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Principal's Message

2025-26 School Calendar UPDATED

The JCPS School Board voted to approve a change to their 25-26 school calendar. The change involves moving Spring Break 2026 back a week from March 30 – April 3 to April 6 – April 10. Other surrounding districts are following suit, and the Archdiocese has as well. This adjustment has been updated on our SMA 2025-2026 school year calendar included in this newsletter.

Download PDF of 2025-26 School Calendar

February 10-12 -Tekakwitha House on the Curb

February 10 - 6:30pm 8th grade Confirmation rehearsal

February 11 - 6:30pm 8th grade Confirmation

February 12 - Free dress day (Monarch Mile incentive), 1:00 dismissal, 1-6pm PTS Conferences; NO AFTER SCHOOL CARE

February 13 - No school, 8-12pm PTS Conferences

February 14 - No school

February 17 - No school

February 18 - 6:30 PTO Meeting

February 19 - SMA Idol - 11-11:45 (Middle School parents only); 1:00 dismissal

February 20 - 8:15 Mass, T2 Monarch Awards

February 21 - Trimester 2 ends

February 24 - Trimester 3 begins

February 26 - 1:00 dismissal

February 27 - 8:15 Mass

March 5 - 8:15 Ash Wednesday Mass (Thursday Resource Day), 2:45 dismissal

March 6 - 1:00 dismissal, Wednesday Resource Day

March 7 - Spirit Wear Day, Fish Fry, After School Care closes at 4:30pm

March 12 - 11-11:30 5th grade parent lunch, 1:00 dismissal

March 13 - 8:15 Mass

March 14 - Fish Fry, After School Care closes at 4:30pm

March 17 - Free Dress Day (Monarch Mile incentive) - students may wear a green or St. Patrick’s Day themed top with uniform bottoms

March 19 - 1:00 dismissal

March 20 - 8:15 Mass, Lenten Reconciliation

March 21 - Fish Fry, After School Care closes at 4:30pm

March 26 - 1:00 dismissal

March 27 - 8:15 Mass

March 28 - Free Dress Day & Kona Ice Party (Monarch Mile incentive)

March 31 - April 4 - Spring Break

Sacramental Dates

February 11 - 6:30pm Confirmation

May 11 - 2:00pm First Communion

The Middle School House scheduled to assist on the morning curb from 7:30-7:55am the week of February 10-12 is Tekakwitha House.

Join Us for Mass this Weekend

4pm Saturday,

8:30am & 11am Sunday

Registration ($65) will close on Friday, February 14, 2025 . REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER 2/15/2024. Please sign your child up as soon as possible! We need coaches at all K-8 grade levels. Registration for coaches and players can be found on the CSAA Gameday website, https://gameday.loucsaa.net.

Mrs. Kelly has been a part of Saint Mary Academy since 2009 and a Counselor in the Archdiocese since 1998. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Expressive Arts from the University of Louisville. Helping students be happy, healthy, and kind is her passion. Mrs. Kelly offers guidance to any student, class, family, or staff member in need. Mrs. Kelly is also the coordinator of the House, Speak Up Be Safe, Conscious Discipline, and PeaceBuilders programs at SMA.

Mrs. Kelly enjoys spending time with her family, taking pictures, creating art, enjoying nature, sitting by the lake, going on adventures, and laughing with friends.

Fun Fact: Mrs. Kelly took ballet for 25 years and still loves to dance!

Pull Tabs

Several students have turned in pull tabs throughout the past few months. While we are very grateful for these donations and the organizations they serve, we do not officially collect pull tabs as part of our Stewardship program. We can accept pull tabs until February 21st. Once we reach this deadline, we will compile all pull tabs and donate them to the Ronald McDonald House. Thank you!

Upcoming Student Performances

A few of our fifth-grade students are participating in two upcoming performances at Oldham County Schools Arts Center. For those interested in attending, the details are below:

Abby Hill will be in The Reluctant Dragon Feb 13-15 at 7pm. Ticket info https://ocsac.thundertix.com/events/241703

Louella and William Hettich along with Giuliana Passafiume will be in Musicville Feb. 20-22 at 7pm. Ticket info https://ocsac.thundertix.com/events/241705

We wish the best of luck to all of our talented student performers!

Reach Alert Communication System

We understand the importance of communicating with you to ensure that we keep you in the loop regarding events affecting our school. As a result, we are pleased to announce that we are initiating a new text alert and notification service called REACH Alert.

This service will allow us to immediately share important information regarding a number of items, including weather-related closings/delays, possible lockdowns, bus communications, after-school activities, etc. Anything that might impact our school family can be shared in a matter of seconds.

Please follow these easy steps to sign up. Remember, if you don’t register, we can’t share important information with you. You decide if you want to receive a text message, voice call, or an email. Each household can register as many phone numbers and email addresses as necessary. All you need to do is:

Go to www.reachalert.com and click on Sign Up (upper right hand corner)
Network Name: type St. Mary Academy (click on our name when it appears).
Follow the prompts and enter your preferred contact information. If you already have an account with REACH Alert (several cities such as St. Matthews, Hurstbourne, Lyndon, etc., use REACH Alert), simply log-in to your current account and click on JOIN NETWORK on the right side of your dashboard page and enter St. Mary Academy).

If you register for the first time to receive text alerts and/or emails, Reach Alert will send a confirmation message to your cell phone or computer immediately upon completion of your registration. If you do not receive this message, please call Reach Alert.

If you do not have access to a computer or if you experience any difficulty registering, please contact REACH Alert at (877) 307-9313

For further questions, please contact Brett Lass at brett.lass@saintmaryacademy.com.

Illness Prevention

It is evident that the cold and flu season is upon us as we have noticed the impacts in and around our school community. We are praying for those individuals and families affected. In light of recent concerns about the spread of illness, we wanted to update families on the steps we are taking to help prevent the spread of germs at SMA.

School actions include:

Continuing to maintain our focus on regular and consistent building sanitation and cleanliness.
Our facilities team and teachers have increased the frequency of cleaning in high-touch areas such as doorknobs, light switches, and desks.
Teachers and staff are reinforcing the importance of regular hand washing, as well as reminders for how to appropriately cover coughs and sneezes.
We remain in regular contact with the superintendent's office to stay informed and up to date regarding health protocols.

Parent support includes:

In order to prevent the spread of further illness, please monitor your child(ren) for symptoms and keep them home if any symptoms such as fever, chills, headache, cough, sore throat, or congestion arise.
Notify your child's teacher and the front office staff if your child has become ill and will be absent from school.

We are committed to ensuring that our school remains a safe and healthy environment for all students and staff, and we appreciate your partnership in helping to keep our school and community healthy.

Snow Days/Online Learning Update

Saint Mary Academy has used our 5 online learning days and our 1 previously built-in snow day granted by the Archdiocese. These 5 days count as school days that do not need to be made up. Should SMA experience any additional snow days this winter, they will be considered “true” snow days with no online work requirements. In addition, we would need to make up these days in the 2024-2025 school year calendar. If we do not have any further snow days this winter, then we do not have any “snow days” to make up in this calendar year. Following are the calendar days that would be used to make up any future potential snow days, in calendar order:

Monday, April 21 (Easter Monday)

Friday, May 2 (Oaks Day)

Additional days as needed the week of May 27th

Middle School SMA Idol

Middle School parents are invited to attend our Middle School SMA Idol performances on Wednesday, February 19th from 11:00 - 11:45am in the SMA gym. House students will perform their coordinated dances to an animated Disney song theme. A panel of judges will help select the top 3 winning Houses. Students should wear their House shirts with uniform bottoms with any approved props and accessories.