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Sacred Heart Catholic School
Knightly News
November 12, 2014
PRINCIPAL CORNER
at the time, with all the transitions going on in my
own life). He shared a “top ten” list for bringing
joy to one’s life. He encouraged kindness and
I hope your family enjoyed a day out of school on
humility, ensuring leisure time, avoiding gossip
November 11, and perhaps also found an opporand negativity, working for peace, and adhering
tunity to in some special way honor those who
have served and sacrificed for our country, as vet- to the adage, “live and let live.”. The list resonated with me, and certainly aligns with our mission
erans of our armed forces.
here at SHCS. You can read the Catholic News
Today, we begin our second round of schoolwide
Service article at http://www.cathlicnews.com/
standardized assessments. Over the next couple data/stories/cns/1403144.htm and you can visit
of weeks, each student will again complete a short our Facebook page at https://
computer-adaptive test in math and reading, utiliz- www.facebook.com/pages/Sacred-Hearting STAR Assessments. The data gained will help Catholic-School/107530251274.
illuminate trends, both at the individual and sysThanks for your ongoing partnership and suptemic level, to inform ongoing adjustments to inport, and I wish you and your family a most
struction--towards improving student achievement. As a school staff, we are excited about the blessed week.
power of this information, and, digging deeper into See you in school,
the data and its use is a central professional dePatrick
velopment focus for us this year. You can review
Sacred Heart Auction
the parent’s guide at http://doc.renlearn.com/
KMNet/R0054872491706A8.pdf.
Just 4 months and counting until our “Knight”
in the Caribbean”!!
Thanks to all who took the time to complete our
Here are a few ways you can help out for the
SAC survey--we are tabulating the results, which
upcoming event on 3-7-15:
will inform our ongoing strategic planning,
now. Watch your email for an announcement
Donate money to help underwrite some of
about our scrip/gift card raffle drawing, coming up
the live auction packages that we
very soon.
sell. Underwriters are recognized in the
I would like to highlight a couple of changes we
auction catalog.
are implementing as we collaboratively work to
Donate airline miles to cover airfare for trip
improve our program : the Open House, which
packages.
has traditionally been an opportunity for fifth gradThink of the businesses you frequent [car
ers to learn more about the middle school, schedwash/restaurants/dry cleaner] and ask
uled this year for Friday, November 24, is canthen to donate to the auction.
celed. The Middle School Dance that evening,
Think of the services you utilize [plumber,
which will include 5th graders, will proelectrician, contractor, painter, gardenceed. Additionally, that evening at 6pm, 5th grade
er, nail tech, house cleaner] and ask
parents are invited to meet with me as a group, to
them to donate.
follow up on our back-to-school night meeting. We
If
you
purchase a car, a TV, a couch…ask
will have a larger scale Open House for the genthat business to donate something to the
eral public in January. Also, while the K-8 Awards
Ceremony scheduled for December 4 will take
auction.
place as scheduled, please be advised that the
Your help is always greatly appreciated. The
format will be streamlined.
auction is ALWAYS a fun night and we hope
Finally this week, I wanted to share something I
you will attend OR volunteer on March 7th, 2015
enjoyed, that came across my Facebook, this
at 5:00pm.
week. You might know that I am a fan of Jesuit
ideology, and that I have two pictures above my
CIVIL WAR DAY/ SPIRIT DAY
desk, one of St. Ignatius and one of Pope Francis.
Your final Jog A Thon spirit day [from PrinciIn that light, I especially liked learning about an
interview our pontiff gave with the Argentine publi- pal Gross when the school hit the $50,000 mark]
will be a CIVIL WAR day on Tuesday, Novemcation Viva, back in July (I must have missed it
ber 25th. You can wear Duck or Beaver jersey/
Dear Sacred Heart Family,
THIS WEEK
Nov. 12-18, 2014
Wednesday 11-12
7:45 AM-9 AM: Scr ip
Free Dress Day for JAT recipients
2:15 PM Dismissal
Thursday 11-13
2:30-3:30 PM: Scr ip
4 PM: Boys BB VS St. Mar y’s
Friday 11-14
7:45-9 AM: Scr ip
Saturday 11-15
6:30-8 PM: Bingo in gym
Sunday 11-16
Monday 11-17
7:45-9 AM: Scr ip
4 PM: Boys BB VS New Hope
Tuesday 11-18
2 PM: PTL Meeting
First Day of Book Fair
2:30-3:30 PM: Scr ip
Mark the Date
Nov. 18-26– Scholastic Bookfair
Tues, Nov. 25-Sprit/Civil War
Day
Fri. Nov. 21-MS Dance and 5th
Grade Meeting
Wed. Nov 26-8:30 AM -All
School Mass
Wed. Nov. 26-11:45 AM Dismissal—Start of Thanksgiving
Holiday
Wed. Nov. 26-End of First Trimester
Thur. Fri, Nov. 27-28– No
school Thanksgiving Holiday
Thurs, Dec 4– 2 PM: K-8 Fall
Awards in gym
Fri, Dec. 5-All School Mass
12 Noon-MS Chorale sings at
Festival of Trees
Mon, Dec. 15-6:30 PM MS
Christmas Program at Parish
Hall
Tues, Dec. 16 -6 PM– PS-K
Christmas Program in gym
Wed, Dec. 17-6 PM-1st-5th
Grade Christmas Program in
gym
team color tee shirt with jeans. No face/body paint or colored
hair.
Congratulations to our whole school for
doing such an amazing job with the 2014 Jog A Thon!
LeeAnn Loftin
SHCS Events Coordinator
Work: (541) 772-4105 ext. 119
Cell: (541) 261-4130
All the baskets will be taken over to the parish office by our
middle school students on Monday, November 24th. and
handed out to needy families who contact the parish.
SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR
The Scholastic Book Fair will arrive on
November
18th! Volunteer to be a cashier and
Middle School Sports
Boys basketball kicked off their season against experience the joy of helping Sacred Heart students
Ruch at home. Both teams lost, but performed shop for that special book! Call or email Suzie for a
valiantly and learned a lot from their first
shift. Shifts are 1 to 2 hours. The fair will be on school days beginning
game. Their next two games are at home this the 18th of November from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM. The last day of the
Thursday, Nov 13 and Monday, Nov. 17.
fair is November 25th! Suzie Schweitzer sschweitzer@shcs.org
Sacred Heart Cross Country Competes in
USATF Championship Meet
This past weekend 7 members of the girls cross country team traveled to Western Oregon University to
compete in the USATF Oregon Association Championship Meet. The girls competed against runners from
all over the state of Oregon. After extending their season and practicing for two additional weeks, the girls were ready to
go! For the first time this season, the girls ran in separate races,
determined by age. In the first race, girls 9-10, Sacr ed Hear t was
represented by Kaylee Parent, Katie Erno, and Evalina Kruger.
Kaylee Parent led the gir ls placing 18th out of 31 and r unning a
personal best time of the season, in spite of a long course!!!
Evalina and Katie finished 22nd and 24th respectively with times
near their personal best. Taking the extras distance of the course
into consideration, both girl ran personal bests times of the season.
Emma Schmerbach, Riley Fox and Audrey Mills r epr esented
Sacred Heart in the second race, girls 11-12. Once again Emma
Schmerbach led the team with an outstanding race. Pushed
from the very start, Emma battled the course with another runner,
running neck and neck the entire race. The two girls raced side by
side coming into the homestretch, with Emma only being overtaken
in the final meters of the race to finish in second place by only one
second. It was a thr illing r ace to watch and the fatigue in both
girls was very evident. In the same race, Riley Fox also ran strong
finishing 26th out of 50 in a time of 13:59, a per sonal best when
taking the longer distance into consideration, while Audrey Mills ran
a hard race finishing in 17:30.
In the third race of the day, lone runner Sierra-Nicole Grunwald
represented Sacred Heart in the 13-14 girls race. Due to the age of
the runners the length of the course was lengthened from 3000 meters to 4000 meters. Running in her first 4000 meter race Sierra
competed the course in 22:28.
All seven girls did a tremendous job representing the spirit of Scared
Heart and Cross Country. They made their coach (me!) very
proud!!! Vicki Boyer
Fourth Grade Tour
4th grade took the Harry & David factory
tour this week as part of a study of Oregon
products and economy. The class saw
Moose Munch, truffles, and many bakery
items being produced. The gift tower and
basket packing was very fascinating, especially to see just how
fast some of the packers are! The students also watched pears,
an important Rogue Valley crop, being sorted, wrapped and
packed into boxes.
IMMUNIZATIONS
All students in 7th grade are required to have a TDap immunization. All kindergarten students need to have a 5th
Dtap, 4th Polio, & 2nd MMR immunization. If children are not
correctly immunized by Feb 18, they will not be allowed in
school until correctly immunized. This is mandated by the
Jackson County Health Dept.
SCRIP
38 days til Christmas!!
Why not take care of your Christmas List and fulfill your
Scrip obligation by purchasing gift cards before you do your
gift-buying?
Check out the Retailer List at www.shopwithscrip.com to find
additional gift cards you can order for example: Disney, American
Girl, Hyatt Hotels, Nike, Cabela's, Celebrity Cruise Line, L.L. Bean,
Pottery Barn and many others.
In the event of severe inclement weather
(including icy roads) Sacred Heart Catholic
School follows School District 549C’s
(Medford Public School District) closure policy. Even if Sacred Heart is not mentioned in the announcement,
if Medford Public School is closed or delayed, we will also be
closed or delayed. Please listen (or watch) local
TV and radio stations.
Thanksgiving Food Baskets
If there is a closure or delay, Daycare will follow the same proceWe are continuing with our annual school-wide service produre so PLEASE DO NOT DROP OFF YOUR CHILD AT THE
ject. Each class will put together a food basket or two with
SCHOOL as there will be no Daycare.
a Thanksgiving meal.
If you’re still not sure, you can get on our website at
Forms were sent home last week with items
www.shcs.org or the website for 549C at
Medford.k12.or.us
to purchase assigned to your child.
Please return the money and food to your
classrooms by Friday, November 21st.
SPIRIT SHIRTS TO SELL
Mrs. Fry has a YOUTH MEDIUM and YOUTH LARGE shirt to sell. The
cost is $25 per shirt. These may be worn on designated SPIRIT DAYS.