Program Information
Time: Sundays (8:30-10:30am includes 9:30am Mass) Location: SMM School Building (Unless otherwise noted on class schedule below) PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Melissa Ellis COMMUNICATION FOLDER COLOR: Red TEACHING TOUCHING SAFETY: The job of ensuring children’s safety is a challenging undertaking. The prevention of child sexual abuse requires we give our children the tools they need to overcome the advances of someone who intends to do them harm. The Teaching Touching Safety program (TTS) is designed to assist parents and teachers in this important task. Saturday Faith Formation students will receive lessons 3 & 4 of this training on: October 4, 2015 @ 8:30-9:30am in Hegarty Hall PARENT FORMATION: As part of our movement towards Whole Community Catechists, St. Margaret Mary RE has implemented a parent component for all of our youth faith formation programs. What does this mean? Now, instead of just your children receiving faith formation, you, too, will meet with other parents and share faith, grow in knowledge of church traditions and values and, most importantly, foster community. The parent faith formation requirement is simple--Attendance at any 5 events (See Parent Formation Page for More Information). Two events will be offered during the students classes on: November 22, 2015 - Advent Family Retreat @ 8am in Hegarty Hall. February 21, 2016 - Lenten Family Retreat @ 8am in Hegarty Hall. ARRIVAL / DISMISSAL: Children should arrive no more than 10 minutes before class begins. No child should enter the classroom unless the teacher is present. No students will be allowed in after 8:35am. Children must be WALKED to their designated classroom in the SMM School building. Parents must sign their child into their classroom. NO DROP-OFFS. For pick up parents must parK and pick-up their children from the designated classroom, sign them out and head to mass. Children not picked up by 9:30 will be taken to Mass by the teachers and will be sitting in the first two pews by the baptism font. NO EXCEPTIONS! CLASS TYPES FR (1st Reconciliation Year) - 1st Year Students Grades 1-6 FRC (1st Reconciliation & Communion Year) - 2nd Year 2nd Grade or Transfer FC (1st Communion Year) - 2nd Year Students Grades 3-6 CE (Continuing Education) - Grades 2-6 SACRAMENT PARENT MEETINGS: 1st Reconciliation Parent Meeting (FRC) Monday, November 2, 2015 - Hegarty Hall (7-8pm) or Sunday, November 8, 2015—St. Joseph Hall (8:30-9:30am) 1st Holy Communion Parent Meeting (FC & FRC) Monday, February 1, 2016 - Hegarty Hall (7-8pm) or Sunday, February 7, 2016—St. Joseph Hall (8:30-9:30am) 1st Reconciliation Parent Meeting (FR) Monday, February 29, 2016 - Hegarty Hall (7-8pm) or Sunday, March 6, 2016—St. Joseph Hall (8:30-9:30am) We ask our parents to attend mandatory parent meetings to help prepare our youth for the sacraments of Reconciliation and 1st Holy Communion. These meetings will be offered twice per sacrament. A $10 fee will be charged to those parents that require a third meeting date. Monthly Newsletters
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Class ScheduleSeptember
20 First Class & Parent Orientation—Hegarty Hall 27 Class October 4 Teaching Touching Safety—Hegarty Hall 11 Class 18 Class 25 Class November 1 Class 2 (Mon) 1st Reconciliation Parent Meeting (FRC) Hegarty Hall (7-8pm) 8 Class Reconciliation Makeup Parent Meeting (FRC) St. Joseph (8:30-9:30am) 15 Class 22 Family Advent Retreat - Hegarty Hall 29 No Class - Thanksgiving December 6 Class 13 Class 20 Class 27 No Class - Christmas Holiday January 3 No Class - Christmas Holiday 10 Class 17 No Class (MLK Holiday) 24 Class 31 No Class (SMM School Open House) February 1 (Mon) 1st Holy Communion Parent Meeting (FRC & FC) - Hegarty Hall (7-8pm) 7 Class 1st Holy Communion Parent Meeting (FRC & FC) - St. Joseph (8:30-9:30am) 14 No Class (Presidents Holiday) 21 Family Lenten Retreat - Hegarty Hall 28 No Class (RE Congress) 29 (Mon) 1st Rec Parent Meeting (FR) Hegarty Hall (7-8pm) March 6 Class 1st Rec Parent Meeting (FR) St. Joseph (8:30-9:30am) 13 Class 20 Class 27 NO CLASS - Easter April 3 Class 10 Class 17 Class 24 Class (FR & CE) 1st Communion Retreat (FRC & FC) Hegarty Hall (8-10:30am) May 1 1st Reconciliation Retreat (FR) Hegarty Hall (9-10:30am) Sunday RE Documents2014-15 Faith Formation Parent Booklet
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