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Annual Town Hall and Back to School Night

Tuesday, September 11th

6:00 p.m

PARENTS ONLY EVENT !

After School Care Closes at 5:30 p.m.

Our Annual Town Hall Meeting and Back to School Night is a PARENTS ONLY event. With all of our Faculty & Staff needed for our meeting and classroom visits we are unable to safely provide childcare.

Our faculty and staff has worked to condense the timeline for the evening to provide you with the most up to date information regarding the state of our school as well as an opportunity to spend quality time with your child's teachers.

Agenda

6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.: Town Hall Meeting

State of the School Message from Principal Maria Gomez
Welcome and Introduction
2017-2018 School Year
STREAM Curriculum Updates
Message from our Athletic Directors
Annual Fund Parent Message

6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.: A Day in the Life of Your Student!

Parents of Preschool, Pre Kindergarten, and Elementary students will visit their child's classroom to hear directly from the teacher. Parents of Middle School students will spend 10 minutes in each of their child's core classes.

Preschool, Pre Kindergarten, Elementary Parents

Session I (6:30-7:00 p.m.) or Session II (7:00-7:30 p.m.)

Middle School Parents

One Session (6:30-7:30 p.m.)

Wednesday August 29th

4:30 PM - BSS Soccer vs OLM (Home)

Thursday, August 30th

4:30 PM - BSS Soccer vs BCA (Home)

Friday, August 31st

8:45 AM - Mass & 8th Grade Commisioning

Monday, September 3rd

School Closed - Labor Day

Tuesday, September 4th

4:00 PM - BSS Volleyball vs IHM (Home)

Wednesday, September 5th

4:30 PM - BSS Soccer vs SPX (Home)

Thursday, September 6th

Change: Club Knight (After School Care) closes at 6:00 PM

3:30 PM - Cross Country Meet at Cedarock Park

4:00 PM - BSS Volleyball vs SPX (Away)

Change: Fall Town Hall Meeting and Back to School Night to be on 9/11.

Friday, September 7th

4:00 PM - BSS Tennis vs TBS - Alamance Country Club

Sunday, September 9th

Back to School Mass at 10:30 - Blessed Sacrament Church

2:00 PM - Middle School FLL Meeting

Monday, September 10th

Change: 9/10 is NOT a Dress Down Day

4:00 PM - Cross Country Meet at Bradford Academy

Tuesday, September 11th

6:00 PM Fall Town Hall Meeting/Open House

Wednesday September 12th

9:15 AM - Time for Twos

3:15 PM - 4th Grade FLL Club

4:30 PM - BSS Soccer vs IHM (Away)

Thursday, September 13th

5:00 PM - Middle School Dance

Friday, September 14th

8:45 AM - Mass

4:00 PM - BSS Tennis vs BCA at Olde Forest Racquet Club

Saturday, September 15th

9:30 AM - BSS Volleyball vs SPX & SLS at SLS

Knight News

Congratulations to Jackson Benes!

Our own Jackson Benes was mentioned this week in the Times News regarding his graduation this summer from the Space Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.

Click here for the full article

The Benefit of Auction Items

You may have noticed two parking spaces designated with signs stating, "Reserved for Friends of BSS". You may have also noticed a lone car pulling to the head of the dismissal line after school. Benefits like these can be yours if you are the high bidder at our Annual School Auction on March 16, 2019. Save the Date!

A Message to Middle School Parents

Your student has use of a school provided Chromebook. In May, many of these devices had missing keyboard letters, cracked screens, broken or missing hinge parts. All Chromebooks were inspected, repaired or replaced over the summer. Your student has use of a Chromebook that has no repair issues.

This year we will be charging parents for all repairs that Mrs. Gomez and Mrs Sebastian think is beyond normal wear on the Chromebook. Below are the charges for the repairs we am able to do, time permitting.

Screen replacement - $100
Keyboard replacement - $100
Hinge cover replacement - $60
Key replacement (each key) - $25

When a device must be taken to an outside repair shop, parents will be charged the price of the repair.

This policy change is a result of the number and severity of the repairs that were made this summer. Many students are good stewards of the Chromebook we provide, but we do have students who could use more care in the way they treat the device.

Please remind your student to treat the Chromebooks with care. If a student is observed mistreating a device they will, at a minimum, lose the use of the device for a day. All classwork normally done on line will have to be done as homework that evening

Car Signs

We ask all families to please display their car signs on the rear view mirror of the car throughout the dismissal process so that we may more clearly identify your child. If you did not receive a car sign or need a replacement, please contact David Lynch at dlynch@bssknights.org

Blessed Sacrament School is a Bronze Sponsor for the I Will Survive 5K

We hope BSS students and families will participate in the 3rd annual "I Will Survive 5K" to benefit the Survivorship Fund at Cone Health Cancer Center at ARMC for local cancer survivors in beautiful historic Burlington.

Be sure to select the Blessed Sacrament School Team when you sign up for the race!

Classroom Connection

Middle School Science

The middle school students applied their summer reading project about Amelia Earhart.

Using paper airplanes the learned about lift, drag, trust and weight as they impact aerodynamics. The emphasis was not on making the "coolest" airplane, but on make one accurately to achieve a high level of performance.

Kindergarten Math and Reading

Our kindergartners learned honed their burgeoning math skills through the use of different colored shapes.

They also had a special visit from Principal Gomez who read, "Strictly No Elephants"

Prayer Requests

For our parishioner, Pete who is celebrating his 60th birthday and needs our prayers for good health.

From the Principal's Desk

Dear BSS Community,

We are into one week of school and lots of great learning is happening in the classrooms. Students are getting back into “school mode” and right now I am hearing our MS Chorus practicing Christmas songs. It will be here before you know it! Please make sure you put on your calendar our all school Mass on Sunday, September 9 and our Town Hall/ Open House on Tuesday, September 11. Thank you.

Mrs. Gomez

Athletics

Two Exciting Basketball Opportunities

In addition to the Skills Academy, NC Spartans will feature for the first time ever a FALL TEAM. They will have a 6th grade/12 & under team. This team will practice once a week at Bishop McGuinness High School (tentatively Sunday afternoons from 2-4) and compete in 4 tournaments throughout September and October.

Tournaments will be in the Winston Salem/Greensboro/High Point/Burlington area. The head coach of this team will be Kaleb Money, former college coach at Piedmont International University and current varsity assistant coach at Bishop McGuinness High School.

Tryouts for our 6th grade/12U team will be Thursday August 30 from 700-900 PM at Bishop McGuinness High School.

For any questions on this team contact NC Spartans director Josh Thompson at joshthompson33@gmail.com or head coach Kaleb Monday at coachkmoney@gmail.com

From the Admissions & Advancement Office

Spread the word to prospective students! Visit BSS!

Link Your VIC Cards

Each school year VIC cards must be "re-linked in order for Blessed Sacrament School to receive the benefits of your shopping. Visit www.harristeeter.com and look for the Together in Education section to link your card. Every dollar helps our school

Link Your Lowes Card

With Cart to Class, Lowes Foods will give up to a quarter of a million dollars to local schools this year. To participate, just enroll Blessed Sacrament School on your Fresh Rewards card, and start earning for our school. Click Here

Alumni News

Stephen Andress, Nina Corcoran and Jose Hernandez (BSS Class of 2016) are part of the Big/Little program to help transition new freshman into Bishop McGuinness. These three alums were selected to join many other upperclassman help organize and execute a fun & informative first day for incoming freshman. They will remain buddies with their assigned freshman (Littles) throughout the year.

They even got to welcome the incoming class, including recent BSS graduates Anna Hirose, Noah Goodman and Shane Flaherty.

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