Attendance Policies & Make-Up Work

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Attendance Requirements

For Sunday Catechesis families:

• SESSIONS: Your child must attend at least 80% of the sessions throughout the year (whether family catechesis or regular weekly classes).  If your family misses more than 20% of the sessions, make-up work should be submitted using any of the ways provided in our weekly communications (Flocknotes).

For Wednesday home-study families:

• Attend in-person monthly parent meetings on the 1st Wednesday of every month (children will have peer catechesis during your meeting)
• Attend in-person monthly community meetings the 3rd Wednesday of every month, 4:20--5:30pm in Elmer Great Room; if unable to attend, there will be a make-up requirement.
• Complete the 2 lessons in your A Family of Faith study set each month as laid out; learning objectives for each month are clearly outlined in the materials provided.

Attendance requirements will be monitored especially during the 2 years preceding reception of a Sacrament (typically 1st & 2nd grades for First Communion) as two years of comprehensive catechesis is a Diocesan requirement for Sacrament preparation.  This is in addition to the Sacrament Preparation program that runs concurrently with catechesis in your child's second year.

Make-up work, while suitable in the event of extenuating circumstances, is not ideal and is in no way a replacement for the community building that takes place when we gather in-person.  We will accept any needed make-up work through the end of our fiscal year, June 30th annually.