EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS TOMORROW, JANUARY 30th
Register by tomorrow and you are guaranteed a pink Team SCM t-shirt and the option to pick up your race packet at school.
Also, all registration fees increase by $10 beginning Friday, January 31st, so don't wait. Register now!
Our finish line banner is filling up with pink shoes - 133 as of this afternoon - and we s
till have plenty of time to reach our goal of charging into race day
415
team members strong!
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Steps 4 Students supports the
SCM Tuition Assistance Program
, which provides tuition aid directly to St. Catherine's families. Our goal is to raise
$10,000
in registration fees and donation dollars. Help make a positive impact on our community by joining Team SCM, spreading the word, and making a donation!
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Remember: Sign up by Thursday to lock in early registration rates.
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Thursday, January 30
- Last day of Early Registration for Steps 4 Students
- Great Conversations Volunteer Meeting, 8:30 AM (Gym)
- Montessori Night School, 5:30 – 8:00 PM
Friday, January 31
- Friends of the Garden Teaching Day, after drop-off (Welcome)
- Yearbook PDA Deadline
Saturday, February 1
- Sociable: Family Yoga, 10:00 – 11:30 AM (Welcome Center)
Sunday, February 2
- Sociable: Lunar New Year 2020, 2:00 – 4:30 PM (Gym)
Tuesday, February 4
- Friends of the Library Work Day, after drop-off (Library)
Wednesday, February 5
- Christian Meditation for Parents, 8:05 – 8:25 AM (Atrium)
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MONTESSORI EDUCATION IS KEY TO SUCCESS IN COLLEGE
Dear Parents,
I just returned from a counselor visit to Southwestern University and am happy to report that what I learned affirmed what we are doing at all levels of St. Catherine’s.
A faculty panel was asked to describe what skills students need for college. These were their responses:
Time management
– how to plan and pace work during the week and how to focus on quality of study rather than quantity.
Confidence to advocate for themselves
– students need to be unafraid to talk to adults, especially their professors.
Independence
– how to generate one’s own plans and possibilities.
Reading & Writing
– being comfortable with a high volume of reading, writing and critical thinking, not the regurgitation of facts that is so common in many high school curricula.
Moderate amount of AP courses only
- many students are arriving on campuses “mentally exhausted” from high school and colleges have to “undue that damage.” Another comment related to high school was, “Why are students in such a hurry? We need to slow down.”
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Montessori Night School is
TOMORROW, Thursday, January 30
. The evening is an opportunity for parents to see Montessori work in action, as Primary and Lower Elementary children will show you their classrooms and demonstrate the lessons they are learning. In Mr. Chris’s and Mr. Snow’s Upper Elementary classrooms the students will host a state fair and a geography fair.
The
Primary
classrooms will be open from 5:30 to 6:45 PM for parents to spend a brief period in their child’s environment. The
Upper Elementary
classrooms will be open from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Lower Elementary
parents will visit the classrooms between 6:00 and 7:50 PM in two 50-minute groups. Lower EL parents received emails with information on how to sign up for your group time slot.
Free childcare will be available in the gym for
currently-enrolled
SCM students in Primary and above. Parents with multiple children are encouraged to use the childcare while they visit each classroom with their children individually.
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The Yearbook PDA Deadline is this Friday
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Public Displays of Affection ads (PDAs) are a great way to congratulate a graduate, celebrate a student, or recognize a guide. Ad space is limited and has sold out in the past!
Purchase and create your ad
here
.
The deadline for PDA submissions is
Friday, January 31, 2020 - no exceptions or extensions
.
Click here
for more information.
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New Student Applications due February 14
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Please submit any sibling applications for new students by the application deadline of
Friday,
February 14
. You can access the
online application
via the
Admissions Procedures
page of the school website.
For questions regarding new student applications, please contact Julie McLarry at
[email protected]
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Sociables Spotlight — Make it a “His and Hers Night”
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Men’s Poker Night
Open to Alumni, Alumni Parents, Grandparents
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Put your game face on for a Guy's Night Out poker game. It will be a night of food, fun, drinks, and gambling that you won't want to miss!
Saturday, February 8, 2020 6:00 PM – Midnight
Ticket price:
$50/person
Location:
Jeffries-Williams Residence
Hosts:
Shawn Williams, Gary Hickok, Paul Nguyen, Kristen Procinsky
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Retail & Cocktail Therapy
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Join us first for some shopping and champagne/light bites at Luxington Boutique where 20% of the proceeds will be donated to St. Catherine's! Hire a babysitter and make it a "His and Hers Night" with the Men's Poker Night Sociable! After we’ve had our fill, we will head over to join the men at the Men's Poker Night. Cocktails, wine and music will be flowing as well as some late night snacks. Swimming is always an option!
Saturday, February 8, 2020 6:00 PM – Midnight
Ticket price:
$20/person
Location:
Luxington Boutique, Jeffries-Williams Residence
Hosts:
Maggie Jeffries, Rachel Flay, Kylie Galfione, Vanessa Patterson, Carrie Procinsky, Jennifer Taylor
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INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
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AC and HS Visual Arts exhibit at Montessori Night School
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The Adolescent Community and High School will showcase original visual art featuring mixed media, photography, paintings, and sculpture. This exhibit will be displayed in the Welcome Center during Montessori Night School on
Thursday, January 30
.
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Thank you to everyone that came out to support our Girls' Varsity Team at the GHCAA quarter-final playoff game yesterday. The team played with heart and never gave up, but at the end they were defeated by a very tough Corpus Christi team.
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Register Now for Spring Track
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4th-9th year students are invited to join the SCM track team.
Practice will begin Monday, February 10
.
To register your child for the 2020 track season, please visit
ParentsWeb
.
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PSO Friends of the Garden Teaching Day on Friday, January 31
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Join the
Friends of the Garden
and SCM Naturalist Blas Espinosa on
Friday, January 31
after drop-off to learn more about the "Farm to Table" movement and how you can enhance your dinner with local seasonal produce. Participants will help prepare simple dishes with ingredients fresh out of the garden, and leave with recipe cards and home-grown produce.
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PSO Book Club to Meet on Friday, February 21
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Welcome back to the High School Corner!
As some of you may have already seen in last week’s edition of
The Globe
, the St. Catherine’s High School will be hosting this year’s Pancake Breakfast! For those who may be unfamiliar, the Pancake Breakfast is an event hosted every year after Steps 4 Students where we sell delicious pancakes, savory bacon, fresh fruit, and piping-hot coffee. If your mouth is watering just thinking about all that delicious food after a long marathon,
then
click this
link
to RSVP for the Pancake Breakfast
and rest easy in the knowledge that you have a guaranteed meal waiting for you after your run. We will be holding the event in the St. Catherine’s gymnasium, and we want to have enough room for everybody!
This year the proceeds from the event will go towards our class trip to Hawaii. All year we have been studying American history in Humanities class and biodiversity in our Environmental Science class. Our trip to Hawaii will serve as the capstone to all the work we have done in both of these classes and will provide an opportunity for us to make connections to work we have done across all our other classes as well. It will be an opportunity for us to put all our accumulated knowledge into practice. If you would like to get any further details on the event you can contact us at
[email protected]
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Thank you for reading; we hope you’ll be back to read more next week!
Jacob Blackman and Sophia Devereux
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If you would like to submit something for the Globe, please send it for approval to
[email protected]
by
Monday at noon.
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