Dear Families,
Thank-you for your patience with the updates. With only a couple of weeks and alot on the go before the holiday, make sure you get your spirit on! Thank-you in advance for taking the time to review updates and important reminders! Congrats to our Girls Volleyball team for another amazing showing at Provincials. Any questions or concerns let me know. If I have missed anything please reply-all to this email.
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Updates and Important Information
1) Lighthouse Project Livestream: Members of the Lighthouse Project will have a Livestream to broadcast the weekly update to staff and students on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. The broadcast will begin during the Home Room period.
2) Christmas Food Drive: Baccalieu Students and Families! Students are having a CHRISTMAS FOOD DRIVE (CLICK HERE). Homeroom competition alert! Baccalieu Bucks on the line!
3) Baccalieu Bucks: Baccalieu Student Leadership Group will be introducing Baccalieu Bucks to the school in order to incentivize student spirit! Students will present this idea to students. Please see Presentation (CLICK HERE) for more details.
4) Baccalieu Collegiate Cash Lottery: Cash Lottery tickets are due this Friday, December 13th 2024! Any sold or unsold tickets must come back to the school on this date. Good luck! The BCP Cash Lottery is a school fundraising for flexible seating in our classrooms, stage lights, and to support our extracurricular activities. Cash Lottery Poster.
5) After School Tutoring: Mr. Holloway's after school tutoring will take place on Mondays and Wednesdays after school from 3:00 to 4:00pm.
6) Scott Legge Lighthouse Training: Scott Legge will be at Baccalieu Collegiate Tuesday, December 10th 2024 and Thursday, December 12th 2024 to help train current and new Lighthouse members! Scott will also be preparing a crew to capture the moments at the North River Christmas Show! Any students wanting to join please reach out to either Mr. Saxby or Mr. Kofi.
8) Senior Boys Basketball: Sr. Boys Basketball practice will go ahead Tuesday, December 10 from 7 - 9pm. The league game against Ascension is postponed until the New Year.
9) Picture Retakes (Lifetouch): Any students/staff who want a picture retake will be available Wednesday, December 11th 2024.
10) Christmas Concert Practice: There will be a practice Wednesday after school for all students involved in the Christmas concert. We will try and do a run through of the concert. Please make every attempt to be there.
11) Drama practice this week: There will be drama practice after school on Monday from 3-4:30. There will be practice again on Wednesday from 3-4:30 whereby we are going to try and do a run through of the concert. Please make every attempt to be there.
12) Important CDLI Information: CDLI Virtual Family-Teacher interviews will take place on Thursday, December 12th. As a result, there will not be any live classes after 11:35 am on that day. Family-Teacher Conferences will be scheduled using Optis. Please note that we do not have access to school messenger. We will also be sharing this message with the families of CDLI students, provided that parent/guardian email addresses have been entered into the student CDLI account.
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Please note that CDLI classes continue during school-based closures (PL days, closeouts, snow days, etc). Students are encouraged to sign in from home or watch class recordings to avoid falling behind with coursework.
13) Christmas concert: The Christmas concert will take place on Thursday December 12th 2024 at 7pm. There will be a $5.00 charge at the door along with Best Seats in the House and a Christmas basket on tickets. Please come out and celebrate the Christmas season with some music and drama. We hope to see you there!
14) Playwright Workshop: We are very pleased to have Mr. Bruce Stagg come to our school and work with our Senior drama troupe on Friday, December 13 beginning at 11am. All senior drama students as well as a few grade 10 boys who will be joining drama after Christmas will participate in the workshop.
16) Heritage Places contest: Morning folks, Heritage NL is having a poster contest for kids in the province. Thought I’d share as a fun activity if anyone at BCP is interested:
https://heritagenl.ca/programs/poster-contest/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3YRHPvjGCUsk__-BQu6zhreKJjItbqfWwvYsP2BpnNpzJzn4_9eI7Rbrw_aem_ST0MO73YiQDYHmpz7t5IYA
17) School Council Christmas Dinner: Monday, December 16th 2024 School Council will be serving Christmas Turkey Dinner for all students and staff during lunchtime. All students and staff are required in the gymnasium for this Christmas festivus.
18) Christmas Dance: On Monday, December 16th 2024 we will have a school dance from 7pm to 9pm.
19) Awards Night: The 2023-24 Awards Day and Night will be forthcoming on Wednesday, December 18th 2024. Grades 7-11 awards will have their presentation in the afternoon periods 4 and 5. All classes will attend. The evening Cap and Gown ceremony will begin at 7pm (graduates showing up 6:15pm) the same evening. Congrats to all of our students who were awarded accolades for their hard work and focus on selfless endeavors. Congratulations to our past graduates!
20) Christmas Outing: We are in the process of planning our annual Christmas field trip for Thursday Dec, 19th. All students will have the option to go swimming in the morning followed by skating in the afternoon. If students do not wish to go swimming they may go to the mall for an hour. If students do not wish to go skating they will need to go to the stadium with us until skating is over. We will be having lunch in between both activities (around 11:15-12:15) in Carbonear at restaurants located across from the mall which include: Starbucks, Crooked Phil's, Subway and McDonalds. We will return home at approximately 2:30pm. We will have a bus going down both Trinity and North shores and will drop off students at their regular bus stops along our way home. If you live in Old Perlican, Bay de Verde, Grate's Cove or Red Head Cove you will need to be picked up at Baccalieu Collegiate.
21) Last School Day Before Holidays: Please note that our last day (1/2 day) of school is Friday, December 20th 2024. Our School Leadership group and teachers are organizing a number of fun and connection activities for students to participate in during the morning! Bus dismissal for students will be at 12:30pm.
22) Edutopia Article of the Week: Interesting Research and Insight into Current Student Behaviour
Good News Report
3A Provincial VolleyBall Championships: Congrats to our senior girls varsity volleyball team on a great showing at the 3A Provincial Volleyball Championships held at Glovertown this weekend. They finished the round robin with a record of 3 and 1, with a three way tie for first. They were eliminated due to a sets for and against ratio. Their sportsmanship was above and beyond by cheering for other teams and socializing with all players. Congrats to Jane Ingerman on being chosen as the team most sportsmanlike player. Let go BCP. Onto the next one.
The grade 9 volleyball team: I would like to express how the grade 9 volleyball team did this weekend. They played with good sportsmanship and had lots of fun.They lost in their semi final match to St.Pauls 25/20 and 25/23 it was a great experience for them.
Lighthouse Project: Congrats Cameron Bursey and Erin Blundon for capturing moments at the Trinity Hall Christmas show alongside NTV News Crews!
NL Schools Memo (PED): Thank-you teachers, caregivers, and students for providing your feedback to this very important change in our time!
Drama Practice this week: Great work Drama! Keep it up! The show is coming soon!
Reports: Congrats on everyone's hard work during Term 1. Whether you did great or not as good as you'd like, keep working and hold responsibility to your journey. You are the strategy.
Sr. Boys Basketball: Sr. Boys Basketball fell to Laval and Baltimore this past weekend at Laval's Invitational!
Drama practice for Christmas Concert: Thank-you teachers and students for working overtime so we have put on a fantastic Christmas concert!
Baccalieu Badminton Club: Thank-you Ms. Oliver for giving opportunity to students to play competitive or non-competitive badminton at Baccalieu.
Girl's Basketball: Keep on working girls basketball!
Tutoring for Tuition: Tutors are on the go! Thank you student tutors for helping our students who want support!
Junior Boys Basketball: Junior Boys are practicing twice a week! Thank-you Coach Barnes, Clarke, and Froggatt for giving back your time to support our youth!
Doorways: Thank-you Doorways for attending Baccalieu Collegiate
Baccalieu Collegiate Choir: Huge thanks Ms. Sequeira for getting the choir back at Baccalieu.
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