The Borromeo School Bulletin
Note From Dr. Mullenschlader
Mini Vinnie Back Pack Program
One of the pillars of our school is service. This lent is a perfect opportunity to build on this pillar of our mission by partnering with the Mini Vinnies in supporting the Backpack Program. Many families in our community rely on the free or reduced-price school lunch program to help provide nutritious meals for their children during the school week. Some of these families struggle to provide those same meals for their children over the weekend. For these children, Operation Backpack helps fill in the gap, providing backpacks full of nutritious, kid-friendly, non-perishable meals to be eaten over the weekend when resources may be limited. As a school, we’re excited to support the program by becoming Backpack Buddies. For just $25 a month, Backpack Buddies provides a special child with 2 breakfast items, 2 lunch items, 2 servings of fruits and vegetables, and 2 daily snacks each weekend.
Here is the challenge: we want our students to spread the word about the Backpack Program by serving in their community. Contact your grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends to ask them if you can do service for them in exchange for a donation to this program. This means that you are going to wash cars, wash windows, clean up in the yard, or other services to gather donations. Bobcats are also welcome to include their own change and dollars, but please do not have students go door to door. We have an abundance of gifts, and it's time to share them and fill backpacks with food for these children in need.
Our goal is for each class to be a Backpack Buddy to one child for a whole year! By collecting $300, each Borromeo class will be providing their Backpack Buddy with 12 months of weekend meals, helping to alleviate the trauma of food insecurity The Home and School Association has agreed to match up to $100 for each classroom. My hope is to fill the children’s backpacks full of food and their hearts with love and prayers. I encourage you to pray for the children that we are providing for and their families.
New Website is Live
Check out our the new www.borromeoschool.com ! We have been hard at work behind the scenes making a brand new website that is not only user friendly but represents our mission through content. This website will improve our ability to not only communicate, but for families to interact with us. With the new platform, our website will be fully integrated with FACTS and you will have one less place to click to find what you are looking for regarding all things SCB Bobcats!
To those families who have donated books to the library, thank you! The library is coming along but there is still a long way to go!
Please, consider helping build our library collection by purchasing an item from our SCB Library Books Amazon Wish List. Your donation will be greatly appreciated by the students. Simply visit our wish list, pick a book and add them to your own cart to buy. The books will be shipped directly to our school. You can add a note or donate them in secret! Thank you!
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3D2SHKO7MCM9D?ref_=wl_share
Any parent wishing to volunteer or attend parties at St. Charles Borromeo must complete the Archdiocesan Prevent and Protect training (formerly known as Protecting God's Children).
The link is below.