St. Philip the Apostle School

Principal Notes

3/29/2021

Dear Parents,

The most important day of our Catholic faith is Easter Sunday. The promise of Jesus’s resurrection and our eternal life, essential to our faith, brings me great comfort and peace. I wish you all a beautiful Easter. May your faith bring you peace and strength.  

Our plan for after Easter will be emailed to you later this week. Basically, the goal is to bring the classes back together to finish out the school year as one class with their teacher. Look for the email with details on how we will accomplish this to come out by Thursday.

If you are traveling by plane or going to a crowded spot where you will not be able to be socially distanced over Easter break, let us know so that we can have your children be on remote learning for the quarantine period. Even though some protocols have been relaxed we still need to be careful here to do all we can to keep Covid infections off of campus.

Enjoy the time with your children.

Happy Easter,

Jennifer

A Message from our School Board President

Did you know St. Philip the Apostle School has a Strategic Plan? Every six years in conjunction with our school accreditation renewal process, a group of parents, teachers and administrators gathers to create a Strategic Plan. Three years ago, this group of 20 people, led by professional strategic planner (who donated all of her time), spent nearly 50 hours refining the school’s mission statement and philosophy and created long-term strategic goals focused on five different areas.
 
SPA School’s Strategic Goals:
1. We will develop and implement a plan to create long-term financial stability and eliminate our reliance on current-use fundraising.
2. We will develop and implement a master communications plan for internal and external audiences.
3. We will develop and implement a facilities use, maintenance, and expansion plan.
4. We will competitively compensate and support our faculty and staff.
5. We will maintain and expand our excellent curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular programs.

Each one of these goals is broken down into annual action steps which serve as a road map to accomplish the goal. It is the job of one or more school board committees to work on these action steps. For example, the Finance, Endowments and Advancement committees are responsible for working on Goal 1.  These three committees where instrumental in the creation of the Father Joe Fund, a first step toward building our endowment.
 
Several times a year, the school board’s Policy and Planning committee reviews the progress of each goal.  The chair of the committee responsible for the goal provides Policy and Planning committee with a status update on each of the action item and suggest any necessary changes. All of this is done to ensure we stay on plan.

This is a high-level overview of our school’s Strategic Plan. If you are interested in learning more about the Strategic Plan, email me your questions at SaraAlexanderVanis@gmail.com. If you want to join a school board committee to work on one of the goals above, please email our Board Affairs Chair Tara Martin at spasboardaffairs@gmail.com.

Red Tie Bash 2021

Join us for our first ever Red Tie Bash VIRTUAL Dinner and Comedy Show!  Our event will take place on Saturday, March 27, 2021.

CLICK HERE for our event page where you can get all the details and tickets!

CLICK HERE to become a sponsor and support St. Philip the Apostle School!

Thank you and we cannot wait to see you at the RTB 2021.

Take a Look at Our School!

We know during these socially distanced times it can be a bit difficult to stop by and visit us in person. So we made this video for you to see the wonderful things we are doing!