St Helen School

Featuring carnival rides, musical performances, ethnic food and other attractions, the fourth St. Helen Festival is scheduled for September 18-21, 2008.

The 2008 sponsorship form is now available on the school website! To download, click Festival Sponsor Form. Please share this opportunity with business owners and community members who may wish to support St. Helen by becoming a sponsor or donor. To view last years festival sponsors, click 2006 Festival Sponsors.

The St. Helen Festival which was held September 15-18, 2005, featured carnival rides; Eastern European, Latin, and American music; children's entertainment; food concessions; and a beer garden. Click here to view pictures of the festival!

All proceeds will be used to enhance the educational offerings at St. Helen School, which features a nationally accredited preschool program and a challenging, integrated K-8 curriculum that includes fine arts, physical education, technology, and foreign language.

Information for the 2006-07 school year is available on the website at the following links:

• School Calendar,
• Supply Lists for Pre-k to 8th grade,
• Kindergarten Handbook,
• FSA Parent Survey,
• St. Helen School Alumni Newsletters

On the first Sunday in December, the Family & School Association sponsored the fifth annual Christmas Arts & Crafts Fair. During this event, St. Helen opened its doors for community families to make crafts on-site, play games, sample gourmet food, and purchase hand-made gifts.

Later that week, intermediate-advanced piano students performed a variety of Christmas songs at the annual Holiday Piano Recital and parents of St. Helen’s second graders enjoyed breakfast menu items prepared and served by students at the annual Christmas Café.

The finale for the month of events was the annual Christmas Show, where each class presented musical and dance performances. To view photos of these events click on the highlighted event title!

We Need You This Week!! Our festival’s success depends more than anything else on two things: attendance and volunteers!

We hope all of our school fammilies and parishioners will enjoy the entertainment and attractions featured Sept. 15-18, and we need as many people as possible to help with the following:

SET UP. We will be assembling tents, stringing lights, moving tables and chairs, and performing other necessary activities on Wednesday, Sept. 14, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Thursday, Sept. 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Even if you can only give an hour or two, you are very much needed.

FOOD SERVICE.  We need help cooking and serving hotdogs, hamburgers, polish sausage, and tacos—as well as serving beverages—every day of the Festival (Thursday, Sept. 15 through Sunday, Sept. 18).

TEAR DOWN. We will start cleaning up and putting away tents, tables, chairs, and the like at 10 p.m. on Sunday night as soon as the festival closes. We will work until the site is back to normal for Monday morning. Remember: Many hands make light work! This will be your last opportunity to help.

Thank you in advance for your support!

You can use the Contact link on the festival website page
Click here to contact us from the festival web page!

Please consider buying books, CDs, and movies from a brand new website that works like Amazon.com and benefits St. Helen School. You’ll receive a 25% discount off list price, and St. Helen will receive a 6% return, which we’ll use to enhance our instructional programs.  To visit the website, click St. Helen Online Book Fair.

Another way to have your regular shopping benefit St. Helen School is through www.schoolpop.com.    Schoolpop has two ways to earn for St. Helen School.  The first is to is to shop online through their website, and St. Helen receives between 1% -18% back from hundrends of  merchants including Amazon.com  The second is to simply register your existing credit cards and St. Helen School receives 1 % back on your purchases.

St. Helen also has Market Day once a month! Open to the community, Market Day is a unique fundraiser offering a wide selection of over 180 high quality foods -- many of which are not available in your grocery store--at competitive prices. Orders can be placed online at www.marketday.com.   Select St. Helen -  No. 5562 as your beneficiary and St. Helen will receive a 10% contribution on your order.   Pick up is typically the first Saturday of the month at 10:45 a.m. in the School Gym (Social Center).

Market Day products are also available through Peapod, www.peapod.com.  Select St. Helen - No. MD5652  as your beneficiary.  Your Market Day order will be delivered to your home with your next grocery order and St. Helen will receive a 5% contribution on all Market Day products purchased.