Educating Today’s Students To Be Tomorrow’s Leaders April 20, 2015

Important Dates 4/20- Gr. 7 Assembly/6th gr goes to camp

4/23–1st gr field trip-San Diego Zoo

4/24–Gr. 7 field trip-Floating Lab

4/26-Track meet grs. K-4

4/29-Rubio’s night

4/30-Relaxed Dress for students who went to

Rubio’s

5/1-Jog-A-Thon/Minimum Day-Faculty meet-

ing

5/2-First Communion @10:30am

Good Shepherd Catholic School

News from the Front Office:

Tuition rates went home on Friday, via

email for the new school year. Unfor-

tunately, the rates did go up because of

various reasons. In January 2016, the

hourly wage will increase again in Cal-

ifornia, which will have an impact on

our rates. The cost of benefits that the

school has to pay for employees went

up 20%. The “lab fee” is now included

in the base tuition, so therefore, you

will not be receiving a separate bill in

October.

Don’t forget~ We are once again offer-

ing our “Refer A Friend” program. If

you refer a family to our school and

they enroll and stay, you will receive

one month’s free tuition! We did have

several families this year that were able

to be tuition free for a month! So

please talk to your friends about all the

wonderful things happening at GSCS!

Sixth Grade B Honors Maleah Agarma

Peter Bui

Michael Correa

Maricris Gonzales

Brain Hoang

Marissa Leitner

Chelsea Macavinta

Ashley Nimer

Grace Oualline

Gabrielle Quinto

Larissa Reyes

Keanna Santos

Stephen Schuster

Aeriel Suarez

Sixth Grade A Honors Alexander Buendia

Veronica McKinney

Sophia Nguyen

Loren De Los Santos

Valerie Tran

Seventh Grade

B Honors

Ava Bautista

Carlo Avila-Caccioppo

Nwamaka Chigbolu

Bryce Jarboe

Mitchell Le

Nigel Manriquez

Seventh Grade

A Honors Ken Barber

Brandon Cabatu

Danika Chargualaf

Leila Dessouky

Thomas Hubbard

Alexander Macias

Bryan Palpal Latoc

Eighth Grade B Honors Kiya Jordan

Harrison Kellerman

Randall Ladringan

Adrianna Lugo

Andrew Nguyen

Anjolei Para

Phanxico Hoang

Lance Reyes

Matthew Tolentino

Eighth Grade A Honors Nicholas Correa

Alize Davis

Alannah Leitner

Marina Luttrell

Jacqueline Nguyen

Katelyn Patio

Chrisitan Quinto

Kristina Tran

Kayla Valecruz

Attention Parents

Starting on April 20-22, Gold Coast

Drive will be temporary be shut down

(different times) to park on the street.

The city is working on resurfacing the

street so therefore, please use the park-

ing lot or the back lot for picking up

your child.

8th Grade Field Trip on the USS Howard

with Ms. Howard

GSCS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Good Shepherd Catholic School

Amy Sweeney attended Good Shepherd Catholic School from 2000 to 2009. Her fa-vorite memory from her time at Good Shepherd was the Star of India field trip that her class took in the 5th grade. It was an overnight trip where her class learned all about the history of the ship and even learned how to do the same jobs that sailors did hundreds of years ago. Amy has many other great memories that include the 8th grade trip to Disneyland, competing in the Academic Decathlon, and Olympic day each year. At Mira Mesa High School, she excelled in her classes, especially English, thanks to the strong start that she received from Good Shepherd. When Amy gradu-ated, she received the Scholar Athlete of the Year award, and her GPA was in the top 10% of students in the San Diego School District. Currently she is in her second year at The University of California Berkeley. She is an Interdisciplinary Studies Field ma-jor, and Amy is planning to graduate a year early in May 2016. Afterward, she hopes to attend law school at USD. She is still very involved in extracurricular activities in-cluding the Cal Boxing Club team, holding a leadership position in the Alpha Phi so-rority, and attending Interfaith Shabbat which attempts to encourage understanding and respect between the different faiths at Cal. Amy feels that attending Good Shepherd has benefitted her in more ways than she could ever list, but most importantly GSCS gave her the gifts of a strong faith and strong work ethic. Being away from family has been very difficult for her, but with the support that comes with the community at Newman (Berkeley’s Catholic Church) and prayer, she is able to make it through the rough moments. Academically, GSCS taught Amy to always work her hardest and with the sol-id foundation that she received, she has continued to succeed – taking on a heavy course load and making the Dean’s Honor List of the top 4% of Berkeley students in the last two semesters.