Dear Parents,
You are invited to attend the Trimester Two Presentation of Learning on Thursday, Feb. 27th. Please note that it is on a Thursday this time, because we do not have school on Friday, Feb. 28th, as it is a professional development day for all teachers in the Archdiocese of Denver. Below is the schedule for presentations this time. As always, we ask that you come and stay for the whole time, rather than leaving after your child presents. It is very disheartening for the students who present later to have people leave before they present. Doors will open 15 minutes before the presentations begin. We hope you can join us!
First Presentation 9:30am-10:30 am Second Presentation 1:30-2:45pm
PK3 Ihnen K Lobato
PK4 Faulkner 1st McDonough
PK4 Perez 2nd Smith
K Estrada 3rd Scalzi
1st Medoza 4th Vasquez
2nd Richthammer 5th Olipane
3rd MacGregor 6th Calo
4th Larry 6th Smith
5th Schoeninger 7th Miller
8th Gesicki
It’s time for the Frassati Catholic Academy Read-A-Thon!
Our school Read-A-Thon begins on Monday March 10, 2025, and is sure to be a fun and exciting event.
We understand that your time is valuable. We also know that providing the best education for your child is important. That’s why we are encouraging everyone to activate their student’s Read-A-Thon account as soon as possible. The instructions are straightforward, making it quick and hassle-free, and it should take less than 5 minutes of your time.
Watch a short video to see how to sign up your reader:
https://youtu.be/12tmuXH8zCg
This account will serve as a hub for recording and monitoring your child’s progress as a Reader in the event, and for you to share their Read-A-Thon message with friends and family. Use the link below to activate your student’s Reader account:
https://www.read-a-thon.com/
Thank you so much for your participation and support. Together, we can make this Read-A-Thon an amazing experience for our young readers! Thank you,
Frassati Catholic Academy
Dear Families,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Yes, it is still the Christmas season! The Christmas season doesn’t officially end until this Sunday when we celebrate the baptism of Jesus. Attached please find the family newsletter. This is an incredibly busy time of year, so it contains a lot of important information. Also attached you will find several items that connect with things in the newsletter. Finally, don’t forget to complete your enrollment for next school year to save $100 on your enrollment fee and reserve the spot for your child!
Blessings,
Eileen Michalczyk, President
Hello Frassati Families,
I hope you are home, warm, and safe! Below is a schedule of our activities for Catholic Schools Week. Please take a look so that your child and family may participate fully in this fun and festive week! Please note that for most of our days in this week there will be a homework question that your child should come home to discuss with you. This is how we want to engage families in what happens in school this week, so we ask that you please try to make time to chat with your children about these homework questions. It is not required that you send in a written response to the teacher for these questions, but rather that these help bring your family together in a discussion of your child’s day.
Dates: Sunday, Jan. 26th – Saturday, Feb. 1st
Theme: Catholic Schools: United in Faith and Community
Sunday, Jan. 26th: Celebrating Your Parish – Focus on Beauty For this day we want to invite the students to wear their mass uniforms to their own parish. Parents can take their children’s picture either at the altar or with the priest and the parent can email the picture to the child’s classroom teacher. If you take a picture with more than one of your children in it together, please email the picture to the teacher for each child. There is one point given per picture, no matter whether it is with a priest or not. The classes with the highest percentage of students sending in pictures by Wednesday of CSW will earn the spirit sticks. This is also the day of our open house, so we hope you engage with some families at your parish and invite them to come check out Frassati from 11:30-2:00 on this day!
Monday, Jan. 27th: Celebrating Your Community – Focus on Goodness For this day we want to show school pride by having a spirt-wear day for all. A spirit-wear day is when the students wear a Frassati shirt (one of our polos or another shirt from Frassati sports, Fox Trot, etc.) with a pair of jeans or school pants. This is not a free dress day when they choose to wear whatever they want. Then we also want to celebrate Frassati’s history by sharing with the students details of how the school was founded, why Frassati was chosen as our patron, etc. Teachers will share this information with their students during the school day. Homework question for the day: What do you love about your school? If parents are able to share these responses via email with your child’s teacher or with Mrs. Michalczyk, we will share out these responses throughout the week and beyond.
Tuesday, Jan. 28th: Celebrating Your Students – Focus on Truth We will let the students celebrate the day by dressing up as a favorite literary character. Please work with your child to choose an appropriate character from a story to dress as for this day. Each class will also choose a Bible story and decorate their door on this day to represent their Bible story. No titles of stories will be put on the doors, but rather classes can try to guess which Bible story is represented on the doors. Photos will be taken of each door and put on our social media. Go to our Frassati Facebook or Instagram page to vote for your favorite door! By Friday, the photos with the most likes will be given the spirit sticks on Monday, and we will reveal the names of the Bible stories. Homework question for the day: What Bible story did your class show on their door today?
Wednesday, Jan. 29th: Celebrating the Nation – Focus on Piety Students may wear red, white, and blue today. We will be doing a living rosary today to pray for our nation. Each class will choose 3 students (7th and 8th grade will each need 4 students) to represent rosary beads. Students representing the beads in each decade will be given a paper with the name of one of the fifty states on it. As we are praying the Hail Mary, we will be praying for that state. The whole school will join us in the gym for the living rosary. Homework question for the day – Tell your parents about the living rosary.
Thursday, Jan. 30th: Celebrating Vocations – Focus on Listening for God’s Call in our Lives Students will be in regular uniform on this day. We will be praying a prayer on this day to ask God to help us know our vocation, along with having a discussion with students about being open to God’s call in their lives. We will also be discussing the primary vocations of marriage and religious life. Homework question for today – Pray the vocations prayer with your parents this evening. Here is the prayer: Lord, my God and my loving Father, you have made me to know you, to love you, to serve you, and thereby to find and to fulfill my deepest longings. I know that you are in all things, and that every path can lead me to you. But of them all, there is one especially by which you want me to come to you. Since I will do what you want of me, I pray that you send your Holy Spirit to me: into my mind, to show me what you want of me; into my heart, to give me the determination to do it, and to do it with all my love, with all my mind, and with all of my strength right to the end. Jesus, I trust in you. Amen
Friday, Jan. 31st: Celebrating Faculty and Staff – Focus on self-gift PAC will organize a staff lunch for this day to celebrate our faculty and staff. If you would like to donate items for this lunch, here is the link to the Sign-up Genius: PAC: Teacher Lunch- Catholic Schools Week- Friday, January 31st Mass intention for the day will be for faculty and staff. Teachers get a jeans day, but students are in regular uniform on this day. Homework question for today – What do you love about your teacher? We are hoping parents will share these responses with the teachers!
Saturday, Feb. 1st: Celebrating Families – Focus on the First School of Love Next week we will be emailing families a small packet of easy and fun games and activities to do as a family. We are hoping that you will take advantage of this weekend day to spend some quality time together as a family. No homework question for today, other than to enjoy each other!
Optional activities for the week: Picture study – The ICLE packet of Catholic Schools Week ideas is attached to this email. There is an optional picture study each day included in the packet. You are welcome to do this picture study as a family each night if you would like! There is also a recommendation of a saint for each day in the packet. Your family might enjoy discussing these saints each night as well.
Again, we hope you enjoy celebrating Catholic education and our school during this week. Without you, Frassati Catholic Academy wouldn’t exist, so THANK YOU for being part of our community!
Blessings,
Eileen Michalczyk, President
Support our mission on Colorado Gives Day!
Hello Frassati Community,
I shared with you last week my conversation with one Frassati family about whether or not a Frassati education is “worth it.” Meaning, is it worth the tuition, the fundraisers, the debt repayment. And their answer was a resounding YES!
If your email is like mine, today you received a number of emails from worthy non-profits asking you to donate to their mission on Colorado Gives Day. Yes, this email is doing the same. BUT, we are asking you to do more than just invest in our mission. We are asking you to invest in PEOPLE. What we do at Frassati is more than just a mission – it is the formation of human persons who are entrusted to you and to us as a gift from God. It is our mission to help form them into the people whom God is calling them to be. This is a humbling task, and one that we take very seriously. So, when we ask you to consider investing in our mission, it is a request we ask you to take to prayer.
Your tuition dollars cover salaries and benefits for our amazing faculty and staff. But the rest of the school expenses are covered through fundraising, donations, and grants. You have an opportunity to help us bridge this gap and to have a year-end tax write-off for yourself or your business! Today is Colorado Gives Day. This is a day to consider how you can make an impact on a non-profit’s mission, and we ask that you prayerfully consider Frassati as a non-profit that can benefit from your donation. Your donation on this day can help us to purchase needed curriculum materials for our classrooms. Our science lab is in need of new glassware and other items for experiments. Our music room is in need of keyboards for our middle school students to begin to learn piano. And our other classrooms are in need of many other items throughout the year to make your child’s education meaningful and interactive. Your donation to Frassati Catholic Academy on Colorado Gives Day can assist with these purchases.
Giving to Frassati is easy. Just go to Support Frassati Catholic Academy – Frassati Catholic Academy and you can put in your information to give. Though we are requesting donations for Colorado Gives Day, this link is to the donation page on our website, so you can make your donation at any time. We ask that you share this link with others you know, especially with people who own a business, as this is a great opportunity to make a year-end gift to help with your taxes, all while making a difference to our students.
Thank you for your continued support of our little school. We love serving your children, and we love the families who are part of our community. Thank you for prayerfully considering a year-end gift. If you cannot give now, there will be another giving opportunity in the spring.
Blessings,
Eileen Michalczyk, President
Hello Families,
Attached please find the newsletter and lots of other information for you to review. Enjoy your long weekend, and please pray for the teachers who will be here doing professional development tomorrow.
Blessings,
Eileen Michalczyk, President
Many thanks,
Mr. Luke Gion
Music Teacher
Frassati Catholic Academy | Thornton, CO
We have a small change in our drop off time for the 2024-25 school year. Drop off will now be from 7:40-7:50 a.m. School will start at 7:50 a.m. Please make sure you have your child at school by 7:50 a.m. daily.
We are excited to announce that students in grades 5-8 will be attending mass four days per week this year! They will attend mass Tuesday through Friday. This beautiful shift is what prompted the slight change to a 7:50 a.m. start time. By making this small shift in the start time, no learning time is lost and the students are able to have mass four days per week. Students in grades 2-4 will attend mass on Tuesdays and Fridays. Students in grades PK3-1st grade will attend mass on Fridays. Pre-K students are not required to wear a mass uniform. Students in grades K-8 are required to wear mass uniforms on Fridays only.
If you have not yet gotten your school uniforms, you will want to do so right away! Attached you will find the flyer for Dennis Uniforms. Your best bet to find items in stock is to go to the store rather than ordering online. We are also having one more used unform sale here at the school on Wednesday, July 31st, from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Families interested in shopping for items may come anytime in that time frame to see what is available. Please bring cash, though many of the sellers may accept credit cards or Venmo. Families wishing to sell uniforms need to bring your own table, change for cash or a way to accept electronic payments, and pricing for all uniform pieces you are selling. You sell it, and you keep the money from your sales. You must man your own table. The school building will not be open during the sale, so there will not be restroom access. If you have any questions, please email Stephanie Pino at stephaniepino04@gmail.com. Finally, the Facebook Marketplace for Frassati uniforms is also available. https://www.facebook.com/
Morning Drop Off Procedures Revised 8/20/24
Please follow the following procedures for morning drop off each day:
1. If you are parking and walking your child up to the door, you MUST ONLY enter from
the red gate on Garfield Street. You MUST ONLY exit through the parking lot of the
church to the west of Frassati.
2. If you are going through the hug and go car line, you MUST ONLY enter through the east
driveway entrance for Frassati off of Cottonwood Lakes Blvd. You MUST ONLY exit
through the west driveway of Frassati off of Cottonwood Lakes Blvd.
3. All cars exiting through Frassati’s west driveway (cars coming from car line) may ONLY
TURN RIGHT onto Cottonwood Lakes Blvd. from our driveway. Left hand turns will
not be permitted as they back up traffic and cause car line to run late.
4. All cars that park and walk students up to the door will be directed through the
neighboring church’s parking lot to exit. You MAY NOT exit through the red gates on
Garfield Street.
Thank you for giving us two weeks to get these procedures down. If you are able to volunteer to
help direct traffic one or more mornings a week, please click on this link:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4AA9AB2DABFDC43-50434973-morning
Our afternoon pick up procedures and locations will remain the same as they were last year. Pre-K parents will need to go to the classroom door to pick up their child. Students in grades K-3 will line up outside on the blacktop next to the playground and parents will meet them there for pick up. Students in grades 4-5 will line up in the courtyard by door 12 (near the office) to be picked up. Students in grades 6-8 will line up in the courtyard by door 10 (south east corner of the building) to be picked up. Pick up time is from 3:00-3:15. All parents must park, either in the parking lot or the u-shaped driveway, and exit the vehicle to pick up your child. You cannot wait in the car to have your child come to you. There will be NO PARKING on the left side of the u-shaped driveway.
Cell Phone Policy – Students are not allowed to have cell phones on campus, even in their
backpacks or lockers. If your child has a special case (such as going to a different house after
school) and you need him/her to have a cell phone that day, then the parent must turn in the cell
phone to the office first thing in the morning, and the parent must pick up the cell phone from the
office after school. If a student is caught with a cell phone during school, the phone will be
confiscated and returned only to the parent.
Medications – Students are not permitted to carry any medications themselves, even cough
drops. Students who have an inhaler, epi pen, or other meds must have signed forms in the office
and the medication must be kept in the office. If a student is caught with medication during the
day, the medication will be confiscated and only returned to the parent.
Jewelry – Students are allowed to wear ONE simple religious necklace. No other necklaces are
allowed. Students are allowed to wear ONE simple bracelet. Girls are allowed to wear one set
of earrings, and the earrings may not dangle below the earlobe.
When you sign the back page of the handbook, you will notice that it states you are also signing in agreement with the Statement of Community Beliefs. This document is also attached separately to this email. This statement was written by Archbishop Aquila as a way of clarifying the expectations of parents, students, and families who are part of our Catholic school communities. This document helps us partner with you in your child’s education, and brings all of us together with a common understanding of our roles and expectations. Please read the document thoroughly.
