• 7:45-8:00 AM - Students arrive and prepare for first class.Car riders enter through the main entrance. Bus riders enter through the old entrance.
• 8:05 AM - School begins. Students are considered tardy to school unless they are in the homeroom by 8:05 am. Students arriving after 9:30 am will be considered absent for half the day. 
• 11:10-11:55 AM - First lunch period for students in Grades K, 1, and 2.
• 11:35 AM-12:20 PM - Second lunch period for students in Grades 6, 7, and 8.
• 12:00-12:45 PM - Third lunch period for students in Grades 3, 4, and 5.
• 2:55-3:00 PM - Dismissal.

Office Hours: The School Secretary is available for business on schools days between the hours of 7:30am and 3:30pm. 

All absences should be reported to the school office by telephone. Calls are to be made before 8:30 am. If the absence is not reported, the home of the absent child will be called to verify the reason for the absence. A dated note of excuse must also be presented to the student's homeroom teacher on the day of return. Any student who has an excused absence may receive credit for made-up assignments.

In conjunction with WWJ Newsradio, you can log on to the school closing network program at www.schoolclosed.com. At this site, you can also register to receive an e-mail alert when school is closed. Click on the link above for more information.

Homework may be assigned on weekends when the teacher feels it is necessary. Weekends may also be used for completion of make-up work or working on long-range projects.

St. Fabian students receive homework appropriate to their grade level. The same guidelines established for "classwork" will apply to homework.

Late assignments NEED not be accepted (except for excused absences). Individual teacher policies regarding late assignments are distributed at the beginning of the year at Parent Night.

The Elementary Music program recognizes that music is a unique language for communicating ideas, feelings and different ways of knowing about oneself and the world.  Music engages the whole individual in the acts of creating and performing, and involves the intellectual, the intuitive, the emotional and the physical being.  Music helps develop teamwork, collaboration, flexibility, appreciation, respect for others’ ideas and personal expressions.  Music’s richness and its contribution to thinking and learning make it an essential part of the human experience.  The St. Fabian music curriculum, using the National, State and Archdiocesan standards, strives to develop the whole child by focusing on three standard areas:

PERFORMING:    Applying the necessary skills and knowledge to aid in the performance of music.  All children in General   Music classes will prepare for and perform in a music assembly at least once during the school year.

CREATING:   Apply the skills and knowledge necessary to create music.  This would include note reading, usage of solfege symbols in singing (do, re, mi), identifying basic dynamic and tempo indications, the use of echo singing, rhythm/melodic instruments, instrument demonstrations,  listening skills and basic music terminology.

ANALYZING IN CONTEXT:   To be able to analyze, describe and evaluate works of music.

THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE RECORDER CLASS:  All third and fourth grade general music students will be learning to play the recorder.  In addition to a “hands on” musical experience, the students will also be learning and reinforcing the basic skills of note reading and rhythmic values.

• by providing intellectual and physical access to materials in all formats, 
• by providing instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using information and ideas, and 
• by working with other educators to design learning strategies to meet the needs of individual students. 

--Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs (1988), p.1

St. Fabian’s library media center is a dynamic and user-friendly place. Students use the library for instruction, research, homework, both individual and group study, checking out/returning materials, leisure reading, and computer work. Elementary students visit once a week and return their materials the next week. Middle school students visit the library every other week through their literature classes returning materials on their next visit. All students are welcome to “stop in” with permission from their teachers. Fines are .05 / day. Materials must be returned and all fines paid before students may check out again. Accelerated Reader is a big part of the Library experience for 3rd and 4th grades with an introduction to 2nd grade the last marking period of the year. 

The library maintains over 13,000 print materials, CD-ROMs, the Internet, and Internet-based databases selected specifically to fill the academic and leisure reading needs of students and faculty. Additionally, the library media center houses a network of five fully automated Internet accessible computers which allows access to World Book Online, United Steaming, Enchanted Learning, and the AccessMichigan databases (including Electric Library, FirstSearch, InfoTrac, Kids InfoBits, SIRS Discoverer, and more). Sagebrush Corporation Spectrum software drives the automation system and there is filtering/monitoring software for the Internet.

It is mandatory for St. Fabian families to complete a minimum of 30 hours (15 per each half of the year) of parent involvement per year in one or more of the schools  activities. For families unable to fulfill the time required, a fee per hour system has been devised. This enables each family to contribute in an integral and valuable manner. Involved parents bridge the link between teachers and students and provide vitality and new ideas to the school. In addition, parent involvement allows St. Fabian's tuition to remain low by avoiding additional salaries.

Each family is responsible to track, input, and review their own PIP hours. Coordinators and timekeepers will not do this task for you. We strongly recommend that you input your hours into the system as soon you complete them.

The web address is www.stfabianpip.org. 

Parents provide lunch supervision and are assigned cafeteria and playground duty every day. It is our responsibility to provide the children of St. Fabian an enjoyable and safe lunchtime experience.

Through our observance, we can appreciate how a Catholic school education enriches the lives of our students and their families. An open house is scheduled during this week. This is our opportunity to remind you of the rich, multi-faceted education students enjoy. In addition, Catholic Schools Week demonstrates how our programs produce individuals who are prepared, both academically and spiritually, to have a positive impact on the lives of others.

Field Day also gives the parents an opportunity to become involved. The success of this program is due to the parents, who make up a 70 person work force, necessary to make this the favorable day it has been!