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Parent Newsletter
January 17, 2018
Members of the Valley Lutheran bowling team pray before a recent home match at State Lanes.
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Redeeming the Old; Making Things New
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
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First Semester Grades Available
First semester grades can be accessed by going to
www.mystudentdata.com and entering the following information.
- School code: 50
- Student ID number: 10 digit state ID number found on student ID card
- Student birth date
- Password: Chargers
Grades for Miss Feldkamp's classes will be completed by Jan. 26 and will be uploaded by that date. There are just a few more things to be graded that will allow us to finalize those semester grades. Thank you for your patience.
If you have questions about your child's grades, please contact the teacher by phone at (989) 790-1676 or by email. Teacher email addresses are available at
vlhs.com.
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Benefit Dinner Auction Tickets Now Available
Caribbean Nights is the theme for the 15th Annual VLHS Benefit Dinner Auction at the Apple Mountain Conference Center on
Saturday, Feb. 24. Tickets are available online at
vlhsauction.com. Don't delay as tickets have sold out in past years. New this year is fun, convenient bidding with streamlined checkout. For more details, visit
vlhsauction.com.
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Open House Series Continues Jan. 25
Valley's annual Open House series begins
Thursday, Jan. 25, from 5-6pm. Faculty members will be on hand to show prospective families around the school, as well as to answer questions about VLHS. You don't need to make a reservation, just show up! Feel free to let friends and neighbors know about the opportunity to check out all VLHS has to offer.
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Grandparents/Special Friends Day Coming in February
Grandparents and Special Friends love to visit Valley Lutheran, and our students love to share with them first hand what makes Valley so special. This year, each Thursday in February has been set aside to do just that, with each class encouraged to bring guests, starting at
9am, on the following dates:
- Seniors - Feb. 1
- Juniors - Feb. 8
- Sophomores - Feb. 15
- Freshmen - Feb. 22
Special guests will take a tour of the the school, sit in on a class with their student host, attend chapel, and, if they'd like, stay for lunch. For more information, call 989-790-1676.
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Dessert Theater Set for Feb. 15-17
Join the Valley Lutheran High School Drama Department at Peace Lutheran Church, 3427 Adams Ave., Saginaw, as they present
Alibis, on
Feb. 15-17 at 7pm.
Alibis is a mid-length comedic murder mystery. Watch for shades of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Clue, and other iconic whodunit scenarios in this classic drawing room mystery.
Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for students, and are available in the school office or at the door prior to each performance. Prices include dessert during intermission.
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Trip to See Les Misérables
Les Misérables is coming to the Fisher Theater in Detroit and the French Club has a limited number of group tickets reserved for the
Sunday, March 4,
performance at
7:30pm.
Tickets are $50 or $35, depending on the section and row. Please contact Madame Urbytes for more information. Money and permission slips (for students) need to be turned in by
Friday, Jan. 19.
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Thank You Parents
A big THANK YOU to everyone who responded and brought baked goods to the memorial service for Miss Bev Feldkamp. The outpouring of love that day in her memory was remarkable! The remaining goodies were shared as a lunch treat, offered as part of a bake sale in true Feldkamp fashion, and shared with the homeless sheltered at the Saginaw Rescue Mission. As one parent so nicely noted, we were able to "spread goodness everywhere ... just like Bev did for so many people." The proceeds from the bake sales were $283.25, and those funds will be given to a charity that Miss Feldkamp's students will select. This was a yearly tradition in her class.
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Thank You For Making Chicken BBQ a Success
Thank you to all of those that helped make the 2018 Chicken BBQ a success! We appreciated the help from parents and students. Whether you dropped off pie, helped set up, served, cleaned up, or purchased a meal, thank you. We are also grateful to the St. John Amelith Men's Athletic Club for grilling 175 chickens. Money raised from this event will be used toward supporting the VLHS athletic, music, and drama programs.
- VLHS Boosters
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Upcoming LEAP-Shops
There are two upcoming LEAP-Shops, which will focus on applying understanding of a school's "Mission" to the budgeting process, to tuition and financial aid, to operational efficiency, and to fundraising.
The next two LEAP-Shops will be
Jan. 30, at 6:30 pm, at Faith Lutheran Church, Bay City, and on
April 30, at 6:30 pm, at Peace Lutheran School, Saginaw.
For more information, or if you are interested in attending, email Kurt Hilbrandt at
[email protected].
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LEAP Employs Best Practices for Education Boards
Representatives of the Lutheran Education Advancement Plan
have addressed many components of the LEAP vision. One task force has addressed effectiveness training for education boards. The task force has carefully developed, and still continues to enhance a document which presents
53 best practices for Lutheran church/school education boards
or equivalent governing entities.
Training has also occurred at five three-hour "Education Board LEAP-Shop" sessions since 2014. Representatives of all of LEAP schools have participated.
To learn more about LEAP, visit
LEAP-alliance.com.
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FOUR-YEAR PLANS
Before you know it, we will be talking about course options for next year. Now is a good time to explore options and put a plan in place, especially if your student is thinking about taking courses through the Saginaw Career Complex, Bay-Arenac Career Center, or dual enrollment options through CUAA or Delta. Mrs. Mueller is more than happy to sit down with students and talk about options or develop a plan!
AXIS.ORG PARENT GUIDES
Talking about issues like smartphones, eating disorders, Snapchat, video games, and sexting with teens can be scary and complicated. But it doesn't have to be! Axis.org has created
these guides to help you understand the things your teens face, how to have conversations about them, and how to biblically disciple your teens into lifelong faith through it all.
7TH SEMESTER or MID-YEAR TRANSCRIPTS
Transcripts that include your student's first semester of their senior year will be available once grades are released. Some colleges request these as an update on their applicants. VLHS uses a program called
Parchment to send documents electronically and securely directly from the school. Please submit all document requests through Parchment. To indicate that you want 7th semester documents sent, please select "Hold for Grades".
CLASS OF 2018 - SCHOLARSHIPS
If you're headed to college in the Fall, now is the time to be working on scholarship applications. A few hours of your time in preparing quality applications can pay off in thousands of dollars of aid! Check out our VL Scholarship Page -
http://bit.ly/VLScholarships - for the most up-to-date scholarship information that we receive.
IMPORTANT LINKS
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| Jan. 17 |
Semester Grades Available, 5pm |
| Jan 20-21 |
Grade School Girls' Basketball Tournament |
| Jan. 25 |
Parents in Prayer, 8am |
| Jan. 25 |
Peeks at Valley, 11am |
| Jan. 25 |
Open House, 5-6pm |
| Feb. 1 |
Grandparents/Special Friends Day - Seniors, 9am |
Feb. 3-4
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Grade School Boys' Basketball Tournament
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Feb. 8
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Parents in Prayer, 8am
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Feb. 8
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Grandparents/Special Friends Day - Juniors, 9am
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Feb. 12
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National Honor Society Blood Drive, 7:30am
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Feb. 15
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Grandparents/Special Friends Day - Sophomores, 9am
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Feb. 15-17
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Winter Play, Alibis (at Peace Lutheran - Adams Campus), 7pm |
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Click on the image above to view the latest Valley Vision. |
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Mission Statement
Valley Lutheran High School believes that Christ is the foundation of our school and everything that we do. We prepare our students as children of God academically, physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually to serve in the world today and tomorrow.
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John Brandt
Valley Lutheran High School
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