Welcome To Our Preschool!

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Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing holiday. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU, for your overwhelming generosity to the families from St. Vincent DePaul. The gifts were picked up by the individual families on Thursday, December 15th. Thank you for your support and for making this Christmas a “very merry” one for four local families. You all are wonderful!!!

Well, the holidays are over, and it's back to preschool business and that includes registration for the 2023-2024 school year. Here are a few important points to remember about the registration process for the next school year:

1. Preschool registration for children currently enrolled in our program will be held during the week of Jan. 17th (this is a change from a previous communication). Registration forms will go home on Jan. 17th and 18th with the children currently enrolled in the 3-year-old classes and those who’ve let me know they need 5-year-old and/or sibling packets. A cover letter will be attached to each registration form explaining the registration procedure. If you have a pre-schooler that is currently in our 4-year-old program and wish to enroll      them in our 5-year-old program, please notify me so I can send a      registration form home with your child before I open registration to the      public.
2. Everyone currently enrolled in our 3-year-old program is guaranteed a place in our program for next school year, but we cannot guarantee your first choice selection. For example, if 20 parents request the 3-day morning session for 4-year-olds and there are only 17 openings, we will hold a lottery for that class session. The parents that did not get their first choice will automatically get their second choice.
3. All registration forms must be in the preschool office by the end of the day on Friday, Jan. 27th and accompanied by a registration check. All tuition and medical forms must be up-to-date. Any forms received after Jan. 27th will lose their priority status and will be held with the open registration forms.
4. Parents of preschool siblings who wish to register for next school year can notify me by phone (513) 575-9900, or email limberga@saseas.org so I can send a form home to ensure priority registration for the week of January 17th, 2023.
5. If your preschooler has a summer birthday, consider enrolling them in our Pre-K class for 5-year-olds. Please contact your child’s preschool teacher and/or our Pre- K teacher, Mrs. Wendy, if you have any concerns or would like to observe a Pre-K class. We never have had a parent come to us and say, “It was a mistake to enroll them in Pre-K” however, we have had parents come to us and say, “I wish I had given them an extra year before enrolling them into kindergarten because they cannot keep up with their class.” The ultimate decision is yours, but please discuss with your child’s teacher if you are not sure what to do. All of our staff are certified by the Ohio Dept. of Job and Family Services to teach preschool age children in Ohio. Any recommendation made by your child’s teacher concerning your child’s readiness skills is based on observations in the classroom, working with your child, and evaluations of readiness skills mandated by the state curriculum

Please contact me if you have any questions regarding registration for the next school year. Again, thank you for all you do to support our preschool program. I wish you and your families a safe, healthy, and blessed “2023.”

Note: No preschool classes on Monday, January 16th for Martin Luther King Day.

Thank you,

Mrs. Aimee, Director