Parent & Student Reminders

Weekly Reminders:   Report cards have been published through Digital Academy. by the end of next week.  Please login to Digital Academy to track your students’ progress, grades and conduct so you can receive weekly or daily alerts.  If you need assistance with Digital Academy, please contact our main office for details.  

  • Shadow Stations of Cross April 4th and April 16th:  Shadow Stations of the Cross

  • Spring/Easter Break No School – April 17 – April 27, 2025

  • Faculty Day/No School – May 6, 2025

  • Memorial Day/No School – May 26, 2025

  • Last Day of School for students – May 29, 2025

 

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Fish Fry Fridays – Click here: Lenten Fish Fry Fridays

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Sarris Candy Fundraiser: -- Click Here: Sarris Candy Fundraiser

 

Uniform reminders:
This is a gentle reminder that shorts are not yet permitted as part of the school uniform. We will be notifying you once St. Leo's approves their inclusion.  Parents, please remind your students of proper dress code.  Acceptable dress code items have been a continuing issue.  All students are to be in our standard St. Leo uniform tops and bottoms daily and in St. Leo colors of navy blue, blue, light blue, yellow, gold, gray, and or St. Leo sweaters and bottoms in the colors of navy, black, khaki, gray.  Gym uniform may be worn on gym days only with proper shoes, No UGG slides or crocs.  Young ladies are not allowed to wear leggings, jeggings or tights as uniform bottoms.  If your student arrives in inappropriate clothing, the parent will be called to pick the student up for the day, or the parent may bring the student an appropriate top or bottom before the student can enter the classroom. 

Acceptable sweaters during the colder months can be a button-down, or zipped sweater with no hood, and must be in the colors of gray, navy blue, or black with their school uniform shirt/sweater underneath.  No hoodies are allowed!   Please have your student bring a pair of dry school shoes to change into in order to minimize potential incidentals.  Should a student come to school in inappropriate uniform, the parent will be called to pick up the student and/or, the parent must bring the student acceptable uniform clothing/shoes. 

Parents, please remind your student that all electronics must be turned in at the beginning of the day, powered off and not on their person.

Financial Reminders:

Please contact our main office for your student financial account updates.  Your tuition and latch key payments NEW due date is now April 14th.   All tuition invoices payments that have not been received as of April 16th, will be assessed a $25.00 late fee, including late registration fees and latch key balances.   

 

Drop off/Pick Up Reminders:

Please have your students arrive on time to school.  We understand there may be extenuating circumstances that may prevent timely arrival, or departure; however, we ask that you are cognizant of your students daily learning plans, tardiness and absenteeism directly affects your students Cleveland and Ed-Choice Scholarship.  When tardy, all students must enter through the front door off Broadview Rd.  Upon entry, the parent must record their student name and lunch selection.  If no selection is made, the student will be given another lunch option as we can only make for those who selected their lunch option.   Please be considerate of our St. Leo parents and teachers that are volunteering their time for our latch key program.  


Annual Pancake Breakfast

AN EVENT FOR EVERYBODY! PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY A GOOD MEAL & MEET ALL
OF THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE UP THIS GREAT PARISH & SCHOOL COMMUNITY!

All Families welcome to join us at 8a or 11a Mass.

Early Registration for Winter Sports NOW OPEN

Basketball & Cheerleading Sign Ups

DEADLINE: October 30th at 9:00a.m. (Registering before October 23rd helps the the school attain a discount for early sign up! Please consider this!)Click the button above to review and complete all necessary Forms. Submit Forms and $100 registration fee to School or Rectory Office, Attn: Athletics. If you are interested in helping coach this season. Let’s show up for our kids and encourage their participation in sports by modeling team work. Contact Athletic Director, Adam Cutright at acutright@leothegreat.org with any question you have.

St. Leo the Great School welcomes Mr. Jones

Dear Parents and Guardians,

I am honored to introduce myself as the new principal of St. Leo the Great School. I come to you with excitement for what I can bring to help your children grow into faithful leaders and academic scholars. I am a member of St. Martin of Tours Church in Maple Heights, the parent of two sons, and my wife is a fellow educator. I understand the importance of wanting to know the person who will be leading your child’s school. Parents are the primary educators of their children, and I feel blessed to join you in that task.

With 25 years of experience in education, I began my career teaching at-risk students at St. Thomas Aquinas. Following that, I was the principal of Holy Name Elementary for ten years before becoming the principal at Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School for the last three years. There are two things I’ve learned about myself in that time: my passion is to work with students at the elementary level to prepare them for future success; and I am needed in the urban community.

As principal, my visibility and rapport with students is one of my greatest strengths. The students will see me and know me. The staff will be supported by me. You will have access to me for conversation which supports our educational and spiritual endeavors.

With a clear set of stated expectations, I will be forthright and direct, compassionate and firm, so your child can reach their true potential to fully utilize their talents and gifts. With Christ as our guide, we will uphold the standards of educational rigor and responsible behaviors. I am eager to meet you, work with you, and guide the community of Saint Leo the Great School to create an environment of academic rigor, social responsibility, and personal faith and pride.

Yours in Christ,

Mr. Lorenzo Jones

PTC FUNDRAISER UPDATE — The “Change” Challenge

PTC FUNDRAISER — The “Change” Challenge A few weeks ago our Parent Teacher Committee hosted a fundraiser within the school of which proceeds would go to the support of Womankind and St. Kizito Foundation. The “Change Challenge” is a Money = Points fundraiser. We invited the students to bring in loose change— anything they could find in-between the couch cushions, in the junk drawer in the kitchen, in the car cupholders, the bottom of Mom’s purse or Dad’s coat pocket (with their permission of course!). Pennies and cash which would count as POSITIVE points for their classroom. If they brought in any silver change—Quarters, Dimes and/or Nickels—they would deposit it into ANOTHER classroom’s coin jar as a way to DEDUCT points from their opponents. This fundraiser went on for 5 days and took an entire week more to count and convert points to find the winner in it all! Watching the playful competition and seeing the ways in which each class was noting the information and guesstimating amounts and forming strategies to increase their chances of winning was SO fun to witness. When PTC completed the counts and announced the winners over the PA System you could hear the excitement and cheering from the whole school all the way from the Front Office as each of the top classrooms were announced. It was such a great energy to behold—to hear the true roars of St. Leo Lions! Ms. Davis's 3rd Grade Class took 1st Place in points and Mr. Oliverio’s 5th Grade class brought in the most positive currency for their class. While each classroom was competing against each other for a Pizza Party—they were fully aware that TOGETHER , as a school, community and pride, they raised close to $1,500 for charity and that those funds were about to help “CHANGE” many lives for the better because of their generosity! PTC was so overwhelmed and grateful to Teachers, Students and Parents alike for their participation that they have decided to reward all the classes with a treat to express their enormous gratitude.

Students strategizing during their lunch break.

Ms. Davis’ 3rd Grade Class

That’s a LOT of change!

The Change Challenge

Parents/Guardians…Have your child(ren) bring in loose change from around the house…have them check those couch cushions, that junk drawer, those car cup holder, the bottom of Mom’s purse, or Dad back pocket (with permission of course :) We are raising money for two beautiful causes that you can familiarize yourself with by clicking the blue buttons below!

We’ve all been in need of financial and spiritual support at one point of another, and been on the receiving end of generosity! Thank you for realizing the importance of paying it forward—thank you for teaching your children how important it is to give back!

Womankind Maternal and Prenatal Care Center was founded in 1975. The dream of Michele Rogers, RN and Elaine Eberlin was to provide a free prenatal clinic staffed primarily by loving and non-judgmental volunteers as the way to meet the medical and emotional needs of women who were pregnant or thought they might be. For nearly 50 years Womankind has been doing just that by providing our free services to women from all over Northeast Ohio who have often lacked the health insurance, financial resources and/or emotional support needed to access traditional care providers. At Womankind, they find care that is confidential, comprehensive and compassionate. We encourage and support each woman who comes to us for care. We do all we can to ensure that no woman faces a pregnancy without hope, help and possibility.

MISSION 

Since 1975, Womankind walks with women along the journey of pregnancy and beyond by providing free prenatal care, personal support, and social services in a caring and non-judgmental environment.

Our Core Values

  • We respect, affirm, and nurture human life in all its stages.

  • We provide confidential, comprehensive, and compassionate care.

  • We create a safe, positive, nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory, and welcoming environment.

  • We treat our clients and each other with sensitivity, kindness, and respect. 

  • We focus our services on the needs of the client and will work collaboratively with community agencies to assure the best possible outcome.

We will…

  • Provide all services and support at no cost to the client.

  • Provide professional, prenatal medical care up to 28 weeks gestation.

  • Provide professional client support services including counseling, advocacy,
    case management, and assistance obtaining essential baby items.

  • At 28 weeks gestation, we will transfer the client to the provider/hospital that will handle her third trimester care and delivery.  After that time, we remain available to assist or refer to the best of our ability, for as long as we are needed.

  • For the client uncertain about continuing her pregnancy, Womankind’s Director of Counseling and Support Services will coordinate counseling to address her particular physical, emotional and material concerns in a manner that is positive and non-judgmental.

In 2001, Fr. Don Dunson traveled to Uganda on an academic sabbatical to visit a fellow priest from seminary. Although the pair had to cut their visit short, the struggles of the children-soldiers swept up into the militia to fight in the civil war moved Fr. Dunson. Additionally, many of these boys' parents perished, leaving nowhere to return home.

Fr. Dunson started the St. Kizito Foundation to help a few boys assimilate and return to society. Since then, this small endeavor has flourished into the St. Kizito Foundation, which has supported thousands of boys and girls in Uganda. Fr. Dunson chose St. Kizito as the patron saint and name for our organization because he was one of a group of Ugandan martyrs who suffered death rather than renounce his Catholic faith. At the time of his death, he was only 14 years old. St. Kizito symbolizes the struggles and unending faith of many students in Uganda.

The St. Kizito Foundation's humble beginnings helping child soldiers at the turn of the 21st century have blossomed into a transatlantic scholarship foundation that supports approximately 300 students annually. Our primary focus is to provide students with appropriate and sufficient education to help them earn a living and attain success in life. Our students enroll in schools of their choice based on school and government standards of acceptance. St. Kizito's counselors and staff assist students to determine the best placement.