Documents and Downloads
H&S Board Elections (May 2012)-Candidates Sheet
The purpose of our Lunch Program is to provide a safe environment for our children during their school lunch and recess periods by recruiting and scheduling parents to monitor those periods. While younger students are eating lunch, older students are enjoying recess. They then switch. Each parent will receive $10 per day for days worked, payable monthly. Please read our monitor guidelines and use the LP form (above) to “sign up” for the program. Thank you for your support and active participation!
May 2012 Lunch Parent Schedule
Middle States Reaccreditation
As you may (or should) know, Good Shepherd Catholic Regional School is in the process of being reaccredited by the Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools. This is a years-long process.
Because Queen of Peace and St. John of the Cross Catholic Schools were fully-accredited schools at the time of our merger in 2010, Good Shepherd Catholic has inherited accredited status. (You can search for – and find! – our school listing here.)
The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association dedicated to educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation. The Middle States Association is responsible for accrediting educational institutions in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The Middle States Association is made up of three accrediting Commissions; the Commission on Elementary Schools, the Commission on Secondary Schools, and the Commission on Higher Education.
The Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools (MSCES) – and its predecessor, the Assembly of Elementary Schools – has provided accreditation protocols to schools since 1978. These protocols rely on the concepts of peer evaluation and self-regulation to provide continuous school improvement.
Right now, Good Shepherd Catholic is in the “self study” phase of the MSCES reaccreditation process. The first document to come out of the school committees that are meeting (Steering, Philosophy and Community) is GSC’s Mission/Belief Statements. You may be familiar with the school’s Mission Statement, found on the Home Page of this (the school’s) Website. The “Belief Statement” goes into more detail about each of the four points of the Mission Statement (God + Scholarship + Community + Service).
You can read/download that document by clicking on the link below.
Thank you for your interest! We will post additional Middle States updates for school parents on this Home and School Web page as they become available.
GSC Mission and Belief Statements for MSCES
In October, an online survey opened for parents, to give them a “voice” in the self study process. You can learn more about this survey by clicking on the link below and opening and reading the Word® document. Parents have until November 30, 2011 to access and to participate in this survey.