Monday, Apr. 29--Football Spring Practice Begins; Library Closed After School

Tuesday, Apr. 30--G Lacrosse at Episcopal Regional Seminfinal 6:00 p.m. CDT; Baseball District Semifinal at Marianna vs. Florida High/Maclay 3:00 p.m.; Softball District Semifinal at Walton 6:00 p.m.; Blood Drive

Wednesday, May 1--Dedicaton & Blessing of New Classrooms, 8:45 a.m.; B Lacrosse at Oak Hall Regional Semifinal 6:00 CDT; Tennis State Tournament in Orlando; Animal Awareness and Discipleship Club Meetings

Thursday, May 2--Baseball District Final at Marianna; Girls Tennis State Tournament in Orlando; Softball District Final, TBD; Final Exam Schedule Announced; Spanish Club Mtg

Friday, May 3--Senior Parent Mass, 10 a.m.; G Lacrosse Regional Final TBD; Girls Tennis State Tournament in Orlando; Dismissal Times - Seniors 11:15 a.m., 9th-11th 2:55 p.m.

Saturday, May 4--B Lacrosse Regional Final TBD; SAT at CHS 8:00 a.m.

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.

Our Senior Parent Mass is this Friday, May 3, at 10:00 a.m. We invite all of our Senior parents to join us as we begin graduation celebrations for our Senior Class. Senior students will be dismissed from school at 11:15 a.m. All other students will be dismissed at 2:55 p.m.

There will be a Dedication and Blessing of our new classroom wing on Wednesday, May 1, during homeroom at 8:45 a.m.

We are eternally grateful to all of the generous donors that contributed to our Capital Campaign to make this dream and urgent need a reality. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts!

Excitement is building as we are about to open up the doors to the new wing, which will allow us to better serve our students and staff.

We would like to thank the architect, Danny Grundhoefer, with Quina Grundhoefer Architects. Thanks also to the general contractor Bear Construction. Thank you to all of the other subcontractors who worked on this project. Lastly, a special thank you to our Facilities Director, Matt Adams, for his leadership on this project!

Our Baseball Team wrapped up their regular season with a historically impressive record of 24 wins and only 1 loss. Currently, they rank First in the State of FL in all classifications and they are up to Fifth in the nation in the latest Baseball America rankings. They compete in their district tournament this week at Marianna High School.

Tuesday, Apr. 30 - vs. the winner of Maclay and Florida High at 3:00 p.m. in the district semifinal.

Thursday, May 2 - District Championship game, TBD.

Good luck, Crusaders!

Our Softball Team also concluded their regular season with two big wins at home and a beautiful senior night celebration. They will compete in the District Tournament this week.

Tuesday, Apr. 30 - at Walton at 6:00 p.m. in the District Semifinal.

Thursday, May 2 - District Championship game, TBD.

Good luck, Lady Crusaders!

Our Boys Lacrosse Team had a thrilling 8-7 win at home in the Regional Quarterfinals. This week they will have the opportunity to advance to the State Final Four with two more wins.

Wednesday, May 1 - at Oak Hall at 6:00 pm CDT in the regional semifinal. Tickets are available online.

Saturday, May 4 - Regional Final TBD

Congratulations and good luck, Crusaders!

Our Girls Lacrosse Team also entertained the home crowd with a win in their Regional Quarterfinal and won their twentieth game, a first in program history! This week they will attempt to advance to the State Final Four with two more victories.

Tuesday, Apr. 30 - at Episcopal at 6:00 p.m. CDT

Friday, May 3 - Regional Final TBD.

Congratulations and good luck, Lady Crusaders!

Both of our Tennis Teams were winners of their Regional Semifinals and our Girls Team won their Regional Championship to advance to the State Tournament this week. Additionally, from our Boys Team, Ben Ling qualified for State as an individual and he and playing partner Gannon Davis qualified for State in Doubles.

Wednesday, May 1 - Friday, May 3 - State TN Tournament in Orlando.

Best of luck to our girls team and to Ben and Gannon!

Our Track & Field Team competed in their District Meet last week and qualified an astonishing 23 athletes for next week's Regional Meet.

Congratulations on a great regular season and good luck to our athletes who will be continuing their season!

Tuesday, May 7 - Regional Meet in Jacksonville.

Weightlifting State Champion!

Congratulations to Desjon "Big Rob" Robertson who won the State Championship in the heavyweight class! He is the first Crusader ever to finish first in the Heavyweight Division in the State Meet!

Three other members 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!

We are just a few short weeks away from watching our Class of 2024 walk across the aisle to receive their diplomas. We recently sent out a calendar to Senior parents that included the dates and times of the upcoming graduation events. Please let us know if you did not receive this email. All activities are also noted on our website's school calendar. Next week's Parent Newsletter will go into more detail and we hope to see you at this week's Senior Parent Mass on Friday, May 3, at 10 a.m. in the CHS Gym.

Our Spring Blood Drive is this Tuesday, Apr. 30. OneBlood will be here with the Big Red Bus throughout the school day. Hospitals are always in dire need of blood and we encourage all students to donate to this cause.

Three of our student clubs will be having meetings right after school this week.

Animal Awareness Club

Discipleship Club

Spanish Club

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 (EL2) and athletic compliance forms (EL3) 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.