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St. Mark's Campus
March 28, 2025
All Campuses
Grandparents’ Day 2025-2026 will be held the first week of November 2025. Specific dates and times will vary by campus. Details will be updated as the school year begins.
Complete updates by September 1 to ensure grandparents receive all communications including the Grandparents’ Day invitation mailing that will provide them with additional details for each campus.
To update grandparent information in My ESJ:
Log in to the My ESJ Parent Portal
Click on “Update My Profile” located under My Tools
Click on “Grandparent Households” to update their information
New This Week
ESJ, St. Mark’s Campus summer program, Camp Create, has space for rising Pre-K 4 and Kindergarten ESJ students. A la carte registration allows parents to choose the week(s) they wish to register their child for camp.
Practical, Evidence-Based Methods for Toilet Training Success
Friday, April 11
8:15 – 9:15 a.m.
Episcopal School of Jacksonville
Steve Williams Library & Learning Center
ELP 1 and 2 families are invited to learn from Lauren Gianino and Colleen Taylor, Board Certified Behavior Analysts. Lauren has been practicing in the field for the past twenty years, serving as a teacher, therapist, school consultant, parenting coach, and job coach for individuals with disabilities, ages two through adulthood. She is now the Clinical Director of Strategies for Social Success, LLC. Colleen is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who has worked in Applied Behavior Analysis for 12 years. She has many years of experience coaching parents on evidence-based methods for toilet training.
ELP 2 – Kindergarten Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Schedule
8:15 a.m. – Check-in in front of the school and retrieve students* from classrooms. Student ambassadors will be present to assist guests in locating classrooms.
* Kindergarten students will meet grandparents outside the church. Grandparents do not need to retrieve them from classrooms.
8:25 a.m. – Chapel in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. – Refreshments in the Lori Schiavone Commons
9:15 – 9:30 a.m. – Visit homeroom classroom(s)
If guests have grandchildren or special friends in first – fifth grade, they can enjoy refreshments in the Lori Schiavone Commons before meeting older students outside the church for Chapel at 9:45 a.m.
First – Fifth Grade Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Schedule
9:45 a.m. – Meet grandchildren or special friends outside St. Mark’s Episcopal Church for Chapel
10:00 a.m. – Chapel in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. – Refreshments in the Lori Schiavone Commons
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. – Campus tours. Students will have passports to assist in guiding guests to their homeroom and enrichment classrooms.
Please help us welcome grandparents and special friends to our beautiful campus.
Preparing for the Transition to Middle School: What to Expect and How ESJ Can Help
For Fifth Grade Parents
Thursday, May 1
8:30 – 9:30 am
Steve Williams Library and Learning Center
Panel Discussion and Q&A
- Paige McGee, Head of Middle School
- Christy Hodges, Dean of Student Life
- Amy Perkins, Director of Student Services
- David Berry, Counselor
- Dr. Elise Fallucco, Director of Health, Safety and Wellbeing Programming
Reminders
2024-2025 Important Upcoming Calendar Dates
- May 16 – Chapel in the Park
- May 16 – Moms’ Night Out
- May 16 – Uniform Recycle Event (7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
- May 20 – Field Day
- May 21 – Splash Into Summer
- May 21 – Fifth Farewell Reception
- May 22 – Fifth Grade Celebration Ceremony (9:00 a.m., Church)
- May 23 – Trimester 3 Ends
- May 23 – Early Dismissal (Noon). Eagle Afternoon Program Closed.
- May 26-30 – Memorial Day and Post-Planning – School and Extended Day Closed
- June 2 – First week of Camp Create
Pre-K 3—Grade 5 students receive a book for their birthday that is added to the Steve Williams Library Collection. Please be on the lookout for an email from Mrs. Trumpler regarding book selection. After a special bookplate is placed in the book, it will be blessed at the Birthday Chapel. Your child will be the first person to check out the book, and we ask them to return it after reading it for a few weeks so other children can enjoy it! Please join us at their special birthday Chapel.
8:25 a.m.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
April and May Birthdays
- April 14 (Grades 1-5)
- April 23 (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
Each month, first – fifth grade students are recognized by peers and teachers for demonstrating qualities of the Fruit of the Spirit that the Apostle Paul writes about in his letter to the church in Galatia. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23. Parents are welcome to attend these afternoon gatherings, as they are all Chapels and gatherings.
Wednesdays at 2:30 p.m.
Lori Schiavone Commons
- May 14 – Fruit of Self-Control Gathering