Portae (newsletter) for 9 August 2013

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Back to School BBQ!: Saturday, 17 August 2013, 11:30 a.m. NOTE TIME SHIFT!
Our annual Picnic BBQ is being held on Saturday, 17 August 2013, in the cafeteria. Since the football scrimmage has been moved back to Friday evening, 16 August, it makes sense to move the BBQ start time up. This will help us avoid some of the heat, and coordinate better with practices that morning (football and cross country).

Many thanks to the committee that has been hard at work on this event.

• The BBQ lunch is for all family members, and is especially designed for ALL FAMILIES, not just new families, not just old families, not just families with young ones or only older ones. ALL FAMILIES!!!! (This year only the volleyball families have a pass – there is a VB tournament in Austin that weekend.)

As a part of this event, and to help the school through the first semester, we ask the following help with drinks for this event:

Freshmen: 24 pack of water
Sophomores: ladies: 12 pack of Sprite, gents: 12 pack of Dr. Pepper
Juniors: Ladies: 12 pack of Diet Coke; Gents: 12 pack of Regular Coke
Seniors: Box of Capri Suns and a 12 pack of water

PLEASE DROP OFF AT THE SCHOOL ON FRIDAY, 16 August (or Thursday if needed).

Each year, our families have responded generously, and as a result, throughout the year we are able to serve drinks to students and guests (at after-game parties, meetings, team trips) – all from this initial gift of drinks (and at Homecoming & Founders Day). Each time, after these few appeals for drinks, we have enough to last the school year. Know that this effort to help benefits your Guardian and every other Guardian. Feed the masses! Thank you!

Friday, 16 August: Student Organization Day: Students can report to campus for approximately 2 hours at a time convenient to the family, between 8 and 3 p.m. Each student will receive a checklist when they enter and will complete the following:

1. take ID photo and receive ID;
2. get locker; review schedule;
3. check in in the library;
4. log into RenWeb and update cell number, email and other data as needed.
5. Review and sign paperwork
6. Students who plan to bring a technology device from home as a part of the Bring-your-own-device program can bring the device that day and have it logged into the network. The school will record the serial number and the MAC address of the device. Only those devices will be allowed on the network. iPhones and other smartphones will not be allowed on the network.

Monday, 19 August: Student Retreat Day: Students arrive at 8 a.m., and spend the day reviewing and renewing the school’s commitment to our core virtues and what it means to be a Guardian. The school will provide lunch, and transport all students to Mass at Blessed Annunciation Parish. We will take our annual photo around the Blessed John Paul II Papal Mass Chair.

• BOTH FRIDAY AND MONDAY STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED
TO BE IN BLUE & GOLD DRESS.

• ON MONDAY, ALL STUDENTS NEED TO BE IN THE NAVY BLUE JOHN PAUL II SHIRT (see right). We have plenty in stock if needed.