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Dear Faculty and Staff of Sts. Joseph and John School: I wanted to take this opportunity to share some news with you. I have already shared this with the St. Joseph Parish Staff and shared this with the parishioners of St. Joseph Parish last weekend, but I wanted you to hear this news directly from me. As I approach the 17th anniversary of my priestly ordination Saturday, the time has come for me to begin a new season in my priesthood. Just after our Principal Search Committee began its work, Bishop Malesic asked me to come downtown and discuss a change [...]

Dear Parents, May is off to a great start at SJJ!  We will continue this week with more busy days full of activities. Please note that on Wednesday students are encouraged to DRESS UP for our whole school May Crowning. CONGRATULATIONS to our second graders who made their First Communion this weekend.  Also, CONGRATULATIONS to our grade eight students who made their Confirmation last weekend or who will be celebrating the Sacrament this week. Please keep them in your prayers. Our students are continuing to show growth on their MAP assessments! They will be taking the last assessment this week. The Spring [...]

May is here and if your house is anything like mine, your child knows EXACTLY how many school days are left until the last day of school!  (Hint—it’s 14.5!) As my term as President is expiring this month after 4 years, I wanted to take a quick moment to thank the other Members of the PTU Board as well as our Committee Chairs, Teacher Liaisons as well as Mrs. Francis for the incredible collaboration and support over the years.  I’ve been on the Executive Board in various roles since my youngest Daughter Kate was in Kindergarten (now in 5th grade) and oldest [...]

Dear Parents, We are pleased to announce that Sts. Joseph and John School has recently been awarded an Ohio K-12 School Safety Grant for $100,000.00! Ohio Governor Mike DeWine awarded more than $42 million to Ohio schools. We are beyond excited to receive this grant and to begin planning for safety and security upgrades at SJJ school.  To immediately begin the process, we are fortunate to have already planned for the Strongsville Police Department to come in May 8th and meet with our teachers and staff.  We will be spending time reflecting upon the recent events happening in our world and reviewing [...]

Sts. Joseph and John CYO Athletics –2023 – 2024 Fall Sports Season   Hello Viking Families,   As we begin to wind down the school year and look forward to summer, it’s that time again to think about  fall sports. At this time, CYO has not published any official starting dates for Fall sports practices and  game schedules will be released much later in the summer. However, going off past years, I do not  anticipate any official sports practices beginning before July 24, 2023.   REGISTRATION FOR FALL SPORTS WILL OPEN ON MAY 1, 2023!   Please visit www.sjjathletics.com for a list of sports [...]

April 19, 2023  Dear Sts. Joseph and John Community:  We pray this update finds all of you well and enjoying the ever-changing spring weather  in Northeast Ohio. The Principal Search Committee wanted to provide some updates regarding  the Sts. Joseph and John School principal search.   We thank you for sharing insight with members of the committee and for your  participation in completing the principal survey. In total, 150 responses were collected: 25  faculty, 119 parents and 6 parishioners. We want to assure you that all survey comments submitted by the school staff, families and parish community have been shared with the  [...]

Dear Parents and Students of SJJ, Saint Joseph Parish has recently taken part in helping to bring a refugee family from Ukraine to the US. Currently, the family is getting settled in a home and beginning to adjust to their abrupt, new normal. As you recall, SJJ school took part in a Lenten Service Learning Project to help this family. Monetary donations were collected each Friday during Lent and your generosity was overwhelming. In addition to the weekly collections, SJJ students had the opportunity to participate in creating and participating in spiritual bouquets for the family in their Religion classes and [...]

Dear Parents, I hope you all had a fantastic Easter!  We are eager to get back to school and finish the year strong. A few of our classes are taking their learning outside of the classroom this week. Our 4th Graders will be taking a day trip and touring OHIO which is part of the 4th grade Social Studies Curriculum. They will begin the trip in Chillicothe with a walking tour of the Serpent Mound then continue over to the Adena Mansion. From there they head north to Columbus to continue their trip. Our 7th Grade students have been reading the book A Long [...]

Dear Parents, Thank you to all of you who made time this past week to come and see our 4th graders at their Wax Museum.  They did a fantastic job!  Also, thank you to those who came to watch our 8th graders reenact the Stations of the Cross in a such a beautiful, prayerful way. Please be sure to look at the attachment that explains an exciting addition to our iXL program in conjunction with our MAP data.  The students now have Personalized Skill Plans on iXL that focus on their strengths and areas of improvement based on their specific MAP results.  We [...]