NC Newsletter December 17, 2018
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Mighty Max's MEGA Toy Drive
Nashua Catholic collected five HUGE boxes for Max's Toy Drive, benefiting the
patients of The Jimmy Fund Clinic and Boston Children's Hospital. These gifts help
countless families over the holiday season focus on their ill child. In addition to gifts for
the holidays, these donations also help to stock hospital playrooms and ensure craft
supplies and the hospital treasure chest never runs out of treasure!
Thank you for your generosity!
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Spelling Bee 2019 News
Nashua Catholic is once again enrolled to participate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, sponsored by
The Union Leader
and
New Hampshire Sunday News
in our state.
All Nashua Catholic students were required to participate in the first round of this competition. English teachers administered a spelling test in all their classes during the month of October. Each class had at least one winner – one student who got the most words spelled correctly. This student will represent his or her English class in a school spelling bee that is scheduled for January 8, 2019, during G Period, in Mrs. Pinsonneault’s room (406). Mrs. Pinsonneault will also administer the bee.
This year’s school-wide spelling bee participants are as follows: 7
th
graders – Kiera Duffy, Armon Farahani, Connor Lennon, Avery Reed, and Thor Underwood; and 8
th
graders – Joshua Billingsley, Warren Chen, Peter Meconi, Sabrina Sterrett, and Emma Sufariu.
Our school winner will represent Nashua Catholic at the State Bee that will take place on February 23, 2019, at the Capitol Center for the Arts, in Concord, New Hampshire, beginning at 9:00 A.M.
We are excited to see who will represent us this year! Good luck to all our students!
Geography & History Bees
Geography Bee starts the week of December 17th.
History Bee is expected to start January 7th.
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Father/ Daughter Dance Tickets
Father/Daughter Dance Tickets Available NOW!
Nashua Catholic Regional Junior High School cordially invites all 7
th
and 8
th
Grade Girls and their Fathers (or the Father figures in their lives) to join us for our Annual Semi-Formal Father/Daughter Dance on Saturday, January 5
th
, 2019 in the Nashua Catholic Gymnasium. This special evening begins at 7:00 PM and includes a DJ, refreshments and photographer Phil Nichols of CKC Photography. Don’t let the Christmas season pass by without purchasing your tickets!
Tickets are $35/couple and an additional $17 for each additional daughter.
Cash or checks, please. Make checks out to Nashua Catholic Regional Junior High School. Tickets will be sent home with your daughter.
For any additional questions, please contact Advancement Director, Sue Forsyth, at
sforsyth@ncrjhs.net.
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AmazonSmiles Program at NC
Happy News! We are now a part of AmazonSmiles, where, if you shop on Amazon, and choose us as your charity, .5% goes to NC. With Christmas shopping ramping up, please remember Nashua Catholic at the check-out.
Here is our link :
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The Holiday Tournament Needs You!
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Tis the season for giving back! Nashua Catholic is very excited to be hosting their
14th Annual Wildcat Holiday Basketball Tournament on December 27, 28, and 29.
Volunteer positions include staffing the concession stand, collecting admission money at the door, selling 50/50 raffle tickets, keeping the official tournament score book, and operating the scoreboard.
If you are in need of extra volunteer hours, or you are just looking for ways to give back, Mr. Farris would love your help and support. Go to the SignUpGenius page below and browse the many opportunities to be a part of this great annual event!
To sign up, go to:
Thank you for all your continued support of Nashua Catholic Athletics!
Go Wildcats!
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NC Christmas Wish List
A published Nashua Catholic "Wish List" was requested . Thank you for asking!
Masonry work
Second tier stage curtain
Some landscaping
A desk for Mrs. McFadden
Donations to our scholarship fund - Corporate matching gifts are very nice!
Christmas blessings to you and yours!
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Mark Your Calendars for Wacky Bingo!
Students and parents alike will NOT want to miss Nashua Catholic's First-Annual Wacky Bingo night held in our school gymnasium on Saturday, January 26th at 7:00 P.M. This wacky twist on traditional Bingo will have your whole family smiling
ear-to-ear!
We'll have two games of Bingo playing at the same time: one for the kids and one for adults 21 and older. The kids will be playing Candy Bar Bingo! Their entrance fee for the evening is one large candy bar per child. Adults will be playing BYOB Bingo! Their entrance fee is a bottle of wine, champagne, or a 4- or 6-pack of beer per adult. Our students will win candy bars when they hit Bingo and our adults will win adult beverages to take home.
This community-building event will also feature a bonfire and assorted baked goods and snacks while playing. Join us for this family fun!
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SAVE THESE DATES
The next NC Newsletter will be sent in mid-January.
December 20 - Holiday Extravaganza! 9:30 A.M.
December 20 - Lessons and Carols 1:00 P.M. All are welcome!
Merry Christmas!!
Dec. 21-Jan. 1 - Christmas Vacation - No School
Dec. 27-29 - Christmas Basketball Tournament
Happy New Year!
Jan 5 - Father/Daughter Dance Tickets available through Mrs. Forsyth.
January 3 -
Mass 9:00 A.M. All are welcome!
January 8 - NEW! Writers' Club - 2:30-3:30 P.M.
January 9 - Honor Society Meeting
January 11 - Fashion Show Covers Collected
January 11 - Q2 Grades Close
January 13 - Winter Concert 2:00 P.M.
January 15 - Field Trip for 8th Grade
January 17 - Q2 Report Cards
January 17 - NC Panera Night 4-8
January 21 - MLK Day - No School
January 22 - Field Trip for 7th Grade
January 24 - Mass 1 P.M.
January 26 - Wacky BINGO and S'mores for NC Community - Watch for details coming soon!
January 27-February 2 - National Catholic Schools Week
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A Safety Concern about Drop-off
Having the students safe at all times is of the utmost importance at Nashua Catholic. Each morning, in the back parking lot, we are noting a significant number of cars passing other parents on the right as students are disembarking. With car doors open and children involved, this becomes to tight a squeeze. Please, be patient with the family in front on you and allow them to move out of the parking lot first. A more formal, orderly flow for the morning drop-off will keep all our children a bit safer.
Drop-off in the back parking lot is from 7:00 A.M. until 7:53 A.M. This keeps wet floors and heat loss to a minimum for our school. Students should only be dropped off on Bartlett Ave. after 7:53 A.M. even with gym bags.
Thank you for your attention to these concerns.
December Athletics
Winter sports are in full swing here on Bartlett Avenue. The basketball teams are all off to a great start this winter! The girls' varsity team has remained perfect so far this year even though they have faced some very tough competition. Led by returning 8
th
graders, Meghan Stack, Kate Hansen, and Kate Daley, this team is making waves throughout Tri-County. They have already defeated teams within their division, as well as teams from both Division 1 and Division 2 this year.
Boys' varsity basketball is off and running as well. Coach Williams is very happy to be working with one of the deepest teams he has had in his 8-year tenure as head coach. “The boys are so talented, and they are really playing well together. Just need to clean up a few things that come with the early season jitters, and if we can do that, we should be making a deep push in the Tri-County playoff,” said Coach Williams.
Both the boys' and girls' JV basketball teams have their first wins under their belts as well. The boys' team defeated a very scrappy Merrimack Valley team last week. Coach Nate Boudreau was very pleased with his team’s energy and was happy to get that first victory. “The boys played hard. We are still learning about the game and about ourselves, but this was a great start to our season,” said Boudreau after the game. Coach Rick McDonald and his girls' JV team also defeated Merrimack Valley and he, too, was impressed with the way his team came together. “These girls have worked so hard, and the improvements already are outstanding. It is nice to see some of the girls who are new to the game pick it up so quickly, and so well” said Coach Rick McDonald.
Our basketball teams are gearing up for some more competition this week, before the varsity teams split up for their respective Christmas Holiday Tournaments. The varsity boys will be in action on December 26, 27, and 28, at Milford Middle School, and our girls will be taking the floor here at Nashua Catholic on December 27, 28, and 29. Volunteers Needed!
To volunteer at this year’s 14
th
Annual Wildcat Christmas Basketball Tournament, please follow the link below to see available volunteer opportunities!
Go Wildcats!
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National School Choice Week
Children’s Scholarship Fund New Hampshire and National School Choice Week (NSCW), invite you to celebrate NSCW with us at the Grappone Conference Center on Tuesday, January 22rd at 11:30A.M.
This
child
-
friendly
fun event will feature student performances, and will be broadly attended by supporters of providing families with educational opportunities, including charter schools, homeschool families, private schools, online schools, parents, and school and community leaders.
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Parent Presentation at BG
On January 17, Bishop Guertin is going to be hosting Mr. Andrew McPeak, an author and researcher on "Generation Z," as well as media/technology. He will be speaking to parents on the evening of the 17th.
The parent session ("Helping Students Navigate Technology in a Healthy Way") on 1/17 is free and open to the public, and we would like to extend the invitation to any of your families to attend. Here is a link, as we are asking attendees to RSVP so we can switch to a larger space if necessary:
goo.gl/kAMrrA
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