Parents!

fingerprint

 All volunteers must be fingerprinted and go through a Safe Environment meeting. Fingerprinting must be done once and Safe Enviornment trainings need to be completed every year.

 Meetings for the Safe Enviornment trainings will be on September 22 and October 13 at 6PM. If you are planning on working in the class or going on any of our field trips YOU MUST BE FINGERPRINTED AND HAVE GONE THROUGH THE TRAINING. NO EXCEPTIONS!! No other dates are scheduled for this training.  This is for the safety of our students.  Please contact the office at 209-722-7496 if you have any questions.

Videos for Follies Divine in 2009 will be on sale very soon in the school office for a donation of $20. 

In addtion, pictures will soon be available for viewing and purchase from the following websites:

• NFLShooter.com  (Lisa Coelho)
• FossPhotography.com (Eric Foss)

Please support them as they support us.

If you feel like you missed an opportunity to be involved, look forward to Follies Heaven in 2011!

Thanks,  Sabra Abbate & Mary Camper, Co-chairs

UPDATE: The time for this event has been changed.  See below.

Open enrollment for Our Lady of Mercy School will begin on April 1 at the school, 1400 E. 27th St. An open house for interested families will be held on May 4 during the school day and afternoon from 9AM -6 PM. For more information, call  209-722-7496 .

Podcast: Play in new window

Our Relay for Life team is raising money to help fight cancer as they walk for this important cause.  To earn money, we are raffling off some valuable prizes on April 24.  Listen to this advertisement the Spring 2009 Podcasting Elective class made to help out.

Registration for the 2009-2010 school year is going on now! CLICK HERE to get more information, including tuition schedules for the coming year.

Returning Students –  Registration Begins March 6, 2009

New Students –  Registration Begins April 1, 2009

Some classes may be subject to wait lists due to impacted enrollment so get your registration  in early.

We love our school

OLM is seeking testimonials from parents, grandparents and others in our school family to put on our website to help market the school.  We appreciate the commitment you all are making to provide your child with a Catholic education.  Please add a comment to this post with a BRIEF statement about why you send your child to OLM.  Recommend our school to others. YOU are our best marketing tool. Thank you for your time.

Note: Be sure to not reveal any private identity information about your child in the process. You may include the grade level of your child but not the name.  Inclusion of your name is optional but last names will be replaced by last initials.  Comments will not show up immediately.  They will be sent to us for moderation first.

Due to reliability problems with our web host, we have moved our website to a new host. Most content items are as they were. Others still need to be tweeked. Please bear with us in the transition period.

Thank you for your patience.  We had an issue with our website host provider that took down the site for a time.  Obviously, this has been resolved.  The Fundraising page will be updated shortly to refect changes in the Cash For Class Program and other fundraisers that were up to date before the outage but were not able to be recovered.  My appologies for any inconvenience.

by Ben F.

September 1:

It was the best we have ever done against Livingston, through the rough efforts and one HUGE goal James B. scored with the help of many teammates.  All of our games will be on Tues.  or Thurs. so ask a soccer or volleyball player if it is home or away and then come on down.

All of our teachers have blogs. They are listed in the sidebar and are available for you and your children to see news and assignments pertaining to their class. They will be updated regularly. We encourage you to read them from time to time. If you use an RSS reader, like Google Reader or Bloglines, you can even subscribe to them and be updated as soon as new posts are published.

Here’s how one video producer describes the process.

The Tech Savvy Marketer explains how to subscribe to a blog

For more information, here’s a good series of short videos explaining what RSS is and how to use Bloglines.

Here’s the first is a series. Click on the video when it’s done to see more.

How to Use Bloglines