Loyola Weekly Roar

February 7: Hearing Screening for K, 2nd, 5th and SDC Students

February 8: Loyola Auction

February 17-21: Winter Break (NO SCHOOL)

February 28: STEM EXPO

Dear Loyola Families,

Happy Lunar New year! 2025 is the year of the Snake in the Lunar calendar and if you are looking for some ways to celebrate you can google “Lunar New Year celebrations in the Bay area.” There are many virtual and local live events to choose from for the rest of the month. Here are some other informational links to get you started:

• It’s Lunar New Year! from Time for Kids

• Top 10 things to know about Lunar New Year from National Geographic

• Lunar New Year 2025 from History.com

I am looking forward to seeing many of you this Saturday night at the Mardi Gras Themed Loyola Auction. Grab your tickets now! You won't want to pay more at the door! Check out our online silent auction catalog full of items ready to be bid on starting Sunday! There will also be the Live Auction items that are only available at the Auction on Saturday, Feb 8th!

Finally, tomorrow, Feb 7th, is the last day for students to sign up for the STEM EXPO. Please go to tinyurl.com/StemExpoLASD to sign up and learn more about the EXPO! Students can get their trifold boards in the office. Thank you to Mira Sharma and the 6th graders who helped promote the EXPO this week.

Hope you have a wonderful Thursday!

Be Kind, Be Strong, Be Well and Make Kindness Normal,

Kelly Rafferty

Hearing screening will be done at Loyola for all Kindergarten, 2nd, 5th grades on February 7th. If your child has a known hearing loss please notify the Health Services Staff (lasdnurses@lasdschools.org) before the day of the screening. The district nurses will mail a referral form and contact parents of students who do not pass hearing screening.

What are you doing this Saturday, February 8? We hope that we will see you at the LOYOLA ANNUAL AUCTION - MARDI GRAS, where you can meet new parent friends, toast with old friends, dance the night away, bid on some amazing live auction items – all while raising money for Loyola! Discounted tickets are on sale until Friday, so get yours now before prices go up! If you like to make decisions last minute, no worries…tickets will be sold at the door too!

See you all on Saturday, February 8 at the Los Altos Golf & Country Club!

Christine Corbett & Marvin Peña

Your Loyola PTA Presidents

loyolaptapresidents@gmail.com

With sincere thanks and gratitude, we recognize our Honor Roll of Realty 2025 sponsors who’ve contributed almost $119,000 this school year to support public education in the Los Altos School District (LASD) and Mountain View-Los Altos High School District (MVLA) by partnering with their respective foundations — the Los Altos Educational Foundation (LAEF) and the MVLA High School Foundation. Find out which realtors are supporting our schools this year.

We still need to raise $215K to fund our schools this year.

If you have yet to give this year, donate to LAEF today and help support teachers and essential programs at your student’s school, and submit for a corporate match if it’s available to you. Gifts of any amount are appreciated and make a difference.

• Each student may utilize a maximum of 15 ISP days per school year
• All requests for ISP must be received and approved by the school office at least ONE full school day prior to the first expected date of absence

• Be sure you and your student are ready to do 3 hours of work per day so you get credit for each day of the ISP.

• Work MUST be completed during the absence and returned to school on the due date
• Parent to initiate the ISP. Please use this link: https://app.informedk12.com/docs/128894?campaign_id=155096&ie_fix_copy_from_form_request_id=&recipient_id=29908189&subject_id=25034479&token=enerkAu1xZM7mBiwnqPnTx21