The 2013-2014 PTO Board is still in need of a President.  If you have an interest in possibly fulfilling this slot, please do not hesitate to touch base with Jamie Neff, Misty Keyes or Lisa Oyerly.  This is a great opportunity to be involved in the school.

Please join us for a reception honoring SMCS retirees Cindy Beier and Richard Mulryan on Monday, May 20, from 2:30 - 4:30 in parish hall.  We'll also be honoring those staff who are moving on to other employment opportunities.

St. Matthew Catholic School is proud to announce that we earned building-wide Standards of Excellence in reading, math and science AGAIN in 2012!

Individual grade level standards of excellence included:

Reading Standard of Excellence:  5th, 6th, 7th, 8th

Math Standard of Excellence:  3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th

Science Standard of Excellence:   4^th (Only 4^th and 7^th grades are assessed each year in Science.)

This is a huge accomplishment as we continue to progress and improve our scores every year.   We continue to out-perform many other schools in our area and we have much to celebrate!  Our students are able to perform so well on these standardized tests due to the commitment and dedication of our staff, our parents, and the students themselves – congratulations to everyone on the rewards of their hard work!

At SMCS we embrace a call to excellence and nurture all God’s children academically, emotionally, physically and spiritually.  We invite you to come and visit with our staff, and observe our students …. see what SMCS is all about.  We think you’ll like what you see!

We received a phone call this morning from Michael Morissey, Director of the Catholic Education Foundation, and he informed us that St. Matthew Catholic School has been named

2012 CEF School of Excellence! 

Our school will be recognized at the CEF Gaudeamus banquet on October 20 at the Overland Park Convention Center in front of 1200+ attendees from all over the region.  We will receive a School of Excellence Flag, School of Excellence Plaque, and $2,500 in additional scholarship money for this year’s second semester. 

Thank you, St. Matthew families, for all you do to make this a place of peace and learning!   

SMCS would like to invite you to celebrate your child or remember a loved one with a gift to the school library in the form of a new book in their honor or memory.  We currently have several books that have been donated in memory of loved ones and on the inside cover, those books are identified as a special gift in memory of someone and include the donor’s name. 

The idea came to us to also celebrate birthdays this way as well.  If you would like to celebrate your child’s birthday with a special book that can be shared by their friends in the library, we encourage you to select a book they would enjoy and send it to the school office for Mrs. Otting to prepare for circulation in the school library.  Please do not worry about duplicates because chances are if it is a new book we may not have it and if it is a classic, we likely could use a new copy! 

On a separate sheet of paper, please write the name, dates, donor, etc. and include it with the book to assist us in accurately documenting the gift.  Feel free to write your own personal note inside the book cover if you would like.

Thank you for your consideration of this special book project.

This video helps middle school youth understand WHY and HOW the words of the Catholic Mass changed. The video gives a casual history of the words we use at Mass.

Word for Word [Edge] from Life Teen on Vimeo.