August 23, 2021 - Southfield School Weekly

August 23, 2021

GIRLS BASKETBALL PRACTICE SCHEDULE

5th and 6th-grade girls basketball:

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays after school until 4:30 p.m.

7th and 8th-grade girls basketball team:

Mondays and Wednesdays after school until 5 p.m.

Thursday practice for 7th and 8th-grade girls is welcomed but optional!

Southfield School will be partnering with LSU Health Shreveport to provide a voluntary weekly COVID-19 testing after Labor Day. Each week a trained healthcare team from LSUHS will visit Southfield to conduct the testing program using a short nasal swab and will send the collected samples to a laboratory for testing using PCR technology. Parents who have elected to participate will receive their children’s results via text or email by the end of the following day.

By participating in this program, Southfield School will enhance its goal of keeping the school’s community safe, identifying infections early to keep community transmission low, limiting avertible group quarantines, and allowing the continuation of in-person learning, sports, and other activities for students.

TESTING PROGRAM REGISTRATION

TESTING PROGRAM FAQs

For those who received the COVID-19 vaccine at Open House, please report for your second vaccine anytime after August 27th (which is three weeks after the first dose and should be written on vaccination cards) at LSUS Med Center North campus (the old ChevyLand), located at 2627 Linwood Ave., anytime Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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*Please put your child’s first name and grade on your car tag. It will help those loading the cars in the afternoon during carpool.

Some friendly carpool reminders from Southfield School:

Students may not enter buildings until 7:40 AM. Parents are welcome to sit in carpool line until this time, but children must remain with parents and may not enter buildings until 7:40 AM. This ensures faculty are in place to receive your children.
Please try to approach the preschool/lower school carpool line from southbound Fairfield Ave.; left turns from Fairfield are discouraged.
Morning traffic on Southfield Rd. remains two-way. Please avoid double carpool lines to ensure the flow of traffic in both directions.
Afternoon traffic is one way. Please enter Southfield Rd. from Fairfield Avenue.

Please be courteous to driveways and drivers who are turning! Offer the right-of-way when possible to avoid bottlenecks on Southfield and Fairfield Roads.

The Dads' Club is open to all to foster friendship and fellowship, and they're back to planning a plethora of social events activities with Southfield kids. To find out more, be sure to attend next month's social at Red River BrewPub on Thursday, September 2nd at 5:30 p.m.!

Per Southfield School's temporary COVID Protocols, the Café is strictly limited to students and employees ONLY.

While parents are not permitted to join students for lunch at this time, on September 1, Louisiana’s mandate may expire. After this date, Southfield School will reevaluate all COVID-related protocols, which may include returning to the protocols initially published in July that allow parents to eat in the Café.

Parents, please send scrap paper with your child for critter cages in Mrs. Batte's Math & Science Lab. Any kind will do.

Design the bookmark that will be used by Southfield School readers this year!

Show your creativity and your Southfield School spirit!

One Lower School (1^st-4^th) and one Middle School (5^th-8^th) winner will be chosen.
Come by the library and pick up an entry form.
All entries are due on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8.

The Southfield Parents' Book Club is Back!

Do you love to read? Consider joining the Southfield Parents’ Book Club! This year our group will meet in the library on Wednesday at 8:15 once each month (September-April).

We hope you will join us in the library for our first meeting on Wednesday, September 8 to create our group reading list. What would you like to read this year?

IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP!

Looking to join an after-school extracurricular activity and love to sing? Want to avoid the carpool line? Eagle Singers is for you!

Who: Middle Schoolers

What: The Eagle Singers typically perform three times during the school year. The choral group also participates in community service projects, including performing at retirement homes. Privileges include going off-campus for lunch.

When: Wednesdays, 3:00-3:30 p.m.

Where: Choir Room

Eagle Singers perform a variety of music types, including classical, contemporary, and pop.

*The Eagle Singers Program is a part of the school curriculum and does not include a fee.

Pack 10 Cub Scouts: The next meeting for all current Cub Scouts and anyone interested (1st to 5th-grade) will be Tuesday, August 24th from 6 - 7 p.m. at St. Paul's Church, 275 Southfield Rd. All kindergarten parents please stay tuned for a meeting date and location.

Scouts BSA (formerly known as BoyScouts): Southfield 6th to 8th-grade students are active in two Boy Scout Troops. Troop 14B meets every Monday at St. Paul's Church from 6 - 7:15 p.m. Troop 15B meets in the Scout Hut at Highland Park on Mondays from 6:30 - 8 p.m. Additionally, Troop 14G for girls meets on Mondays at St. Paul's Church from 6 - 7:15 p.m.

All Troops usually have at least one outdoor weekend activity each month such as hiking, fishing, or canoeing, or campouts. We understand some Scouts may have other sports or obligations during part of the year, but Scouting is a year-round activity and the monthly outings are not mandatory.

If you are interested in joining BSA Troop 14B, please contact Rich Sipes. For BSA 15B, contact Leah Thelen or the local Norwela Council office at 318-868-2744.