Weekly Newsletter

Christmas break is December 20-January 1. School will dismiss at the regular time on Thursday, December 19. Classes resume Thursday, January 2. The school offices will be closed for the Christmas break.

Waterloo Schools buses will. not run on the following dates in January: Thursday the 2nd, Friday the 3rd, and Friday the 17th. The Bosco bus with run as normal on those days.

SBO Magazine has released their 25th annual list of "50 Music Teachers Who Make a Difference." Guess who was chosen for the state of Iowa? We are proud of you, Myron Mikita! Congratulations and thank you for all you do for our students!

Visit K-8 and/or 9-12 on January 17. We are now enrolling for the fall.

Please tell your friends who may be interested in kindergarten or any other grade! Sign up is required with our easy online form.

Tuition Tax Credit

If you would like tuition payments to be credited to the 2024 calendar year for tax purposes, please drop payments off to the high school office by the end of the school day December 18. If you are mailing a payment it must be postmarked by December 31.

ABC Tax Credit

Be sure all ABC payments are paid in full by the end of the school day on December 18. If you are mailing a payment it must be postmarked by December 31.

Our recent SchoolMessenger test highlighted some areas we need to improve.

To ensure you receive important school notifications:

1. Text "Yes" to 67587 from your mobile phone, if you wish to receive texts.
2. Log in to PowerSchool and verify:
• Your cell phone number
• Your email address
• Contact 1 and Contact 2 are parents/guardians

The Archdiocese of Dubuque is conducting a survey of all parishioners. Catholic School Administrators are being asked to send a communication to parents about the importance of completing the DMI survey. In particular, the DMI has a couple of specific questions for parents who enroll their children in Catholic Schools. If you have not received the letter and links to the survey from your parish(es), reach out to parish leadership to inquire about them. Each parish has a different link.

Looking forward to more exciting art projects, the art department is in need of several flat white sheets --the bigger the better. We will also need Christmas ornaments and decorations to repurpose into a sculpture art project. If you happen to break an ornament or are getting rid of others, please bring them into the high school office. Thank you in advance for your donations.

Ms. Carolus

Our school-wide WIG (Wildly Important Goal) is to increase reading scores by reading more books. Our 2nd quarter goal is to read 1250 books by Jan. 10. We are getting so close! We need to cover the rest of the yellow "books" with blue "books" and then we will have our goal. Keep reading!

Monday was a great way to start off the last week before Christmas break by visiting the St. Vincent de Paul Outreach Center in Waterloo. Seeing the set up of their Christmas program made our service learning experience that much more exciting! Monday was the first day of the program and we learned that they provided Christmas gifts for 37 families! The program will be open the remainder of the week. It will be exciting to hear how many families they assist by Friday! We learned that each family can choose 3 gifts, 1 book, and 1 stuffed animal for each of their children. It was fun to find some of the toys we had collected too among the tables! Even though our service learning project is now complete, it will be fun to reminisce on the remainder of the year and talk about the joy we felt helping others!

-Mrs. Monaghan

Don't forget you are invited to the Leader Valley Gala to help support the organization's amazing work to develop tomorrow's leaders today. Be there to cheer for Mrs. Bergfeld when they announce her as THE Leader Valley Educator of the Year. What an honor for our teacher and our school!

All proceeds will be matched! Bosco Catholic School System is excited to have joined forces with Leader Valley this year for implementation and coaching for the Leader in Me.

Fourth Sunday of Advent is December 22.

Bosco Catholic School System is thankful for the supporting parishes and communities we work with and live in. Visit the parish links for Reconciliation and Adoration times.

Parish Mass Times

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Sat 4 PM, Sun 8 & 10 AM, M-W-F 7:45 AM

ST JOSEPH

Sat 5:30 PM, Tue 6 PM, Thur 8 AM

ST ATHANASIUS

Sat 5 PM, Sun 8:30 AM, Tue 5:30 PM, Thur 8:30 AM, Fri 8 AM

ST FRANCIS-BARCLAY

Sun 10:30 AM, Wed 8 AM

ST MARY OF MT CARMEL

Sun 8 AM

18 – Preschool Christmas Concert - SMC Gym (6 PM)

19 – Middle School Caroling

20 – Professional Development (No School)

23-31 – Christmas Break - Offices Closed

January 2– Classes Resume

MISSION STATEMENT

With support from families, we respect and encourage students to reach their potential

• Spiritually by developing a strong relationship with Jesus and knowledge of His church,
• Academically by igniting learning, leadership and life skills,
• Physically by learning about and living healthy habits and
• Socially by becoming active members of the community who serve others as stewards of the Gospel so they are the light of Christ in the world.

Preparing students to be the Light of Christ in the World!

Submit newsletter articles to icsjnewsletter@boscocatholic.org by 3 PM on Wednesdays.

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Mailing Address: P.O. Box 256, Gilbertville, IA 50634

Don Bosco High School

405 16th Ave

Gilbertville, Iowa 50634

319-296-1092

dbhssecretary@boscocatholi.org

Immaculate Conception K-8

311 16th Ave

Gilbertville, Iowa 50634

319-296-1089

icsecretary@boscocatholic.org

St Joseph Center PS/PK

6916 Lafayette Rd

Raymond, Iowa 50667

319-233-5980