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Runnels Weekly E-Newsletter
from Head of School Marcia Mackay
Dear Runnels Family,
In this week's Friday Focus: Junior Class Ring Ceremony; Spreading Goodwill; Broadway Beat; Togas and Scholarship; Dr. Seuss Day at Preschool; Standardized Tests Coming Next Week; Sleeping Mats for Homeless; Friendly Reminders;
Weekly Photo Album; and Athletic Corner.
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Ring Ceremony Marks Coming of Senior Year
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Displaying their Ring Ceremony gifts are juniors
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Natalie Justus, Elizabeth Daigle, McKenna Tregre and Catherine Henning.
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The Runnels Class of 2018 celebrated the start of senior year activities with a traditional Ring Ceremony held March 16 in the Gladys Hague Runnels Theatre.
Juniors received their school rings or other meaningful mementos and heirlooms from family members, close friends, or someone who had significantly touched their lives.
As students stepped forward to receive their rings, Jr./Sr. High Assistant Principal Dana Schlotterer offered a narrative showcasing their accomplishments and experiences at Runnels.
Assisting at the event were Head of School Marcia Mackay, Assistant Head of School Conchetta Foshee and Jr./Sr. High Vice Principal Rita Haik. A special thank you goes to soloist Emma Tooraen and the String Orchestra conducted by Jennifer Cassin. Congratulations to our rising seniors!
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Girl Scouts Gather Donations for Goodwill
Girl Scout Troop 10164 recently took part in the "Goodwill Good Turn" service project sponsored by Girl Scouts Louisiana East.
In February, the troop collected donations of used clothing, shoes, books, puzzles and other items at Runnels Elementary and Preschool. They also made posters announcing the event. On March 4, the Scouts dropped off the donations at the Goodwill store. Participating in the project were Emma Collett, Samantha Marino, Amelia Breeden, Brie Williams and Maddie Reonas.
Photo: Girl Scout Samantha Marino delivers donations for the "Goodwill Good Turn" service project.
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Elementary Chorus Swings to Broadway Beat
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Elementary Chorus members (from left) Gavin Oram, Sophia Rabeaux, Molly Bush and Reide Walker sing "We Go Together" from the hit musical, Grease.
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The Elementary Chorus sent its regards to Broadway with a program of popular show tunes from celebrated American musicals in a concert performed March 14 in the Gladys Hague Runnels Theatre.
The repertoire paid homage to landmark composers and their songs. Congratulations to our singers and Elementary Chorus Director Johnice Thoms.
MORE PHOTOS
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Togas on Parade at JCL State Convention
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At the Junior Classical League's (JCL) annual state convention held last weekend at the Holiday Inn Select in Baton Rouge, the Runnels delegation met with JCL'ers from around the state to participate in a range of academic, artistic and athletic challenges. Our club, sponsored by Latin teacher Ann Ostrom and chaperoned by Senior Classical League alum Maggie Wrenn, turned in praiseworthy performances and brought home many individual and group awards.
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Guest Readers at Preschool for Dr. Seuss Day
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Dr. Seuss Day readers (from left) Talia Tooraen, Anna Manning and Jack Kahn.
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To commemorate what would have been the 113th birthday of children's author Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), members of the Senior Beta Club made celebrity appearances at the preschool this week as some of his most beloved characters to share the joy of reading with our youngest students.
Appearing as a farmer and his cow, Elizabeth Daigle and Natalie Justus read
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? to the 2s and led them in a game of animal
sounds. Serving up the snack of the day -- green eggs and ham, of course -- were Daniel Mayeaux
and Catherine Henning.
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Preschool students Virginia Hamilton and Dulcie Malone.
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In the three-year-olds' class, Anna Manning and Talia Tooraen, portraying floppy-eared puppies, read
Go, Dog, Go! and outfitted each youngster with colorful Dr. Seuss head gear. Jack Kahn read
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and organized a fishing game with poles made out of pool noodles and magnets. The "fish" were paper cut-outs with paper clips attached. The goal was to hook as many fish as possible.
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Sarah Stanfield, Ian Lansing and Kyra Reeves.
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Kalyee Freiberger and McKennaTregre,dressed up as cats, read
Ten
Apples Up On Top!
to the Pre-K students and played a
beanbag stacking game with them afterward. The object of the game was to successfully pile ten beanbags on top or your head without having them fall.
Another very cool "cat," this one wearing a red-and-white striped hat and lavish whiskers (Ian Lansing), read
The Cat in the Hat, with the help of his trusty assistants, Thing One (Sarah Stanfield) and Thing Two (Kyra Reeves). It was a day that celebrated the joy of reading truly great books.
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Standardized Tests Next Week
Annual achievement tests will be administered next week. Testing for Grades 1-6 will be March 20-24. Testing for Grades 7 and 8 will be on March 21, and testing for Grades 9 and 10 will be on March 22.
Students in grades 1-6 will be given a full battery of nationally norm-based tests in all subject areas.
During testing week, homework will not be assigned in elementary grades.
You can help by making sure your child eats a good breakfast and is well rested on test days. You may also send a snack for your student to eat during the short morning break.
Please remember that it is important for your child to get to school on time on testing days. Attendance will be taken at 8:30 a.m., and testing begins right after that.
Thank you for helping us make testing days a positive and successful experience for our students.
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Jr. Beta Helps Make Mats for Homeless
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Junior Beta Club members
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Meredith Wartelle, Sadie Alello and Emma Collett do some preparation work on plastic shopping bags so they can be crocheted into sleeping mats for the homeless.
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Junior Beta Club members gathered in the Drama Room last Friday afternoon to work on a community service project that will offer comfort to the homeless in the Baton Rouge area.
They worked at stringing together plastic shopping bags to make what some are calling "plarn" (a kind of plastic bag yarn) that can be woven into mats.
Carol Bell and Margaret Baird of Faith Presbyterian Church, who will crochet the bags into plastic sleeping mats, were on hand to offer expert advice on the project to the students. Ms. Bell said it takes 800 bags and 9-10 hours to make one sleeping mat that is 3 feet wide and 6 feet long.
A WBRZ photographer was on hand to videotape the session, which will appear on Sylvia Weatherspoon's "2 Make a Difference" segment sometime in the next few weeks. We will let you know the date as soon as we hear from the station.
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Father/Daughter
Dance This Sunday
The RPO's 2nd annual Father and Daughter Dance, "Sweet Moments," is coming up on Sunday, March 19, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. in the Catalano Gym.
You won't want to miss this opportunity to dance with your favorite girl or girls (grades K-6). We'll have a professional DJ, Party Pics, a Photo Booth and soft drinks and light snacks.
Register now by clicking on the link below or visiting the RPO Sign Up page at runnels.org.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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Kudos and Thank Yous
Calling Drs. Fink, Forgey, Rushing and Zachary...
Four Runnels alums will be starting their training as doctors together as first-year medical students at the University of Louisiana School of Medicine in New Orleans.
Madelinn Fink
and
Elizabeth Forgey
, who graduated from Runnels in 2013, and
Amanda Rushing
and
Hannah Zachary
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members of the
Class of 2011, will head to class in August.
Congratulations to these students and their families!
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McKenna Tregre, Rev. Donnie Wilkinson and Catherine Henning.
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A Gift for Broadmoor... Students in Sonny Vallaire's French classes created drawings to thank our friends at Broadmoor United Methodist Church for hosting our school after the flood. The students considered each drawing, voted on them, and chose one by Catherine Henning and McKenna Tregre to present to the church as a gift.
Catherine and McKenna recreated the drawing as a painting on canvas, and all of the French students added their initials somewhere on the artwork. During the French classes' field trip to the Broadmoor preschool last week, they presented the painting to Senior Pastor Rev. Donnie Wilkinson.
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Guest artist Andrian Harabaru (at left) works with fifth-hour strings students.
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Fine Tuning... We sincerely thank guest cellist
Andrian Harabaru, a graduate student at Southeastern who is studying with our cello instructor
Dan Cassin, for visiting our strings classes this week. Mr. Harabaru, a native of Moldova, worked with students on targeting mood in a piece of music, working together as a cohesive orchestra, and discovering joy in practicing and performing. He has been playing the cello for 12 years and has performed in Moldova, Hungary and the United States.
Book Signing at Runnels ...
A huge thank you goes to children's author
Todd-Michael St. Pierre
and book illustrator
Lee Brandt Randall
for signing copies of their latest book,
Chicory and Roux: The Creole Mouse and the Cajun Mouse
, in our Drama Room on Wednesday. They did a reading and showed slides of the wonderful illustrations.
MORE INFORMATION
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Friendly Reminders
Mar. 19: RPO Father and Daughter Dance, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Catalano Gym
Mar. 20-24: Standardized Testing for Elementary Grades
Mar. 21: Standardized Testing for 7th and 8th Grades
Mar. 22: Standardized Testing for 9th and 10th Grades
Mar. 23: Preschool Open House for Prospective Parents, 9:00 a.m., Front Porch
Mar. 24: Kindergarten Musical, 9:00 a.m.
Mar. 24: Jr. High Play for Grades 4-6 at 10:15 a.m.and Grades 1-3 at 2:10 p.m.
Mar. 24: Eisenhower Army War College Lecture for Grades 11 & 12, 1:20 p.m., Theatre
Mar. 24: "Raider Rally," Elementary Playground, 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The Booster Club will be selling dinners.
Mar. 28 and 30: Teacher Appreciation (also April 4 and 6)
Mar. 30-31: Mu Alpha Theta Convention
Mar. 31: RPO Pictures in the Plaza,
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 6:00 p.m., Runnels Main Campus
Please consider supporting our school when purchasing items through Amazon. You must login at
www.amazonsmile.com and choose Runnels School as the charity of your choice. From there you may shop as you normally would even if you are a Prime member.
ANNUAL SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR THE 2017-2018 SCHOOL YEAR - CLICK HERE
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Above: Runnels Spanish Club gathers for a group photo for the 2016-2017 yearbook. If you are a club sponsor, scout leader or K-8 team coach and you have not yet had your group's picture taken for the 2016-2017 yearbook, please contact the yearbook staff to arrange a date and time for your photo.
Reach us at news@runnels.org.
This week's photo album includes: Book Signing; Gardening at Preschool; Pi Day in 4th Grade Math; Guest Cellist in 3rd Period Strings; Leprechaun (and other critter) Traps in 2nd Grade, Elementary Raider Star Assemblies; St. Patrick's Day at Preschool; Candids.
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VARSITY SPORTS
In last week's story about the Louisiana High School Powerlifting Association's East Regional Championship Meet at Ascension High School on Feb. 25, gold medalist Max Sager was incorrectly identified as a sophomore. Max is a junior. Also, Sam Day took second place in the 275-lb. weight class, not in the 220-lb. weight class; and Christian Martin placed third in the 220-lb weight class, not the 275-lb. weight class. We apologize for these unintentional errors.
BASEBALL
The baseball team earned its first win Monday with an 8-2 victory over Woodlawn. Douglas Gulley pitched a complete game.
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Marisa Russo
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Andrew Mitchell
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BOWLING
Congratulations to senior Andrew Mitchell for making the All-Academic Composite Bowling Team and to Marisa Russo, also a senior, who was named to the 2nd Team of the Girls Open Division All-Region Team.
Kudos to the Lady Raider Varsity Soccer Team players!
Ally Garrity, Lainee Alfonso and Molly Johnson were selected for the Baton Rouge area All-Metro Team for girls soccer. Ally also was voted All-Metro MVP!
SOFTBALL
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Emily Britt
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Congratulations to senior Emily Britt for making the All-State Academic Composite Softball Team.
"This is a great honor for Emily and the school, "
said Head Softball Coach Brent Lax.
The Softball team is now 11-0! Over the weekend, the team defeated Ascension Episcopal twice. The team also claimed victories against Mentorship and Northeast. The Lady Raiders will be competing this weekend in the Episcopal Tournament.
TENNIS
This week our tennis teams battled East Ascension at Highland Road Park. Jeehan Mikdadi, Natalie Justus, Eric Huygues and Kyle Sieberth each won their singles matches in straight sets. The doubles team of Anna Claire Pousson and Catherine Bonaventure won their match in a harrowing three set battle.
Last Friday at the St. Thomas Aquinas Judy Baehr Relays, the Track and Field Raiders were chasing new PRs (personal records) and school records. Congrats to team members scoring points: London Deshotel, Annie Fink, Dean Campbell and Conner Raines. Conner also set a school record and new PR with a distance of 18'10" in the long jump. Other team members scoring new PR on the boys team were Walker Gandy in the shot put, Seth Chiasson in the javelin, and Joseph Armoney in the 400m. The girls team members hitting new PRs were Kaylen Howe in the 200m and AnnaClaire Courville and London Deshotel in the javelin.
JUNIOR HIGH SPORTS
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Junior High Baseball Team: (
back row) Jacob Haase, Brendan LeBlanc, Robbie Harrison, Colin Coates, Brock Toney, Caleb Reed, Blaine Nicholson, Nick D'Gerolamo, Shep Butner, Coach Brent Hoeprich; (
front row) Sean Mockler, Alan Lam, Eli Latiolais, Jacob Folse, Michael Hillman, Jonathan Harper, Tate Smith, Alex Vallaire.
Not pictured: Shelby Anders.
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The Junior High Baseball Team beat Riverdale 7-1 in its first pre-season scrimmage. Shelby Anders pitched four innings, striking out seven batters. Alan Lam, Eli Latiolais, and Michael Hillman each had an RBI (run batted in). In their first season game, the players will face the Vipers on Monday, March 20 at 6 p.m. at Cedar Ridge Park.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17
State Powerlifting Meet in Monroe - All Day
SATURDAY, MARCH 18
Varsity Softball - Episcopal Tournament, 9:30 v. Ascension Episcopal and 1:30 v. Slaughter Charter
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17255 South Harrell's Ferry Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70816
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