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December 9, 2020 Happy Feast Day of St. Juan Diego! I am sending this week’s letter early, so you can think about next week’s learning model and plan for this Friday, if necessary. Pre & Post Christmas Break Model Considerations If students want to learn at home the week before break, they should take their distance learning materials home with […]

December 4, 2020 Happy Advent Falcons! I hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving! Please click here for a Thanksgiving Letter from Susan Gibbons, the Director of Educational Services and Superintendent for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. At-Home Learners currently represent 35% of our student body. Snow Days will continue as they have in the past and we will not live-stream on […]

November 19, 2020 Hello Falcon Faithful! Currently, approximately 50% of our student body is learning at home. Tuesday was a monumental effort and was only successful because we have amazing students, parents, faculty, and staff. Really, it was a tremendous team effort. Thank you! I am sending my weekly letter a day earlier this week because this next item may […]

November 13, 2020 Hello Falcons Families!COVID-19: The school needs to be informed of all cases and potential cases of COVID-19 as soon as possible, so we can act on that information and minimize spread. If your student is at home sick with COVID symptoms, please let us know symptom specifics when you call the office that morning. If your student is […]

November 6, 2020 Hello Falcons Families! USDA Free Lunch Program for All Students:St. Christopher School is now participating in the schoolwide USDA federally funded free lunch program through the end of the school year 2021. Starting this Monday, all students, regardless of income, may receive a free lunch through the end of May 2021. The program is retroactive, so those […]

October 30, 2020 Hello Falcons Families! Well, we made it through 10 weeks without a positive case. As one parent said, “we had a good run.” Indeed, we did have a good run. Our first positive COVID-19 test result arrived at 2:00 PM on Wednesday. By 2:30 PM, we had all close contacts identified and prepared for a two-week quarantine, […]

October 28, 2020 Hello Falcons, St. Christopher School has been notified there has been a positive case of COVID-19 reported in a student or staff member, and we are working closely with Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County to ensure the proper steps are being taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 within our school population. ***This is a […]

October 23, 2020 Hello Falcons Families! Water Bottle Fillers: we now have two water bottle filling stations thanks to a generous donor! Water fountain bubblers are still disconnected, so please send your student to school with a refillable water bottle. COVID-19 Guidelines New Definition of Close Contact: The CDC changed its definition of a close contact on October 21. A close contact […]

October 18, 2020 Hello Falcon Faithful! I hope you are having a blessed weekend. No school news today, just a weekend reflection. Yesterday, I was praying about this past week at school, and all of its ups and downs. As the ups rose to the top and the downs faded away, I felt an incredible sense of peace and gratitude […]

October 16, 2020 Hello Falcons! Remote-Learning Policy Update First and foremost, thank you for your patience as we all learn what is working well and not so well. When students switch from the in-class learning model to the at-home learning model, it creates a disruption in learning for all parties involved…sometimes small, but sometimes significant. For those reasons, we need […]