Immaculate Conception School

Welcome to Immaculate Conception School. In the proud tradition of the St. Mary Blue Wave, Immaculate Conception offers classes from pre-school to grade six in a safe, family oriented, and Christ centered atmosphere.

The mission of Immaculate Conception School is to continue the tradition of providing a challenging academic program integrated with Catholic teaching, empowering students to nurture their God-given abilities to follow Jesus' example of prayer, faith, service, and love.

Immaculate Conception is one of three Catholic Schools in Tuscarawas County.

Tuscarawas Central Catholic Junior/Senior High School in New Philadelphia houses grades seven through 12.  The website is www.tccsaints.com.

Tuscarawas Central Catholic Elementary School in Dover offers programs from pre-school through grade six.  The website is www.tccesdover.org.

The Tuscarawas County Catholic Schools operate as a unified school system dedicated to providing an excellent, faith-filled education at an affordable price.  Click here to see our Code of Regulations.

Immaculate Conception Church
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Church of the Holy Trinity

This is the final week for our annual food and toy drive.   We are collecting new toys, non-perishable food, gloves, scarves, and hats.   Everything we collect will be distributed through Share-A-Christmas, the Salvation Army and local food pantries.   All donations must be received by 8:00 am, Monday, December 6.   Thank you for your generosity.  

The Secret Santa Shop will be open December 8-10.    Students will have the chance to shop for small gifts for family and loved ones.  Students received information Monday to help them prepare their shopping lists.   

Students will attend Mass at 8:15 am Wednesday, December the 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.  

The PTA will be preparing hot chocolate for the Polar Express on December 11 and 12.   If you can volunteer to help, please contact Vanessa Green.

Our Christmas Show is scheduled for Tuesday, December 14 in the Immaculate Conception Church.   All students will be involved in the show.   We will begin at 6:45 pm with a performance by the pre-school and pre-kindergarten students.   The K-6 program will start at 7:00 pm.

Winter and cold weather is here.   Please make sure your students are dressed for the weather so they can go outside at recess and are prepared to walk to the gym for physical education classes.

Happy New Year!   This is the first week of Advent, the start of a new year on the church’s liturgical calendar. We will gather each week during Advent for a brief prayer service.    

Our Christmas Show is scheduled for Tuesday, December 14 in the Immaculate Conception Church.   All students will be involved in the show.   

The Secret Santa Shop will be open December 8-10.    Students will have the chance to shop for small gifts for family and loved ones.   More information will be sent home after Thanksgiving.   

We want to express our thanks to the PTA for purchasing new equipment for the playground and physical education classes.   We will be purchasing more items in the coming months.   

The Blue Wave Service Team

announces the 6th annual
 

FOOD AND TOY DRIVE

We are collecting new toys, scarves, hats, gloves, and food

All types of non-perishable food items are needed.

We want to collect 1,000 toys, scarves, hats, gloves and food items!!!

All items will be distributed through the Twin City Food Pantry, Salvation Army, and Share-a-Christmas.

ALL DONATIONS WILL BE COLLECTED EACH DAY AT THE MAIN SCHOOL ENTRANCE AND MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE END OF THE SCHOOL DAY ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 6. 

The Tuscarawas County Catholic Schools Board of Trustees provides advise and support to the administration of the Tuscarawas County Catholic Schools.   The board consists of:
Fr. Jeff Coning, Pastor
Fr. Jimmy Hatfield, Pastor
Superintendent Adam Dufault
Bishop Appointee Jason Bambeck
Elected Trustees:
David Garbrandt, President
Karen Dick, Vice-President
Lisa Douglass, Secretary
Justine Fredericks
Nicholas Angelini
Selena Coolman

All parents and parishioners are invited to participate and take an active role in our schools by serving on a board committee.   If you would like to help, contact a committee chairperson:
Finance:                               Nicholas Angelini (nicholas.angelini@gmail.com)
Building and Grounds:   Jason Bambeck (jason.bambeck@gmail.com)
Marketing:                          Nicholas Angelini (nicholas.angelini@gmail.com)
Nominating:                       Lisa Douglass (lisarhino@roadrunner.com )
Fund-Raising:                    Karen Dick (kdick@cdeducation.org)
Youth Sports:                    Justine Fredericks (330-432-5063)
Spiritual Life:                     Mindy Oberholzer (oberholzer2434@roadrunner.com)

Your FACTS Family Portal is now the one-source for all student and family information AND all financial accounts.   If you have not done so already, please use the instructions on the other page of this flyer to create your Family Portal account.   In the Family Portal, you will be able to see announcements, lunch menu, and more.   The Family Portal will also provide access to progress reports, report cards, and other important information.  You can even pre-order lunch in your Family Portal.  The Family Portal will also provide access to tuition payment plans.   You must create your Family Portal to access and create tuition payment plans.  There is no longer a separate log-in for tuition payment.   For more instructions to set up your Family Portal, click HERE.


After Creating your Family Portal, please complete two additional tasks!


Click on “Web Forms” on the left-hand side of the page and complete the forms that appear.   The forms include emergency medical contacts, allergies, and other very important information.  THIS INFORMATION MUST BE COMPLETE BY SEPTEMBER 2.  When updating the completing the information that appears in Web Forms, please do NOT change the student’s school assigned email address.   If no email appears for the student, leave it blank.

Click on the Finance tab.   This will allow you to set-up or adjust your tuition payment plan.   Tuition payment plans must be set-up before actual payments begin.  We will use facts to issue bills for after-school care, lunch extras, and other items.
 

We recommend all adults and students in the building wear masks.  The Tuscarawas County Catholic Schools Board of Trustees has adopted a policy that masks will be required in our elementary schools whenever the rate of COVID transmission in the county is at or more than 750 per 100,000 people.

QUARANTINE GUIDELINES UPDATED 11/8/2021
For those who test positive for COVID or are exposed to COVID, here is a summary of the quarantine guidelines that we follow as developed by the Ohio, county and city health departments.    
Quarantine/Isolation for persons who test positive for COVID
                Follow orders issued by the county/city health department.   The Tuscarawas County Health Department states that people isolated by the health department will be released from isolation after:

• 10 days since symptoms first appeared.
• 24 hours with no fever without use of fever reducing medication and
• Other symptoms are improving.

Quarantine for persons exposed to COVID:
Vaccinated persons do not need to quarantine.   It’s recommended that a vaccinated person wear a mask indoors as much as possible for 14 days after the contact.  Its also recommended that vaccinated persons get a test several days after the contact.
 
Close contact: Close Contact is defined by the county health department as being within 6 feet of an infected person for a total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period starting from 2 days before they have symptoms or 2 days prior to a test of asymptomatic persons.  
 
Persons exposed to COVID in the home:  It’s recommended that a person exposed to COVID in the home quarantine for 10 days from the date of last exposure.   This can be shortened to a seven-day quarantine with a negative PCR or proctored rapid antigen test conducted five days after last exposure.
 
Mask to Stay
 
Eligibility to participate in mask to stay is contingent on the exposure being in the school setting or outside the home.    This does not apply to household exposures. 
 
Direct contacts from outside the home, regardless of vaccination or masking status, may remain in the classroom environment if they do the following:
• Wear a mask for 14 days after their last date of exposure.
• Self-monitor, or parent-monitor, for symptoms of COVID-19.
• Isolate and get tested if they start to experience symptoms associated with
COVID-19 (regardless of level of severity).
• Consistent with guidance for others quarantining in lower-risk environments,
students and staff may discontinue these quarantine procedures after seven
days — if they don’t develop symptoms and test negative between days 5-7.
 
Direct contacts for COVID-19 are those individuals who are identified as being directly exposed
to COVID-19 by the positive case. Remember, COVID-19 is a respiratory virus and does not
require physical contact to spread. It is spread through sneezing, coughing, talking, and
breathing. These factors should be considered when determining level of exposure and direct
contacts. Best practice for distancing is 3 ft with everyone masked, 6 ft if the individual is not
masked.
Parents and students are responsible for symptom monitoring; however, if nurses/school staff
see a child exhibiting symptoms they should act accordingly.
 
Please Note: The tests referenced above are SARS-CoV-2 viral (PCR or antigen) tests.
They should be proctored/observed by someone and cannot be an over the counter, at home
test that was self-administered without a proctor.

Immaculate Conception School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

Organizations in the community offer summer nutrition and activity programs to promote healthy eating and wellness.  A flyer with more information is attached HERE.

Immaculate Conception School participates in the free and reduced-price lunch program.  The Federal Income Eligibility Guidelines will be used for determining eligibility.  Children from families whose annual income is at or below the Federal Guidelines are eligible for free and reduced-price lunches.  Application forms are available in the school office.
 
As part of our participation in the national lunch program, we have adopted a wellness policy to promote student health and well-being.  The wellness policy is included in the student-parent handbook distributed to all parents at the start of the year.   

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.