Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic School "Let Go & Let God" Educating the Mind, Body, and Soul Pelican Express October 17-23, 2019 School Hours: 7:25 am - 2:45 pm with assembly beginning at 7:45 am and carpool ending at 3:10 pm

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Principal Message

See you at the Fair!

Important Dates

These dates do not reflect all of October dates. For a complete list of the entire month and other months, please visit the online calendar . October 18 - Parent/Teacher Conferences - PK-5 - Middle School attends school October 18-20 - MBS Parish Fair October 21 - Parent/Teacher Conferences - Middle School - PK-5 attends school October 22 - Picture Retakes October 24 - Mass; dress uniform October 25 - Middle School Dance (St. Ursula); Spirit Shirt Day - Pep Rally October 31 - No mass for students November 1 - Mass; dress uniform; Shop with Scrip due

Athletics

Boys Basketball We are in search of boys basketball coaches. Please contact Nathan Butler at nbutler@mbsbr.org if interested. Boys basketball ONLINE registration is live. Click HERE to complete the online registration. Registration will close on November 9th. Registering online is mandatory. Parish basketball information will be sent out at a later time. Girls Soccer Girls soccer ONLINE registration is live. Click HERE to complete the online registration. Registration will close on October 23. Registering online is mandatory. Upcoming Sports Registrations Registration for volleyball and track will take place at a later date. Upcoming Sports Events - GO PELICANS!! Saturday, October 19 - Cross Country Meet at LSU Innovation - 8:20am Monday, October 21 - 5th/6th Football at St. Thomas More - 5:30pm Monday, October 21 - 8th Grade Girls' Basketball at St. George - 7:30pm Monday, October 21 - War Pelicans at St. Thomas More - 7pm Wednesday, October 23 - 3rd/4th Football vs St. George - 4:30pm Wednesday, October 23 - 5th Girls' Basketball vs. St. Francis - 5:45pm Wednesday, October 23 - 7th Grade Girls' Basketball vs. St. Francis - 6:30pm Wednesday, October 23 - 8th Grade Girls' Basketball vs St. John - 7:30pm

Cafeteria

My School Bucks Did you know that you can set up an automatic payments to your child's account when their balance gets down to a certain amount? This would cause no one to accrue negative balances. Log onto MySchoolBucks.com and select "Set up AutoPay." Breakfast Menu Monday... Pancakes, ham, fruit, milk/juice Tuesday.. Biscuit, Chicken patty, pears, jelly, milk/juice Wednesday...Waffles, cube cheese, fruit, milk/juice Thursday...Cereal, toast, fruit, milk/juice Friday...Biscuit, sausage, fruit, milk/juice Lunch Menu October lunch menu is posted. Click HERE to view.

School News

No EXTENDED Care on Friday, October 18. No Bus Days & Carpool next week On Monday, October 21, carpool will resume. However, rather than using the parking lot to the right of the church (usual side), please use the parking lot to the left of the church. This will be for Monday only.Pending all things go to plan with fair deconstruction, regular carpool will resume on Tuesday, October 22. Thank you, and Godspeed Health Notes Mrs. Avery, our school nurse, has initiated a new medical software called SNAP. SNAP will be her main source of communication and notification. SNAP correspondence is sent by email in real time. Each time your child visits Mrs. Avery, you will receive a notification. If you have not received SNAP information yet, you should shortly. You will receive two emails. One containing a password and the other containing your child's health record. You must use the password in order to view the record. Save this password to use for all SNAP communications.  If you do not receive the email with the password, please check your spam/junk folder. Red Ribbon Week Do you have a Black Light that we can borrow for our Glow Party next week? If so, please email Michelle DiBenedetto. Red Ribbon Week will be October 21-25. The following attachment gives parents more information about this week. Conference Days As needed conferences are scheduled with parents of students in grades PreK-8. If your child's teacher does not request a conference and you would like to meet, you may request one. Students do not attend school on their scheduled conference day. Friday, October 18 - PK-5th Conferences; Middle School attends school Monday, October 21 - Middle School Conferences; PK-5th attends school Picture Retakes - October 22 There are two different situations for Picture Retakes: Absent on Initial Picture Day - If a student was absent on the initial Picture Day, he/she should show up on "Retake" Day in Dress Uniform. If you do not have the original picture packet, please contact Wendy Lee in the office. Dislike picture/want another one - If your child needs another picture taken, send the child to school with the pictures you dislike. The pictures should be uncut; none should be missing. He/she should show up on "Retake" Day in Dress Uniform. The exact order will be placed again. Even if you dislike your child and don't want any pictures of him/her, every child needs to have his/her picture taken for our records and for our Yearbook. Grandparents Day Invitations Grandparents Day is next month. All grandparents are invited to attend. A "Grandparents Day Invitation Request Form" went home with your child this week. Just in case your precious darling didn't give it to you, you can access the form here. Please complete and return back to the office ASAP. We only need one form per family.

Church Parish News

Parish Bulletin To view this weekend's bulletin, click here. Fair Ride Bracelets If you pre-ordered a Fair Ride Bracelet, your child will come home with a GREEN Voucher Thursday or Friday. Your child (or whoever wants to wear the bracelet) must present the Voucher at the FAIR RIDE TICKET BOOTH. The FAIR RIDE folks will place the bracelet on the child. Both Voucher and wrist must be present to receive the bracelet. If your child was absent Thursday or Friday, please visit the MBS Money Booth during Fair hours and tell the volunteer you need to get a pre-ordered bracelet voucher. Then you must go to the FAIR RIDE TICKET BOOTH to have the bracelet attached to the child. If a friendly neighbor, grandparent, or non-mbs parent ordered the bracelet, you may find the voucher at the Money Booth. Student Fair Performance Schedule Several of our students will perform at the MBS Parish Fair on Saturday, October 19. Kindergarten through Fifth Grade will perform; our choir and band will perform; cheer, pep squad and dance teams will perform. A schedule of the performances is here. Students should meet behind the stage and look for their grade level poster. MBS Fair - Wine Pull We are excited to announce that we will have a Wine Pull at the Fair this year. We just need help to stock our booth. Please see the attached signup to help us out. No, you cannot drink the bottle at the fair...it's to be used on stressful homework nights. EXTRA PARKING FOR THE MBS FAIR WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL PARKING LOT. THERE IS A GATE TO WALK THROUGH FOR ATTENDANCE TO THE FAIR OR FOR MASS.

Office of Child Protection

According to the Safe Environment Policy mandated by the Diocese of Baton Rouge, all church parish and school ministry volunteers/chaperones must complete a mandatory background check and child protection training. Please note that MBS School child protection requirements are not the same as MBS Church Parish. Therefore, if you are compliant for the Parish, you are not automatically compliant for the School, and vice versa. It is important to remember the child protection paperwork is time sensitive. If you began the process, but did not complete all the steps in a timely manner, you may have to resubmit the paperwork. Many files have been archived due to inactivity, and/or files not being updated. Please contact Mrs. Landry at 225-753-5526 or email  childprotection@mbsbr.org   for assistance in receiving the required paperwork or to check on your volunteer status. Remember that Child Protection credentials allow the holder of these credentials the opportunity to chaperone/volunteer at MBS Parish and/or School. All credentialed adult volunteers must abide by the sign-up and confirmation process for each event.   Chaperone and Volunteer Requirements Agreement 2019-2020 Those adults who have completed the Safe Environment and Child Protection requirements and have been cleared to volunteer at MBS School must complete the Chaperone/Volunteer Requirements Agreement form each year prior to volunteering. The agreement form is an overview of the responsibilities and requirements of chaperones and volunteers. This form will stay in the child protection file and must be updated each school year. Please find the file attached for your convenience.

Volunteer Opportunities

Red Ribbon Week - Glow Party Do you want to come watch these crazy kids during the Glow Party on Thursday, October 24? If you are Child Protected Certified, please click here to sign up! Teacher Appreciation Items Needed Instead of waiting until April to show our teachers how much we love them, the Home & School Association would like to do little acts of kindness each month. This month, we will treat them to their favorite Sweet Sweets. Please sign up HERE to see if there is an item you can add to your grocery list and bring to the office for our faculty and staff. Items should be brought on Tuesday, October 22. Middle School Dance - Volunteers Needed Our Middle School Dance is October 25. We need volunteers to help our middle schoolers have a BLAST at this event exclusively for them. Please following the link HERE to see how you can volunteer to help. We are also in need of food to be donated for the Middle School Dance. Please following the link here to donate food. Donated food counts as ONE hour of Time & Talent and you don't need to be Child Protected Certified to drop off the food at school. MBS Parish Fair - Volunteers Needed Our MBS Parish Fair will be held on October 18, 19, & 20. We need volunteers to help make this event a success. Please click here to see where help is needed. Cafeteria Volunteers Needed CLICK HERE for October volunteer sign up. We rely on volunteers to help run the lunch line efficiently. Please consider volunteering and remember to log your hours on your Time & Talent card. Coke Tops Our Coke Tops Bin is full from donations last year, but we still need help scanning the tops into our account. The coke tops can be sent home with your student and scanned with your phone at home. Time spent scanning count towards your Time and Talent hours. If you are interested, please contact Jeannine Naquin at JRNaquin@gmail.com or Kylie Ortego at JROrtego@cox.net

Home & School

Middle School Dance tickets are now on sale. CLICK HERE to purchase!

High School Happenings

St. Michael the Archangel Open House - October 23, 5:00-8:00pm Catholic High School Mass Open House - November 13, 4:30-7:00pm St. Joseph's Academy Open House - October 17, 4:00-7:00pm

Newsletter Publications

The newsletter is published every Thursday at 4pm and is mailed directly to contacts from Rediker. If you know you are in our system but do not receive the newsletter, please check your SPAM or TRASH to ensure you are included.  To subscribe : Visit http://mbsbr.org/ and click on "Email Signup" at the top right corner. To unsubscribe: Click on the "unsubscribe" at the bottom of this page. If you have any information that needs to be published in the newsletter, please submit to Penne Leier at PLeier@mbsbr.org by Wednesdays at 8am.

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