The Cougar Published every two weeks for SJS Parents www.stjudebr.org November 15, 2018

St. Jude the Apostle School provides a Catholic family environment, dedicated to the formation of each student's

relationship with Christ through faith, academics, and excellence.

SCHOOL CALENDAR

Thursday, November 15 Barberito Fall Sports Picture Day (Bring Uniforms!)

Thursday, November 15 1:00pm Grandparents Day Parent Performance/Rehearsal

Friday, November 16 8:45am Grandparents Day– NO PM Extension; NO PM Buses

Mon., Nov. 19– Fri., Nov. 23rd Thanksgiving Break– NO SCHOOL

Mon., Dec 3– Fri., Dec 7 Santaland

Tuesday, December 4 8:00am 6th Grade Reconciliation

Wednesday, December 5 8:15am School-Wide Liturgy (5A) Dress Uniforms

Thursday, December 6 2:00pm Beta Club Bake Sale– Carpool Lines

Thursday, December 6 5:30-7pm Pictures with Santa & Gumbo Dinners (Cafeteria)

Thursday, December 6 6:30pm “Sounds of St. Jude” Christmas Choir & Band Concert

Friday, December 7 7:30am Donuts & Devotion (8th Grade only)

Friday, December 7 9-10:30am Campus Coffee (Prospective Family Open House)

NOTE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Someone once wrote, “Grandparents make the world… a little softer, a little kinder, and a little warmer.” One of

the most anticipated events, Grandparents’ Day is just days away!!! As a sign of appreciation for the role grandparents’

play in our lives, the students and teachers have worked very hard to prepare a dazzling showcase of our student’s talent in

this year’s presentation.

Due to limited seating and parking there are two special performances scheduled. Parents are invited to “Jump and Jive” on

Thursday for the first performance beginning at 1:00 pm in the Activity Center. The Activity Center will be open to par-

ents at 12:45 pm for seat selection. When you arrive on campus, please remember to form and follow the afternoon carpool

formation.

On Friday, Grandparents are invited to a prayer service and the spectacular student performance of “Jump and Jive” begin-

ning at 8:45 am. Please see below specific details regarding parking, hospitality of coffee and pastries, and entrance time

into the Activity Center to communicate to your child’s special guest.

* 7:30-7:55 am - St. Jude School’s Morning carpool runs. Parking in the lot is very difficult and limited during

this time of morning. Please do not arrive prior to 8:00 am.

*8:00 am - St. Jude Men’s Club will begin to provide guidance and help grandparents with

locating a parking space.

*8:00 am - Grandparents are invited to join the Home and School Association for a warm cup of coffee and

assorted pastries in the cafeteria.

*8:30 am - The Activity Center will be open to grandparents to find a seat for the

performance of “Jump and Jive”.

This is a time of year when many of us reflect on the many blessings in our lives. I would like to thank the multitude peo-

ple who make St. Jude such a special school. Thank you to:

*The incredible devotion of our staff for their ministry in Catholic education, and their unique ability to teach our students.

*To the students who consistently work hard to learn, and the parents who encourage them.

* To the amazing support the Home and School Association provide the teachers, students and families of St. Jude School.

*To the Men’s Club for their willingness to assist the school with the carpool/parking procedures, cleaning the grounds

and facilities, and any other school needs.

*To the Athletic Association members and coaches, who stress to our student athletes the importance of being a good

teammate on and off of the athletic field of event.

*To the St. Jude School Advisory Council members for their dedication and service in an advisory capacity to insure the

continued vitality of our school.

*To the newly formed St. Jude Student Advisory Council members who were nominated by their homeroom classmates.

Theses middle school homeroom representatives will provide administration wonderful and thought input into things that

are important to students such as, lunch menu, and much more.

I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Michelle

SCHOOL NEWS & INFORMATION

GRANDPARENT’S DAY: Grandparents Day is scheduled for TOMORROW: Friday, November 16h at 8:45am in the

activity center. Our theme this year is “Jump & Jive”. We ask that all grandparents and special persons refrain from ar-

riving on campus before 8:00am due to carpool and bus drop off. There will be no PM extension or PM bus service on

this day. All students must be picked up by 12pm. Due to very limited seating, parents and siblings are only invited to

attend the rehearsal TODAY: Thursday, Nov. 15th at 1:00pm. Raffle tickets ($20) for a free tuition and sock it to me

vouchers ($25) for free choice of socks and shoes will be sold at each performance benefitting the St. Jude Auction. Let-

ters detailing dress requirements for your child(ren) have gone home and can be found HERE. Barberito Photography

will be on-site following the performances for pictures; order forms for picture packages have been sent home and will

be available on site. There is also an opportunity for you to order a DVD of the performance. Order forms can be found

HERE. Please contact Mrs. Mary Hilse with any questions about the performance!

REMINDERS ABOUT RE-REGISTRATION: As we move closer to the end of the calendar year, please remember

the school policy on tuition rate levels. In order to qualify for the Identified Stewardship Giver (ISG) tuition rate for the

upcoming school year, you must have met the minimum identifiable amount of $250.00 given through the Church offer-

tory collection. Contributions must be made by December 28, 2018 to count towards 2019-20 tuition rates. Contributions

made after that date will not be counted toward the 2019-20 ISG status. As another reminder, determination of Catholic

versus non-Catholic status is based upon the child’s baptism in the Catholic Church.

TUITION RAFFLE TICKETS & SOCK IT TO ME COUPONS: The auction committee will be selling tuition raf-

fle tickets at today’s parent performance and tomorrow’s Grandparents Day event. Tickets are $20; prizes are listed be-

low, only 300 will be sold. “Sock it to me” vouchers will also be on sale for $25. Families with vouchers will be al-

lowed to wear their choice of socks and shoes the week of February 25-March 1. One voucher covers all the students

within that household!

1st ticket drawn: One Student Registration Fee credit valued at $200

2nd ticket drawn: One Student Fee credit valued at $250

3rd ticket drawn: One Building Use Fee credit valued at $235

4th ticket drawn: One student tuition credit valued at $4,760

AUCTION TICKETS: Tickets are $50 per person and are on sale NOW! Tickets purchased from now until December

23rd will include a special early bird check-in and cocktail hour beginning at 6pm! CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE

YOUR TICKETS

The evening will be filled with great food, entertainment and silent and live auction items—including class projects! Are

you or a business you know interested in becoming a sponsor?

Contact auction@stjudebr.org to learn about all the great partnership opportunities available for

advertising!

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EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL MATH TOURNAMENT: Congratulations to the participants on Saturday, November

10. St. Jude School won a total of 6 awards. Winners included:

Pre-Algebra Individual Test

4th place: Hunter Ullrich

3rd place: Chris Kennedy

2nd place: Alex Brown

Algebra Individual Test

Honorable Mention: Susana Cuadra

Middle School Team Test:

Honorable Mention to the St. Jude Pumpkin Pie Team of Kelty Balkum,

Maria Hargrave, Susanna Shields, Susana Cuadra

Interschool Test:

4th place: Kelty Balkum, Alex Brown, Susana Cuadra, Mason Dornier, Maria Hargrave, Chris Ken-

nedy, Caleb Lott, Matthew Maynard, Susanna Shields, Hunter Ullrich, Ethan Vu

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL FOR A MOST IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE!

MATH OLYMPIAD: Jonathan Thompson attended the tournament at Kenilworth Science &

Technology Charter School on Saturday. He placed 20th out of 294 students. Way to go Jona-

than!!!

SOUNDS OF ST. JUDE: Please mark your calendars for Thursday, December 6th and plan

to join us in the Activity Center for the “Sounds of St. Jude” Christmas band & choir concert.

Our St. Jude Boy Scout Troop will be serving a $5 Gumbo dinners. Additionally, Santa will be on hand for pictures

courtesy of Barberito Photography. Order forms will be available in the cafeteria. Pictures will be sent home prior to the

Christmas Break. Pictures and dinner service will start at 5:30pm. The concert will begin at 6:30pm in the activity cen-

ter– admission is free! We look forward to celebrating the Feast Day of St. Nicholas with our great SJS family!

ALL-PARISH BAND: Auditions for EBR All-Parish Middle School Honor Band were held on Saturday for all public,

private, and Catholic schools. Preston Gautreaux made the Symphonic Band on percussion and Joseph Mensman made

the Concert Band on Trumpet. Congratulations!

TURKEY DOLLAR DAY: Community Cougars would like to thank everyone who donated money to our Turkey Dol-

lar Day fundraiser. We collected $822.75 which went towards the purchase of Thanksgiving turkeys for needy families

in our area.

BETA CLUB BAKE SALE: The Beta Club will be selling sweet treats in the afternoon carpool line on Thursday, Dec-

cember 6th. All treats will be $1 and will help the students purchase Christmas gifts for their buddies at Wildwood!

QUIZ BOWL WINNERS: Congratulations to the following students who will represent St. Jude at the Diocesean Quiz

Bowl later this winter: 5th Grade– Ben Jewett, William McDaniel, Blaise Thomassie. 6th Grade: Drew Girouard, Quinn

Price, Joshua Tucker. 7th Grade: Alex Brown, Madeline Cannon, Ethan Vu. 8th Grade: Susana Cuadra, Maria Har-

grave, Margaux Mayeux. Go Cougars!

ATHLETICS

FALL SPORTS PICTURES: Students are reminded to bring clean fall uniforms for picture day TOMORROW:

Thursday, November 15th. Uniforms will be collected by our athletic association following their individual and team

picture. Reminders of uniforms and groups are found below:

Cross country (2 pieces)

Girls basketball 3rd-5th (2 piece reversible uniform and practice jersey)

Girls basketball 6th-8th (2 piece blue uniform, 2 piece white uniform and practice jersey)

Football (1 piece jersey)

Swimming (t-shirt- just for picture, not to be collected)

Cheerleaders are asked to wear their uniform to school on this day and bring the school uniform to change into after

pictures.

UCA ALL-AMERICAN CHEERLEADERS: At UCA Cheerleading camp this summer, Hannah Tranchina and Kate

Waguespack were selected as UCA All-Americans. Being selected allows one to travel to Disney World and march in

the Thanksgiving parade. Kate will be representing SJS over the holiday break. Go Cougars!

CLUB VOLLEYBALL: The Zydeco Volleyball Club run by Sivi Miller, head volleyball coach at St. Joseph’s Acade-

my, will be hosting a tryout for club volleyball teams on November 6th at St. Joseph’s Academy from 6:00 – 8:00 pm.

The tryout will be for current 4th through 8th graders. If you are interested in trying out, please arrive before 6:00 pm to

sign in. There will be a $50 tryout fee. There will be an informational session at the beginning of tryouts for any ques-

tions and information on costs and the club. If you need information prior to the tryout date, please contact zydecovol-

leyball@gmail.com

ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS: We had the team split up competing in two different

races with the 4th and 5th graders running 1.5 miles and everyone else running 2 miles. For the 1.5 mile race, the girls

finished 4th out of 12 teams. This was the only race that we had enough kids to score as a team. The top 7 girls were

Georgia Martin, Grace Martin, Breanna Meares, Camden Kallhoff, Leonie Herrmann, Catherine Walters, and Annie

Walters.

For the older girls, we had several record breakers. The top girls were Stella Vincent, Alex Miller, Cate Williamson, and

Julia Monzon. We keep 2 record lists, one for Highland Road Park and one for all other races. Stella Vincent broke the

senior girls and overall school record for non Highland races. Alex Miller was 3rd overall on senior girls and overall

record and Cate Williamson was 4th on the junior girls record list and 9th on the overall record list.

For the boys 1.5 mile race, the top boys were Eli Vincent, Braeden Gasser, Jonathan Thompson, and Quinn Mer-

chant. For the boys 2 mile race, the top boys were Matthew Maynard, Ryan Alexander and Shawn Vogt. Matthew

Maynard placed 2nd on the senior boys and overall school record. Great Job!

CROSS COUNTRY STATE MEET RESULTS: For the girls, the top 7 were Grace Martin, Georgia Martin, Breanna

Meares, Camden Kalhoff, Ella Boedefeld, and Leonie Herrmann. For the boys, the top 7 were Matthew Maynard,

Braden Gasser, Eli Vincent, Andrew Schmeeckle, Luke Romaine, Jonathan Thompson, and Drew Girouard. Fantastic

season, team!

ATHLETICS ANNOUNCEMENTS: If you have an athletic announcement for the Cougar, please send them to athlet-

ics public relations chair, Kelly Elliott, at kelly_elliott@cox.net.

PARISH NEWS

THANKSGIVING FOR NEW AMERICANS: There is an exciting upcoming event to support our community, our

parish and our refugees. Please sign up on the link FOUND HERE and join Bishop Duca at St. Aloysius Church in wel-

coming these New Americans on Saturday, November 17 from 11am-2pm! This is a great faith exercise for our fami-

lies!

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COUGAR DEADLINE: Submissions for the next issue of The Cougar are due by Tuesday, Nov. 27 E-mail sdriesse@stjudebr.org.

Grandparent’s Day 2018 DVD Order Form

Parent’s Name________________________________

Oldest or Only Child’s Name_________________________

Homeroom ____________Grade______________________

Number of DVD’s ordered (at $10.00 each)______________

Total Amount Due $ ________________________________

Please make checks payable to St. Jude Home and School. Return form in

an envelope marked “Grandparent’s Day DVD/Attention: Sydney Braud” 100% of the profit from this sale will be directed to the procurement of new

student desks.

**DVD will be of the entire Grandparent’s Day Performance on Friday, November 16, 2018. It will be sent home with the St. Jude student listed above in

mid-January.**

Pizza Salad Cup Corn Pears Milk Choice Choice Friday Ham Lunchable/Smacker

Christmas

Roasted Turkey w/gravy

Rice Dressing

Yams

Green Peas

Grapes

Dinner Rolls

Milk Choice

Cupcake

Soft Tacos Corn Pinto Beans Salad Cup Fruit Fiesta - Watermelon Cinnamon Twist Milk Choice Choice Tuesday Asian Chicken Salad/ Grilled Cheese

Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce Sweet Peas Salad Cup Peaches Parmesan Garlic Bread Milk Choice Choice Wednesday Turkey Lunchable/Mini Corn Dog

DECEMBER 2018

Honey Citrus Chicken Fried Rice Salad Cup Glazed Carrots Pineapple Milk Choice Choice Monday Ham Lunchable / Pizza

Red Beans w/Sausage Steamed Rice Steamed Cabbage Salad Cup Applesauce Cornbread Milk Choice Choice Monday Ham Lunchable / Pizza

Grilled Cheese Vegetable Soup Salad Cup

Fruit Fiesta – Blue Ice

Choice Tuesday Asian Chicken Salad

Turkey and Sausage Gumbo Steamed Rice Potato Salad Salad Cup Pears Dinner Roll Choice Thursday Taco Salad/Baked Potato

Crispy Chicken Tenders Creamed Potatoes Green Beans Red Apple Wedges Dinner Roll Milk choice Choice Wednesday Turkey Lunchable/Mini Corn Dog

Cheesy Nacho Meal Chili Steamed Broccoli Salad Cup Pears Milk Choice Choice Friday Ham Lunchable/Smacker

Chicken Sandwich French Fries Salad Cup w/Pickle Grapes Milk Choice Choice Friday Ham Lunchable/Smacker

Hot Dogs w/Chili Baked Beans Salad Cup Blueberry Craisins Milk Choice Choice Monday Ham Lunchable / Pizza

Holiday

Holiday

Chicken Parmesan Sweet Peas Salad Cup Pineapple Dinner Roll Milk Choice Choice Tuesday Asian Chicken Salad/ Grilled Cheese

Holiday

Holiday

Notes: Menus Subject to Change. All Meals Served with Choice of Milk.

Notification Statement: Peanuts and Peanut Butter are not purchased for meals produced by the

Baton Rouge Diocese Child Nutrition Program. However, some products served may contain nuts,

may be produced in plants that use nuts and may contain traces of nuts.

Holiday

Holiday

Hamburger Steak and Gravy

Steamed Rice Carrots Salad Applesauce Dinner Roll Milk Choice Choice Wednesday Turkey Lunchable/Mini Corn Dog

Smacker Chicken Spaghetti& Cheese Salad Cup California Vegetables Fruit Fiesta Milk Choice Choice Thursday Taco Salad/Baked Potato

We are having a Bake Sale to raise money for Christmas gifts for our PreK class at Wildwood!

Who: St. Jude Beta Club

When: Thursday, December 6th Time: 2:00

Where: Carpool lines

All treats will be $1.00!