From the
Principal's Desk...
Dear Current and Prospective Parents and Students,
Happy February!
I think I say this every
month, but I can’t believe it is already February and we’re looking
ahead to spring. Easter will be here in just seven short weeks and we
have a lot going on at St. Philip in preparation for these blessed
events. First, we will be celebrating Mardi Gras by “Burying the
Alleluia” in a ceremony put together by the Lent Committee. This is a
long-standing St. Philip tradition and it helps us remember that we are
not to rejoice during Lent, but to be prayerful and to prepare ourselves
for the Resurrection of Jesus.
Beginning in Lent
we will have many activities to help us prepare ourselves. Each
Wednesday, our students will be wearing a t-shirt in a given color.
Each color represents
something different.
First they will wear black
to remind us of our sins.
Second they will wear
yellow to represent God’s perfect light.
Third they will wear red
to represent the blood Jesus shed for us.
Fourth they will wear
green to represent the new life we have in Jesus.
Fifth they will wear blue
to represent the baptism that identifies us with Jesus.
Sixth they will wear
purple to represent the Crown of Life and last they will wear white to
represent the cleansing of our sins.
Also on each Wednesday,
beginning with February 13, we will be doing the Stations of the Cross
together in church at 2:15 pm.
On March 19, we will have
the Living Stations put on by the 7th
graders.
On Holy Thursday our
Student Council members will be reenacting the Passover Meal.
On Good Friday we will not
be in school, but as you can see, Lent will be a very busy time for us.
As we begin this
Lenten season, we wish you all time to reflect and pray about what the
coming of Jesus means to you.
We will be keeping you and
yours in our thoughts and prayers throughout this season.
In God’s Love,
Andrea M. Lodato, Principal
About
Our Principal
Hello,
St. Philip Community!
My name is Andrea Lodato and I am the principal of
St. Philip School.
Although I recently moved to Evansville
from Madison,
Wisconsin, I am an
Evansville
native. I grew up on the
east side and attended Good
Shepherd
School and Memorial High School,
where I graduated from in 1996.
I received my degrees in Elementary Education and Spanish from Indiana University
in 2001. I then moved to Wisconsin to begin my career as a bilingual teacher at Frank
Allis
Elementary School.
I spent six years there working and eventually going to back to
school. In May of 2007, I
finished my degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Wisconsin
– Madison.
Although I do not have a lot of free time, I have a lot of
favorite hobbies that keep me busy when I do find a spare minute.
Among those are soccer, swimming, bowling, and reading.
I also enjoy speaking Spanish and traveling and I look for every
opportunity to learn something new.
That’s part of what makes me so excited about education.
We’re all constantly learning here!
