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Refer A Family!
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Photo by Marc Spano,
Spano's Big Picture Photography
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Many families hear about St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School through a personal referral from an existing school family. You are our best cheerleaders and we want to reward you for promoting our school! The New Student Referral Program awards a referring St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School family with a $500 tuition credit for each new family that enrolls. For more information about the program and/or to make a referral, please click
here.
Our next Open House is Thursday, November 2nd from 6 to 8 p.m. and is for prospective 2018-2019 middle and high school students. Our Open House for prospective 2018-2019 Preschool-5th grade students is Tuesday, December 5th from 8:30 to 10 a.m. More details about these Open Houses can be found online at BeAViking.com/Open-House. Thanks, in advance, for helping to spread the word about St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School!
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GROWING IN WISDOM & GRACE
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As part of their government studies, St. Anne-Pacelli 3rd graders took a field trip to the Columbus Government Center to meet Chattahoochee Circuit Superior Court Judge Maureen Gottfried.
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As part of their studies about the origin of the Holy Rosary, St. Anne-Pacelli 7th graders visited the grotto outside of St. Anne Church's Rectory to pray the Rosary together during Religion class.
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The St. Anne-Pacelli freshmen class visited the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in order to view
The Glass Menagerie.
Freshmen will be reading this famous play in Pre-AP English this year.
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High School Retreats
 Team building exercises are one of the many components of our annual high school retreats led by NET Ministries. Each grade level experiences a full-day, on-campus retreat led by a team of college-aged students who travel the country for a year leading high school retreats for NET Ministries. During the retreats, which will wrap up November 1st, games are played, skits are performed, songs are sung, and meaningful time is spent in prayer.
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Meet Our October 2017 Awardees
St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School's
Viking of the Month Program celebrates individual academic successes, as well as student contributions to the school community at large. Each month, one student from each grade level in PK3-12 will be named Viking of the Month. These students will be recognized after a school Mass and enjoy a special pizza lunch and a scoop of ice cream from Kilwins Columbus. At St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School, we value our students' awesome accomplishments, and look forward to recognizing them on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.
Congratulations to our October 2017 Viking of the Month recipients: Ta'lia Kitchens, PK3; Oliver Oehrlein, PK4; Cameron Babauta, Kindergarten; Minami Kan, 1st grade; Sariya Espinoza, 2nd grade; Holden Sanders, 3rd grade; Caleigh Borland, 4th grade; Leigh Allen, 5th grade; Kylee Kennedy, 6th grade; Jake Trotter, 7th grade; Madison Kristol, 8th grade; Anna Ranieri, 9th grade; Maggie Espiritu,10th grade; Annabelle Wolford, 11th grade; and Antonio Ayerdi, 12th grade.
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Student-Athletes in Action
Vikings Basketball
St. Anne-Pacelli's Middle and High School Lady Vikings and Vikings Basketball Teams are back in action! Athletes have been working on fundamentals, as well as strength and conditioning drills to prepare for the upcoming season. "We're excited to have a great number of kids, ranging in age from 5th to 12th grades,
participating in our workouts," says Vikings Basketball Coach Corry Black. "We will continue to work hard every day to become the best we can be."
Vikings Cheerleading
Congratulations to our JV Competition Cheer Team for finishing in 3rd place at the October 28th Northgate Classic in Newnan!
Vikings Cross Country
Our Middle and High School Cross Country Teams wrapped up great seasons this month! As a team, the high school boys finished in 6th place at an area meet in Macon on October 25th. Shout-out to sophomore Troy David Espiritu for his 9th place individual finish in the JV race! Our Middle School Team wrapped up its season on October 23rd in a meet our school hosted at Lakebottom Park.
Lady Vikings Dance Team
The Lady Vikings Dance Team is made up of young ladies from 8th through 12th grades. They perform at all home varsity basketball games.This year's team has been practicing since early-October and is excited for its first performance at our home season opener on November 28th versus Webster County!
Vikings Tennis
Our Elementary and Middle School Vikings Tennis Teams are having a fantastic season! Elementary Team White is 3 wins-2 losses with two matches left; Team Red is 3 wins-1 loss with three matches left.
Our Middle School
U12 Blue Team has five team wins and one team loss so far with one match left; o
ur U12 Red Team has five team wins and one team loss with two more matches left in the season; and
our U14 Team is up 3 wins-2 losses with three more matches left.
Wrestling season is here and in full swing! "Practices started October 23rd and have gone great so far," says Vikings Wrestling Coach Jason Nugent. "The addition of the Wrestling Room has been a substantial enhancement to the program and already proven its worth." Both middle school and high school teams will have their first matches on November 16th. It's not too late to join Vikings Wrestling!
Email Coach Nugent for more details.
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Media Day
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Photo by Linda Breaux Photography
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Our High School Lady Vikings & Vikings Basketball Teams participated in 2017 Media Day on October 26th. Hosted by
The Courier Eco Latino Newspaper, the event showcased 17 high school programs in the bi-city area in front of local media outlets. Vikings Head Basketball Coach Corry Black attended the event with St. Anne-Pacelli student-athletes 12th grader Scout Hadley, 11th grader Jordyn Dawson, 12th grader Matthew Lamb and 11th grader JD Douglas.
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Online Spiritwear Shop Open Until November 13
The St. Anne-Pacelli Vikings Booster Club's online Spiritwear Shop is stocked with awesome new inventory and open until November 13th. Orders placed during our fall sale will be available for pickup in the main school office on December 4th. This is the last sale before Christmas, so it's a great time to shop for gifts!
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Homecoming Week was awesome! Congratulations to our 2017 Homecoming King & Queen Ash Vestal & Scout Hadley!
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We love our Grand Vikings and had lots of fun celebrating them during special Masses and receptions in their honor!
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Our Home & School Association hosted a fabulous Fall Carnival for all students and their families on Thursday, October 26th!
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Register Now for the 3rd Annual Viking Turkey Trot
Lace up your sneakers for the 3rd Annual Viking Turkey Trot 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run, to be held Saturday, November 11th at St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School! Registrations are now being taken for the event, which is open to the public. Please visit
BeAViking.com/turkey-trot for registration information and register by November 2nd in order to be guaranteed a race t-shirt. Funds raised during the 3rd Annual Viking Turkey Trot will support St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School's Cross Country and Soccer programs.
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STAY CONNECTED!
St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School
706.561.8232
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