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permalinkA big congratulations goes out to all partcipants in the musical, Godspell! Mrs Hamm and Mrs Braun have outdid themselves again with their direction of the musical. The students performed and sang wonderfully.
The school commission would like to thank all of our families who have registered for the 2012-13 school year. Having so many families registered at this time helped the tuition discussions go very smoothly. The tuition increase reflects an overall average of 2.5% which covers increases in costs such as salaries, electricity, etc.
Please join us for a day of golf, fun, and fellowship to benefit Nativity Athletics. For additional details and the registration form, please click here.
We would like to thank all of the parents who completed the survey about our school on Survey Monkey. We appreciate your responses and will definitely use them to determine ways to make Nativity even better! If you would like to see the survey results, please click here.
As we finish up the third quarter of the 2011-12 school year, we are approaching our school reading goal of 110,000,000 words! As of today, March 16th, the Nativity students have read 81,856,017 words!
We would like input about your family's experience this year at Nativity Catholic School.
Please take a few minutes to complete the survey by going to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PQYRKMX
Take one survey per family so that your voice can be heard and counted.
Thank you for helping us gather this data!
Congratulations and thanks to the students who participated in the Quest for Excellence Competition held at Roncalli High School last Saturday. A very special thank you to the coaches who devoted many hours practicing with our students. They represented Nativity extremely well!
Art - David Purdum, Honorable Mention (Coach - Kris Scifres)
Essay - Addison Laker, Third Place (Coach - Brian Boyle)
Geography - Julia Kurz, First Place and David Purdum, Sixth Place (Coach - Meg Wagner)
Math - Keara McGuinness, Honorable Mention and David Purdum, Third Place (Coach - Jeff English)
Speech - Maria Hollowell, First Place and Addison Laker, Second Place (Coach - Lisa. Laker)
Female Vocalist - Mary Schneider, Honorable Mention (Coach - Margie Hamm)
Nativity's Super Quiz Team: Julia Kurz, Ashley Harter, Noah Buening, and Grant Duncan (Coach - Katherine Smutzer)
Other Coaches were: Ann Skirvin--Drama and Jessica Adams - Theology
Nativity is now accepting registrations for the 2012-13 school year. If you would like to take a tour, visit some classrooms, orhave your child shadow for part of the day, please contact our principal, Mrs. Rodriguez, at trodriguez@nativityindy.org or by phone, 317-357-1459.
The CYO Music contest was held on Saturday, February 11th. All participating Nativity students earned a first place in the contest! Congratulations to all! More details will be published soon.
We are coming closer and closer to reading our goal of 110,000,000 words this school year. As of February 3, Nativity students have read 60,376,428 words!
Are you interested in learning more about Nativity Catholic School? Come visit on Sunday, February 12th at 1:00 - 2:30 for a guided tour! Registration packets are available during this Open House.
All information can be found under the Current Families / Activities & Extracurriculars links.
Starting February 18th, Computer Classes for Nativity Community Members will be taught at Nativity School by Solvonex. This new adult-oriented education program is sponsored by the Nativity Catholic Parish and is aimed at bettering your computing skills by using the investments the parish and school have made in technology.
You can learn valuable skills such as Introduction to PCs, Windows 7 Pro, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. Every paid registration will benefit students at Nativity. Visit http://NativityStore.Solvonex.com, log in with Nativity as the username, and use GoTitans3310 as the password to get more information on this exciting program.
Congratulations to Kaiser Weber, Alex Payne, and Maddie Hofmeister for reading over TWO MILLION words a piece! With their help, the help of our 16 millionaires and other Nativity students, we have read 57,976,205 words and are now over half way to our school goal. Looks like Mrs. Rodriguez will be kissing a pig!
Thanks to all of our families who completed the online survey for the 2012-13 school year. Based upon the survey results, teacher input, and much discussion with other South Deanery schools and the Office of Catholic Education, Nativity will be on a “balanced calendar” for the 2012-13 school year. It will be similar to the calendar adopted by Franklin Township with a few modifications to accommodate our Catholic faith traditions. Below is a general outline:
August 1 First Day for Students
August 16 & 17 No School (Augustravangza)
Sept. 3 No School (Labor Day)
October 8-19 Fall Break
October 19 Parent/Teacher Conferences
November 21-23 Thanksgiving Break
December 24 – Jan 4 Christmas Break
Jan. 21 MLK Day (no school)
Feb. 18 Presidents’ Day (no school)
March 18-22 Spring Break
April 1 No School (Monday after Easter)
May 27 Memorial Day (no school)
May 30 Last day of classes
The State of Indiana requires that students have 180 instructional days. With this calendar, we have scheduled 182 instructional days. If needed, the 2 extra days can be used as snow make-up days before we would need to add days to the end of the school year.
Congratulations to Carolina Whitaker - who is our 2011-2012 Spelling Bee Champion. Michael Dill came in a close second place and is our runner-up. Thank you to all of our spectacular contestants!
Congratulations to the following classrooms!
01/03/12 | Jessica Adams's class has spent 50 hours practicing math. | |
01/03/12 | Ann Skirvin's class has answered 10,000 math problems. | |
12/29/11 | Chris Peek's class has spent 100 hours practicing math. | |
12/27/11 | Jeffrey English's class has answered 30,000 math problems. |
Congratulations to Third Graders, Veronica Phillips and Will Beikes! They are Nativity's newest millionaires! These students have read over one million words this school year. Look for their pictures on the Millionaires Club bulletin board.
Our program was wonderful! The students were spectacular and had so much fun! A special thanks goes out to everyone who was involved in making it a success - Mrs. Hamm, Mr. Knotts, Mr. Eldridge, all the teachers who were so cooperative and helpful, all the handy men/women who helped build the stage and everyone else who was involved. Thank you so much! Check out the Gallery of photos on the Fine Arts page. (Current Families/Academics & Extracurriculurs)
Classrooms at Nativity will be "a-buzz" with spelling in January. Representatioves from classrooms will be chosen to represent their grade level in Nativity's speeling which to be held on Monday, January 23rd at 1:30. The winner of this spelling bee with go on to the Scripps Spelling Bee to be held in our area. Parents and friends are invited to the Nativity Spelling Bee. We hope to see you there!
Please join Nativity students in church on Friday, January 20th for Eucharistic Adoration. Please check with your child's teachers for a schedule for the time their class will be in church.
As of November 18th, Nativity students have read 31,516,680 words. Our yearly goal is 110,000,000 words. If we reach our goal, Mrs. Rodriguez will kiss a real pig!
As of November 18th, Nativity students have practiced their Math skills on IXL Math, a web-based program, for 664 hours and 44 minutes! Go Titan Mathematicians!
During the month of November, the sixth grade will be collecting can goods for the Mary Meier Food Drive of Franklin Township. Please send any donations to the school.
As of October 7, 2011 - Nativity Catholic School has raised $330.95 in our Penny Wars. The proceeds of this 8th grade service project will benefit those devastated by the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, and also help fund our 8th graders class trip later this year. This is just an example of the service projects organized monthly by each grade here at Nativity!
As of Oct. 6th, Nativity students have spent 337 hours and 46 minutes on IXL Math. Look below each grade level's stats!
Kindergarten - 28 hours and 17 minutes
First Grade - 55 hours and 46 minutes
Second Grade - 64 hours and 3 minutes
Third Grade - 65 hours and 48 minutes
Fourth Grade - 49 hours and 4 minutes
Fifth Grade - 15 hours and 11 minutes
Sixth Grade - 1 hour and 18 minutes
Seventh Grade - 1 hour and 46 minutes
Eighth Grade - 56 hours and 33 minutes
As of October 6th, Nativity students have read 13,219,930 words. We are anxiously awaiting our first student to be inducted into the Millionaire's Club!
Be sure to check out the first edition of the newspaper written by Grade 8B. It can be found under Current Families, News section on this site.
As of September 29th, Nativity students have read 9,441,692 words!!
Congratulations to the following students for having spent the most time in their class working on IXL Math as of 9/29/11:
Mrs. Minton's Kindergarten - Alice Smidebush 3 hr 56 minutes and completed 474 problems
Ms. Wallpe's Kindergarten - Matthew Horn 4 hr 13 minutes completing 631 problems
Mrs. Dixon's First Grade - Joshua Renshaw 4 hr 45 minutes completing 745 problems
Mrs. Skirvin's First Grade - Luke Vennall 4 hr 14 minutes completing 499 problems
Mrs. Peek's Second Grade - Julia Blandford 7 hr 55 minutes completing 1056 problems
Mrs. Pillsbury's Second Grade - Gabe Horn 5 hr 46 minutes completing 1069 problems
Mrs. Adam's Third Grade - Eliza Rail 2 hr 35 minutes completing 502 problems
Ms. Korte's Third Grade - Ethan McGuire 4 hr 7 min completing 372 problems
Mrs. Kirkhoff's Fourth Grade - Sydney Silcox 7 hr 14 minutes completing 673 problems
Ms. Vassar's Fourth Grade - Alex Payne 2 hr 50 minutes completing 653 problems
Mrs. Jone's Fifth Grade - Ceclia Whisler 4 hr 24 minutes completing 788 problems
Mrs. Smutzer's Sixth Grade - Noah Kill 1 hr 12 minutes completing 121 problems
Mr. Boyle's Seventh Grade - Tiger Pluckebaum 1 hour completing 272 problems
Mr. English's and Ms. Wagner's Eighth Grade : Maria Hollowell 3 hr 38 minutes completing 699 problems
Congratulations to the our Eighth Graders! They have completed 11,417 problems on IXL! Eighth Graders have spent 48 hours and 27 minutes practicing Math problems! Coming in second place are our Second Graders. They have completed 7,479 Math Problems on IXL! They have spent 46 hours and 42 minutes practicing Math in the last 4 weeks! Way to go Nativity Mathematicians!
The Stats for the other grade levels:
Kindergarten - 2,713 problems
First Grade - 4,277 problems
Third Grade - 5,963 problems
Fourth Grade - 6,283 problems
Fifth Grade - 1,503 problems
Sixth Grade - 239 problems
Seventh Grade - 635 problems
Mrs. Rodriguez has promised to kiss a real PIG if students of Nativity read 110,000,000 words during the 2011-12 school year! Let's all read, read, READ!!!
The Nativity Newsflash was published and sent home with students on Friday, Sept. 16th. We also mailed copies to Grandparents, Alumni, and friends of Nativity.
Please check the homepage for important information regarding the upcoming school year.
We have placed a link to IXL math on the home page. Be sure to have your students try out all of the fun things to do at that website.
The 2011-2012 tuition schedule has been posted. Here is the link to the tuition page: http://www.nativityindy.org/registration-tuition
Just a reminder, you can find all of Nativity’s press releases on the press page, just mouse over the “Current families” tab, mouse over “News”, and scroll down to click on the press release page. Here is the URL to the page: http://www.nativityindy.org/press-release
Next years school calendar is is up!!! Just go to the bottom of the page.
PFO Coffee and Conversation - join us next Tuesday, March 1 at 8:00 after drop off in Weilhammer Hall Conference room; younger kids welcome!
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