Episcopal Insider
St. Mark's Campus
January 31, 2025
Please Note: After today, the Episcopal Insider will no longer be sent weekly. Important communications will be shared as needed throughout the summer. Enjoy your summer break!
New This Week
Students who are not re-enrolled by today, January 31, 2025, will not be guaranteed a space in the 2025-2026 school year.
Click Here to Complete Re-enrollment
Please refer to the email sent on January 16 for specific re-enrollment instructions for your child’s campus and grade level. These emails can be found in your My ESJ Portal. To reserve your child’s space for the 2025-2026 school year, all steps must be completed via the My ESJ Enrollment Portal today, January 31, 2025. Please review the key updates listed below.
If you have any questions concerning re-enrollment, please contact Melissa Tucker, Director of Lower School Admission & Enrollment – St. Mark’s Campus, at tuckerm@esj.org. We look forward to welcoming your family back for the 2025-2026 school year!
Key Updates
- Payment Plans: Early Learning Program
- 1 Pay: July
- 2 Pay: July and November
- 10 Pay: July – April
- Payment Plans: Pre-K 3 – Grade 5
(ELP 2 to rising Pre-K 3 families: note there will be one month of tuition overlap as you transition from the ELP payment schedule to the Pre-K 3 payment schedule.)
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- 1 Pay: April
- 2 Pay: April and November
- 10 Pay: April – January
- Financial Obligation Schedule: Pre-K 3 – Grade 5 contracts that are canceled after the deposit is submitted will have the following financial obligations:
- Upon signing the re-enrollment agreement: 25% of the annual tuition
- April 1 – June 30: 50% of the annual tuition
- After June 30: 100% of the annual tuition
Thanks to everyone who attended our Family Open House last week!
The registration price for the one and five-mile W.W. Gay Ortega River Run increases this Saturday, February 1.
Who:
- All St. Mark’s Campus families, faculty, and staff invited to participate.
- First and second grades are leading this service learning project.
What:
- Art Supply Drive for Art With a Heart In Healthcare. Art with a Heart in Healthcare is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of young patients staying at Wolfson Children’s Hospital and other area hospitals.
Due to compliance with hospital regulations, the organization was very specific with the supplies that the patients are able to receive.
- Crayola Washable Markers
- Crayola Crayons
- Crayola Washable Watercolors
- Crayola Colored Pencils 12 Pack
- Drawing Pad 9×12 50 sheets plus
When/Where:
- Collecting February 10- February 21 in collection bins located in carpool areas and in the school office. Supplies and “Art to Go” bags will be blessed on February 26 during Gathering in the Commons at 2:30 p.m.
Why:
- The goal is to brighten their hospital rooms and enhance the healing process.
Reminders
2024-2025 Important Upcoming Calendar Dates
- May 16 – Chapel in the Park
- May 16 – Moms’ Night Out
- May 16 – Uniform Recycle Event (7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
- May 20 – Field Day
- May 21 – Splash Into Summer
- May 21 – Fifth Farewell Reception
- May 22 – Fifth Grade Celebration Ceremony (9:00 a.m., Church)
- May 23 – Trimester 3 Ends
- May 23 – Early Dismissal (Noon). Eagle Afternoon Program Closed.
- May 26-30 – Memorial Day and Post-Planning – School and Extended Day Closed
- June 2 – First week of Camp Create
The ability to register and pay for 2025 spring a la carte holiday care concludes Friday, January 31.
Holiday Care includes the following dates:
- Spring Break (March 10-14)
- Easter Monday (April 21)
Weather permitting, kindergarten through fifth grade students will enjoy worship in the park. Representatives from the fifth grade plan to share reflections about their experience here on the St. Mark’s Campus. Parents are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Friday, May 16, 8:25 a.m.
Stockton Park
On Friday, February 7, ESJ, St. Mark’s Campus will host a pizza dinner in the Lori Schiavone Commons from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Friends and neighbors are encouraged to attend.
To ensure enough pizzas are ordered, please pre-order your pizza. Dine-in or takeout orders are accepted.
Students are invited to wear accessories matching their grade level color on Ortega River Run t-shirt day (February 7) and race morning (February 8).
- ELP: Purple
- Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4: Green
- Kindergarten: Blue
- Grade 1: Teal
- Grade 2: Red
- Grade 3: Lime green
- Grade 4: Camo
- Grade 5: Yellow
It takes a village of Eagles to pull off this community-wide event. From serving pizza the night before to handing out water bottles and medals at the run, there is something for everyone. Please sign up to help!
Ortega River Run Volunteer Opportunities
Thursday, February 13
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Lori Schiavone Commons
Pre-K 3 – fifth grade daughters and their special friends are invited to make memories at the Sweetheart Soirée Daughter Dance, hosted by the Parents’ Association. Enjoy sweets, dancing, and a photobooth with your best girl.
The Sweetheart Soiree Daughter Dance is February 13! Help the Parents’ Association make this evening special.
February 14, 2025
- February 10 -14, students are invited to wear Valentine’s Day/heart accessories with their school uniforms.
- Parents will receive class party communication directly from homeroom parents.
- Please be sweet without bringing sweets. Non-candy class Valentines are recommended.
Pre-K 3—Grade 5 students receive a book for their birthday that is added to the Steve Williams Library Collection. Please be on the lookout for an email from Mrs. Trumpler regarding book selection. After a special bookplate is placed in the book, it will be blessed at the Birthday Chapel. Your child will be the first person to check out the book, and we ask them to return it after reading it for a few weeks so other children can enjoy it! Please join us at their special birthday Chapel.
8:25 a.m.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
April and May Birthdays
- April 14 (Grades 1-5)
- April 23 (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
Each month, first – fifth grade students are recognized by peers and teachers for demonstrating qualities of the Fruit of the Spirit that the Apostle Paul writes about in his letter to the church in Galatia. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23. Parents are welcome to attend these afternoon gatherings, as they are all Chapels and gatherings.
Wednesdays at 2:30 p.m.
Lori Schiavone Commons
- May 14 – Fruit of Self-Control Gathering