St. Wenceslaus Grade School

April 2010

Dear Parents,

With only four weeks to go before the students get out for summer vacation I cannot help but sit and wonder why does the school year go by so fast?  A simple answer would be that after my recent birthday (47 years old & getting younger) the days in my life are starting to go by faster and faster!  Reflecting back upon the past school year I think of my faith, family, Fr. Townsend, staff, students and our entire Catholic community for reasons why the past year has gone so fast.  Everything that I mentioned are positive strengths that surround me and makes everyday an enjoyable one to get up and look forward to!   One thing that I am most grateful for is to have the opportunity to celebrate Mass with the students & staff on a daily basis.  There are always certain days that we can wake up and not feel so good or for some reason wonder how we are going to get through the day.  Without a doubt by having the opportunity to attend Mass and pray it helps put me in great spiritual and positive state of mind.  We are truly blessed to have enough priests in our Diocese for us to have the opportunity for a daily Mass.  With summer vacation coming up for the students I want to strongly encourage our school parents to continue to do a great job of bringing your children to Mass on a weekly basis!  With all sorts of activities that come with the summertime it is important for the students to keep growing spiritually and the best way to ensure this is by consistently attending Mass on a weekly basis.

Our Spring Concert is coming up on Monday, April 26th at the Bishop Neumann gym.  This will be the final time of the 2009-10 school year that I will be able to enjoy seeing the staff, students, parents and community come together as one.  This will be a great time for all of us to thank each other for the many blessings that the Lord has given us throughout the past school year.  I hope that many of you take this opportunity to thank the staff and each other for being a part of such a special Catholic community!

If you have not heard this already, Mrs. Marlene Jonas will be retiring at the end of this school year.  I want to take this time to thank Marlene for sharing her talents, time and effort!  She has been a teacher for 42 years and served St. Wenceslaus for the last 34 years!  We are very grateful and appreciative for her many years of service to Catholic education!  This also means that we will need to hire another Kindergarten teacher for the 2010-11 school year.  I would like to announce that we have hired Mrs. Lindsey Greenfield to fill this position.

I would like to conclude by wishing each and every one of you a fun and safe summer.  Obviously the children will be happy that they do not have to go to school.  But more importantly it is a great opportunity for parents and their children to spend some quality fun time together.  For all kids this is vital time in their lives that values and morals are being taught to them.  The more time you the parent(s) can spend time with them (social, fun, work, etc) the better chance a child has at succeeding as they grow older.  God Bless each and everyone one of you and I look forward to seeing all of you sometime throughout the summer months!!

Sincerely,

Mike Weiss, Principal