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Family Focus i-7-2022

01/11/2022 Kris Sauer 2021-22, January 2022 Leave a annotate

"Just Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him,"
Jeremiah 17:7 (Bible poetry of the yr chosen past Peer Ministry building)

January vii, 2022

Dear BA Families:

Happy New year's day!January is always a decorated month for Catholic schools. Many events and activities are already on our schedule. We await forward to our student artwork on display starting today at the Paradise Middle for the Arts, the DMCS/BA Spelling Bee next Thursday, a Noesis Bowl meet, sporting events, author visit, SnoBall and Cosmic Schools' Week. Bank check the calendar below for upcoming events.

Tuition Approved for 2022-23: The Bethlehem Academy Lath members aspire to keep tuition depression and increment scholarships while ensuring that staff salaries and benefits are improved. Thanks to fundraising efforts and increased enrollment in partnership with all of our schoolhouse families, alumni, and donors, this side by side twelvemonth tuition will merely increment by 1%. A detailed letter volition be sent out separately next week with specific information and updates.

Parent Programs: Please observe links and information for two special parent resources to back up you specially during some of the challenges our families have been experiencing. Father Louie will be leading a parent session to assistance guide you this winter. See below for all the details and to sign upwardly. Through our counseling partnership with Phoenix Counseling, parents also take access to additional resource with a Cosmic focus. Please visit their website for videos and resources as office of the "Peace of Listen" for families supported by Catholic Schools' Eye of Excellence. (Link to website).

COVID Updates: MASKS REQUIRED for the next two weeks due to the high rates in our County and Country and increased numbers in the BA customs. Masks will be required while at schoolhouse and at Mass through Jan. 21st. Nosotros will re-evaluate at the end of these two weeks. This week BA had seven scholars with positive COVID cases and 9 students in quarantine. Since the start of the school yr we have had 41 COVID positive student cases and 7 staff test positive. Find COVID testing sites HERE; one free at-abode testing box available for all BA students. Finish in the front role to option one upwardly.

ADDITIONAL MASK DONATIONS NEEDED ! Delight bring to the front office if you are able to help.

UPDATES ON FUNDRAISERS:

• BA Bash Raffle 2021:Congratulations to our winners! 1st prize - Jon & Selena Hager; 2d prize - Conrad & Ardyce Bahe; tertiary prize - Mark Duchene. Thank you to all participants - nosotros raised $12,000!
• Divine Mercy Build Projection - United for Our Future: Please prayerfully consider a souvenir. The stronger DMCS is, the stronger BA volition be! Click Hither to larn more. To appointment they are over $6 million!
• Annual Fund: To date nosotros have raised: $216,300. Nosotros are over 87% of the way to our goal of $255,000. Thank you FOR TRIPLING YOUR DONATION! If you haven't given, notwithstanding, please consider a gift through June 2022: Donate Online (click)

KUDOS:To educatee artists Grace Kelzer, Karlie DeGrood, Reagan Kangas, Gabriella Banks, Kacie Hofius, Summer Heselton, Vincent Vollbrecht, Zachary Velishek, Mallorie Pavek, Jonathon Vold, Camryn Belmont, Fernando Reyes, Brooklyn Becker, and Lucy Cunningham, whose artworks continue display today at the Corey Lyn Creger art gallery at the Paradise Middle for the Arts.

UPCOMING EVENTS: Boosted activities and sporting events online .

• Jan 7: Paradise Center for the Arts pupil gallery opening reception, 5-7pm
• Jan vii: Youth Basketball/Future Central nighttime @ girls game
• January 11: Dining Night Out @ Godfather's for Prom
• Jan. 13 - 8:thirty a.m.: Spelling Bee in BA Gym
• January 14: Knowledge Bowl Contest
• Jan. 16: Morristown Prom Pancake Breakfast
• January 17-18: NO SCHOOL, MLK & Teacher Workshop Solar day
• Jan 28: Youth Basketball/Future Cardinal Night @ boys basketball game; sign upward Here .
• Jan 29: SnoBall (Gr 9-12 semi-formal girl-ask-boy dance, run into more info in high schoolhouse section below)
• January 30-Feb 6: Catholic Schools Week
• Feb 13: Winter Open House; pre-register HERE
• Observe our event school agenda on our website Here

Delight join usa in prayers for healing, mental health of students, and for our staff and scholars as nosotros begin Semester two. Special praise and thanksgiving for a large Trust gift to our school.

ALL BA UPDATES

FACTS Parent Portal Set up Up: If you lot oasis't logged in to FACTS recently, a reminder that yous will have to "gear up up" your FACTS Family Portal to access your accounts. Username is your full email address; previously set countersign should work. Notice full instructions

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2022-2023 Re-enrollment & Financial Assist: 2022-2023 re-enrollment for returning students volition open next week via FACTS. Sentry your email for farther information. Financial aid applications are now available for 2022-2023. Apply via TADS at

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 & click onFinancial Aid Assessment to get started. Awarding deadline is Feb 22 to exist considered for all available scholarships.

Host Family unit Needed! We are seeking a host family unit for Yerim, 7th gr Catholic girl from South korea, who wishes to join us at BA this school year. Stipends provided, tuition/fees/expenses paid by the family. Contact Kris Sauer or Haewon at KoAm (720-339-7710 and/or by email at administrator@koameduall.org) if interested.

Mental Health Resources: We know that at this time nosotros are seeing an increment in the mental wellness needs of our scholars. Here is a link to Rice County resource .

Online Schoolhouse Store @ Star Sports & Apparel! BA has opened at school store at Star Sports and Apparel. Orders are filled every bit they are placed, so purchase your BA gear any time! Click Here to for all the great options!

January Youth Basketball Nights: Youth basketball teams, prospective Cardinals, DMCS families all invited to bring together us! Sign upwardly HERE .

Home Basketball Game Help Needed: Many volunteers are needed to help at abode basketball game games this winter.  Delight consider sharing your time and talent in back up of our student activities!

• Girls' Games Signup
• Boys Games Signup

High Schoolhouse INFORMATION

SnoBall Dance Info: The Jan 29 SnoBall is a daughter-ask-boy (Sadie Hawkins) semi-formal dance for students in grades nine-12. Typically, the girls purchase a tie for their date that matches their apparel. The girls conform for a bouquet and boutonniere with a local florist that the male child picks up and pays for the twenty-four hour period of the trip the light fantastic toe. Boys wear a clothes shirt (many choose black), tie and dainty pants; girls wear semi-formal dresses. Couples usually go out to dinner with a group of friends prior to the Thousand March. Parents and guests gather in the gym at 8pm for the Thousand March, where participating couples are introduced and the SnoBall Queen is crowned. Usually, the Mother-Son/Father-Girl dance follows coronation, and so parents and guests depart and the dance begins.

Centre School Information

Aim Higher Foundation 1000-8 Scholarships: Every year, students at Bethlehem Academy (Faribault, MN) receive tuition aid scholarships from the Aim College Foundation. We would similar to thank the many donors and friends who aid make our great schoolhouse accessible to all families! Learn more HERE. Apply via the TADS financial assistance application Hither and click on Fiscal Aid Cess.

DIVINE MERCY Cosmic School AND Church building
Parents, Your Children Demand Y'all! Join Fr. Louie for a ten-session book report ofFabricated This Manner: How to Prepare Kids to Face up Today'due south Tough Moral Issuesby Leila Miller & Trent Horn.Nosotros will explore topics including:Homosexuality, Sex Exterior of Marriage, Divorce, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technologies, Modesty, Pornography, and Transgender Identity. Focus will exist on: What does the Church teach? As well every bit advice for talking with children and communication for talking with teens. Sessions will exist held on Wednesdays from 7:15pm – eight:30pm on the IC/Divine Mercy School campus beginning January 12. Registration is required. Click Here  for more than data and registration.

BA EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Office-time Positions @ Bethlehem Academy
Nosotros have coaching openings in rail and field and fast pitch softball. Please email athletics@bacards.org if interested.

COMMUNITY Data

8th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Contest: Click Here to find a flyer for the MLK writing competition. We're looking for pupil poems or essays (150 words max) on MLK's dream speech and what it means to the writer. Cash prizes will exist awarded for 6th - 8th grades and 9th - twelfth grades. Winners volition be announced at the breakfast on ane/17. Entries need a student's full name, phone number, grade, your name, and school. Student entries must be submitted pastFriday, January 7, 2022.

River Bend Nature Eye Internships:

River Bend Nature Center is taking applications for ii internship positions - one this spring (March to May) and this summer (June-July). Applicants must exist eighteen or older to apply. Click HERE for the spring internship (applications due Jan 21) and HERE for the summertime internship (applications due Feb xviii).

Equipped for Life Event: On Feb 5, the Archdiocese and the Minnesota Catholic Briefing are sponsoring Equipped for Life: A Fresh Arroyo to Conversations About Ballgame at the University of St. Thomas. The twenty-four hour period will equip attendees with practical tools and the conviction to engage pro-choice advocates who defend abortion with arguments based in difficult circumstances, biology, personhood, or bodily autonomy.  To learn more and register, please visit: https://world wide web.mncatholic.org/equippedforlife.

Costless Meals for Students
Community dinners are offered Monday-Thursday, 4:30-5:30pm at Jefferson Elementary Schoolhouse (922 Home Identify). Kids eat free; developed meals are $3.50. More information in English language and Castilian Hither.

Calendar LINKS
Click the link below for the calendar.

• BA School Calendar - Calendar week of Jan. 10
• FHS Coop Sports Calendar - Week of January. ten

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