Monday, Apr. 22 - Friday, Apr. 26--ARK Testing Week

Monday, Apr. 22--Softball (Home) vs. LEAD Academy 6:00 p.m.; Baseball Varsity at Central 6:00 p.m.; Cheerleading Post Tryouts Meeting in the SLC 6:00 p.m.; Faculty Meeting; Library Closed After School

Tuesday, Apr. 23--G Lacrosse (Home) vs. Bolles Regional Quarterfinal 6:00 p.m.; Tennis Regional Semifinal (Boys vs Maclay, Girls vs. Florida High) at Roger Scott 3:00 p.m; Baseball (Home) vs. Pace JV 4:00, Varsity 7:00 p.m.; Volleyball Pre-Tryout Parent's Meeting 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 24--B Lacrosse (Home) vs. South Walton Regional Quarterfinal 6:00 p.m.; Softball (Home) Senior Night vs. Pensacola High 6:00 p.m.; Animal Awareness Club Meeting

Thursday, Apr. 25--Baseball at Gulf Breeze - JV 4:00, V 7:00 p.m.; Track & Field District Meet at Bay High School 10:00 a.m.; Tennis Regional Final TBD; Chris Stefanick Speaking 8:30 a.m.

Friday, Apr. 26--Senior Sk ip Day; Noon Dismissal; Library Closed After School

Friday, Apr. 26 - Saturday, Apr. 27--MATE ROV Competition in Dauphin Island

Please check your email Inbox for a follow-up letter that was sent on April 11. We are very blessed that a few more families have responded with a pledge – THANK YOU to all families who have already pledged! However, we still need 100% participation to meet our $6M goal - $3M from our parents. Hopefully, you have seen the video from Mrs. Dana Lupton that further highlights one of the projects we want to pursue with the funds raised. You can see the full list of projects from our Campaign school website linked here and the QR code will take you directly to our Donation Page.

Members of our Robotics Team will be competing against schools from around the region in the MATE ROV Competition on Friday and Saturday, Apr. 26-27 in Dauphin Island. They will be simulating real-life aquatic tasks ranging from repairing damaged coral and laying communications cables. Our demonstration will take place on Saturday between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Good luck Crubotics!

Our Baseball Team enters the final week of their regular season as one of the top ranked teams in the state and in the country. They have three tough games this week, two on the road and one at home.

Monday, Apr. 22 - Varsity at Central 6:00 p.m. This was a late addition to the schedule and ticket information is not available.

Tuesday, Apr. 23 - vs. Pace - JV 4:00, Varsity 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available online or at the gate.

Thursday, Apr. 25 - at Gulf Breeze - JV 4:00, Varsity 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available online.

Our Softball Team also enters their final week of regular season competition with two home games, including Senior Night.

Monday, Apr. 22 - vs. LEAD Academy, 6:00 p.m. Tickets are available online or at the gate.

Wednesday, Apr. 24 - vs. Pensacola High, 6:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the gate. They will be honoring their seniors prior to the game.

Our Boys Lacrosse Team rolled through the competition in the district tournament, outscoring the competition 46-8 en route to winning back to back district titles. They will host the regional quarterfinal match this week.

Wednesday, Apr. 24 - vs. South Walton, 6:00 p.m. Tickets are available online.

Congratulations and good luck Crusaders!

Our Girls Lacrosse Team had to play one more match than the boys, but they too had no issues cruising through the district tournament to win their third consecutive district championship. All facets of the game were clicking at they outscored their opponents 55-6. They will also be hosting their regional quarterfinal this week.

Tuesday, Apr. 23 - vs. Bolles, 6:00 p.m. Congratulations and good luck Lady Crusaders!

Both of our Tennis Teams dominated their district tournament, not even dropping one match! They will be hosting the Regional Semifinal this week with a chance to advance to the next round later in the week.

Tuesday, Apr. 23 - Regional Semifinal at Roger Scott Tennis Center 3:00 p.m. Boys vs. Maclay, Girls vs. Florida High.

Friday, Apr. 26 - Regional Final TBD

Best of luck to both of our tennis teams!

Our Track & Field Team has been preparing for this week's District Track meet in Panama City.

Thursday, Apr. 25 - District Meet at Tommy Oliver Stadium in Panama City, 10:00 a.m.

Good luck to our Crusaders as they look to qualify for the next round of the postseason!

Four memberts of our Weightlifting Team qualified for the State meet, which took place this past weekend. Congratulations to the following students:

Congratulations to the entire team on a fantastic season! Great job lifters and coaches!

Cheerleading tryouts took place this past week. Congratulations to everyone that made the team! There will be a following meeting for the parents of everyone that made the team this week.

Monday, Apr. 22 - Parents Meeting in the SLC.

There will be a parents meeting for anyone wishing to play for our Volleyball team in the fall.

Tuesday, Apr. 23 - Parents Meeting in the SLC, 6:00 p.m.

Our students and staff will be participating in the Assessment of Religious Knowledge this week. This testing will not impact our students grades in any of their classes. The testing will, however, give us some insight on how we are doing as a staff teaching our people the Catholic faith.

Only one of our student clubs has a meeting this week. It will take place right after school.

Animal Awareness Club

He will be speaking to our students on Thursday, Apr. 25 at 8:30 a.m.

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 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.

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.