Back-to-School Edition
Please take time to carefully review these Head of School Notes.

Welcome Back Picnic: The Welcome Back Picnic is scheduled for this Thursday evening,
August 21 beginning at 6:00. Please plan to attend as this is a great time for you to meet school
families!

New Family Orientation: Prior to our Welcome Back Picnic we will have our New Family
Orientation which will begin at 5:15 p.m. This is a great opportunity for our new families to get
to know each other as well as learn more about the day-to-day activities of the school. Childcare
will be provided.

Fundraising Auction: This year Covenant School will need to raise more than $100,000 in order
to balance our budget. While we recognize that school tuition is expensive, it does not cover the
full cost of educating our Covenant School students. So, for the second time in the history of our
school we will be conducting a fundraising dinner and auction. Our previous effort in early 2007
raised more than $30,000 for the school.
The event will be held at the Frontenac Hilton the evening of Friday, February 28 so mark your
calendars now
In order to make the dinner and auction a real success we will need plenty of folks willing to
volunteer their time to help in organizing along with seeking donations for the auction.
There will be folks at the picnic who can answer any questions you might have along with a
signup sheet. If you cannot attend the picnic, please contact Russ or Heather Nolting at
314-439-8100 or hjnolting@aol.com.

Summer Improvements: A number of improvements to the school’s facility and equipment took
place over the summer and will continue into the fall.
• A new phone system was installed and teachers will be trained in using the system this week.
This new phone system will have three lines and voicemail for each of our staff members so
that you may leave confidential messages. In addition, teachers will each have a phone in
their rooms improving school security.
• New art space has been created including dedicated space for our art program and new
(wonderful) tables and stools. In addition, a new sink was put in place for cleanup and
storage has been improved.
• Computers have been purchased for both faculty and students. The new computers will
strengthen our curriculum while also improving communication between faculty and parents.
New student computers will be here in September (when the new Macbook is released) and
will enable keyboarding (4th through 6th grade) to be taught along with research and
presentation skills.
• The floors in the hallways have been stripped and waxed and the hallways have been painted.
The school’s hallways look “fresh”! In addition, several of our classrooms received a fresh
coat of paint and others will be painted as the school year goes along.
• New bulletin boards have been purchased for the hallways. Each classroom will have a
dedicated hallway board and new boards will be put in place for art display. These boards
are scheduled to be delivered this week and hopefully most will be in place before school
begins. Some of the boards are custom sized which caused delay in their delivery.
• New library shelving is being custom built and will be installed in September. We will be
looking to paint the library in September so if you are interested in helping please contact
Laurabeth.
• The Head of School office has moved to a larger space. This enables me to visit with folks in
a more comfortable environment and to clear out my “old” church office of all my books,
files, etc

Memorization: A memorization schedule for the school will be distributed to our students
shortly after the start of school. However, if you want to get you student(s) started, as a school
during the first week (and ongoing) we will be memorizing Galatians 5:22-23a:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-
control.
These will be our theme verses for the coming year and nearly all that we do in chapel will come
from God’s desire that we bear the fruit of our faith in Christ.

Student Information Sheet: Each of you should have received a student information sheet in July
which needed to reviewed and returned to the school office. While we have received most of
these back not all have been returned. If you have not returned it please take time to carefully
review the sheet (or sheets) and update any information as necessary. In particular, please take
time to provide us with updated emergency contact information as well as current immunization
records. You may do this by simply writing on the sheet and dropping it by the school office or
mailing it back to the school at the address at the bottom of this Notes, by emailing updated
information to our Administrative Assistant, Laurabeth Medlock, at lmedlock@cpcstl.org, or by
calling Laurabeth at the school. Please take time to do this as soon as possible! If you need
another copy of the sheet we will be happy to provide you with one. Simply contact Laurabeth.

Summer Reading: Just a reminder that children in grades Second through Sixth have a summer
reading assignment as shown below:
• Second Grade: Any book in the Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne.
• Third Grade: Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
• Fourth Grade: The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
• Fifth and Sixth Grades: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien.
If you would like a copy of the book just let us know and we will pass one along to you or you
can use your own copy.

If you have any questions regarding the contents of this Notes (or anything else) please feel free to contact Laurabeth or me at the school at 314-787-1036 or at lmedlock@cpcstl.org or
jroberts@cpcstl.org.
Thanks and God Bless,
John Roberts
Head of School

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