Parent Connection

Wednesday, October 23rd

Buffalo Bills Dress Down- 10/25

Friday, October 25th will be a Buffalo Bills Dress Down Day! Students may dress down in their Bills gear or red, white and blue. Regular uniform is always fine as well!

Go Bills! Go Knights!

**If your child has Gym, please make sure they wear sneakers.**

Annual Early Release Drill

DeSales will be conducting an annual exercise of its emergency early dismissal plan.

This exercise will be conducted on Friday, November 1, 2024.

All students in the full day preschool programs and students in K-8 will be released 15 minutes earlier than their regularly scheduled dismissal time. If your child rides the bus they may arrive home 15 minutes earlier. Parents who pick up should plan on arriving 15 minutes early.

*Mrs. Chase's PK students released at their normal dismissal time.*

Picture Retake Day - Monday, November 4th

Earn Money for DeSales when you Shop

Register your Tops Bonus Card using the link below and earn money for DeSales every time you shop! Last year we earned $859 from this program!

https://www.topsmarkets.com/education/

Thank you to everyone who has already registered their Bonus Card, we earned $884 last year with this free and easy program.

Staff Development Day - Tuesday, November 5th

No school for students.

Veterans Day

There will be no school on Monday, November 11th in observation of Veterans Day.

Congratulations to the cast of Shrek, Jr.!

Congratulations to all! Information regarding the musical can be found here. We look forward to visiting the swamp!

DeSales Sports News

DeSales Swim Team

Great job to all of our swimmers who had their last regular season meet this past Sunday at Canisius!

A special shout out to our 8th graders Robert Hathaway and Emma Haseley for all their hard work this season! Both had great drops in their time in the 200 Free and 50 Free this week!

The 8 & Unders were lighting in the water with amazing swims by Jake Mitri, Olivia Vandemark and Max Manning had great drops in time in their 25 Free, Jack Stockton earned another All Star for the 25 Butterfly and Jake Mitri and Ada Webster both dropped 5 seconds on their 25 Backstrokes! Great job to all of our youngest team members!

The 9/10's were smoking past the competition with Arya Michel shaving 7 seconds off her 50 Backstroke and Violet Webster and Arya also dropped times in their 50 Free while Silvia Hay lost 5 seconds from her 50 Fly!

The 11+ were unbeatable! Graham Thomas was off to a great start dropping his 50 Free time by 4 seconds; Jonathan Cordle had an amazing drop on this 200 IM loosing 5 seconds; Nina Dawes dropped 9 seconds on her 50 Breast and Caroline Webster and Kennedy King both lost a couple seconds off their 50 Back! Way to go Knights!

It was an amazing meet and we are looking forward to Champs November 3rd!

Janet Federspiel DeSales Swim Team Scholarship

We are honored to offer the The Janet Federspiel DeSales Swim Team Scholarship to a deserving 2024-2025 DeSales Swim Team member. This scholarship was established by the family of Janet M. Federspiel who passed away in July 2021. Two of Janet’s grandchildren attended DeSales Catholic School. During her grandchildren’s time at DeSales, Janet was a pivotal volunteer for the DeSales Swim Team as a coach, official, assistant coordinator and mentor. The application and guidelines for the scholarship can be found here.

Halloween at DeSales

Halloween- Thursday, October 31st

We will celebrate Halloween in school on Thursday, October 31st. All students may dress in their Halloween Costumes. Students will still be expected to learn before/after their classroom parties, costumes should be comfortable and adhere to dress code. Please no Halloween masks/covered faces, or weapons.

If you have questions about your child's classroom party, please reach out to your room parent/classroom teacher.

HSA DeSales Cash

The DeSales HSA Cash Raffle 2024 is underway! Buy your ticket now for a chance to win $5,000!

Buy your LUCKY ticket here

Early Bird Drawing - Buy your ticket by October 31st and you will be entered into a bonus drawing for a $100 Tops gift card.
Win a Pizza Party - The class that sells the most tickets will win a pizza party! If you are a friend or relative buying, just add the student's name to the order form and they will earn credit.

All proceeds from the Cash Raffle benefit the DeSales HSA! Thank you in advance!

HSA News

Join us for our November HSA Meeting!

Tuesday, November 12th

6:30pm

DeSales Cafeteria

HSA Minted Discount & Donation Code

If you are shopping Minted this Christmas season, use the code FUNDRAISEDESALESHSA to save 20% on your order! Minted will then donate 15% of your order total back to the HSA.

DeSales 2nd Annual Turkey Trot

Families, please save the date for our 2nd annual DeSales Turkey Trot! This fun run is for students in grades K-8. More details to come, but mark your calendars for Monday, November 25th. In the case of inclement weather, the trot will be held on Tuesday the 26th. Gobble Gobble!

DeSales Ski Club

If you or anyone of your friends and family are interested in joining please reach out to Kevin Miller for details either through Facebook or via email kmm@takeform.net.

Anyone is welcome to join and purchase tickets. That includes friend and family. We ski at Holiday Valley.

If there is enough interest, we would love to get back to having a bus shuttle from DeSales to Holiday Valley and back. A survey will be sent to see if families want Fridays or Sundays for the bus shuttle after sign ups. The bus was a fun and safe way to travel for the kids, and moms and dads are welcome to jump on it too.

The deadline to take advantage of the discount on passes is October 31st. After that the cost of the passes goes up.

Please contact Kevin as he can send the link to the portal at Holiday Valley for Tickets and passes.