Gator Bites Newsletter February 20, 2018

Our school wide virtue this week is:  FORTITUDE FORTITUDE is the virtue that enables us to act bravely in the face of trouble and fear.  “Be strong and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord, your God, is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

St. Michael's Bead Drive TOMORROW! 8:00 am-8:45 am Bring your beads, stuffed animals or trinkets to SCS morning drop off! *Please separate beads & trinkets/stuffed animals.

Dear 6th and 7th grade parents:   SCS will be offering Scoliosis testing on Tuesday, February 27, 2018. Permission slips went home this week. Please return the permission slip to your child’s homeroom teacher by Friday, February 23rd .    Thank you! Healthy Kids Commitee Click here for a copy of the permission slip.

SCS Shamrock Tennis Tournament Take the day off and grab a Partner for the annual SCS Shamrock Tennis Tournament at City Park Tennis Facility Wednesday March 14, 2018 .  No Partner, no Problem! Sign up to participate in our three hour clinic with a tennis professional. Sign up online at Click here to sign up!    Food-Fun-Prizes-DJ Sponsorship opportunities available. We are in need of Parade of Prizes & food and beverage donations . Please contact Jessica Couret: [email protected] or Celynn Ducasse: [email protected]

SCS Book Fair March 1-9 School Library   Mark your calendar and plan to visit our school book fair! Click here for a schedule of times each class will visit the book fair.   The book fair will also be open after the 4PM Mass on Saturday, March 3 and after the 9AM and 11am Mass on Sunday, March 4. Family Night is Tuesday, March 6 from 4PM-6PM.

Our SCS Lenten offering will be participating in Operation Rice Bowl. This is a program through Catholic Relief Services to fight world hunger and educate others on the issue. Each homeroom and Middle School religion class will have a rice bowl that we will work together to fill with a financial offering. We will also follow lesson plans based on a different country struggling with hunger each week. We will finish with the USA. We encourage families to decide to put aside a quarter or some change to donate each time they offer a Lenten sacrifice. This ties our FASTING to our ALMSGIVING and reminds us to PRAY. Let's remind and encourage one another to participate fully and have a holy Lent!

Please join our team SCS Gators when you register online. There is a prize for the elementary school with the most participants.

SCS Summer Camp Session 1: June 11 - 22  Session 2: June 25 - July 6   (Camp Holiday on July 4)  Click here to learn more about the SCS Summer Camp!

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Travel to Italy and/or France! Summer 2019! Mr. Hernandez invites parents with children in grades 7-11 interested in either traveling to France for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasions where we will have the opportunity to stand on the beaches where the invasion took place exactly 75 years to the day after they took place as well as tour Paris in June of 2019 or Italy where we will visit cities such as Rome, Siena and Florence in July of 2018 to reach out to him. Family members above the age of 18 are are also invited to tag along. You can receive more information by either emailing Mr. Hernandez at [email protected] or visiting the New Orleans Youth Travel facebook page he manages that you can find by going to www.facebook.com/neworleansyouthtravel/

Child Care Volunteers Needed Volunteers are needed to assist with the Sunday child care at both the 9:00 and 11:00 masses as well as 10:00 for the RCIA candidates. Volunteers must be in 5th grade or higher. Adults are also encouraged to help out. Service hours are available to those who need them. Those interested should contact Madilyn Schneller at [email protected].

Middle School Concessions at Recess Concessions available to Middle School during middle school recess EVERY Thursday. Everything is $1.00. All proceeds benefit the SCS Athletics department.

Cafeteria News The SCS Hot Lunch Program does not allow students to charge the school when money is not available in their lunch account.   Click here to add money to your student's lunch account.