DIOCESE OF WICHITA

2012 ST. PHILIPPINE DUCHESNE

OUTSTANDING NEW TEACHER AWARD

From Morgan Clark Award

From 2012-01-31 Magdalen School Students

Magdalen Catholic School was honored Tuesday morning with a presentation from our Superintendent, Bob Voboril, as a 2012 Banner School! It takes a wonderful community like ours working together to achieve title of a Diocesan Banner School! In addition to being a faith-filled environment, incredible student achievements, diligence with reports, and a highly qualified staff, the most important pieces come together when certain core values are exemplified. We are so proud that by working together, we exemplify these values of faithfulness, respect, community, parish stewardship, courage, and scholarship. Thank you parents, students, faculty and staff, parishioners, and our wonderful community for your part in recognition of this fabulous honor!

Thank you to those of you that have a Target debit card or a Target RED card and have designated Magdalen as your school.  We received our check this week for $994.92.  This is up from $871 in 2010 and $325 in 2009.  With the money received this year, we are purchasing 2 iPads for our preschool classrooms.

For more information about this program, go to the PTO page on our website:  http://www.magdalenwichita.com/parent-teacher-organization/home.

We appreciate your support of our school in this way!

Attendance

Punctual attendance is an act of responsible stewardship by parents and students for their parish’s gift of Catholic education.

Parents are to be reminded that the compulsory education law of Kansas requires students between the ages of 7 and 18 to be in school.  Being absent for such reasons as vacations, sporting events, school activities where the student is not a participant, shopping, babysitting, or travel is not acceptable, and parents should not ask for their children to be excused for such reasons.

The school shall take attendance daily and maintain a record of all absences and tardiness.  Parents should contact the school prior to an absence or tardy and request that their child be excused that day.  The school, however, retains the right to determine which absences and tardiness will be excused, which will not, and appropriate consequences for unexcused absences.  The school should try to determine the reason for any absence on the day of the absence, and keep a record of attendance until the close of the school year.  When a tardy or absence is determined to be unexcused, less than full credit shall be awarded for make-up work.  When a student has missed more than five sessions of any class in a semester, the student may be required to make up work after school, on Saturdays, or in an approved summer school program before credit is awarded.  Every school is to have a policy for making up time lost due to tardies.

When a high school student has missed more than ten sessions of any period in a semester, the school will withhold credit.  Schools that operate on a block schedule may adjust these requirements with diocesan approval.

When an elementary or middle school student has missed ten sessions of any class in a semester or twenty sessions of any class in a year, the school will require the time to be made up, at parent cost, in a program approved by the school, and may retain the student in the same grade if lack of progress so indicates.

There are students whose chronic health condition or other education need makes regular attendance difficult.  Such needs are to be substantiated in a Health Plan or Learning Plan, and the attendance requirement may be adjusted accordingly.

TARDY POLICY - NEW FOR K-4

• • • 5-8 has always been 5 tardies in a quarter equals a morning detention
    • As stated in the diocesan policy on attendance we are required to have a policy for making up time lost due to tardies
      • K-4
        • after 5 tardies in a quarter,  a letter will be sent home
        • If they reach 8 tardies, they will serve a morning detention and will continue in increments of 5.

This is a reminder that all volunteers in Catholic Schools must attend VIRTUS training.  This includes any parent who will have any interaction with a child in a Catholic school.  For example, this would include parents who would like to volunteer to drive on a field trip or any parent who plans to work in a high school or grade school concession stand.  There are many opportunities for Virtus training, please contact your parish coordinator or go to www.virtus.org and click on “Registration”  to find available training dates.