Dear Parents,
The first quarter of the year is over! It’s been eventful and busy, full of great experiences, learning, and growth.
Halloween Fashion Show
This upcoming Friday, October 25th, will be our annual Halloween Event! Students are encouraged to bring costumes to school and will be allowed to change into them after 1:00 PM on Friday afternoon. The show itself will begin at 2:30. Parents are welcome to come to help their students prepare and to participate in the festivities.
Our classes will be grouped together into three groups: Pre-K – K2, Grades 1 – 3, and finally, Grades 4 – 6, and one student in each grade will be recognized for their costume!
Dominican School Car Passes
Car Passes are here! Each family will receive one car pass, which will be placed in the passenger side (right side) window for security and identification purposes. When you come to pick up your pass, please give the office the license plate number on the vehicle that will hold the pass. We need this information for our records.
Families may purchase additional passes for 150 NT each. Passes can be picked up at the office from Ms. Lee. If you cannot pick up the pass yourself, you may send a signed note to school with your student. Students will not be allowed to take passes home without a signed note, but please understand that passes that are lost on the way home will be the student’s responsibility.
Each pass will have a space for the school year and the license plate number. Please write your license plate number on the slip below and return it to the office so we can fill that information in for you.
Parents can begin picking up their passes on Thursday, October 24th and we will start using them on November 1st.
New Tardy Policy
We are instituting a new Tardy Policy here at Dominican. Students who arrive at school after morning prayers have begun (8:30 AM) will come directly to the office to get a note. Students will take this note to their Homeroom teacher. Three Tardy Slips will result in one absence.
Community Development
Our Community Development activity this year will take place on November 8th. Our school will be splitting up into three groups.
Grades 1-3 will be visiting a home for the elderly. After our visit, we will meet up with Kindergarten at the Our Lady of China church to have lunch. At this time, Father Anthony Mai will teach our students a little bit about our parish.
After lunch, the kindergarten will return to school and Grades 1-3 will use the rest of their school day helping to clean the church.
Grades 4-6 will be visiting the St. Teresa Opportunity Center in Tainan. We will tour the grounds and will be given the opportunity to interact with some of the children in the home. Our students will also present the donations we gather to the school and the children.
Students will be required to wear their PE uniforms to school. We need students to be wearing the normal PE shirt, not a Sports Day shirt.
Donations
The St. Teresa Opportunity Center helps children in need, as does a local orphanage, Girl’s Town, in Sandimen, and it is our duty as a member of this community to help where we can.
We would like to ask our students and our parents to help these organizations by either donating money or donating toys. If your student has toys that they no longer play with, we know some children who would love to have them.
If you decide to donate money to the organizations, please contact Ms. Lee in the office.
