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THE BEAR NECESSITIES HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL WEEKLY NEWS

*8/27 - Mass – 8:00

am – 5th/6th grade

(Postponed Due to

Weather)

*9/7 - Labor Day –

No School

*9/10 -

Grandparent’s Day

Mass – 7th, and 8th

grades (only) – 8:00

am to 10:00 am

*9/14 - HFS Tuition

Raffle Kick-off 1:45

pm

*9/15 – 1st Nine

Week’s Progress

Reports Available

*9/17 – School

Mass – 3rd and 4th

Grades

*9/24 – No School

Mass

August 24, 2020

, 2018

Special

Upcoming

Events for Holy

Family

Ava and Jacob Saucier 11th Annual Memorial Scholarship

Benefit, Sunday, September 27, 2020

This year, due to COVID 19, the 11th Annual Ava and Jacob Saucier Memorial

Scholarship Benefit will work a little differently. The Jambalaya Benefit will

be held on Sunday, September 27, 2020, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the

Holy Family Parish Hall in Port Allen. We will have a drive through or walk up

pick up of dinners. There will also be some sweets available for purchase.

Dinner tickets must be purchased ahead of time. A form for the number of

tickets needed will be coming home soon.

For the online silent auction, a link will be posted about a week before the

benefit with directions to view items and bid on them.

We hope you can continue to support this incredibly important benefit. The

benefit will help to endow the scholarship. All proceeds will go toward the

scholarship fund. Please help us celebrate Ava and Jacob’s lives and honor

their memory by purchasing tickets for the dinner.

If you would like to purchase tickets to the Ava and Jacob Saucier Benefit,

please print the order form below and mail it with a check for the amount of tickets needed to:

Holy Family School

335 N. Jefferson Ave.

Port Allen, LA 70767

Forms will be sent home with students next week and may be returned to school for tickets.

Early Afternoon Pick-up Procedures

We have received several questions about the procedures for picking

up a student early from school. First, your child must be picked up

prior to 2:00 pm. If it is after 2:00 pm you will need to be in the

carpool line to pick them up. If it is before 2:00 pm, park on N.

Jefferson Ave and go to the front entrance gate. Hit the buzzer and let

Mrs. Mona know who you are picking up. She will get the student

packed and ready to go and a faculty or staff member will bring them

to the gate. Please be sure to allow yourself a litte more time because

of the COVID safety procedures.

Home and School Informational Corner:

Alumni - Where Are They Now?

With the start of a new year, we are currently looking for room

moms for each homeroom. Our room moms help with coordinating

events and tasks throughout the year for our teachers and

students.

If you are interested or have any questions, contact Alyssa Segura.

Email address: amosegura@gmail.com

The weekly school Masses will be open to a minimum of

visitors until further notice. If you wish to see your child

speak at Mass or just want to join our celebration, you may

stand against the wall by the stations of the cross (masked)

OR you may sit in the chapel area (distanced and masked). If

you choose the chapel option, you will still hear the entire

Mass.

Summer Reading Testing Now Available – Extended One Week

Dear Parents,

Due to the fact that we will not be in school this week, Summer

A/R testing will be extended for an additional week.

Now, the last day for students to take a summer reading book

test will be Friday, September 4, 2020. Per Mrs. Ashford, the

students do not need an additional AR test for the 1st Nine

Weeks.

Important Information About Weekly Masses Classes will be going 2 grade

levels at a time – 3rd grade and

above only for the time being in

this order:

7th/8th

5th/6th (postponed due to weather)

Then begin again with 7th/8th.

3rd and 4th will be with next

round due to Grandparent’s

Day.

HFS Alums, we want to follow your Bear Tracks. Where are you now? Where did life take you after HFS?

Fondest memories? Please print and complete the form below and email it,

along with a picture of you and your family or significant other to Annette Fitzgerald, Advancement Director at

afitzgerald@hfspa.com.

Fall Athletic Information

Parents,

We have not received an update from the CSAA, but I wanted to give you an update on where we see our fall sports

season. My coaches and I have talked to many youth and high school coaches from around the area in the last week.

Some leagues have already cancelled and some are attempting to plow forward.

Last week the LHSAA dropped the Phase 4 nomenclature and came out with a plan to play under Phase 3, after a

minimum of two weeks at Phase 3 and a few more qualifiers. They also came out with their guidelines for Phase 3,

which are tough, but workable. We would assume our leagues would adopt something similar, but probably not

exactly the same.

That leaves us with 2 scenarios:

1. Phase 3 begins on time on August 28th. If this happens, we believe we have a shot at playing football, girls

basketball and cross country with signups on Monday evening August 31st and first practices Tuesday

September 8th. Much more information will come out before then about protocols.

2. Phase 2 extended past the end of August. At this point, we believe that the CSAA will cancel fall contact

sports, Football, Girls Basketball. Cross Country may continue.

I wanted to get information out to everyone so that we can plan as best as possible for the coming months.

More information will be passed along as I receive.

God Bless,

Bart Saia

HFS Athletic Director

bsaia@hfspa.com

Parish Hall A/C Renovations

It has been a long

time coming but it

has finally come to

fruition.

The Parish Hall has

an amazing new

air conditioning

system to keep us

all cool each time

we use it.

Thank you, Father

David, for making

this happen!

Grandparent’s Day

Holy Family School

Cordially Invites You

to Attend Our Annual,

7th and 8th Grade

Grandparent’s Day Mass and Celebration

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Please Join Us for Mass

At 8:00 am

Holy Family Church

Memory Photos, and a

Small Grab and Go Reception,

Following the Liturgy

Only 2 Grandparents Per Child

Due to Social Distancing Limitations

Dear Parents and Grandparents,

Please note, the 1st Grandparents Day will only consist of 7th and 8th grade students and only one set of

two or just two grandparents per child, please. This of course is due to social distancing limitations.

We will not be allowed to have grandparents visit classrooms, but we will have a small gift for you and so

will your grandchildren.

Invitations will go home next Monday due to the cancellation of school this week from the two named

storms in our area.

Thank you for your understanding.

Spirit Shirt Friday

Friday our students enjoyed their first

official Spirit Shirt Friday. They wore our

HFS colors with pride.

The Spirit Store is back open, so if you

still want to purchase a shirt for your

child to wear every Friday, please click on

the following URL and head to the Spirit

Store.

https://hfs20.itemorder.com/sale

Orders will be taken until Sunday Aug. 30th

@midnight.

Orders will be delivered to school by Sept. 9th.