NEW! Father-Daughter Dance Thank You - What a wonderful night we had at the Father-Daughter Dance! Many thanks to all those who made it a success with prep work, decorations, and night of help…Susanna Gagnon, Missy Richardson, Jenn Squillace, Stephanie Ellison, Justice Ellison, Lisa Censabella, Caroline Belt, Kevin Belt, Francesca Liberatore, Ms. Nott, and Mrs. Lowry.
NEW! Trivia Night Thank You - Our grade 5 to 8 Trivia Nights continue to grow! Last Friday saw 60 students in attendance for a fun night and friendly competition. Congratulations to the Lawn Chairs for another victory! Thank you to Ms. Nott and Mrs. Lowry for coordinating the evening and to Annie Wong, Amy Siemanowicz, Katie Osborn, and Sarah Diggins for their help!
NEW! Hannaford Helps Schools Thank You - Hannaford Helps Schools recently let us know that we will be receiving $389.04 as part of their Fall rewards program. Thank you to all those who participated!
NEW! Upper Campus Teacher Room Thank You - The upper campus teachers would like to thank the Sydow family for their donation of a small ice maker for the teachers’ room!
NEW! Upper Campus Honor Roll - Congratulations to our upper campus scholars who achieved Honor Roll for the 1st quarter! Please view the list of students HERE!
NEW! Re-enrollment Reminder - Don’t forget to re-enroll for the 2025-2026 school year! All students must be enrolled by January 15 in order to guarantee a seat for the next school year. Early re-enrollment helps the school with planning and budgeting for the upcoming year. The enrollment packet can be found in the Family Portal of the “primary” parent under Enrollment/Reenrollment. Thank you for your prompt attention to this!
TOMORROW! November Early Release - Tomorrow, Thursday, November 21st, is an Early Release day for Parent-Teacher Conferences. Upper campus students will be released at 11:30 AM and lower campus students will be released at 12:00 PM. There will be NO After Care on either campus as teachers will be conducting Parent-Teacher Conferences. Note: PreK students are released at 11:40 AM and Kindergarten students are released at 11:50 AM.
TOMORROW! Lower Campus Parent-Teacher Conferences - Parent-teacher conferences at the lower campus are scheduled for TOMORROW, Thursday, November 21 from 12:45 - 8:00 PM. Conference sign-up's were done in most classrooms on Parent Information Night in September. If not, you will hear from your teacher shortly. At least one parent/guardian must meet with each child's homeroom teacher at the lower campus at this time.
TOMORROW! Upper Campus Parent-Teacher Conferences - Upper campus parent-teacher conferences will take place for TOMORROW Thursday, November 21, from 12:20 - 7:40 PM, in the upper campus gym. All meetings will be 10 minutes in length and MUST be pre-scheduled using the Sign-Up Genius HERE (click the tabs across the top to view each teacher’s conference schedule as well as a waitlist for teachers whose conferences are full.) Parents are encouraged to review their student's schedule and prioritize meeting with teachers whose class is challenging a student most. Parents are not required to attend or to speak with all of a student's teachers.
NEW! Lower Campus Lost and Found - Our lower campus lost and found overfloweth! We will be setting everything out on display in the lobby for conferences tomorrow. Please check it out! After Thursday, any school logoed items that are left will be added to the used uniform closet and everything else will be donated to either Goodwill or the Grey Nuns Thrift Shop.
NEXT WEEK! Thanksgiving Vacation - In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, we will have NO SCHOOL from Wednesday, November 27th through Friday, November 29!
NEW! 5th Grade Parent Meeting - 5th grade parents are invited to attend Making Middle School Meaningful: An Introduction to the Upper Campus on Wednesday, December 4 at 6:30 PM in the gym at the upper campus. This program is for 5th grade parents only and will introduce all that the upper campus has to offer 6th grade students next year. (Please note that this evening is intended for parents only. Students will have their own introduction to the upper campus on Step-Up Day on the morning of Wednesday, February 5.) For more information, 5th grade parents should refer to the email they received last week or contact Lorrice Bedard at [email protected].
NEW! Progress Reports - Progress Reports for the second quarter of the school year will be emailed to all parents on Tuesday, November 26.
Pajama Drive to benefit The Pass Along Project – We are happy to be participating in a Pajama Drive for The Pass Along Project again this year! The Pass Along Project collects and distributes clothing bundles to children who enter the foster system. We will be collecting pajamas for these children who often arrive at a foster home with nothing. Please click HERE for specific instructions! Families on both campuses are urged to participate until December 13!
Upper Campus Car Riders - As a reminder….at the end of the day NO students who are car riders should be going out with walkers to be picked up on Columbia Ave. Car riders should be picked up on Bartlett Avenue, in front of the school, only. Columbia Ave. is reserved for bus student pickup ONLY. We appreciate your cooperation with this as we work to keep our students safe at all times.
Lower Campus After Care - Mr. Soucy would like to remind parents that ALL After Care students go outside every day for an extended period of time as long as the temperature is above 35° and it is not raining….therefore, students should bring appropriate warm clothes!
SCRIP for Christmas! – Did you know that you can purchase gift cards to most popular retailers and restaurants quickly and easily online through the Shop with Scrip Program…AND benefit Saint Chris at the same time? Click HERE, select “Join a Program,” and create an account using our school code 751C7D6L13155. Gift cards are available from a long list of retailers and restaurants and all gift cards will be shipped directly to the school. You’ll usually receive your gift cards in under a week, and the school receives anywhere from 1.25% to 14% of your gift card purchase! Christmas is a perfect time to give the program a try, with gift card options like Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks, Target, and Barnes and Noble! SCRIP also has an app for your phone that makes ordering and managing gift cards soooo easy! Check out RaiseRight by ShopWithScrip!
UPCOMING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Monthly Food Collection - Mr. Spidaliere’s class has decided to do a monthly food collection for the Corpus Christi Food Pantry. All families are welcome to donate! Students may drop donations in the 3S classroom at any time.
December Activities - We have a busy month of Christmas events coming up in December, so be sure to mark your calendar now! More details to follow on every event, but here’s the dates:
- Tuesday, December 3: PreK to grade 2 Christmas Concert at 9:30 AM in the church hall
- Friday, December 6: Christmas Tree Lighting at 6:00 PM at the lower campus (No After Care that day)
- Wednesday, December 11: Christmas Concert for grades 3 to 8 at 7:00 PM in the gym.
- Friday, December 13: Upper campus Snowflake Dance
- Wednesday, December 18: Upper campus Lessons and Carols at 9:45 AM in the gym.
- Wednesday, December 18: Lower campus Prayer Service at 1:45 PM in the church.
- Thursday, December 19: Christmas Free Dress and lower campus Christmas Crafternoon
- Friday, December 20: PJ/Polar Express Day on both campuses
- December 21 - January 5: Christmas Vacation!
Christmas Tree Lighting and Blessing of the Bambellini: Gather the whole family for our Christmas Tree Lighting on Friday, December 6 at 6:00 PM in front of the lower campus building! This event is a beautiful tradition in the Saint Chris community and includes the blessing and lighting of our school Christmas tree, the story of the promise of the Messiah and the birth of Jesus told in short bible readings, and the singing of traditional Christmas carols. Families are also invited to bring their bambellini…the baby Jesus from their home nativity…for a special blessing….just like at the Vatican! All are invited!
Upcoming School Masses - All parents are invited to attend our school masses! Parents must enter through the front door of each campus facility, sign in, and receive a nametag to attend. All upper campus masses are at 9:45 AM and lower campus masses will be at 1:45 PM unless otherwise noted. The schedule for the next month is:
- December 5 - Upper campus CANCELED!
- December 9 - Lower campus Immaculate Conception Mass @ 9:45 AM
- December 9 - Upper campus Immaculate Conception Mass @ 9:45
- December 18 - Upper campus Lessons and Carols @ 9:45
- December 18 - Lower campus prayer service @ 1:45
Student Programs and Activities
NEW! Cheerleading for Grades 5 to 8 - Gooooo Wildcats!! Grade 5 to 8 students are invited to join our upper campus cheerleading squad! The squad will cheer at select JV and Varsity Basketball games throughout the winter. Practice times and dates to be determined as soon as the squad has been created. If your child would like to join the squad, please sign him or her HERE. If the squad is full, please use the waitlist!
Lower Campus Library News - Mrs. Noon has lots of great information to share!
Birthday Books - It's Birthday Book time for lower campus! If your student's birthday falls between September - December they received a birthday book flyer this week. Students whose birthdays are after January will receive their flyer in January. It is a great way to commemorate your child's birthday, and the book they choose will be shared with others for many years to come! Books typically cost between $14-$21 and are typically library bound. If you have more than one student, please consider ordering books for all of them at once even if they haven't received their flyer yet. Feel free to have your student order a book anytime. You can find more information HERE. If you have any questions please email Mrs. Noon at [email protected].
DEADLINE APPROACHING SOON! Ski Club - Registration for this year’s Ski Club is now underway! The Saint Chris Ski Club is a fun opportunity to learn how to ski or snowboard through Crotched Mountain. It is a 6 week program beginning Friday, January 10th. Students depart school about 2:45 pm to arrive at the mountain for a 4:00 pm lesson. Lessons run an hour long after which students are welcome to enjoy dinner in the lodge and ski the rest of the evening. Buses depart, heading back to school, at 8:00 pm sharp. For more information, please email Mrs. Beauregard at [email protected].
$408 is the cost for lift tickets, lessons, and rentals for all 6 weeks. There are also a la cart options for lift, rentals and lessons so you can get only what you need. There will be a separate charge for the bus which will be posted once we get a final head count. NOTE: Only students in grades 3-8 are permitted to ride the bus. Our younger students are welcome to join Ski Club but must be accompanied by a parent and will need to have transportation to and from the mountain.
IMPORTANT: All students must be registered for Ski Club using the form HERE by December 1st!
Chess, Checkers & Cribbage Club! New members are ALWAYS welcome to the Chess, Checkers, and Cribbage Club. To view the schedule for upcoming meetings, please click HERE!
UPPER CAMPUS UPDATE: Due to low student interest, we will not be providing Chess, Checkers, and Cribbage Club for the upper campus at the moment. If there is interest in the future, we will start it up again. Please contact Carol Fiore, [email protected] with any questions.
Parent Volunteers
NEW! Auction Decoration Meeting - Do you love planning for a big party?! We do too and we’ld love to have you join our Auction Decorations Committee for a meeting TONIGHT, September 20 at 7:30 PM in the upper campus conference room! We’ll be talking all things decorations for our “March Madness: Get in the Game for Saint Chris” Auction coming up on March 22, 2025.
Parish Appreciation Christmas Cookies -- Tis almost the season of giving! Please help us share our Christmas joy with the pastors and parish staffs of our Deanery! Bake your favorite Christmas goodies (or bring your favorite Christmas candy!) and deliver them to the front desk on either campus on Monday, December 9th by 9:00 AM. We will use everyone's delicious treats to create giving plates of cookies and candies for delivery to each of the parishes in our Deanery in appreciation of their support of Catholic schools. Please sign up using the SignUp Genius HERE and thank you for your contribution to this wonderful project!
Parish Christmas Cookies Delivery - We also need parent volunteers to deliver the cookie plates to the parishes on the morning of Tuesday, December 10! Please see the SignUp Genius HERE!
NEW! Hot Lunch Volunteer Schedule - Thank you to our fabulous Hot Lunch volunteers! The schedule for the next week is:
Thursday, November 21
LC: No Lunch - Early Release
UC: No Lunch - Early Release
Friday, November 22
LC: Natalie Boldeia, Jenna Richardson, Amanda DeWitt
UC: Nadra Bell
Monday, November 25
LC: Rugi Mercier, Renee Gabree
UC: Rocio Spencer, Ann Marie Pellechia
Tuesday, November 26
LC: Dorene Krauss, Melanie Marcu
UC: Nadra Bell, Luci Foppa
Wednesday, November 27
LC: No School - Thanksgiving Break
UC: No School - Thanksgiving Break
NEW! Popcorn - Thank you to this week’s popcorn poppers:
Lower Campus: Tarrah Ledoux, Diane Perault, Jeanine Kilgallen
Upper Campus: Andrea Rugg, Louis Cardinale
ST. CHRISTOPHER PARISH NEWS
St. Christopher’s Moms & Minis – Meet with other moms for hot coffee, light treats and conversation in the church hall. Our minis get to play while we chat and grow in faith and fellowship! We meet every 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 9 - 10:30 AM during the school year, with play dates throughout the summer. For additional information call or text Alex Sullivan at 603-479-4554.
NEW! Thanksgiving Mass - St. Christopher Parish will hold a Thanksgiving mass on Thursday, November 28 at 8:30 AM. What a wonderful opportunity to give thanks to the Lord for all of his gifts this year!
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY NEWS
NEW! St. John Neumann Parish Babysitting Fundraiser - St. John Neumann Parish in Merrimack will be holding a Babysitting Fundraiser THIS Saturday, November 23rd from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM. What a great opportunity for parents to get out and get some holiday shopping finished!
COMMUNITY NEWS
Happy Hearts Day Care - Happy Hearts Day Care, located across the street from the lower campus at 12 Cushing Ave, has one opening for before and after care. The hours are 6:30 to 8:30 AM and 3:00 to 5:30 PM. We accommodate on snow days, two hour delays, early release, no school days (except for the major holidays) and even if there is a power outage. They also provide care on the Christmas, February and April vacation weeks. If interested, please call Linda at 603-321-9320.