April 1, 2019

Dear Parents/Guardians:

Please join us as we celebrate First Friday Mass this week, April 5 ^th at 8:30 AM.  We will celebrate trimester awards for those who have been selected by their teachers in Recognition of their continuous hard work in the areas of Effort and Witness to Christ. 

Thank you to those who generously supported the food drive for the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The food from St. Dorothy School was brought to Catholic Social Services in Chester.

Our last Home and School Meeting will take place Tuesday, April 9 ^th at 7:00 PM in the gym. Our guest speaker will be District Attorney Katayoun Copeland who will give a short presentation discussing children and the effects of vaping. Elections for next year’s board will also take place on this night.  Please come out to hear this important timely topic for our young children and elect next year’s board members to your Home and School.

Living Stations, to commemorate our Lord’s last day, will be performed by our eighth graders on Monday, April 15, 2019 at 1:15 PM and 7:00 PM. Please come join us as we replicate this most holy day in the life of Jesus.

The students have been practicing diligently to entertain you with this year’s school show, Shrek Jr. Please look to the weekly emails from Home and School for fund raising opportunities to support this event. We welcome you to show your support most importantly by bringing your family to be entertained by St. Dorothy students during the performances on Friday, and Saturday, April 26 ^th and 27 ^th at 7:00 PM and Sunday’s performance  at 2:00 PM.  

Our students will represent St. Dorothy at some upcoming events this month which include Showcase of Excellence at Cardinal O’Hara, STEM leadership day, regional Science Fair, Forensics events, Reading Olympics and more. Thank you to parents who encourage and support these extracurricular activities, but also to the students who bring honor to our school name by their respectful participation. Good luck in all your activities!

Grandparent’s/Special Person’s Day for our Pre School -4 ^th graders will take place Thursday May 2, 2019 at 8:45 AM. We welcome grandparents to join their little ones for some songs and refreshments.

Saturday, May 4, 2019 our second graders will meet our Lord in the sacrament of Holy Eucharist. Please join me in praying for these little ones as they continue with the second sacrament of Initiation into the church.

March Madness dress down will take place tomorrow, April 2^nd. Students may choose a team in the final four to dress in their colors. The donations for this dress down will support a Guatemalan water project. Mrs. Porth, our Spanish teacher, has supplemented her lessons with teaching the students about this project in Guatemala. She asked a St. Dorothy graduate, Matthew Fohner, to speak and share with students on this engineering project he is a part. The students learned much about Guatemala and shared this information this morning with all the student body. Matthew will be returning to Guatemala in May to work on this engineering water project. Another part of the dress down day proceeds will support an end of day idea Miss O’Donnell has for Spirit Day. Thank you for supporting these events.

I am glad to announce that we are not in need of making up any snow days; therefore the remaining calendar days planned will remain as they are. We had enough days built into our schedule due to using some late arrivals instead of closing.  Thank you for doing your best to get your children here on those late opening days.

Live Giving Witness to Christ.

Karen Tomasetti
Principal