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February 5, 2016 Dear Parents, We are very excited for our Rocket Spectacular event this Saturday, February 6. We would like to sincerely thank this year’s event sponsors. We are so grateful for their generosity and support of Assumption High School.

DIAMOND Sponsors - Fifth Third Bank, Premier Packaging RUBY Sponsors – Aperity LLC, Meijer, Norton Healthcare, Publishers Printing,

Sisters of Mercy, US Bank EMERALD Sponsors - Walters, Walters, Redmon & Associates - Ameriprise

Financial, Edward Frank Company, Republic Bank, Shaheen’s, Snap Fitness, Stockyard’s Bank, Sullivan Cozart, Tom Drexler Plumbing

ASH WEDNESDAY PRAYER SERVICE: Our distribution of ashes, a symbol of penance made sacramental by the blessing of the Church to help us develop a spirit of humility, will be at a prayer service at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 10. All are welcome to join us. ACTS: This week marks the beginning of our sophomores’ ACTS journey. The class of

2018 will serve at 43 different agencies in the Louisville area for 10 weeks. Please keep

them in your prayers as they strive to live the gospel through building relationships at

their agency.

PRINCIPAL FOR A DAY: Yesterday, senior Emily Morrison was Principal for the Day! As part of this Rocket Raffle incentive, she enjoyed such things as parking in the principal’s parking space, making morning announcements, participating in an official Assumption photo shoot, attending a school administrative team meeting, and determining our lunch menu for the day - the nacho bar. An additional perk of this day is that Principal Morrison had the opportunity to change one rule for ONE day! Emily chose to allow students to wear leggings under their skirts and any kind of sock today, Friday, February 5. This is a one time, one day uniform change. We thank Emily for her exemplary service as principal!

COLLEGE PROCESS MINI-WORKSHOPS FOR JUNIORS: Each month this semester, our college counselor, Mrs. Jackson, and our college counseling partner, Mrs. Schroeder, will provide mini-workshops during each study block to help the juniors get started with the college process. Each workshop will focus on a specific topic related to the college process. The topics and dates are listed below.

February 8 & 9: Overview of the workshops and topics

February 11 &12: Student Personal Profile and Self-Awareness

February 16 &19: Resume

March 10 & 11: College Research, Naviance, and Career Discussion

March 21 & 22: How to Choose a Major

April 21 & 22: The Common App and Essay

May 2 & 3: Test Prep for ACT

Please encourage your juniors to attend any or all of the workshops. If you have any questions, please contact our college counselor, LEIGH JACKSON . 2016-2017 REGISTRATION: Online registration will open Thursday, February 11. The registration form and fee of $200 is due by Thursday, February 18. In order for students to register for their classes, students need to be able to log into PowerSchool with their parent password. Please work together with your daughter on this. If you have forgotten your parent username or password for PowerSchool, when you go to the login screen for PowerSchool, just click on the link "Having trouble signing in?" and follow the directions to obtain a forgotten username or forgotten password (see picture below).

COLLEGE ISSUES FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DIFFERENCES: On Sunday, February 7, from 1:00-2:30 p.m. in the Media Center, the Learning Differences Program is hosting a presentation entitled “College Issues for Students with Learning Differences.” The coordinators from the University of Louisville and the College of Mount Saint Joseph will present information about their programs at the college level. All are welcome, but we STRONGLY recommend that junior parents and students attend this very informative program. The AHS Learning Differences specialists will also provide specific information in regard to ACT accommodations/prep and other topics. If you have any questions, please contact PAULA KING.

FATHER-DAUGHTER DANCE: We want to extend a very special congratulations to our Father/Daughter Dance Court, which was selected this past weekend during our school-wide Father-Daughter Dance. Our freshman princess was Caroline Gravatte, accompanied by Steve Gravatte; our sophomore princess was Grace Bringard, accompanied by Steve Bringard; our junior Princess was Emily Shepherd, accompanied by Tony Shephard, and our senior queen was Kayla Shircliff, accompanied by Jim Shircliff. Congratulations to our court, and thanks to all who came out to share this special night with their dads and father-figures! SENIOR PARENTS - GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS: Order forms for graduation announcements were given to seniors on January 13 at their class meeting. Please ask your daughter for the packet if you did not receive it. The deadline for orders is February 7, and you may order in person at their location or online. These orders are for graduation announcements and ’16 items. All of this is optional to seniors. Extra packets are in the main office and in Mrs. Asfahl’s office in the guidance office.

MISSION WEEK PERMISSION SLIPS FOR JUNIOR AND SENIOR PARENTS: Next week, juniors and seniors will be completing detailed permission slips for Mission Week activities. Please plan to sit down with your daughter and her tablet PC to review her Mission Week plans as your electronic signature will be required at the end of the form. Please ask your daughter about this if she does not mention it to you. More specific details about Mission Week will come next week. BLOOM THEATRE PROJECT: This year, fourteen students participated in the BLOOM Theatre Project with Betsy Anne Huggins, Education Manager for Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. The students’ original plays were submitted to the Actor’s Theatre New Voice Playwrights Festival, and out of 870 submissions, Kay Nilest’s play titled “Image of Beauty” was one of the top nine plays that will be produced by Actor’s Theatre and published in the New Voices Anthology. Five of the ten-minute Assumption plays will be fully produced and performed for public audiences at Assumption on Friday, February 19, and Saturday, February 20, at 7:00 p.m. There will be a staged reading of five additional plays by Assumption’s Acting II students on Sunday, February 21, at 2:00 p.m. Please plan to join us. This show is free of admission as we consider it to be a gift to the community. Free tickets can be reserved online at Showtix4u.com (be sure to use Google Chrome). On February 23 and 24, BLOOM Theatre Project will be a traveling show in which the cast of three plays will travel to the following middle schools to perform the show: Meredith Dunn, St. James, Home of the Innocents, and St. Martha. EARLY DISMISSAL PROCEDURES: We are receiving numerous phone calls from parents who need to pick up their daughters early and even a number of parents who show up at school to pick their daughters up with no advance notice at all. These both create a great deal of extra work for our already busy office staff. They are happy to go the extra mile in an emergency or when truly necessary, but we do ask that when an appointment has been scheduled in advance, students bring a parent note requesting the early dismissal to the attendance office prior to the start of the school day. Here are the early dismissal guidelines for 2015-2016:

To receive an early dismissal for a medical appointment, a student must bring a signed request from her parent to the attendance office before first period on the morning of the appointment.

Students who have medical appointments during school hours should plan to leave at the end of a class and not during a class if at all possible.

All medical appointments that fall during school time require a doctor’s note/verification which should be brought to the attendance office within two school days of the appointment in order for the absence to be excused.

Parents who need to inform their daughters of appointments made for them during the school day should make prior arrangements for their daughters to call them during lunch, between classes, etc., as it is Assumption’s policy to not interrupt classes unless it is deemed an urgent situation by the school office personnel.

SCHOOL DOORBELL SAFETY: We take the safety of our students, faculty, and staff very seriously. In compliance with school safety guidelines, we keep our outside doors locked throughout the school day, limit the number of visitors to the building, and screen all visitors and require them to come first to the school office to sign in and get a visitor’s pass. When someone rings the doorbell, our receptionist and office staff must follow safety protocols and find out who the person is and the nature of their visit to the school before allowing them to enter the building. Screening visitors is a critical component of providing your daughter with the safest school environment possible. If you come to the school door and ring the doorbell, please be reassured that we are keeping your daughter safe, and do not be offended that we ask you who you are and the nature of your business. FINANCIAL AID FORM: The financial aid link for 2016-2017 has been added to the school’s website. The due date is March 15, and the form must be mailed or submitted online to Private School Aid Service. FINANCIAL AID FORM SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS: Scholarship applications for the 2016-2017 school year are now on our website. The due date is March 16. Please contact Advancement Services Manager Jackie Bloyd at [email protected] with questions. Scholarship winners will be announced at our closing prayer service. You may access the applications through the following link – SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS. ASSUMPTION PARENT ORGANIZATION (APO) NEWS: Rocket Spectacular 2016 “Rocket to the Races”:

Reservations: We are so excited to share that this year’s event “Rocket to the Races” is SOLD OUT.

Volunteer Help: If you available and would like to help with set-up and break-down of the event, your help is truly welcomed! Please come to gym during the listed dates/times below.

o Set-up: Thursday, February 4, from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. o Set-up: Friday, February 5, from 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. o Tear-down: Sunday, February 7, from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

MINDFULNESS PROGRAM FOR PARENTS: We want to invite all parents to an upcoming guidance department program called “Cultivating Peaceful Teens in a Stressed Out World.” This parent workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 9, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Media Center. This free workshop will be presented by Shelly Sowell. Ms. Sowell works as a counselor, educator, and mindfulness-based life and wellness instructor. She has been working collaboratively with Beth Hicks, junior counselor, to bring an awareness of mindfulness to the students of Assumption. If mindfulness is a topic in which you have interest, Ms. Sowell will also offer a series of four specialized parent trainings on March 30, April 13, April 20, and April 27. All of these sessions will be held in the Media Center and begin at 6:30 p.m. The cost for these four trainings will be $100 for the series. If you are interested in either the free

workshop or the series of four trainings, please contact Kim Steinke or Beth Hicks at 454-8402. SUMMER ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES: Academic opportunities for the summer have been UPDATED. You can find these on our guidance department page by clicking here: ACADEMIC SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES 2016. There are currently opportunities through the Louisville Bar Association, writing workshops in Ohio, a leadership experience at the IU Kelley School of Business, engineering programs for women at Dayton, and more! Many applications are due in March. Please contact KELLY KIRWAN with any questions. WEEKEND OF PEACE RETREAT FOR WOMEN: Retreat Director Judy Ribar will lead a retreat at Mount St. Francis from Friday, February 12, at 7:00 p.m. to Sunday, February 14, at 2:00 p.m. The house on the Mount property has six private rooms, and the weekend promises to provide plenty of time for quiet reflection and rest, as well as time to pray together with other women on the retreat. Contact Mrs. Ribar at [email protected] for more information. Sincerely, Martha Tedesco Principal

February 12, 2016 Dear Parents, On behalf of Assumption High School and the Office of Advancement, we would like to thank all of you for

making this year’s Rocket Spectacular – Rocket to the Races - a huge success in a multitude of ways! This year,

we are proud to report that we have broken a fundraising record for Rocket Spectacular with our net revenue

(not gross) reaching over $210,000. We offer our sincere gratitude for the many ways that your contributions

made the night a success. Whether you supported the raffle and bought Rocket Raffle tickets, secured an

auction item, donated an item, volunteered your time, or attended the event, YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE. The

lucky winner of the Rocket Raffle is Sandy Passafiume, past parent and Rocket Spectacular volunteer for

many years. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us at next year’s event on Saturday, February 4,

2017!

CALENDAR NOTES: On February 15, school will be closed for the President’s Day holiday. Monday – Thursday, February 22-25 is Mission Week. We will begin school each morning one hour

later at 8:45 a.m. and dismiss each day at 2:50 p.m. We believe that Mission Week activities are so important that we suspend classes for the week; all students are required to attend and participate in the activities scheduled, both on and off campus. All attendance policies apply during Mission Week--if your daughter is ill and unable to participate on a given day, please call the attendance office as usual. If at all possible, please do not schedule medical appointments for your daughter on days when she will be participating in activities off campus.

There is no school on Friday, February 26 and Monday, February 29 for our Mid-Winter holiday. PARENT PRAYER GROUP: The parent prayer group will meet in the Chapel at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 17, to pray for all students and specifically the Class of 2017.

LENTEN OPPORTUNITY: The chapel on the second floor of the CAC is open early every morning if you would

like to come in for some quite reflection and private prayer after dropping off your daughter. Spend as much

time as your schedule allows. Please check in at the Main Office first.

SPIRIT WEEK: Next week, February 16-19, is our Spirit Week. Our Student Activities Office and Student

Council have planned a number of different activities to show support for our students and all that they do to

make us proud. All dress-up days and penny war contributions are voluntary, but we highly encourage

students to show their school and class spirit by getting creative and participating in some capacity!

Spirit Week Dress-Up Days: Students are invited to dress up according to a different theme each

day next week. Students have been emailed the dress-up day descriptions and rules, so they may

begin planning their costumes. Costumes are all or nothing (no partial costumes), and please

remember that no masks or face paint, and current school policies regarding shoes and hair color still

apply. Tuesday - Salad Dressing dress day, Wednesday - Classic Rock vs. Boy Band dress day,

Thursday - USA day, Friday - Class Color day

Class Penny War: A penny war between classes will be held every day during lunches next week

with the results announced at the pep rally on Friday, February 19!

Winter Pep Rally: Our Spirit Week will culminate with our annual winter pep rally, which will be held next Friday, February 19, at 2:00 in the gym. Along with celebrating our winter sports and honoring our winter senior athletes, we will also have some special surprises! Parents are welcome to join us for music, games, and celebration!

2016-2017 REGISTRATION: Online registration opened yesterday. Students should print their registration

form this weekend and bring it to school for teacher signatures on Tuesday, February 16. The registration

form and fee of $200 is due by Thursday, February 18. In order for students to register for their classes,

students need to be able to log into PowerSchool with their parent password. Please work together with your

daughter on this. If you have forgotten your parent username or password for PowerSchool, when you go to

the login screen for PowerSchool, just click on the link "Having trouble signing in?" and follow the directions

to obtain a forgotten username or forgotten password (see picture below).

MISSION WEEK PERMISSION SLIPS FOR JUNIOR AND SENIOR PARENTS: This week, juniors and seniors are continuing to complete detailed permission slips for Mission Week activities. Please plan to sit down with your daughter and her tablet PC to review her Mission Week plans as your electronic signature will be required at the end of the form. Please ask your daughter about this if she does not mention it to you. COLLEGE PROCESS MINI-WORKSHOPS FOR JUNIORS: Each month this semester, our college counselor,

Mrs. Jackson, and our college counseling partner, Mrs. Schroeder, will provide mini-workshops during each

study block to help the juniors get started with the college process. Each workshop will focus on a specific

topic related to the college process. The remaining topics and dates are listed below.

February 16 &19: Resume March 10 & 11: College Research, Naviance, and Career Discussion March 21 & 22: How to Choose a Major April 21 & 22: The Common App and Essay

May 2 & 3: Test Prep for ACT Please encourage your juniors to attend any or all of the workshops. If you have any questions, please contact our college counselor, LEIGH JACKSON . BLOOM THEATRE PROJECT: This year, fourteen students participated in the BLOOM Theatre Project with Betsy Anne Huggins, Education Manager for Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. The students’ original plays were submitted to the Actor’s Theatre New Voice Playwrights Festival, and out of 870 submissions, Kay Nilest’s play titled “Image of Beauty” was one of the top nine plays that will be produced by Actor’s Theatre and published in the New Voices Anthology. Five of the ten-minute Assumption plays will be fully produced and performed for public audiences at Assumption on Friday, February 19, and Saturday, February 20, at 7:00 p.m. There will be a staged reading of five additional plays by Assumption’s Acting II students on Sunday, February 21, at 2:00 p.m. Please plan to join us. This show is free of admission as we consider it to be a gift to the community. Free tickets can be reserved online at Showtix4u.com (be sure to use Google Chrome). On February 23 and 24, BLOOM Theatre Project will be a traveling show in which the cast of three plays will travel to the following middle schools to perform the show: Meredith Dunn, St. James, Home of the Innocents, and St. Martha. FINANCIAL AID FORM: The financial aid link for 2016-2017 has been added to the school’s website. The due date is March 15, and the form must be mailed or submitted online to Private School Aid Service. FINANCIAL AID FORM SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS: Scholarship applications for the 2016-2017 school year are now on our website. The due date is March 16. Please contact Advancement Services Manager Jackie Bloyd at [email protected] with questions. Scholarship winners will be announced at our closing prayer service. You may access the applications through the following link – SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS. ASSUMPTION PARENT ORGANIZATION (APO) NEWS: Please join us at the next APO Meeting on Tuesday, February 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the Media Center. MINDFULNESS PROGRAM FOR PARENTS: We want to invite all parents to an upcoming Guidance Department program called “Cultivating Peaceful Teens in a Stressed Out World.” This parent workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 9, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Media Center. This free workshop will be presented by Shelly Sowell. Ms. Sowell works as a counselor, educator, and mindfulness-based life and wellness instructor. Ms. Sowell has been working collaboratively with Beth Hicks, junior counselor, to bring an awareness of mindfulness to the students of Assumption. If mindfulness is a topic in which you have interest, Ms. Sowell will also offer a series of four specialized parent trainings on March 30, April 13, April 20, and April 27. All of these sessions will be held in the Media Center and begin at 6:30 p.m. The cost for these four trainings will be $100 for the series. If you are interested in either the free workshop or the series of four trainings, please contact Kim Steinke or Beth Hicks at 454-8402 or follow the links below for additional registration information: Mindfulness Parenting Parent Workshop Series and Free Parent Workshop March 9th PACING FOR PRISCA: To honor the life of Assumption’s founding principal, Sister Prisca Pfeffer H’16, Team Assumption invites Assumption High School students, parents, teachers, alumnae, and friends to participate in the 2016 Kentucky Derby Mini-Marathon and join our “Pacing for Sister Prisca” Program. Order forms to join the program and receive a Pacing for Sister Prisca short-sleeved technical running shirt are available on Assumption’s website. The race will be on Saturday, April 30, at 7:30 a.m., but the Pacing for Sister Prisca order forms and payment are due to the Assumption bookstore by or on February 18. The cost for the Pacing for Sister Prisca shirt and program is $16. Shirt pickup as well as a special gathering will take place on Sunday, March 13, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. During this event, Panera bagels and other delicious goodies will be served. For those unable to attend, pre-ordered shirts will be available for pickup at the campus store the week of March 14-18. The cost for participating in the Mini-Marathon is currently $85. If you are interested in getting involved or need any other further information, contact Team Assumption leaders TRACY HOMAN or KATIE CASWELL. This is a perfect way to get involved in our community while doing so for a great cause.

SUMMER ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES: Academic opportunities for the summer have been UPDATED. You can find these on our guidance department page by clicking here: ACADEMIC SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES 2016. Many applications are due in March. Please contact KELLY KIRWAN with any questions. EdCHOICE KY: The Archdiocese has asked that we share this information with our parents: The 2016

Kentucky General Assembly has begun and there is an important issue you need to pay attention to: Senate

Bill 44 and House Bill 336 would create a Scholarship Tax Credit Program in Kentucky. Parental choice is

essential for quality education, and scholarship tax credits will enable more parents to make that choice, no

matter their economic standing. Over the next few months, the issue will be heard in committees and

EdChoice KY--a coalition of educators, business owners and citizens who want more choices for Kentucky

students--will be educating citizens on the legislation. Senate Bill 44 and House Bill 336, also known as the

“Opportunities in Education” act, create a nonrefundable tax credit which may be applied against the

individual income tax, corporate income tax, the limited liability entity tax, or the bank franchise tax, for

donations to scholarship-granting organizations. Specifically, this legislation would allow donors to give

more to groups like the Catholic Education Foundation, thereby producing more tuition assistance funds for

families seeking a Catholic school education for their children. Senate Bill 44 and House Bill 336 ensure that

all students have the opportunity to obtain the education they deserve at a school that best suits their

educational needs. Help EdChoice Kentucky grow its statewide reach as we educate the Commonwealth on

Scholarship Tax Credits. Follow us on social media TODAY! Facebook: EdChoice KY Twitter: @EdChoiceKY

Sincerely, Martha Tedesco Principal

February 19, 2016 Dear Parents, Countless hours of preparation have gone into planning a purposeful and meaningful Mission Week for your daughters. As we prepare to officially begin, Campus Minister Gloria Thornburg shares this reflection on why your support and, most importantly, your prayers, are an essential part of our preparation, too. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” These words by Leo Buscaglia embody the meaning of Mission Week. Multiple and varied opportunities will abound for our students to be the giver and the recipient of smiles, of listening, of caring, and of speaking. The power of words, the sacredness of promises, the call to be compassionate, the chance to impact a life make this week pivotal each year. We invite your participation by holding us all close in prayer: those traveling, those teaching, those serving, those learning, those reflecting, those planning and adapting plans. Our parent prayer group will not be meeting this week due to the changed schedule, but could we all at some time on Monday offer this prayer for the week:

Be with us, Merciful God, as we seek to be Your voice, Your hands, Your love

in the world this week. May mercy be made real in us and through us.

Amen CALENDAR NOTES:

Monday – Thursday, February 22-25 is Mission Week. We will begin school each morning one hour later at 8:45 a.m. and dismiss each day at 2:50 p.m. The school will open and students may be dropped off as early as 8:00 a.m. We believe that Mission Week activities are so important that we suspend classes for the week; all students are required to attend and participate in the activities

scheduled, both on and off campus. All attendance policies apply during Mission Week--if your daughter is ill and unable to participate on a given day, please call the attendance office as usual. If at all possible, please do not schedule medical appointments for your daughter on days when she will be participating in activities off campus.

There is no school on Friday, February 26, and Monday, February 29, for our Mid-Winter holiday. MONDAY OF MISSION WEEK DETAILS: The week of February 22-25 will be our ninth annual award-winning Mission Week. Below are a few details about Monday:

NATIONAL SPEAKER: All parents are invited to join us for our Monday speaker, Alex Sheen. Mr. Sheen is the founder of the nonprofit organization "because I said I would” which promotes bettering humanity through the power of words and promises made. You can catch a glimpse of Mr. Sheen’s work through this short video: ALEX SHEEN TED TALK and by visiting www.becauseisaidiwould.com. The presentation will take place from 9:15-10:30 a.m. in the gym.

STUDENT DETAILS: We would like to share information given to students this week about Monday. Please remind your daughter of the following: For Monday,

o Students may wear spirit wear as usual. o Students do not need to bring their tablet PCs. o Students will need to bring a bagged lunch.

Students will be instructed on Monday about tablet PCs, attire, and lunch for the remainder of the week for their particular class level. Students need to check their email daily during Mission Week for important information.

PARENT PRAYER GROUP: The Assumption parent prayer group will meet in the Chapel at 9:00 a.m. on

Wednesday, February 24.

LENTEN OPPORTUNITY: The chapel on the second floor of the CAC is open early every morning if you would

like to come in for some quiet reflection and private prayer after dropping off your daughter. Spend as much

time as your schedule allows. Please check in at the main office first.

2016-2017 REGISTRATION: Registration for students wishing to return to Assumption next school year was due this past Thursday. Completing the process included logging into PowerSchool; acquiring student, teacher, and parent signatures; selecting a tuition payment plan; attaching a $200 fee; and submitting the registration form. If your daughter has not completed a registration for her classes for the 2016-2017 school year but you want her to return next year, please contact Registrar Kathy Fleischer at [email protected] or 271-2505. If your daughter does not plan on returning next year, contact Kathy Fleischer for an official withdrawal form. COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP NIGHT: All parents are invited to attend our College Scholarship Night on

Thursday, March 3, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the theater. Four different colleges will be represented for a

panel discussion about college scholarships aimed at helping juniors and even sophomores understand what

colleges are looking for in a strong scholarship candidate. If you have any questions, please contact LEIGH

JACKSON, our college counselor.

WINTER SPORTS CELEBRATION: Winter sport athletes and their parents are asked to save the date on

Tuesday, March 8, to attend the winter sports celebration. The event will honor all winter sport athletes

(archery, basketball, bowling, cheer, dance, and swimming). The celebration will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the

gym with an all-sports awards presentation and then follow with breakout sessions with each sport.

SENIOR CITIZEN PROM: Assumption High School’s Junior Class Beta Club members will be hosting a “Senior

Prom: The Kentucky Derby” for senior citizens at Assumption High School on Saturday, March 12, from 2:00

to 4:00 p.m. The Bob Holt and The Prime Time Band will play music enjoyed by the seniors. There is no cost,

but we ask that guests call in advance to reserve their place: Terry Langley or Erica Lasley at 271-

2531. Please share with any interested senior citizen!

BETA CLUB INFORMATION FOR SOPHOMORE AND JUNIOR PARENTS: Qualifying sophomores and juniors

will be invited to join Beta Club in March, 2016, for the 2016 – 2017 school year. Beta Club is an organization

dedicated to honoring academic achievement and encouraging school and community service. Qualifying

students must have a 3.5 cumulative GPA and no more than two demerits on their discipline record. If a

2015-2016 junior member lost her membership due to incomplete service hours or lack of attendance at the

scheduled meetings, she will not be permitted to reapply for her senior year. Members are required to attend

75% of scheduled meetings, unless they have an excused absence from school. They must complete 20

service hours their junior year and 20 service hours their senior year. Members must maintain a 3.5

cumulative GPA. Members may not accumulate more than two demerits throughout their membership.

Parents will receive an invitation letter by mail or email at the beginning of March. Students will receive a

follow-up email invitation shortly thereafter. There is a one-time membership fee of $15 to join.”

COLLEGE PROCESS MINI-WORKSHOPS FOR JUNIORS: Each month this semester, our college counselor, Mrs. Jackson, and our college counseling partner, Mrs. Schroeder, will provide mini-workshops during each study block to help the juniors get started with the college process. Each workshop will focus on a specific topic related to the college process. The remaining topics and dates are listed below.

March 10 & 11: College Research, Naviance, and Career Discussion March 21 & 22: How to Choose a Major April 21 & 22: The Common App and Essay May 2 & 3: Test Prep for ACT

Please encourage your juniors to attend any or all of the workshops. If you have any questions, please contact our college counselor, LEIGH JACKSON . BLOOM THEATRE PROJECT: This year, fourteen students participated in the BLOOM Theatre Project with Betsy Anne Huggins, Education Manager for Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. The students’ original plays were submitted to the Actors Theatre New Voice Playwrights Festival, and out of 870 submissions, Kay Nilest’s play titled “Image of Beauty” was one of the top nine plays that will be produced by Actors Theatre and published in the New Voices Anthology. Five of the ten-minute Assumption plays will be fully produced and performed for public audiences at Assumption on Friday, February 19, and Saturday, February 20, at 7:00 p.m. There will be a staged reading of five additional plays by Assumption’s Acting II students on Sunday, February 21, at 2:00 p.m. Please plan to join us. This show is free of admission as we consider it to be a gift to the community. Free tickets can be reserved online at Showtix4u.com (be sure to use Google Chrome). On February 23 and 24, BLOOM Theatre Project will be a traveling show in which the cast of three plays will travel to the following middle schools to perform the show: Meredith Dunn, St. James, Home of the Innocents, and St. Martha.

FINANCIAL AID FORM: The financial aid link for 2016-2017 has been added to the school’s website. The due date is March 15, and the form must be mailed or submitted online to Private School Aid Service. FINANCIAL AID FORM SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS: Scholarship applications for the 2016-2017 school year are now on our website. The due date is March 16. Please contact Advancement Services Manager Jackie Bloyd at [email protected] with questions. Scholarship winners will be announced at our closing prayer service. You may access the applications through the following link – SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS. MINDFULNESS PROGRAM FOR PARENTS: We want to invite all parents to an upcoming Guidance Department program called “Cultivating Peaceful Teens in a Stressed Out World.” This parent workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 9, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Media Center. This free workshop will be presented by Shelly Sowell. Ms. Sowell works as a counselor, educator, and mindfulness-based life and wellness instructor. Ms. Sowell has been working collaboratively with Beth Hicks, junior counselor, to bring an awareness of mindfulness to the students of Assumption. If mindfulness is a topic in which you have interest, Ms. Sowell will also offer a series of four specialized parent trainings on March 30, April 13, April 20,

and April 27. All of these sessions will be held in the Media Center and begin at 6:30 p.m. The cost for these four trainings will be $100 for the series. If you are interested in either the free workshop or the series of four trainings, please contact Kim Steinke or Beth Hicks at 454-8402 or follow the links below for additional registration information: Mindfulness Parenting Parent Workshop Series and Free Parent Workshop March 9th SUMMER ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES: Sixteen new academic summer opportunities have been added to the guidance page this week. They include everything from a Young Leaders Academy and Camp Neuro at U of L to a summer program at the US Coast Guard Academy. Some of these programs offer scholarships so that the cost to the student is minimal. You can find these on our guidance department page by clicking here: ACADEMIC SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES 2016. Many applications are due in March. Please contact KELLY KIRWAN with any questions. AHS SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: All of this cold weather has us dreaming about summer, and that can only mean one thing: summer camps! We are excited to announce that registration for the 2016 camp schedule is now open. Taught by our award-winning faculty and top-ranked coaches, Assumption High School is offering a variety of exciting enrichment and athletic summer camps for children in grades K-12. Camp size is limited, so click here to learn more about our summer camps and register today! Please share this information with family and friends! Sincerely, Martha Tedesco Principal

February 25, 2016 Dear Parents, In his Lenten message this year, Pope Francis stated that “God’s mercy transforms human hearts; it

enables us, through the experience of a faithful love, to become merciful in turn.” During this Mission

Week, our students have fully experienced how to be merciful through their Mission Week

activities. They have learned and served as well as represented the Assumption community so very well

in the Louisville community at large. In the end, whether experiencing something as big as a mission trip

or something as small as an act of kindness, our students’ hearts have grown full and, hopefully, have

been inspired to carry this message throughout the year. Thank you for your prayers and support of

your daughters during this very special week.

CALENDAR NOTES:

There is no school on Friday, February 26, and Monday, February 29, for our Mid-Winter holiday.

LENTEN FOCUS: Our focus for next week, the third week of Lent, is Feed the Hungry. All theology

classes are collecting spare change for the Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl program. Our Mission Week

speaker, Alex Sheen, reminded us that the poorest people in our society have more than millions in

other countries. We are so very blessed to have safe homes, clean water, and adequate food.

LENTEN OPPORTUNITY: The chapel on the second floor of the CAC is open early every morning if you

would like to come in for some quiet reflection and private prayer after dropping off your

daughter. Spend as much time as your schedule allows. Please check in at the main office first.

2016-2017 REGISTRATION: Registration for students wishing to return to Assumption next school year

was due this past Thursday. Completing the process included logging into PowerSchool; acquiring

student, teacher, and parent signatures; selecting a tuition payment plan; attaching a $200 fee; and

submitting the registration form. If your daughter has not completed a registration for her classes for

the 2016-2017 school year but you want her to return next year, please contact Registrar Kathy Fleischer

at [email protected] or 271-2505. If your daughter does not plan on returning next year,

contact Kathy Fleischer for an official withdrawal form.

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP NIGHT: All parents are invited to attend our College Scholarship Night on

Thursday, March 3, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the theater. Four different colleges will be represented for a

panel discussion about college scholarships aimed at helping juniors and even sophomores understand

what colleges are looking for in a strong scholarship candidate. If you have any questions, please

contact LEIGH JACKSON, our college counselor.

WINTER SPORTS CELEBRATION: Winter sport athletes and their parents are asked to save the date on

Tuesday, March 8, to attend the winter sports celebration. The event will honor all winter sport athletes

(archery, basketball, bowling, cheer, dance, and swimming). The celebration will begin at 6:00 p.m. in

the gym with an all-sports awards presentation and then follow with breakout sessions with each sport.

SENIOR CITIZEN PROM: Assumption High School’s Junior Class Beta Club members will be hosting a

“Senior Prom: The Kentucky Derby” for senior citizens at Assumption High School on Saturday, March

12, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The Bob Holt and The Prime Time Band will play music enjoyed by the

seniors. There is no cost, but we ask that guests call in advance to reserve their place: Terry Langley or

Erica Lasley at 271-2531. Please share with any interested senior citizen!

BETA CLUB INFORMATION FOR SOPHOMORE AND JUNIOR PARENTS: Qualifying sophomores and

juniors will be invited to join Beta Club in March, 2016, for the 2016 – 2017 school year. Beta Club is an

organization dedicated to honoring academic achievement and encouraging school and community

service. Qualifying students must have a 3.5 cumulative GPA and no more than two demerits on their

discipline record. If a 2015-2016 junior member lost her membership due to incomplete service hours

or lack of attendance at the scheduled meetings, she will not be permitted to reapply for her senior

year. Members are required to attend 75% of scheduled meetings, unless they have an excused

absence from school. They must complete 20 service hours their junior year and 20 service hours their

senior year. Members must maintain a 3.5 cumulative GPA. Members may not accumulate more than

two demerits throughout their membership. Parents will receive an invitation letter by mail or email at

the beginning of March. Students will receive a follow-up email invitation shortly thereafter. There is a

one-time membership fee of $15 to join.”

COLLEGE PROCESS MINI-WORKSHOPS FOR JUNIORS: Each month this semester, our college counselor, Mrs. Jackson, and our college counseling partner, Mrs. Schroeder, will provide mini-workshops during each study block to help the juniors get started with the college process. Each workshop will focus on a specific topic related to the college process. The remaining topics and dates are listed below.

March 10 & 11: College Research, Naviance, and Career Discussion

March 21 & 22: How to Choose a Major

April 21 & 22: The Common App and Essay

May 2 & 3: Test Prep for ACT

Please encourage your juniors to attend any or all of the workshops. If you have any questions, please contact our college counselor, LEIGH JACKSON . FINANCIAL AID FORM: The financial aid link for 2016-2017 has been added to the school’s website. The due date is March 15, and the form must be mailed or submitted online to Private School Aid Service. FINANCIAL AID FORM SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS: Scholarship applications for the 2016-2017 school year are now on our website. The due date is March 16. Please contact Advancement Services Manager Jackie Bloyd at [email protected] with questions. Scholarship winners will be announced at our closing prayer service. You may access the applications through the following link – SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS. MINDFULNESS PROGRAM FOR PARENTS: We want to invite all parents to an upcoming Guidance Department program called “Cultivating Peaceful Teens in a Stressed Out World.” This parent workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 9, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Media Center. This free workshop will be presented by Shelly Sowell. Ms. Sowell works as a counselor, educator, and mindfulness-based life and wellness instructor. Ms. Sowell has been working collaboratively with Beth Hicks, junior counselor, to bring an awareness of mindfulness to the students of Assumption. If mindfulness is a topic in which you have interest, Ms. Sowell will also offer a series of four specialized parent trainings on March 30, April 13, April 20, and April 27. All of these sessions will be held in the Media Center and begin at 6:30 p.m. The cost for these four trainings will be $100 for the series. If you are interested in either the free workshop or the series of four trainings, please contact Kim Steinke or Beth Hicks at 454-8402 or follow the links below for additional registration information: Mindfulness Parenting Parent Workshop Series and Free Parent Workshop March 9th SUMMER ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES: Sixteen new academic summer opportunities have been added to the guidance page this week. They include everything from a Young Leaders Academy and Camp Neuro at U of L to a summer program at the US Coast Guard Academy. Some of these programs offer scholarships so that the cost to the student is minimal. You can find these on our guidance department page by clicking here: ACADEMIC SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES 2016. Many applications are due in March. Please contact KELLY KIRWAN with any questions. AHS SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: All of this cold weather has us dreaming about summer, and that can only mean one thing: summer camps! We are excited to announce that registration for the 2016 camp schedule is now open. Taught by our award-winning faculty and top-ranked coaches, Assumption High School is offering a variety of exciting enrichment and athletic summer camps for children in grades K-12. Camp size is limited, so click here to learn more about our summer camps and register today! Please share this information with family and friends! Sincerely, Martha Tedesco Principal