The Buzz

Greetings SBPS Parents and Friends:

Tonight our middle school will be treated to the 2025 Spooktacular Dance and Haunted Hallway. Thank you to the HSA and the Middle School Teachers for providing this wonderful evening. Tomorrow, we celebrate Halloween! We plan to have a costume parade for grades K-5 around 2:30PM. Please join us before dismissal for a great show of goblins and ghouls. Thanks to all the parent volunteers and HSA who will be assisting with the Halloween festivities.

Next week, we will be hosting an all school requiem Mass to remember our family members and friends who have died. Parents are welcome to attend. Teachers should have communicated the day and time for this Mass. Please feel free to join us for this solemn Mass.

We have some opportunities coming up for parents to grow in faith. We will be kicking off Be Still Fridays on Friday, November 7. From 2-4PM, we will open up the church for people to come in and spend some time in prayer. We’ll leave the side door in between the rectory and church open. Come in before dismissal and enjoy some prayerful peace. Or, head on over to church after you pick up your children and spend 5-10 minutes in quiet prayer as a family. We know many of you get here early for dismissal. Instead of sitting in your car and scrolling through the Internet, why not spend a little time with our Lord?

Additionally, Father Rayan will be leading an adult workshop on the Power of Prayer on Tuesday, November 11. This is a great gift to give yourself, especially as we look forward to the coming Advent season.

We will be doing our annual lockdown drill on Tuesday, November 4. The teachers will be reviewing safety procedures with their homerooms on Friday and Monday. Please see below for more information regarding the drill.

We will also be hosting a parent coffee on the topic of mental health, how to recognize early warning signs and how to seek resources. The parent session is on Thursday, November 13th in the upper school library. There’s no charge, but we’d like guests to register so we can plan accordingly. See more information below.

There’s no school on Friday, November 7th for a professional development day. Our teachers will spend the morning receiving training on how to complete the report card using the new scoring system. In the afternoon, we will spend time with our next steps of the DePaul RISE DE&I training. We are hosting a day off basketball camp on this day for grades 1-7. Please check out information below on how to register.

Finally, don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour on Sunday. We hope you enjoy the extra hour this weekend. I think we can all use it!

Have a happy and safe Halloween.

There’s a lot more important information below. Be sure to check out the following:

• Lockdown Drill on November 4, 2025

• Be Still Fridays - Church open on Fridays from 2-4PM

• Candy Drive for the Troops

• Veteran’s Day Mass - November 11, 2025 - All Veteran’s Invited

Please find listed below important dates:

• October 31, 2025 - Halloween Festivities

• November 1, 2025 - All Saints Day

• November 2, 2025 - All Souls Day Mass at 5PM

• November 2, 2025 - Daylight Saving Time Ends

• November 3-6, 2025 - Candy Drive for the Troops

• November 4, 2025 - School-wide Lockdown drill for all grades

• November 5, 2025 - HSA Spirit Shop Sale from 2-6PM

• November 7, 2025 - No School on Friday, November 7 for a Professional Development Day

• November 7, 2025 - Grades 1-8 LVL Day off Camp -see registration below

• November 7, 2025 - Be Still Fridays - Church open for quiet prayer from 2-4PM

• November 9, 2025 - Blood Drive at St. Ben’s Church - see information below

• November 11, 2025 - The Power of Prayer by Father Ryan - Adult Faith Formation at 7PM

• November 13, 2025 - Mom’s Night Out by HSA

• November 13, 2025 - It Takes a Village:  Recognizing Early Signs of Mental Health Challenges in Our Youth

    & Open Q&A - Parent Coffee from 8:15 -9:15AM

• November 14, 2025 - PK-8 Open House for Prospective Families from 8:30AM to 10AM

• November 14, 2025 - Be Still Fridays - Church open for quiet prayer from 2-4PM

• November 18, 2025 - 8th Grade Parent Confirmation Meeting at 7PM

• November 21, 2025 - Be Still Fridays - Church open for quiet prayer from 2-4PM

May God be with us always!

Ms. Rachel Gemo, Head of School

Ms. Gemo’s Prayer Corner

Prayer for the Faithful Departed

O God, the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful,
grant to the souls of Your departed servants
the remission of all their sins,
that through our devout prayers,
they may obtain the pardon they have always desired.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.