Friday, Mar. 29 - Sunday, Apr. 7--SPRING BREAK

Sunday, Mar. 31--Easter Sunday

Tuesday, Apr. 2--Baseball (Home) Varsity vs. Mountain View, GA 7:00 p.m., JV vs. Pace 9th 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, Apr. 4--Baseball (Home) vs. South Warren , KY Varsity 7:00, JV 4:00 p.m.; B Lacrosse (Home) vs. Baton Rouge Catholic 6:00 p.m.; G Lacrosse at Oak Hall 6:00 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 5--B Lacrosse (Home) vs. Pensacola 6:00 p.m.; Weightlifting Regionals Weigh-Ins at Port St. Joe; G Lacrosse at Bishop Moore 6:00 p.m.; Track & Field at Mobile UMS-Wright 3:00 p.m.; Math Contest at Milton

Saturday, Apr. 6--Baseball (Home) vs. Lincoln Varsity 2:00 p.m., JV 11:00 a.m.; Weightlifting Regional Meet at Port St. Joe 8:00 a.m.

Monday, Apr. 8--Classes Resume; Library Closed After School; Softball (Home) vs. Destin 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 9--Baseball at Escambia Varsity 6:30, JV 4:00 p.m.; Softball at Crestview 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 10--Prom Tickets Sales Ends; Senior Graduation Fee Due; B Lacrosse District Tournament Begins- Dates, Times & Location TBD; Softball (Home) vs. Gulf Breeze 6:00 p.m.; Tennis at Niceville 3:00 p.m.; Discipleship and Sader Surfers Club Meetings

Thursday, Apr. 11--Softball (Home) vs. Washington 6:00 p.m.; Spanish Club Meeting

Friday, Apr. 12--1:55 p.m. Dismissal; Freshman Assembly--10 a.m.; G Lacrosse District Qrtrf. (H) , 6 p.m.; Baseball at Crestview Varsity 7:00, JV 4:00 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 13--Prom at CHS; Track & Field Escambia County Championships at Washington, 9:00 a.m.; Baseball (Home) vs. South Walton Varsity Noon, JV 3:00 p.m.

Starry, Starry Knight Auction a Big Success

Thank you to everyone that made this year's Starry, Starry Knight Auction an overwhelming success! We raised just over $74,000 from the auction bidding and from our generous sponsors.

If you were the winning bidder on an item and you have not yet picked it up, please email Nina Blay to arrange a time for pick-up. We will be back in the office on Monday, April 8.

Building on Faith, Family & Tradition - Phase II

On Wednesday, February 28, we sent a special appeal email to all parents asking for your participation. To date, only 6% of our families have responded. If you cannot give at the level suggested in the email that was sent, please pray about what you can give. Visit our Gift Calculator to see other options. It is imperative that we have 100% participation from all families to reach our goals that will benefit your students.

We will be celebrating our Junior-Senior Prom on Satuday, Apr. 13. Tickets are on sale now and tickets sales will remain open until Wednesday, Apr. 10. The Prom will begin at 7:30 p.m. and end at 10:30 p.m. Attendance is mandatory for anyone attending prom from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Prom will take place on the CHS campus in the Tolan Family Student Life Center.

CHS has an opening for a full-time Religion teacher for the 2024-25 school year. Applicants must be practicing Catholics and have at least a bachelor’s degree, preferably in theology or religious studies. For more information, please contact Sr. Kierstin Martin at kmartin@pensacolachs.org and follow all of the steps described at the link below. Applicants must also pass all required fingerprinting and background checks as required by the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee and the State of Florida.

Click here for more information on the application process.

Our Baseball Team had another undefeated week that culminated with a win on Thursday night at Holmes County. The victory marked head coach Richard LaBounty's 750th career coaching win, all as the leader of the Crusaders. Congratulations Coach!

They will host three games this week during break against teams from outside the area.

Tuesday, Apr. 02 - vs. Mountain View, GA Varsity 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available online or at the gate. The JV will host Pace 9th at 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, Apr. 04 - vs. South Warren, KY - JV 4:00, Varsity 7:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online or at the gate.

Saturday, Apr. 06 - vs. Lincoln - JV 11:00 a.m., Varsity 2:00 p.m. Tickets are available at the gate or online.

The following week they are on the road twice and host a Saturday matinee.

Tuesday, Apr. 09 - at Escambia - JV 4:00, Varsity 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available online.

Friday, Apr. 12 - at Crestview - JV 4:00, Varsity 7:00 p.m. Tickets can be found online.

Saturday, Apr. 13 - vs. South Walton - Varsity 12:00 p.m., JV 3:00 p.m. The varsity is playing first so that our juniors and seniors can attend Prom that night. Tickets are available online or at the gate.

Our Softball Team is off this week but returns to the diamond the following week with four games, three of which will be at home.

Monday, Apr. 08 - vs. Destin, 6:00 p.m. Tickets are available at the gate.

Tuesday, Apr. 09 - at Crestview, 6:00 p.m. Tickets are available online or at the gate.

Wednesday, Apr. 10 - vs. Gulf Breeze, 6:00 p.m. Tickets can be found online or purchased at the gate.

Thursday, Apr. 11 - vs. Washington, 6:00 p.m. Tickets are online or at the gate.

Our Boys Lacrosse Team has won 12 of their 13 matches heading into the final week of the regular season. They host twice this week and they will start their district tournament the following week.

Thursday, Apr. 04 - vs. Baton Rouge Catholic, 6:00 p.m. Tickets are available online or at the gate.

Friday, Apr. 05 - vs. Pensacola High, 6:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased ahead of time or at the gate.

Their District Tournament begins on Thursday, 4/11, at home at 7 p.m.

Our Girls Lacrosse Team has also won all but one of their matches, posting a record of 15-1 as they enter the final week of the regular season. The following week will see the start of the district tournament.

Thursday, Apr. 04 - at Oak Hall, 6:00 p.m. EST. Tickets for this match can be purchased online.

Friday, Apr. 05 - at Bishop Moore, 6:00 p.m. EST. Tickets are available online.

Friday, Apr. 12 - District Tournament Quarterfinals will be on Friday, 4/12, at home at 6 p.m.

Our Tennis Teams will take the week off before returning to the courts the following week.

Wednesday, Apr. 10 - at Niceville, 3:00 p.m. at the Eagle Ram Tennis Center.

This will be their final matches before the district tournament the following week.

Our Track & Field Teams will be in competition this weekend.

Friday, Apr. 05 - at UMS-Wright in Mobile for the Mobile Clash of Champions beginning at 3:00 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 13 - Escambia County Championships at Washington with a start time of 9:00 a.m.

Our Weightlifting Team had their District Meet this week and they finished third in the Traditional and in the Olympic categories. Additionally, eight lifters qualified for this week's regionals.

Friday, Apr. 05 - at Port St. Joe - Weigh Ins

Saturday, Apr. 06 - at Port St. Joe - Regional Meet

Good luck, Crusaders!

Click here to view pictures from last week's district meet.

Our Spring Break started on Thursday, Mar. 28, when our students were released. The school will be closed until we return for classes on Monday, April 8.

We wish everyone a safe, relaxing, fun, and blessed Spring Break! Hopefully, when everyone returns from Break we will be rested and ready to finish the semester strong!

Additionally, our Animals Awareness Club has been collecting donations for the "Hotel for Cat and Dogs.” Donated items included food for dogs and cats, cat litter, trash bags, paper towels, blankets, pillowcases, animal beds, toys, treats , leashes and more. Our members were very happy to help and this week the Club president, Melina Snyder, and her sister, Susanna Snyder, delivered the needed items to the shelter.

With the dedicated help of CHS alum, Linda Hennick Kent ’77, we have been made aware of a wonderful benefit, provided by the FL Dept. of Health, for all of our students.

Our students are eligible to benefit from the School-Based Dental Preventive Dental Health Program.  What does this provide?  If you opt to have this benefit provided for your child, a certified dental hygienist will provide several beneficial services to your child (full details are explained in the attached flier below).

If you wish to have your child receive these services, we ask that you please:

These services will take place at CHS during the school day.  The services will began as soon as we receives the first of these “opt-in” forms back from parents and will continue after Spring Break, likely ending on April 8 or 9.

You may email the form back (kmartin@pensacolachs.org), fax it to us (850-436-6405), return it with your son/daughter, or drop it off at the Front Office by Monday, April 8.

There are three club meeting during the week in which we return.

Wednesday, Apr. 10 - Sader Surfers

Wednesday, Apr. 10 - Discipleship

Thursday, Apr. 12 - Spanish Club

The National Park Service and the U.S. Youth Conservation Corps are currently hiring for summer 2024. If you would like more information or would like to pursue this opportunity, click on the picture to see all of the important details.

Many of our past students have pursued these types of job opportunities and had wonderful experiences. If you have any questions, Mrs. Kyte (mkyte@pensacolachs.org) will be happy to answer them for you.

Click here to learn more about Shopraise, a fundraising platform similar to Amazon Smile that can help all of our CHS supporters raise money for the school while shopping. If you plan to do any online shopping, please consider using this service.

Beginning with the 2023-24 school year, Parking Permit Hang Tags, color-coded by grade, are issued to each student who plans to drive to school any day. Faculty, also, utilize parking permit hang tags. During the school day, student cars may be parked in a CHS lot/space only if they contain a parking permit clearly displayed. Students may park only in the area defined for their class. Parking permit tags will be kept throughout the student's enrollment at CHS and will be collected prior to graduation/withdrawal.

Distribution of the tags to students took place during the week of Aug. 14. The form on which to register a car for parking is the last page of the Parent/Student Handbook, which students received on 8/10. The form should have been completed, signed by the parent, and turned in by Aug. 16 to the student's Homeroom Teacher. If your form was not turned in by the deadline, please hand it into the Front Office immediately. If the student is turning 16 later in the school year or will begin driving later in the school year, the form can be turned in once they start driving to school.

The athletic eligibility requirements for 2023-24 have been updated and can be accessed from our school website.

Several of our spring sports athletes have physicals that are expiring before their seasons are scheduled to conclude. Physicals are good for 1 year or 365 days from the date the physical is conducted. Athletes will not be able to compete in any event or contest unless they have a physical on file with our compliance office that is current and covers the competition period. This includes spring football and all other spring sports. Spring break would be a great time to take care of this if it applies to your student.

Looking for the perfect holiday, birthday, or anniversary gift? A commemorative Catholic High brick might be just the thing to create a unique and lasting memory visible for you and your family to admire for a lifetime. The clay bricks are 8" X 8" and will accommodate engraving of up to 6 lines with a maximum of 21 characters per line. Use the link pensacolachs.org/bricks to access the web form to order and pay for your commemorative brick(s). Once we have an order for five or more bricks we will place the order with the brick company. All proceeds from the sales will go to the Building on Faith, Family & Tradition Capital Campaign.

The Dress Cody Policy for 2023-24 has been updated and can be accessed through the school website.

Important Policies and Protocols

Students may earn exemption from a semester exam in a course if they have 2 or less absences in that course for the semester (remembering that 3 tardies to a class count as 1 absence), if the student’s academic average in the course is a C or better and their overall average in all courses is a 2.5 or better at the end of the first quarter in that semester (Q1 or Q3). Any student who does not have BOTH of these criteria is required to take exams. Every student in 9th-12th grade will take one mandatory exam per semester. The course in which the exam will be given this May will be announced later in the semester. This mandatory exam will be scheduled on the first exam day which is May 21 in 2024. No student should be absent from school until after this mandatory exam!

Lunch may not be dropped off for students. Students have the option to bring their lunch from home or purchase it in our Student Life Center. Parents that wish to buy their kids lunch using their ID badge can set up an account with SLA. If a parent provides snacks for a club meeting or event, they must be store-purchased and individually store-wrapped. No homemade snacks may be brought in for any event. Thank you for helping us to maintain these important protocols.

Students must bring a note from the parent to the Front Office in the morning before 7:45 a.m. if he/she will need to be dismissed early that day for any reason. The school is unable to dismiss students early if they did not bring in this note from the parent prior to school on the day of the needed dismissal. This is true whether the student will return to school that day or not. Please do not call, email or text the Front Office during the school day to request that your child be dismissed at that time. Also, please remember our policy that students may not be dismissed within 30 minutes of the dismissal time at the end of any day.