Back to School News and Changes

Due to Nashville high school and public grade school bus schedules T-SJ will be dismissing Kindergarten- Eighth grade students at 2:00 p.m. each day. All day PreK students have the option of staying until 2:55 p.m. Please communicate with Mrs. Mueller if you would like your child to stay until 2:55 p.m. or if they will be going home at 2 p.m.  

Due to the shortened day grades 5-8 will not have their regularly scheduled Art, Music and Study Hall times.  

We do look forward to offering K-8 students extra assistance and/ or study time from 2:00 - 2:55 p.m on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday each week, if they would like it. Of course, teachers are available until 3:15 all days if a student or parent has a question. If your student needs to stay after school until 2:55, you would need to sign them up and let their teacher know that they will be staying. Then, the student would go to the teacher on duty's classroom for study time and additional help after dismissal. Social distancing and masks will be required. Students would be picked up at the normal car line area at 2:55 p.m. Details on how to sign up will be provided after school begins.

Currently the schedule is: 

K-4 after school study room: 
Monday, Mrs. Backs
Tuesday, Mrs. Eubanks
Thursday, Mrs. J. Lange

5-8 after school study room:
Tuesday, Mrs. Wesseln
Thursday, Mr. Renth 

Staffing Changes:

Mrs. Deb Lange will be unable to be in the classroom with us this year. We will miss her greatly and are extremely thankful that she will still be able to be our Technology and Yearbook Coordinator.  I get the honor of teaching Second Grade Language Arts and Math in addition to being Principal and teaching 7th grade Math. I am excited to get to be in the classroom in the mornings and look forward to another wonderful year at T-SJ!

We welcome Michele Boester to TSJ as our new custodian. Michele is a member of St. John's New Minden and also works as the cook at Trinity Hoyleton. Also joining our staff as teacher aids are: Mrs. Dana Haertling and Mrs. Lindsey Langenfeld. I am very excited to have each of these wonderful ladies as part of our TSJ family! 

Please join us virtually on Sunday August 9th at 3p.m. for our Back to School Celebration Service! The service will be shared on T-SJ's Facebook page at 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.

Monday, August 10th, grades 1-8 will have parent meetings. One parent from each household should attend. Meetings will be held in their student's classroom. Grades 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 have two meetings to choose from to help families with more than one child. Grade 3 will meet at 6 and Grade 4 meets at 7 p.m. 
Grades 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 will meet at 6 p.m.
Grades 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 will meet at 7 p.m. 
Our first day of school will be Wednesday August 12th from 8-2p.m. We are so excited to see each of our students. Parents of students in grades 1-8 are not allowed to walk in the school building. Students will need to walk to their classrooms on their own and should enter through the gym doors. Students in PreK and Kindergarten may have a parent or caregiver walk them to their classroom door, however they should enter through the glass doors on the North side of the building. Anyone entering the building will have their temperature taken and will not be allowed to enter if they have a fever of 100.4 or higher. 
Our school opens at 7:30 a.m. each day and students will go directly to their classrooms after having their temperature taken and washing their hands. There will be no walk and talk offered at this time. 
Please contact me at principal@tsjlutheran.org or at 327- 8561 if you have any questions or concerns. 
in Christ, 
Mrs. Kurtz