Hello ACS Families,
Here are your Updates for the week ending on Friday, November 20, 2020.
What’s Happening?
November 23, Monday: $1 Free Dress for 8th Grade Grand Canyon Trip. Thank you for your generosity. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Students must adhere to school uniform policy for non-uniform dress.
November 24, Tuesday: Annual Thanksgiving Feast. An ACS Family is providing lunch for students and staff with all the trimmings! We are very blessed! Lunch includes turkey, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, string beans and dessert. Blue Willo catering lunch has been cancelled. If your student prefers something else, please pack a lunch from home. Due to Covid restrictions, staff will be serving the feast. We still need our scheduled lunch duty volunteers to help with clean up and recess supervision.
November 25, Wedenesday: 8:15 a.m. Mass for K-3. Noon dismissal. No Lunch service. No aftercare available.
November 26 & 27 Thursday & Friday: Thanksgiving break. No school. 9 a.m. Thanksgiving Mass at St. Gabriel – Happy Thanksgiving!
November 30, Monday: Community Prayer led by the 6th grade class at 8:10 a.m.
December 4, Friday will be the start of the annual Pajama drive. Please pick up all sizes of pajamas for boys, girls, moms or dads. There will be a collection box in the K3 and the middle school buildings.
December 4, Friday: Noon Dismissal. No lunch service. Teacher’s In Service. Please email office@acsphx.org if you will need aftercare.
December 6, Sunday: Due to COVID restrictions on singing and size of gatherings, we will not have a school Christmas Concert on Dec. 16. However, the parish and school are planning a St. Nicholas Advent Celebration, drive-in style. Save the date! Please see the attached flyer.
ACS Volunteers: We appreciate all of our ACS volunteers.
If you have ever been involved in a construction project, this won’t come as a surprise. We have learned that our target date of Dec. 4 for the Certificate of Occupancy has been moved to Dec. 18. The construction team is very confident that this date is firm. That means Saturday, Dec. 19 will be our first moving day instead of our last.
We have removed Dec. 5 and 12 from the Mobile Serve sign up page and added Monday, Dec. 21 and Tuesday, Dec. 22. We are hoping that some parents will be at home and available during that time. Remember, no students, please, except for 8th graders. We are also reaching out to our ACS alumni who are in high school and college. We are hoping to add many of them to our volunteer roster for the three moving days.
Please go to https://mobileserve.com/ to volunteer. Many hands make light work!
- Complete your Safe Environment Training with CMGconnect. Renewal SET curriculum is 2020-2021 Online Renewal. Returning volunteers, your username format is firstname.lastname.dop. The initial foundation class for first time volunteers is also online this year; curriculum is 2020-2021 Initial Foundation. Your safe environment training must be complete prior to volunteering on campus.
- We are using Mobileserve (new this year) to track all volunteer hours. Parents please create an account. Instructions are attached.
- Lunch duty-November has open slots. Please sign up for Lunch Duty via Mobile Serve. Thank you for your assistance.
- View and join the volunteer opportunities that are available. Thank you for being part of the ACS Community.
Our Lady of Joy Preschool is opening a new preschool class in January 2021 for three-year old’s. This class is held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9:00 – 2:15 p.m. We focus on social skills, creative play, age appropriate academics and a solid faith formation program. To learn more about our program, please call the preschool office at 480-595-6409 and visit www.oloj.org/preschool. Thank you for supporting OLOJ Preschool!
Campus Update: Exterior fence is painted. Parking lot paint is finished. School entry gates are being worked on. Forms are laid for sidewalks near new parking lot going towards the school main entry gate. The court was painted!
