Veritas Christian Academy
The Voice of Veritas Newsletter
February 14, 2022
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UPCOMING EVENTS
February 21: Presidents' Day - NO SCHOOL
March 4: VCA House Color Day
March 9: Parent-Teacher Conferences - NO SCHOOL
March 11-12: Spring Drama Production - The Wizard of Oz
March 17: Early Dismissal Day
March 18: Professional Development Day - NO SCHOOL
March 21-25: Spring Break - NO SCHOOL
April 1: VCA House Color Day
April 2: Father/Daughter Dance
April 7-8: College Trip (Sophomores/Juniors)
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HAPPY 101 DAYS OF SCHOOL! |
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PARENT -TEACHER CONFERENCES
Be on the lookout for an email with Parent-Teacher Conference Sign-ups. If you have not received it by the end of the day, please email twoods@veritasnc.org.
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BLOG: "TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE"
"At Veritas we aspire to make the most of every occasion. From the moment each child arrives in the morning until they depart at the close of the day, time is of the essence. Not in a hurry-scurry manner, or the way that the world counts time, but in the sense that we are called to redeem the time..."
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KINDERGARTEN'S CONFETTI HEARTS
Kinders explored the art of American pop artist, Jim Dine, especially his whimsical Confetti Heart. They learned about symmetry and how to use a "magic trick" to draw their own symmetrical hearts, which they decorated with oil pastel "confetti." To finish them off, they used either warm or cool temperas to paint the backgrounds.
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Theatre Veritas presents
The Wizard of Oz
Friday, Mar 11th 2022, 7:00 PM
Saturday, Mar 12th 2022, 1:00 PM
Saturday, Mar 12th 2022, 6:00 PM
Upward Christian Fellowship
991 Upward Road
Flat Rock, NC 28731
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CAMP VERITAS 2022
Veritas Christian Academy will once again be hosting a variety of summer camps this summer. The offerings will be announced soon, but we wanted to get the good word out so that you can mark your calendars!
SAVE THE DATES!
JULY 11-15
JULY 18-22
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MARCH HOT LUNCH
Hot Lunch Ordering for March Hot Lunch is now OPEN! Place your orders before February 25th at 11:00 PM. Please note that we cannot accept late orders.
Please contact JeanAnne (jcraton@veritasnc.org) with any questions!
Thank you!
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PINE DERBY
The houses competed in a pinewood derby competition as a House Challenge last Friday. They were given the blocks to modify and had a few weeks to create and maintain certain limits on their cars. No longer than 7 inches, no wider than 3 inches and couldn't weigh more than 5 ounces.
They decorated the cars and we raced them to establish the fastest. We set up our track in the drama room coming off of the stage and each car raced in the preliminary rounds in order to establish the top 10 fastest cars. Then we took the top 10 cars and ran another round and found the fastest 4 cars.
They were made by Brandon Kelpin of the Dante House, Jake Miller of the Milton House, John Dieterly of the Virgil House and Vincent Babcock of the Homer House.
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SUPPORT THE CLASS OF 2023!
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Tuesday Treats! Students can purchase a Tuesday Treat card for $10.00, which will cover at least 10 weeks of treats. Juniors will be selling during their breaks, lunches, carline, AND home games *if they are not sold out during the school day.* Be sure to bring in $1.00, or $10.00 for Treat Cards!
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The Junior Class will be selling coffee and donuts to help raise money for their Senior Trip on Friday. DUNKIN' DONUTS AND LOCALLY ROASTED SHAREWELL COFFEE BY THE CUP AND BY THE BAG! Thank you for supporting these Veritas students!
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to the following students on their recent college acceptances:
Aldric McMahan, Clemson University, and Montreat College
Brandon Kelpin, Coastal Carolina University, Palm Beach Atlantic University, University of Dayton
Copeland Goodson, Clemson University
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WARRIOR ATHLETIC NEWS
Both of our girl’s teams won their Conference Championship this last week!
Our Varsity Team beat Victory Christian Academy 78-50 on Monday. Then on Thursday, our girls beat top-seeded Haywood Christian Academy 39-26 to advance to the Championship game. On Saturday, Veritas defeated Pinnacle Classical Academy 58-49 to claim the WPAC championship! Brooke Miller was named 1st Team All-Conference, and Kaitlyn Miller was named 2nd Team All-Conference. Our Varsity girls team will be in action this week as they compete in the CSAA State Tournament!
Our Middle School Team competed in the WPAC JV Tournament last week. Playing against some older competition, our girls won two games to claim the Championship! On Thursday, Veritas beat Lake Lure Classical Academy 31-15 to advance to the Championship. On Saturday, our girls defeated Nebo Crossing Academy 18-16 to claim the Conference Championship! Our Middle School Team will also compete in the CSAA State tournament this week.
The Veritas Varsity Boys Team won their first-round tournament game, defeating Lake Lure Classical Academy 72-47. On Thursday, our boys lost a hard-fought game to Christian Family Academy 68-51 in the semi-finals of the WPAC tournament. Aldric McMahan was named 1st Team All-Conference, and Eli Robbins was named 2nd Team All-Conference. Our Varsity Boys will be in action this week as they compete in the CSAA State tournament.
The Middle School Team also competed in the WPAC JV tournament. On Monday, our boys beat Pinnacle Classical Academy 42-38. Thursday, Veritas was defeated by Christian Family Academy 36-23 in the semi-finals of the tournament. The Warriors will be in action this week in the CSAA State tournament as well.
Spring sport practices will begin next week for most of our teams. If you are wanting to play and have not signed up, please let Lee Burgess (lburgess@veritasnc.org) know ASAP.
Go Warriors!
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FROM THE NURSE'S CORNER
Dear Veritas Community,
NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced last week that as of February 21, 2022, individual contact tracing and exclusion from school after an identified exposure are no longer a statewide requirement or recommendation in a school setting. Please see StrongSchoolsToolkit for more information.
Veritas will omit these requirements from our Health Guidelines starting on that date. Please remember that any individual (student, visitor, or faculty) that has a confirmed positive covid test or is symptomatic remains home from school and will continue following the next steps in our Health Guidelines.
Please call or email me any questions or concerns- thank you for your continued prayers and support.
Monique Wack, BSN/RN
School Nurse
phone: 828-681-0546 Fax: 828-681-0547
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HELPFUL QUICK LINKS FOR PARENTS
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