Dear Lord God,

awaken us,

that we may be ready

when your dear Son comes,

that we may receive him with joy

and serve you with pure hearts;

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

We need updated immunization records for each child enrolled. Please drop off a copy in the office or scan and email to Ms. Ladao at dladao@stgeorgeschoolstockton.org. Thank you all!

Join us for a special mass honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe on Friday, December 8. We will have a small celebration after mass. Please send flowers with your child for Our Lady - doesn't have to be fancy!

Hope you can join us! (Is anyone going to the procession on Sunday?)

Student Council is having a $2 Free Dress Fundraiser next Wednesday. The money will be used to pay for snacks at the Winter Dance.

Student Council is hosting a dance for all students from 11:30 until 12:30pm on Wednesday, December 11. This is an early dismissal day. You can pick up your child from the Large Hall between 12pm - 12:30pm. The aftercare program begins at 12:30pm.

The Christmas Boutique on December 14 is right before our BINGO event and on the same weekend as our Children's Mass. The students will lead Christmas carols and we may even have a special visitor from the North Pole arriving around 3pm. Bring the family and invite your friends! Stay for Bingo!

The annual St. George Parish School Crab Feed Dinner and Dance will be on February 15. TICKETS are NOW on SALE!

Families are expected to sell 4 tickets each. However, if you know someone needs more than 4 tickets, please encourage them to purchase online so that they can sit together at the same table. Our school families will have paper tickets to sell.

The link to purchase tickets is on our school website and below. Even though we are selling SOME tickets online, we still depend on our families to sell 4 tickets each. Please turn in your ticket sale money as soon as its collected (we will provide tickets soon).

Here is the link to purchase tickets online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/st-george-parish-school-crab-feed-tickets-82644944253

Having a dedicated space to study and complete homework is a good habit to develop in our students. We have extra students desks for sale for $10. If you are interested in taking home a beautiful student desk in good condition (worn but not broken), please call the office. We have too many in storage!

This year, all families are asked to create an online profile for FACTS. All of your payment history and payments credited will be posted there. We will no longer issue monthly statements for each family. If you need a report for the end of the year, you can print your own from FACTS.

If you are having trouble paying early in the month, we can adjust your payment date to another day in the SAME month. We need three business days to make changes to your account.

In December, the application for SEEDS will be available through FACTS. We encourage everyone to apply. Please gather your tax information for 2018 (not 2019). More information coming soon.

In February, we will open up the application for next year and begin collecting registration fees. For next year, the only way to enroll or pay tuition is through FACTS (credit card or bank account). Payments will not be collected in our school office.

Why did we switch to FACTS?

1) I felt uncomfortable collecting so much money through our office. It became a concern for our safety.

2) Our accounting records were affected. With the previous system, your cash/checks passed through six different people between our school and church staff - too many! By using FACTS, there are fewer chances of error and our families control the information. Our families can login and view their payment history. Our families can make payments online even when the office is closed.

3) Our school is absorbing the cost of using FACTS. You pay nothing extra except....

*If your payment doesn't go through, you receive an insufficient fund fee that is paid to FACTS (we don't see that money- it stays with FACTS)

**If you use a credit card to pay tuition, you will be charged a credit card fee EACH time. You can avoid these fees by using a bank account instead of a credit card.