week of october 30 - November 4 2017
Character Education Program • Character Education at SC • School Board News
• Senior Financial Aid Night
The character education topic for the month of November is: Gratefulness letting others know by my words and actions how they have benefited my life.
• Operation Christmas Child
The weekly verse is I Thessalonians 5:16-18 “Rejoice always, pray continually, and give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
• SC Night of the Arts
Please be sure to read the weekly Character Education information emailed home by Mr. Villers each Monday.
• SC in State Playoffs
• FFA in National Competition • Community Notices
SC School Board News
10/30
Picture Retake Day
11/02
Financial Aid/FAFSA Night
10/30 11/08
11/09-10 11/15
11/1711/25
11/20-21 11/22-24 12/09 12/11 12/12
NHS Induction Ceremony End of First Quarter
Teacher Inservice Days (no school) SC Night of the Arts
Dominican Republic Mission Trip
Elem/JH Conferences HS in Session Thanksgiving Break
This school year the Santiam Christian school board members have committed to pray for all of the Santiam Christian employees. Each of the board members has been assigned employees to get to know and lift up in prayer. Join the board in praying for our administration, teachers, support staff, and custodial crew both in the roles they have at SC and in their personal lives. A few highlights from this past month: • Approval of the purchase of three used buses to replace some of the older vehicles in our fleet • Elementary Building Committee provided an update on site visits made to other school campuses • Policy updates approved • Approved the completion of a land survey to aid in preparation of a Master Site Plan The board is always on the lookout for future board nominations. If you are excited about Santiam Christian or know someone who is and would like to learn more about serving SCS in this capacity, please contact David Mendenhall at
[email protected].
HS Christmas Banquet
JH/HS Christmas Concert Elementary Christmas Concert
Senior Financial Aid Night Every year, seniors and their parents say “I wish someone would have told me...” about various aspects of applying for college and scholarships. As such, if you’re a senior or parent of a senior, you won’t want to miss the Senior Financial Aid Night on Thursday, November 2 at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria. We will discuss college financial aid strategies, including how to find and apply for scholarships.
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SC Fall Sports in State Playoffs In addition to the cross country athletes, each of SC’s other fall sports are competing this week in State Playoffs for their respective sport. Please come support and cheer on your Eagles!
Girls Soccer: On Saturday, the girls soccer team defeated Creswell 2-1 in overtime to advance to Round 1 of the State Playoffs. The team will play Tuesday, October 31 versus Lakeview at home at 5 p.m. in Round 1 of the playoffs. The winner of that game will play Saturday, November 4 at Westside Christian. Boys Soccer: The boys soccer team won their last 5 regular season games and will travel to Medford to play Round 1 against St. Mary’s at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, November 1. The winner of that game will play on Saturday, November 4. Time and location to be determined. Volleyball: The volleyball team beat Catlin Gabel at home on Saturday to advance to the quarterfinals of the State Championship Tournament. At the tournament, held in Forest Grove, the begin play on Friday, November 3 against Portland Christian at 3:15 p.m. The winner of that game play will play again in the semifinals at 8:30 p.m. Friday night, while the loser of that game will play the next morning at 10 a.m. in the Consolation round. Football: The football team concluded it’s regular season with an exciting win on Friday against Washougal, WA. They will play their Round 1 match against Colton on Friday, November 3 at home at 7 p.m. SC Night of the Arts Join us for SC Night of the Arts, Wednesday, November 15, from 6-8 in the high school building. This is an informal time to drop in and see what’s happening in our fine arts classes. Band and choir will be performing throughout the evening, drama rehearsals will be open for observation, and samples from art, woodshop, and photoshop will be on display. Refreshments will be served!
SC Cross Country Headed to state At the 3A/2A/1A Special District 2 Cross Country Meet on Friday, Santiam Christian qualified 9 athletes to run at the State Championship meet on Saturday, November 4 at Lane Community College. The girls race is at 10 a.m. and the boys run at 10:35 a.m. At district, the top 5 individuals qualify as well as the top 2 teams for girls, and top 3 teams for boys. Sophomore Ainsley Beam and freshman Ann Livingston qualified for state by finishing 4th and 5th in the girls race. Freshman Anna Eby rounded out the top SC runners with an 11th place finish. In their first time fielding a complete girls team (5-7 runners) in years, the SC team finished 3rd in district and just narrowly missed going to state by a margin of 4 points. The boys team was led by senior Paul Lim, who earned a 10th place medal. The boys team, consisting of Lim, Matthew Kontra, Carson Post, Austin Bradford, Sam Barton, Josh Chapin and Andrew Cowan, qualified by finishing in 3rd place. Just 6 points separated the 2nd-4th place teams. The boys team has previously missed going to state by the smallest of margins the last 3 years, so there was much cause to celebrate this year. In the JV races, Hannah Maupin earned a 3rd place ribbon for girls and Ryan Boggs finished in 9th place for the boys. SC car decals If you haven’t picked up your car decal yet, come to the Development Office in the Admin building to get one for your family. We had a generous donor purchase a car decal for every SC family. Let’s show our school spirit and get our decals on our cars.
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SC FFA Brings Home Silver at Nationals
sports physicals
The SC FFA Dairy Cattle Evaluation & Management Team participated in the National Contest last week. The contest was held in conjunction with the 90th National FFA Convention & Expo in Indianapolis. Fifty teams from across the nation competed. SC placed 16th overall, earning a Silver Medal in the event.
Does your junior high or high school student need a sports physical before the winter sports season? MidWillamette Family Medical has generously offered to hold a free clinic on November 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for fellow SC families. Please call their office 541926-4828 to schedule a time. They are located at 1050 29th Ave SW, Albany.
The National FFA Dairy Cattle Evaluation and Management career development event is a competitive event that tests the student’s ability to select and manage quality dairy cattle. Event components include evaluation of a six classes of dairy cattle, oral reasons of three classes, herd record evaluation, and team analysis and collaboration of feeds & nutrition on a dairy farm. The event is one of the many educational activities at the National FFA Convention & Expo in which FFA Members demonstrate their ability to apply classroom knowledge to real-life situations. Santiam Christian FFA competed at local and state levels to earn the privilege of representing Oregon in the national contest. In addition to the team winning Silver, each member competed individually as well. The individual scores were tallied together to determine the overall team score. SC team members earned the following individual medals: · Gracie Krahn – Gold · Madison Kuhn – Silver · Matthew Mehlschau – Silver · Rhyan Reid – Silver Kyndall Davis also competed in the National FFA Dairy Handlers Contest where she earned a Silver Medal. Through participation in the Dairy Handlers Activity, students learn to work with others in a way that is cooperative, courteous, and helpful in the show ring. They are also evaluated on how they handle dairy cattle while in the show ring. The SC FFA Team was coached by Mrs. Krahn, who has a rich history of dairy cattle evaluation. Mrs. Krahn has helped coach collegiate dairy judging teams for OSU in the past and has competed nationally as a collegiate judging team member as well. Mrs. Krahn hopes to train another SC FFA team to compete nationally in dairy evaluation again in the near future.
New Spirit wear for sale On Monday, November 6, we will be selling all our latest spirit wear during afternoon pick up. Come see our newest item! Little Eagles Onesies. Auction Volunteers/donations wanted Are you looking for a way to fill your major fundraising hours? The auction team is looking for individuals to help procure donations. Volunteers can contact
[email protected] for a list of potential donors to contact. Do you have season tickets to a sporting event? Would you be willing to donate tickets to one game to Santiam Christian Schools' auction? The auction team is looking for football, baseball, and basketball tickets to auction off at our annual event. Contact
[email protected] if you can help with this or if you have another item you would like to donate. Thank you for your willingness to serve! Youth Softball/baseball Coordinator
Santiam Christian is looking for a youth softball and JBO coordinator. This would be a paid position reporting to the athletic director. The position would be for both softball and baseball and for all teams 3rd - 8th. A good candidate would have good organizational skills and flexible availability, as there are a wide variety of duties. The position would begin in February and go through the end of July. If interested please contact Jay Barton bartonj@ santiam.org.
Eagle Happenings Newsletter
This all-school newsletter will be published each Monday afternoon. If you have something to submit to the newsletter, please e-mail your copy-ready announcement to
[email protected] by 9am on Monday morning. We reserve the right to edit for grammar, content, length, etc.
Congratulations SC FFA!
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college & career calendar
Operation Christmas child It’s time for our annual Operation Christmas Child shoe box drive, with the 6th graders leading the the way! Students in all grades are encouraged to participate to help provide shoe box gifts to hurting and needy children around the world and here at home. It’s always encouraging to the younger students to see their SC big brothers and sisters continue to come together and fill shoe boxes that are packed with love and covered with prayer knowing that this leads to an open door to share the gospel with children and families all around the world. Won’t you consider filling a box also? There are some new guidelines from Samaritan’s Purse regarding shoe box gifts, so please check out their website for items that can/can’t be included. The collection days here at school will be November 14-16, and then the 6th graders will be delivering the boxes from our school on the 17. Join the fun! Band Krispy Kreme Fundraiser Band Krispy Kreme sale: Doughnuts will arrive on the morning of Thursday, November 2. STEM OPPORTUNITIES AT SC
New STEM (Science, Techonology, Engineering, Math) information and opportunities are posted each week on our school website. For the latest, please click on the following link: http://www.santiamchristian.org/editoruploads/files/ Academics/STEM_News_1030.pdf SC Sports/Activity Calendar Check out our School Calendar for the times, dates, and locations of where you can see our athletes and activity groups in action. School lunch menus You can view our weekly/monthly lunch menus by clicking on the following link SC Lunch Menus.
Below is a list of college entrance exams (ACT/SAT) dates, college visits, and other events for students. Please note, visits by college admisisons reps will take place during 8th period in the MAP room, unless otherwise noted. Calendar Oct 31 - California Baptist University Nov 2 - Willamette University Nov 4 - SAT Nov 6 - Northwest University-Salem Nov 7 - Grand Canyon University Nov 14 - Multnomah University Nov 29 - Healthcare Exploration Fair (Lebanon, details coming soon) Nov 30 - Ravencrest Chalet Bible College/Gap Year (8th period, JH11) Dec 2 - SAT Dec 5 - OSU College of Business Info Session Dec 8 Cornerstone School of Ministry Dec 11 - Oregon Army National Guard Dec 9 - ACT Feb 10 - ACT Mar 10 - SAT (no subject tests offered) Apr 14 - ACT May 5 - SAT June 2 - SAT Campbell’s Soup Labels - discontinued We have been advised by the Campbell’s Soup Labels for Education program that they are discontinuing the program shortly. This is a redemption program that SC has been benefited from greatly over many years. Please submit all Labels for Education coupons by December 15 at the latest. They can be dropped off in either the Elementary Office, or in the Administration Office, as usual. There are collection receptacles in both locations. Please note that at this time, they will only accept the specially marked Labels for Education coupons (approx 1” x 2”), and will not accept Campbells Soup can labels without the coupon. This does NOT effect the General Mills Box Tops for Education program...it remains in effect, as usual. Those coupons can still be submitted in both offices, as well. We are no longer collecting Santiam Foods Labels due to minimal results. The drink pouch redemption program is also no longer viable, having ended last school year. In summary, submit Campbells Labels for Education coupons until December 15; submit Box Tops for Education coupons as usual, and all other programs are not being offered at this time. Thank you for your continued support...we raise 1000’s of dollars per year through these efforts.
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Community Notices OSU E S | B C 4-H
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Applications are available at the Benton Extension office or online at: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/benton/4h
Santiam Christian School
Tuesday November 7 ◊ 5:30-8:00 pm Wednesday January 17 ◊ 5:30-8:00 pm Tuesday March 6 ◊ 5:30-8:00 pm Please pre-register by contacting Melissa Whiteman at
[email protected] or 541-926-2203. This training will be facilitated by an Authorized Darkness to Light: Stewards of Children Facilitator connected with ABC House – the Child Abuse Intervention Center Serving Benton & Linn Counties.
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