HALO NOTES

Seek and you will find… -Mathew 7:7

Recently, I read a book by Mother Angelica. Reflecting on the verse “Seek and you will find” (Mt: 7:7) she opened a door for me. In effect Mother Angelica says, in each moment of your life, seek and you will find Christ. In the best of times and in the worst of times if you seek, you will find Christ in the midst of it. Often times, we compartmentalize seeking Christ to Church one hour a week or a moment of prayer. Nevertheless, Christ is always before us, always at work within us, always working things together for the good of those who love him. Let us seek so as to find our Lord more and more throughout our day and lives.

Thursday, October 17th at 6:30 PM is Our St. Louis P3 (Prayer, Penance, and Pizza) held at St. Margaret Catholic Church. A great place to begin seeking our Lord is in Eucharistic Adoration. I encourage all of you students to seek our Lord. I hope Our Lord finds you there at P3!

Fr. Michael Caraway

SLCHS Chaplain

Let's work together to build student independence! The front office is the hub of the school, and we APPRECIATE Mrs. Melissa and Mrs. Dawn. Please help us with the following:

• Check the weekly schedule
• Avoid bringing items to the front office and let your student learn to be more organized
• If you need to reach your child during the day, send them an email or call the front office
• For checkouts - complete the attendance portal on our website. We will call the students out of class and send them out to meet you. No need to come in to sign them in/out in the front office.

Thank you for helping us keep a safe and secure campus.

It's never too early to start planning ahead for next year! Please see our UPDATED Admissions Timeline in preparation for the 2025-2026 school year. Please note that we have added a High School Placement Test to our Admissions Timeline for the 2025-2026 school year. Testing will take place on Saturday, March 22, at SLCHS.

Detailed information will be announced as we get closer to date. For questions please contact Fara McKinley '90, Director of Admissions, at 337-436-7275

Scan the QR code and resgister for Open House! Our annual Open House will be on Tuesday, November 19. Step inside and discover the "Saints Life"!

As education partners, SLCHS works with students and parents to develop independent learners. We encourage students to check their own grades and share that information with parents. Four short years of high school fly by and students need to be self-sufficient as they leave the nest! We are here to help!

Complete these steps to set up your FACTS account to view grades. The parent AND the student will each need to create an account. Please email mlejeune@slchs.org with any issues

All Sophomores & Juniors will be taking the PSAT on Friday, October 18. Students will report directly to their testing rooms, which was posted in their “Class of 202X” TEAM. All students should be in class by 7:40 AM. We anticipate testing to be complete by 11:00 for standard time testing and 12:00 for extended time. Because students are usually mentally exhausted after the test, we will be dismissing students to go home at that time and lunch will not be served. Should your student not drive, please arrange to have your student picked up at the carpool area at or shortly after 11:00.

Students are asked NOT to bring:

• Backpacks
• Other personal Items
  
  

Cell phones and other smart devices are prohibited during testing. If a student has a cell phone, smart watch or other devices that can access the internet or cellular service, they WILL be collected and monitored by the test proctor until ALL testing materials have been returned at the end of testing.

Students MUST bring:

• Their tablets (fully charged)
• Their chargers for the tablets
• Their student ID
• An approved calculator (the online PSAT this year will provide access to a Desmos calculator)
• A bottle of water and a snack for break
  
  

**We do not have enough calculators to share with all students so students MUST bring their own if they know how to use one & desire to use it.

CLICK HERE for details about three different ACT Boot Camps available to students prior to the October 26th ACT test date.

Timed Practice Boot Camp (Sat. Oct 19th) is the new class added this year to provide the much-needed timed practice-and-answer analysis in all four subject areas. In my opinion, this class is the most important one for students to take.

All St. Louis students are invited to attend a College & Career Fair on Monday, October 21, 2024 from 6 PM - 8 PM at the West-Cal Arena & Event Center (401 Arena Road in Sulphur). There will be over 50 colleges, universities, businesses, industry and military branches. Students are given the opportunity to speak to representatives about all aspects of the post-secondary education process, employment potential and military service. There will be Financial Aid/Scholarship Sessions at 6:30 PM & 7:15 PM.

On Saturday, at the Crawfish Aquatics High School Open Invitational, 5 more state cuts were made by the Saints: CONGRATS to Junior, Cora Diedrich (1 cut - 500 Free), Junior, Andrew Findley (1 cut - 100 Back), Junior, AJ Schlang (1 cut - 100 Free), Junior, Jackson Melerine (1 cut - 100 Back) & Sophomore, Luka Genius (1 cut - 100 Fly) !!!

Our next 2 meets of the season are this week : (Senior Night) Calcasieu Champs, Thursday, October 17th at SPAR (933 W Parish Road) in Sulphur and Lafayette Meet #3, is Saturday, October 19th at COLA/Robicheaux Recreation Center (1919 Eraste Landry Rd) in Lafayette.

Senior Samuel Broussard will represent the Saints this weekend in the Louisiana Junior Cup. The matches feature the state’s top golfers competing in a match play format. Juniors Kye Hanks and Kane Hanks were also selected to the team. Matches will be played at Southern Trace Country Club in Shreveport on Saturday and Sunday.

Volleyball returns to the court tonight when they host Washington-Marion in a District 1-III game in the pavilion. The match is set to begin at 6 p.m. The Saints also will host Jennings in a district match on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the pavilion. The team opened district play on Tuesday with a 3-1 win at LCCP. The Saints also went 4-0 over the weekend in the Sam Houston tournament, knocking off Leesville, Covington, West Monroe and St. Amant. The team also downed Ruston in a non-district match on Friday.

The Saints will make the short trip to Cougar Stadium Friday to take on LCCP in a District 3-3A game. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

Buy your 2025 yearbook at Jostens.com today and receive up to four free icons from Jostens when you purchase personalization. Offer expires Friday, Oct. 18, and is only available through Jostens.com. Contact Mrs. Core if you have any questions or concerns.

Friday, October 18th will be our annual Senior/Freshman service day, where we send out our seniors and freshmen to various locations in the diocese to help churches and organizations in need! If you have a freshman and senior, this week they are signing up for the locations they want to serve at. Below is some basics of what you need to know for that day:

• The service day is from 8:30-11:30 am
• Students are to arrive or be dropped off at the site they sign up for by 8:15 am.
• Freshman locations will have a bus picking them up from their locations and bringing them back to the pavilion.
• Lunch will be provided by the St. Louis House System and Mr. Randall Edwards (aka "Chef")
• Students can be picked up from the pavilion by 12:00 pm.
  
  

More information to come next week!

Those of you interested in attending this next year's March for Life: Please CLICK HERE for the information packet.

March for Life is a wonderful opportunity to witness community at its best, and for many, this is a life changing experience. Fundraising opportunities will be available leading up to the trip, so please don't let financial concerns keep you for registering! Here is a link from the March for Life website that can help give you a glimpse as to what its like. Let us know if you have any questions.

God bless,

Blaine Wyninger

Assistant Principal

Dean of Student Life

The Youth Ministry Office at the Diocese of Lake Charles is planning a Junior High lock-in and will soon have details for our youth. Since the lock-in is being planned for October 26, the same night as our Orange, Blue & You Jr. High Dance, we are changing the times of the dance so that those families with a student wanting to also attend the lock-in can transition between the Pavilion at St. Louis Catholic to Camp Karol.

So that our youth can have two fun events to attend that evening, the new time for the dance is 6:00-8:00pm. Please see the updated flyers, and please be sure to RSVP for the event.

We have received many inquiries from people in our community as to how we can best help those affected by Hurricane Helene and for those that will be in need with Hurricane Milton. We as a school will be teaming up with Catholic Charities and would recommend anyone who is wanting to help to do the same, as they have a direct contact to other Catholic Charities affiliates in both areas that are in need and will be in need. More information will be going out next week on what we will be doing as a school but in the meantime, we wanted to thank you all who have reached out and are wanting to help!

Do you have your membership secured with the Alumni Association? CLICK HERE to join us and make sure you have access to the VIP upstairs area at Crying Eagle this weekend. See membership details above.

Juniors and Seniors interested in working OLQH after school care should contact Aimee Lemoine.

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