teachers selected
Ambassadors from grades 4-8 to assist.
• Archdiocese has a new Marketing and Development program, which Miss
Ciccanti is working on for our school.
• Pre-K is full – 15 students, 9 full day and 6 half day.
• There are 21 children in Kindergarten.
• Enrollment is 173 as of the date of the meeting. In June enrollment
was 177. We need to increase enrollment by 3-4% next year.
• Thank you to Daurne Gilmartin for decorating the outside of the
school by the front door.
• Grades K-3 created the cement stepping stones in art class. They are
located outside the front door.
• Swine flu update
o Stress with children washing hands
o Keep ill children home.
o Children must be home fever free for 48 hours without the use of
Tylenol before coming back to school.
o Miss Ciccanti will let everyone know if there is a confirmed case at
our school.
o Our school is registered as a site for vaccinations. Miss Ciccanti
hasn’t heard anything more yet.
• This week is Fire Prevention Week. The fire company will be coming
for a surprise fire drill.
Closing Prayer: Given by Miss Ciccanti.
2009-2010--OUR LADY OF VICTORY HOME AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS
PRESIDENT Michele Guiliano
610 272 4226
pztvlyhpymom@comcast.net
VICE-PRESIDENT Joanne (Josie) McCabe
SECRETARY Susan Bunn
TREASURER Ray Bunn
WHAT IS HOME AND SCHOOL?
The main goal of Home and School is to help make our children’s school
experience the best it can be by supporting our children, our school, our
teachers and each other.
The Home and School Association has only three general meetings a year.
Guest speakers are often invited to speak on a particular topic, and the Home
and School News and Principal’s reports are presented. Attendance at the
meetings is strongly encouraged in order to keep you informed. Various
fundraisers and socials are held throughout the year, which are very popular.
Home & School helps with Catholic Schools’ Week activities,kicking off our
Open House.
Please join our H & S and show your OLV support. We welcome your suggestions.
For our first 2009-2010 service project, check out the student council link.
