Registration Time for 2012-13!
It's hard to believe, but it's already time to start thinking about the
2012-13 school year. Registration opens to the public in
February. In
recent years, classes have been filling up more quickly, so get your
child's seat reserved as soon as possible. Mrs. Marie Tillis in
the
school office (622-7275, ext. 1 or marie.tillis@stjohnocala.org)
will help you through the process and take good care of you.
Youth Unplugged @ St. John
There is a great new program at St. John for young people who want to
praise God and grow in their faith. It's called Youth Unplugged
and it's every Sunday morning during the Sunday School hour (beginning
at 10:30am). Click here
for more information about this exciting program.
Athletic Booster Volunteers
Are you wondering how you could help St. John? Consider
volunteering for the St. John Athletic Booster Club. Click here to see all the ways you can help out this
great organization.
Help St. John Win a
High-Tech Makeover
Although
St. John has been blessed with technology over the years, technology is
one of those fields where we are always looking to improve.
Campbell
Soup is sponsoring a contest that could award a total technology
makeover for you and your school. Click here
to enter each day through December 31, 2011 for a chance to win $45,000
worth of computers, smart boards, and more for both you and St. John.
Sports Physicals
All St. John student-athletes must have an official FHSAA Parent Constent Form & Physical
Exam
Form on file in the Athletic Office. Sports
physicals must have been performed within the last 12 months to be
considered valid. Parent Consent & Physical Exam Forms are
available in the School Office or you can click on those links to
download the forms. Completed forms should be turned in to
Mr. Rehkop in the Athletic Office before students begin practicing
with a team.
Check Out the St.
John Blog
St. John has it's very own blog. Check it out by going to http://saintsblueandgold.blogspot.org.
Collecting
Campbell's UPC's
for St. John
St.
John continues to collect Campbell soup labels. In past years,
Campbell soup labels have provided St. John with projectors, listening
centers with headphones, playground equipment, and much more.
Click here to see a list of products that are part of
the Campbell Soup family. If
you
click on the following links you can download collection sheets that
you can use for 1-point, 5-point, and 10-point labels:
1-point
UPC collection sheet
5-point
UPC collection sheet
10-point
UPC collection sheet
Turn in the completed sheets or individual labels to your student's
homeroom teacher.
St. John Summer
Programs A Success!!
This summer was another successful one for our St. John Summer
Programs. Even though school is not in session over the summer,
St. John is definitely not a quiet, sleepy campus during June and July.
Between summer athletic camps (including basketball, volleyball,
soccer, cheerleading), summer workouts, VBS, drivers' education, and
summer day camp, there was so much activity on campus this summer it
seemed like school never let out. Thanks to all the teachers,
coaches, and volunteers who once again made each of these summer
programs available to the St. John family. And we wish them good
luck as many of them already planning their programs for Summer 2012!
Help St. John by
Doing Your Shopping Through Scrip
The Scrip Program allows money to be sent to St. John every time you
shop at your favorite store or eat at your favorite restaurant.
You just need to purchase Scrip certificates by downloading the
Scrip Order Form by clicking here.
Just print it out, select the certificates you'd like to receive,
and turn it in along with your check to the Business Office. You
can use your certificates at the indicated stores like cash and a
portion of the proceeds is received by the St. John PTL and put towards
enhancing our classrooms and our educational programs. Please
consider using this program
for all of your shopping and dining.
Sunday Radio Programs Sponsored by St. John
Each Sunday morning you can tune into two great radio shows sponsored
by St. John: "This Is The Day" at 7:00am and "Lift High The Cross" at 7:30am. Both of these great shows
can be found on WMFQ - 92.9 FM.
NLSA & SACS Renew St. John's
Accreditation
Congratulations to everyone at St. John who worked so hard over the
past year on the massive project of renewing our accreditation.
Over the summer, we were notified by both of our accreditation
agencies (the National
Lutheran Schools Accreditation and the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools)
that our accreditation had been renewed. St. John's accreditation to be
renewed. We are now officially accredited by both organizations
through the year 2015.
Student Aid Application
If you wish to apply for financial aid for your student, please click here
to download the PSAS form. It's an interactive PDF which allows
you to type your information into the various fields and then print it out and return it to the
Business Office. If you have trouble printing, click here for some pointers.
Go to
Sonic Every Monday
Monday nights are "St. John Nights" at Sonic. If you go to an
Ocala/Belleview area Sonic on any Monday night, save your receipt and
turn it in to your child's homeroom teacher. Sonic will donate a
portion of every receipt turned in from a Monday night to St. John's
educational programs. You get a great meal and you're supporting
a great school!
St. John Graduate
in Costa Rica
Tom Ranieri (class of '99) is living in Costa Rica and helps set up
family vacations down there. His services have been highly recommended
from several independent sources. So, if you ever thought about
visiting this beautiful country, check out his website, http://costaricanresource.com/,
for more information.
Your Online
Shopping Can Benefit St. John
Check out www.yellowbrickmall.com/stjohnocala.php
and shop with any of the hundreds of online retailers on that site and
a portion of every purchase you make will be donated to St. John. For
those of you familiar with SCRIP, this is like an online version of
that program. So shop away & thanks for your support!
Family Times
Go to www.enjoyfamilytimes.com
to check out the website of our local Ocala/Marion County magazine, Family
Times. This publication promotes the institution of family in our
community. There are many great resources for families on this site.
A Great Resource on
the Web
Check out the Lutheran Hour Ministries website at www.lhm.org
for all sorts of resources including games that kids will enjoy in the JC PlayZone
and great stuff for parents in the JC ParentZone.
Safe Driving Course
The Marion County Sheriff's Office is offering a Teen Safe Driving
Course for ages 15-19. Call Lt. Bob Campbell at 369-6766 or go to the
Marion County Sheriff's website (www.marionso.org) for
more
information.
Saints Network
Before you make a purchase or shop for something, click here
first to see if there is a business you can use that belongs to a St.
John family. Many of these businesses offer a special discount to St.
John members. If you are part of the St. John family and have a
business that you'd like to have included in the Saints Network
Directory, check out the submission request form on page 28.
New Principal
Arrives at St. John!
We are excited to welcome our new principal for the 2010-11 school
year, Jeff Knutson. Mr. Knutson comes to St. John from
Orlando Lutheran Academy. His wife, Francesca, will also be
joining the St. John family this fall. She will be teaching 4th
grade after gaining rave reviews as an elementary teacher at St. Luke's
Lutheran School in Oviedo for many years. Mr. & Mrs. Knutson
have two sons: one who just graduated from Orlando Lutheran
Academy and is attending West Point Military Academy and one who will
be joining the 11th grade class here at St. John. Please feel
free to stop by the school and welcome this great new family to Ocala
and our ministry here at St. John.
"Willy Wonka" is
Another Success for Saints On Stage
Once again, our Saints On Stage drama team presented an outstanding
spring production. After last year's musical success, Annie, the team decided to produce
another musical this year: Willy
Wonka. Once again Susan Ergle and Kim Sandstrom-Hawksey
are co-directing with Rebecca Schaffer as musical director. Along
with the outstanding efforts of both students and parents, they
produced an outstanding performance!
Pandemic
Flu
Readiness
St. John is committed to the safety and health of our students and
families. In light of this commitment, we issued a set of "parent flu
fact sheets" at our Orientation to help our families understand their
role in preventing the spread of flu and dealing with a pandemic,
should that occur. You can click here to
download those fact sheets. There is also a video addressing the issues
raised by the possibility of an agressive pandemic flu outbreak that
would be helpful to our families. You can view that video by clicking here.
Please remember that the purpose of sharing this information is not to
frighten, but to simply prepare for the possible scenarios.
St.
John Lutheran Church & School is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS)
which is headquartered in St. Louis.
For more information on what the LCMS believes & teaches, click here.
The LCMS is divided into geographic districts and St. John is a member
of the Florida-Georgia
District
which is headquartered in Orlando.
Contact
us: tim.schmidt@stjohnocala.org
